>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.
Maybe the patent office will notice a bit of prior art? One can hope, right?
I'd argue otherwise. Oracle submitted a boatload of bugs (performance & otherwise) to Redhat to make Oracle products run better. Redhat ignored most of them. Oracle forked red-hat & rolled their own. Isn't that the benefit of open source?
I used to own an '84 Chevy DIESEL Chevette, and it could get up to 65 to merge onto the interstate. (assuming no headwind) Having 200+ hp in a family sedan is overkill.
No. I speak as someone with a MS in CS, so I may be a little biased, but saying CS should just be Math & Engineering is much like saying Physics is just applied math, or chemistry is applied physics. While one is built on the other, there are basic tenets taught in CompSci that would never come directly out of Engineering or Math. While there is a lot of overlap, subjects such as Data Structures or Autonoma Theory (off the top of my head) are VERY different than anything that would be thought of as engineering or math. Core concepts such as these affect the very way that CS majors view the world. It is a different level than just applied math & engineering.
Given Teller's persona on stage, I'm really trying hard not to make a Non-Disclosure Agreement joke....
or better yet, can I get
I've seen something like this before... Oh yeah, during the vietnam war....
So how long to someone makes a browser plugin that searches google for thousands of random words, thus making google's data mining worthless?
As a vendor, I will attest to this. I have 'fallen on the sword' more than once for employees to save face.
From looking at the pictures, assuming the gentleman next to the car is 6 ft tall, then the doors don't go much past 7 to 7 1/2 feet. Tall, but not unworkable.
CSB: A pub I used to frequent had live entertainment in the form of a man on stage with a guitar singing various bawdy pub songs. A bunch of us were in one night when we convinced our friend ( a wonderful indian grad student who knew no fear) to get on stage and sing 'Margaritaville'. He didn'tt know the song, but the entertainer said he would feed him the lines as they came along just before along, like a human karaoke machine. So he get's up there and sings. The singer feeds him the line 'stepped on a pop-top' and he sings it as 'stepped on a pop tart' because he had never heard of a pop top.
I still can't sing it the original way, I like pop-tart better.
"Life, loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it." -- Marvin the paranoid android
