Comment Re:This isn't a victory for Behring-Breivik. (Score 1) 491
>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.
Comment This isn't a victory for Behring-Breivik. (Score 3, Insightful) 491
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.
Comment Re:Facebook collecting private data unnecessarily? (Score 4, Interesting) 96
This is precisely why I lost all interest in Oculus the instant I heard that it had been acquired by Facebook.
Comment Yep... (Score 2) 232
So this is basically just theft. The police are just like the Crips and Bloods, except they're taxpayer funded.
Comment They say you get the government you deserve... (Score 1) 115
Great job electing a bunch of right-wing assholes yet again, England.
Comment Re:Before or after? (Score 1) 560
The data's only "untrustworthy" if you're a fucking dipshit anti-science luddite like mister Maynard here.
This is the kind of guy who puts "some college" on job applications because he once worked at one.
Comment SDL_WINDOW_BORDERLESS (Score 0) 42
Comment Oh, fuck off. (Score 1, Informative) 353
"I would guess" you're making shit up. You're willing to throw out anonymity and privacy because some people might be circumventing copyright somehow? You're pathetic. (Or you're a government astroturfer. But I repeat myself.)
Comment Re:Both links to the same page... (Score -1) 74
Comment Re:Libraries (Score 1) 331
I'm not in the US. I live in the UK and my comments are based on my observation of it.
Comment Re:Provoking (Score 1) 1130
It puts you into cannon, not "canon".
Comment Libraries (Score -1, Flamebait) 331
This is why we should always fight to keep libraries open. It's all very well fast food restaurants having free wifi, but you have to provide the device yourself.
Libraries, with a few PCs you can use are the answer. Where libraries are closed, we should look into re-opening them. If the buildings are not available then we can "re-purpose" church halls maybe a few nights a week as internet centres for the poor, using donated PCs.
Journal Journal: Return of the Pangolin
So I haven't written a journal entry for a while (9 years) so I thought I'd update it.
I'm currently looking forward to the 7DRL event in March. I wanted to enter the 2012 one but my programming skills had become rusty. I therefore spent the last year getting back up to full strength in preparation for this year's event. A year of fun, spent on #rgrd on quakenet, programming roguelikes and other experiments in ruby, scheme, c++, SDL, irrlicht, libtcod, gosu...
Comment Half life of Half Life (Score 1) 315
The reverse half-life of Half Life games is 521 years: After 521 years, half of Half Life 3 will be complete.
Therefore, much like shooting a tortoise at a tree, Half Life 3 will never be finished.