Which is really sad since the concept of rehabilitation was really pioneered by American groups, but then the people who helped start the movement were generally voted out of office in favor of 'make them suffer' candidates. So now other countries have learned from what we were doing AND observed the negative impact of moving away from that model and thus produced systems that, from an actual 'reducing crime' perspective are much more effective but which have less emotional satisfaction to them.
Which of course becomes a vicious cycle since an ineffective justice system results in more crime, which means more political pressure to make things worse from victims and scared people.
That is how it is supposed to be organized, but the current perception (true or false) is that this is not what is actually occurring.
Part of this comes from historical issues of agencies not wanting to work together or share data, esp when a particular case or subject crosses back and forth between foreign and domestic, so the perception is that the NSA, rather then handing the domestic pieces over to the FBI, continues to work with the data under the umbrella target... so organizing based off the origin or focus of the case rather then the nationality of individuals within it.
I have to agree, if I was going to drop $1,500 on something to experiment with or develope for that was non-camera related, it would probably be for a 3d printer rather then Google Glass. Then again I would probably just print out a camera.....
Kinda like the 'if you have to ask, you can not afford it', if you balk at $1,500, it probably is not for you. Google Glass right now is an expensive toy for people who either can afford to chunk the cash into entertainment or derive enough social benefit from owning one to justify the cost.
Granted there are also some tinkerers out there that are playing with them, but I suspect they are kinda like the 3d printer market, present but fairly niche. For the most part, either you make enough that the cost is nothing to you, or you decide the social status from your peer group is worth the outlay.
Esp when you want to do things like write paychecks, buy a house, or not starve when you retire.
Though it can be argued that their contribution is disproportionate to their pay, esp when talking about, say, futures traders, who's primary impact is to drive up prices and pocket the difference.
The mass companies yeah, I do not see it working, but I could see courier type delivery companies working with this option. It could potentially fit with their delivery model quite well. Granted few people use couriers for all but the 'this needs to get somewhere NOW' stuff, but there is a place for that. I could see popping on Amazon while at work and needing something by tonight but not having time to go out, and thus having the option to have the whatever delivered by courier strait to my car. I can think of multiple times were something broke or burned out at home while I am at work and needs to be replaced immediately yet I REALLY do not want to go shopping after my commute.
The tricky part is, how to roll it back. One of the reasons that the government is the way it is, is, well, they get the votes. Politicians are not stupid (even though they often seem so) and are mostly filled with self interest. They generally only do what keeps themselves and their in-group in power, and much of that comes down to being sensitive to what the majority of voters want.
In other words, our government is a reflection of its citizens, the government ha not forgotten that the US is made of citizens, it is a distilled representation of them. Unfortunately for us the voter base of the US is a highly conflicted and fragmented society with passionately mutually exclusive ideas about how to do things. In many ways the best way to fix things would be a one time massive tax, split the country up into maybe half a dozen or dozen countries, and pay moving expenses to anyone who wants to migrate to the region that best represents them. Much of the rottenness comes from our deeply conflicted philosophies, which I am not sure there is any way to reconcile.
Of course it also does not help that so much of the population are arm-chair economists (or other such things) who believe that their basic idealistic understanding of problems (where they do not have to deal with the complexities or consequences) is more valid then people who spend decades examining them, so people passionately vote about things they do not actually understand all that well but really strongly believe that they do.
Which is probably why so many fictional worlds go with guild-style governments where representation is built around professions rather then geographic regions.
Even if there were no legal reasons, common carrier has become political kryptonite lately. I am not sure who started the rewrite, but the idea that we only have monopolies because of the government has been catching on like wildfire esp over the last few months, thus under that concept moving ISPs to common carrier status would destroy the market or something, despite history not actually supporting the idea.
*nods* and even when there are choices in a particular region, often one's health coverage makes the choice for them, and forgoing one's employer provided health care and going to the individual market is often a bad economic choice for individuals or families. So the barrier to voting with one's dollars becomes very high.
Eh, to be fair, this is something they are doing right and a lot of manufacturers are not. Techie types sometimes freak out over being automatically patched with who knows what, but for the vast majority of users (including techie types), it is a good strategy.
