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Comment Re:This is not uncommon. (Score 1) 34

Why not ask for volunteers? People close to retirement may choose to leave rather than someone who needs it lose their job.

Exactly. That's what I did when my (former) company did the latest round of downsizing.

I fell a little bad for the guys left behind to "do more with less", but I'm pretty happy about my mental health boost.

Comment Re:Big Blue made a big boo-boo (Score 1) 162

The fact that he got fired and had to spend a ton of time and effort fighting that firing demonstrates why so many people don't bother fighting it as strongly as they might otherwise.

It's the same argument against the ACAB claim"why aren't the so-called "good cops" fighting back against the 'bad apples'?"

Because they'll lose their income and get attacked,that's why.

Comment Re:Water in a data center? (Score 4, Insightful) 71

What shit show of a data center uses water for fire suppression?

One that is following fire code? In my experience data centres will have both pre-action sprinklers and a clean agent (Something like Inergen) Depending on the local fire code, tehy will will require sprinklers to protect the structure and any adjacent structures. The Inergen (or other clean agent) is there to protect the equipment, but the sprinklers will operate to protect the building if the clean agent fails to stop the fire.
Also, if the fire department found active fire after the power was cut, they'll use water to knock that fire out.

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.

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