>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.

They have, but they also raise the petition limit from 25K to 100K https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/make-unlocking-cell-phones-legal/1g9KhZG7#thank-you=p

Which is confounded by the fact the Sun was created until the fourth "day"...Genesis 1:14

Good luck Taco! You'll be missed.

I'd appreciate one too please

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I'd like one too please...

shanebush at gmail dot com

Lets cut federally mandated services, while both increasing and decreasing taxes.
I'd love for some politician somewhere to run on this:

20% federal flat tax, no deductions/reductions
The problem with that is non-profits and such would no longer get funded through tax deductions.

Solution:
10% of said tax goes to fed gov't.
remaining 10% goes into a pool for the citizen/household to allocate percentages or dollar amounts to State registered non-profits

Most government services and social programs get privatized into heavily regulated non-profits and registered as "officially sanctioned" services. (open to competition by other startup "officially sanctioned" service providers) Citizens use the 10% pool to donate to registered non-profit organizations. Churches, schools, healthcare, social security, roads, bridges etc. People can choose to allocate, or not. If they choose not to, the other 10% goes to the fed. gov't as well. The federal gov't would be restricted from funding these services itself. (no bailouts)

Advantages: Non-profits and social programs that should die won't have funding, and will die. Popular programs useful to the people would flourish. In the end, the people would choose. The non-profits would be forced to compete for your allocation.

Disadvantages?

Technically they are not talking about building a nuclear power PLANT. They are talking about building 2 nuclear power UNITS

It's called Yucca Mountain and that idea dates back to 1957!!!