If your product can not be reasonably or safely configured by its target market, then while it is tempting to blame the individuals, it is the manufacturer who has failed.
the problem is, within that philosophical system (I can not call it economic, that set of economic theories were debunked decades ago) the customers would be the ones to punish the company by going somewhere else and there are no "external costs", the only thing that matters is what on their side of the interface and everything outside that the market magically fixes.
"Medical devices" covers a lot of area. I suspect things like pace makers are developed using some RTOS while desktop apps designed to connect to devices are written in some commonly used language like C# or Java.
Though there is probably a lot of pressure due to what kinds of programmers they can find. One thing that pushed LISP out of certain industries, even when it worked really well for individual companies, was difficulty finding experienced programmers.
Medical devices should probably be programmed using something like Ada, but finding developers for it is getting harder and harder.
There is where having a department doing auditing and certification would do the trick. I know people bristle at the idea of centralized bureaucracies , but this is a time where having some group (like CERT) in charge of training auditors and preforming the certifications.
Years ago when I worked in a lab that needed to be HIPAA certified, our upstream contractor (a hospital) had people who`s job it was to make sure our setup meet the needs otherwise we would not get the data, and yep, we met them. I could see this basic pattern scaling up.
Go buy a bunch of cheap digital cameras, or better yet, see if Goodwill has any.
Smash them up so their circuit boards are hanging out and they look like they are generally falling apart. Post a sign on the front of the buss indicating that photos are prohibited with the penalty of having cameras confiscated and destroyed. Hang disemboweled camera under the sign.
People do not consider it trivializing because of the numbers, but because of the natures of the two things. There is a big difference between the spread of a disease that impacts a significant but still small percentage of the population and the systematic industrial scale attempt at exterminating a large group of people.
I think it is not that people do not care, but that we have some rather significant arguments about what 'freedom' entails. Many freedoms are mutually exclusive, and we have been moving to an older model of freedom since we have increasingly been idealizing a time period where only white landowning males had rights.
While we patch and patch, we might be getting close to the point where a real restructuring or protocol update needs to happen. Various researchers have proposed technologies that could make the internet far more resilient to stuff like this, and maybe it is time we switch over.
But I am not thinking some nice gradual switch over, but a nice 'if you don't upgrade by X time you loose your insurance and can no longer peer'. If nothing else we could kill at least two birds with one stone... think about the massive economic fallout from the Y2K update, all the money that flowed into tech and job for that had a ripple effect through the economy. Requiring a complete upgrade of the internet would put a real dent in the current economic downturn.
We already have pretty strict (and overused) laws involving cybercrime.
Problem is, people who do this stuff professionally are pretty much immune from being caught, and the people who do get caught are usually teenagers which, while we like talking about personal responsibility, biologically young brains really do have physical issues when it comes to impulse control and risk analysis. So punishing them harshly does not actually do any good other then satisfying a certain bloodlust.
Something to keep in mind, giving definitions also skews results. One of the things that makes this particular bit of research tricky is that the definition of 'astrology' is not as clear cut as people outside that community think. Many see astrology as applied astronomy, or astronomy as the cargo-cult version of astrology or astrology with the natural insight removed.
Which means there is a bit of a flaw in the person's experiment. Those definitions of astrology are ones that would mostly be used by people outside that community to describe it, not the self description. I have chatted with 'professional astrologers' before and often when I asked them about what they do, they frequently described it in terms that the OP described as incorrect descriptions. They often see astrology as the study of the stars, planets, and heavens, with prediction simply being an application or side effect, kinda like how we might see GPS as an application of astronomy.
Which is probably why the NFS people left the definition out. Any definition they gave would influence people.
Social competition. Anyone can build themselves a ship, but serving on a high status ship with other people is another matter.
However, Star Fleet is a volunteer organization, people join it because they want to be there. Kinda like the Peace Corps or Doctors without Borders, people join them all the time even though they do not have to.
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Which is really sad since the concept of rehabilitation was really pioneered by American groups, but then the people who helped start the movement were generally voted out of office in favor of 'make them suffer' candidates. So now other countries have learned from what we were doing AND observed the negative impact of moving away from that model and thus produced systems that, from an actual 'reducing crime' perspective are much more effective but which have less emotional satisfaction to them.
