>Do you believe rehabilitation is impossible or do you want revenge?

I don't believe that someone who commits mass murder can be rehabilitated, no. It isn't about revenge; it's about public safety.

Someone once pointed out that hoping a rapist gets raped in prison isn't a victory for his victim(s), because it somehow gives him what he had coming to him, but it's actually a victory for rape and violence. I wish I could remember who said that, because they are right. The score doesn't go Rapist: 1 World: 1. It goes Rape: 2.

What this man did is unspeakable, and he absolutely deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison. If he needs to be kept away from other prisoners as a safety issue, there are ways to do that without keeping him in solitary confinement, which has been shown conclusively to be profoundly cruel and harmful.

Putting him in solitary confinement, as a punitive measure, is not a victory for the good people in the world. It's a victory for inhumane treatment of human beings. This ruling is, in my opinion, very good and very strong for human rights, *precisely* because it was brought by such a despicable and horrible person. It affirms that all of us have basic human rights, even the absolute worst of us on this planet.

This is precisely why I lost all interest in Oculus the instant I heard that it had been acquired by Facebook.

Unless the actors in question have the studio donate the actor's profits to the Church of Scientology. The Co$ then goes and pays the actor a "stipend" to live on, tax free, and, since the Co$ is a "charity", the movie studios get to write that off. The actors get to live tax free, the Co$ gets to play with the interest, and the studios get a tax break. Isn't religion wonderful?

I have it loaded on my G1, and it's running just fine. You might wanna check out your hardware, or possibly uninstall some stuff that runs in the background.

This is good advice, and gives me an opportunity to speak to the community at large: some of us who go to cons and are in a position to shake tons of hands politely decline. It's not because we're being dicks, it's because we know it's a good way to substantially decrease our chances of catching and spreading any germs.

I played the PAX Pandemic game, where the Enforcers handed out stickers to attendees that read [Carrier] [Infected] or [Immune] (There was also a [Patient Zero].

I got the [Immune] sticker, and by the time I got home on Monday, it was clear that I had the flu. I've had a fever between 100 and 104 all week that finally broke last night, but I'm going to the doctor today because I think whatever I had settled into my lungs. I'll tell him about the H1N1 outbreak and get tested if he wants to run the test, but at this point I think it's safe to assume that I was [Immune] to the Pig Plague, but definitely [Infected] with the damn PAX pox.

Even though it's been a week of misery, it was entirely worth it, and I don't regret going to PAX for a single second.

The exploit he was using was later defined as griefing by the devs. It wasn't when he was originally doing it.

This was all done before changes were made to make this far more difficult, and to make it possible for a player to defend against being teleported by a player of the other faction. He says in his blog that he stopped playing when these changes went into effect because it wasn't "fun anymore". So, basically he was only having fun griefing people, and, when changes to the game meant that he would be forced to actually fight them, he quit instead of playing the new way.

No, sorry, he didn't go to the Arena. The Arena doesn't have Police Drones in the arena fights. He was using a legal-at-the-time trick to kill characters with little risk to himself. If he had actually been challenging them and fighting them, there wouldn't be a story. He was griefing players instead of fighting them.

Imagine, for a moment, that you're playing in a PvP zone in CoH. You're fighting against someone else, and they defeat you. As you respawn, you receive one of two tells from the player playing the other character:
 
"Haha! You suck! I didn't even break a sweat! Why don't you go home and tell your mommy how a big mean man beat you up?"
or
"That was a great fight, you almost had me a few times there!"
 
Both are allowed under the rules, but one makes you seem like a good sport, and the other makes you seem like a jerk. Would you rather have a society filled with the first type of people, or the second?

I'm really not sure what the Government Owning the Means of Production has to do with someone griefing other players in an online game. Perhaps you can explain that a bit more?
 
And being in a democracy doesn't have anything to do with playing a game on servers which you don't own.