in that case you might consider working part-time - i'm not sure what to suggest, a job where you'll meet people your own age, somewhere corporate, or a small business, with a small business you might get a chance to flex your computer chops and perhaps progress that way - into tech support for instance and perhaps further from there
someone i know worked in a general store in his teens, he's been running his own cafe business for 20 years now - working in the store taught him almost everything he needed to know to run a cafe.
praxis makes me think of the dutch diy store chain - if you go to one in amsterdam they play reggae and you can buy a bhudda for your garden (or balcony more likely)
i wasn't comparing the Indian government with the Nazi's - but i will say there has been a long history of religious bloodshed in India, it doesn't take a major leap of imagination to see that someone with nefarious intent towards Hindu's, Muslims, Sikh's etc should not have access to extensive information about them - human nature being what it is, and looking at what has happened in those circumstances throughout history.
other governments have proposed similar things - in europe there is a widespread distrust of these systems because they were used very effectively by the Nazi's - record keeping in the Netherlands was very good - 75% of jews were killed, in france the people collecting data conspired to protect jews by not punching the jew slot on the punched card and only 25% were killed
a belgian company sold an ID system to the rwandan government, it was used by one tribe to find people from another tribe so they could kill them
these systems are deadly in the wrong hands - if the info is not there, it can't be abused.
part of how that was tackled in holland was that if an addict was arrested they were offered a choice between being charged or going into treatment - and they may have also been banned from the junkie area (normally people are arrested if they violate this kind of ban)
some parts of the UK had problems with dealers scaring away litter collectors and road repair crews - they were hiding drugs in cracks in the road and empty coke cans in the street
end result was bad roads and lots of rubbish in those neighbourhoods
thats encouraging to hear - it seems like huge problems in the US are starting to force a change towards harm reduction, i think it's vermont where it's really out of control and they're changing laws a little bit, for example, if an addict calls an ambulance for someone who overdosed, then they won't be arrested or charged for drug offences
i'm not sure they live on the streets or not - but i think it's safe to say that the heroin problem is holland is being dealt with and in norway it's out of control - last figures i saw were 17k dutch addicts with 12k in treatment, no idea how norway stacks up though
that article says that the dutch want to close 19 prisons due to lack of prisoners, but there are not enough prisons in norway
i was in oslo & amsterdam recently and the difference in junkie on the street levels was staggering - much much higher in oslo where drug laws are harsher.
i imagine this is a reasonable factor in amounts of prisoners in the two countries, though haven't checked data on percentage of prisoners who are heroin addicts.
yes, it's pretty ropey all in all - generally speaking people going to live with their families for a while has a higher success rate than anti-psychotic drugs, 60% vs 30%
in the 3rd world people can't afford drugs so tend to go for the family option
doctors in finland have adapted the 3rd world approach successfully and collected a lot of data along the way - incidence of schizophrenia is dropping in their region
the problem i'm describing is that some sites are legal overseas but not here - if this proxy also bypasses cleanfeed there could be problems - well i imagine what would happen is that it'd get added to the list of banned urls
someone i know worked in a general store in his teens, he's been running his own cafe business for 20 years now - working in the store taught him almost everything he needed to know to run a cafe.