Which of course becomes a vicious cycle since an ineffective justice system results in more crime, which means more political pressure to make things worse from victims and scared people.
That is how it is supposed to be organized, but the current perception (true or false) is that this is not what is actually occurring.
Part of this comes from historical issues of agencies not wanting to work together or share data, esp when a particular case or subject crosses back and forth between foreign and domestic, so the perception is that the NSA, rather then handing the domestic pieces over to the FBI, continues to work with the data under the umbrella target... so organizing based off the origin or focus of the case rather then the nationality of individuals within it.
Police forces collect intelligence as part of their police duties. Things like wire taps and stake outs would fall under that category.
It is a pity voting (in our system especially, damn math!) results in 'who do I hate the least?' decision making.
I have to agree, if I was going to drop $1,500 on something to experiment with or develope for that was non-camera related, it would probably be for a 3d printer rather then Google Glass. Then again I would probably just print out a camera.....
Kinda like the 'if you have to ask, you can not afford it', if you balk at $1,500, it probably is not for you. Google Glass right now is an expensive toy for people who either can afford to chunk the cash into entertainment or derive enough social benefit from owning one to justify the cost.
Granted there are also some tinkerers out there that are playing with them, but I suspect they are kinda like the 3d printer market, present but fairly niche. For the most part, either you make enough that the cost is nothing to you, or you decide the social status from your peer group is worth the outlay.
Esp when you want to do things like write paychecks, buy a house, or not starve when you retire.
Though it can be argued that their contribution is disproportionate to their pay, esp when talking about, say, futures traders, who's primary impact is to drive up prices and pocket the difference.
The mass companies yeah, I do not see it working, but I could see courier type delivery companies working with this option. It could potentially fit with their delivery model quite well. Granted few people use couriers for all but the 'this needs to get somewhere NOW' stuff, but there is a place for that. I could see popping on Amazon while at work and needing something by tonight but not having time to go out, and thus having the option to have the whatever delivered by courier strait to my car. I can think of multiple times were something broke or burned out at home while I am at work and needs to be replaced immediately yet I REALLY do not want to go shopping after my commute.
The tricky part is, how to roll it back. One of the reasons that the government is the way it is, is, well, they get the votes. Politicians are not stupid (even though they often seem so) and are mostly filled with self interest. They generally only do what keeps themselves and their in-group in power, and much of that comes down to being sensitive to what the majority of voters want.
In other words, our government is a reflection of its citizens, the government ha not forgotten that the US is made of citizens, it is a distilled representation of them. Unfortunately for us the voter base of the US is a highly conflicted and fragmented society with passionately mutually exclusive ideas about how to do things. In many ways the best way to fix things would be a one time massive tax, split the country up into maybe half a dozen or dozen countries, and pay moving expenses to anyone who wants to migrate to the region that best represents them. Much of the rottenness comes from our deeply conflicted philosophies, which I am not sure there is any way to reconcile.
Of course it also does not help that so much of the population are arm-chair economists (or other such things) who believe that their basic idealistic understanding of problems (where they do not have to deal with the complexities or consequences) is more valid then people who spend decades examining them, so people passionately vote about things they do not actually understand all that well but really strongly believe that they do.
Which is probably why so many fictional worlds go with guild-style governments where representation is built around professions rather then geographic regions.
Even if there were no legal reasons, common carrier has become political kryptonite lately. I am not sure who started the rewrite, but the idea that we only have monopolies because of the government has been catching on like wildfire esp over the last few months, thus under that concept moving ISPs to common carrier status would destroy the market or something, despite history not actually supporting the idea.
*nods* and even when there are choices in a particular region, often one's health coverage makes the choice for them, and forgoing one's employer provided health care and going to the individual market is often a bad economic choice for individuals or families. So the barrier to voting with one's dollars becomes very high.
Eh, to be fair, this is something they are doing right and a lot of manufacturers are not. Techie types sometimes freak out over being automatically patched with who knows what, but for the vast majority of users (including techie types), it is a good strategy.
