>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.

• I called out sick a couple of days just to avoid your son.

I'd consider that statement as justifying a firing.

I think it's supposed to be classic Keynesian economics, that a government should run a deficit by cutting taxes and spending more when the economy is slow, then cut back on spending and raise taxes once the economy improves.

The only problem is that when the economy is doing well a "Less Government and Higher Taxes" platform is a pretty hard sell for a politician.

Here's a chart showing a very strong correlation between health care costs and wages. For a period in the 90s health care costs grew very slowly and wages shot up, and when health care costs started rising more sharply during the 00s wages became stagnant. It makes sense that an employer would spend less on an employees wages as the cost of their benefits go up.

Like a ban on thundersticks? Yes, yes I would. Those things are horrible.

The thing is, with near 10% unemployment and having just come out of the worst financial crisis since the great depression, Apple is doing well.

If a company that specializes in expensive, high-end computer products is doing well in a weak economy... what happens when the economy improves?

The catch is, while manufacturing is actually increasing in America, employment in manufacturing has fallen because of increased productivity per worker.

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2010/02/us-manufacturing-is-not-dead.html

So while it's not true that the USA doesn't make stuff, it can seem like it because there are fewer jobs in manufacturing.

Actually that's a good question because the first day Portal came out there was a bug where the voice giving you instructions wasn't audible (for a few people). That happened to me, I played the first few levels and I never heard the voice, then the next day Valve patched the game and the game worked for me.

It was a subtle bug because all the other sounds were there, I never realized the best part of the game is missing. Luckily I hadn't gotten too far into the game.

You know, a lot of what you're proposing, (aside malpractice reform), sounds an awful lot like Obamacare (if the Senate bill passes).

The problem isn't capitalism, it's just bad management at that specific develooper. Here's part of interview with someone from one of the most successful developers right, Infinity Ward (who did Call of Duty 4 and Modern Warfare 2).

I'm not a executive, but I would think Rockstar would be better off by hiring the best, paying them well and not overworking them so they can have a low turnover. I keep reading the same articles about "crunch time" and underpayed employees then later I read about the same companies having financial problems (EA in particular but also Rockstar).

I googled that quote, expecting it came from someone like Solzhenitsyn or Orwell, only to find out you're quoting "Revenge of the Sith"... ugh.