If your product can not be reasonably or safely configured by its target market, then while it is tempting to blame the individuals, it is the manufacturer who has failed.
the problem is, within that philosophical system (I can not call it economic, that set of economic theories were debunked decades ago) the customers would be the ones to punish the company by going somewhere else and there are no "external costs", the only thing that matters is what on their side of the interface and everything outside that the market magically fixes.
"Medical devices" covers a lot of area. I suspect things like pace makers are developed using some RTOS while desktop apps designed to connect to devices are written in some commonly used language like C# or Java.
Though there is probably a lot of pressure due to what kinds of programmers they can find. One thing that pushed LISP out of certain industries, even when it worked really well for individual companies, was difficulty finding experienced programmers.
Medical devices should probably be programmed using something like Ada, but finding developers for it is getting harder and harder.
There is where having a department doing auditing and certification would do the trick. I know people bristle at the idea of centralized bureaucracies , but this is a time where having some group (like CERT) in charge of training auditors and preforming the certifications.
Years ago when I worked in a lab that needed to be HIPAA certified, our upstream contractor (a hospital) had people who`s job it was to make sure our setup meet the needs otherwise we would not get the data, and yep, we met them. I could see this basic pattern scaling up.
People often do, it is called a library. What the OP seems to be doing is throwing a scripting language on a library and calling it 'reactive'.
Yeah, but there is money to be made in claiming your tool is appropriate far beyond its domain.
Go buy a bunch of cheap digital cameras, or better yet, see if Goodwill has any.
Smash them up so their circuit boards are hanging out and they look like they are generally falling apart. Post a sign on the front of the buss indicating that photos are prohibited with the penalty of having cameras confiscated and destroyed. Hang disemboweled camera under the sign.
People do not consider it trivializing because of the numbers, but because of the natures of the two things. There is a big difference between the spread of a disease that impacts a significant but still small percentage of the population and the systematic industrial scale attempt at exterminating a large group of people.
I think it is not that people do not care, but that we have some rather significant arguments about what 'freedom' entails. Many freedoms are mutually exclusive, and we have been moving to an older model of freedom since we have increasingly been idealizing a time period where only white landowning males had rights.
While we patch and patch, we might be getting close to the point where a real restructuring or protocol update needs to happen. Various researchers have proposed technologies that could make the internet far more resilient to stuff like this, and maybe it is time we switch over.
But I am not thinking some nice gradual switch over, but a nice 'if you don't upgrade by X time you loose your insurance and can no longer peer'. If nothing else we could kill at least two birds with one stone... think about the massive economic fallout from the Y2K update, all the money that flowed into tech and job for that had a ripple effect through the economy. Requiring a complete upgrade of the internet would put a real dent in the current economic downturn.
We already have pretty strict (and overused) laws involving cybercrime.
Problem is, people who do this stuff professionally are pretty much immune from being caught, and the people who do get caught are usually teenagers which, while we like talking about personal responsibility, biologically young brains really do have physical issues when it comes to impulse control and risk analysis. So punishing them harshly does not actually do any good other then satisfying a certain bloodlust.
Something to keep in mind, giving definitions also skews results. One of the things that makes this particular bit of research tricky is that the definition of 'astrology' is not as clear cut as people outside that community think. Many see astrology as applied astronomy, or astronomy as the cargo-cult version of astrology or astrology with the natural insight removed.
Which means there is a bit of a flaw in the person's experiment. Those definitions of astrology are ones that would mostly be used by people outside that community to describe it, not the self description. I have chatted with 'professional astrologers' before and often when I asked them about what they do, they frequently described it in terms that the OP described as incorrect descriptions. They often see astrology as the study of the stars, planets, and heavens, with prediction simply being an application or side effect, kinda like how we might see GPS as an application of astronomy.
Which is probably why the NFS people left the definition out. Any definition they gave would influence people.
Social competition. Anyone can build themselves a ship, but serving on a high status ship with other people is another matter.
However, Star Fleet is a volunteer organization, people join it because they want to be there. Kinda like the Peace Corps or Doctors without Borders, people join them all the time even though they do not have to.