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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:Dvorak (Score 1) 307

Question yourself - why do relative many people take effort to learn Dvorak, and a large amount of them state they don't want to go back? Is that because it's an inferior layout? Are all those people fooling themselves? Or could it be that 'qwerty is good enough too', and that a learning curve to another layout is long, and in the beginning, pretty steep?

In this world where people believe in homeopathy, Scientology and other such crap in this world, that argument is not going to find too many takers.

Comment Re:Can't feed nor provide clean water for populati (Score 1) 336

... and every combat rifle designed by every Western country worked perfectly from the first attempt right?
* XM29 OICW (USA)
* XM8 (USA)
* Steyr ACR (Austria)
* H&K G11 (Germany)
* Armtech C30R (Austria)

Every manufacturer has to go through a learning curve before the products can compete against the best of the world. The only way to fail is to not try at all.

Comment Re:Wait, hang on (Score 1) 336

While the development of the Agni series did begin in 1983, the Agni-V launched yesterday is an evolved version of the Agni II. About as similar as the current-generation Porsches have with the original in 1963 :).
The Agni family can be divided into 3 generations
* Agni II (First into service)
* Agni I & III
* Agni IV & V - The Agni IV isn't meant to enter service but was a proving exercise for the technologies used on the Agni V

Comment Re:India invents the "V2"? (Score 3, Informative) 336

This 'long range missile' was designed with SUBMARINE LAUNCH CAPABILITY IN MIND.

Does India have working Submarines?

Then the US is a target.

The Agni is a land-based missile and is expected to be launched from rail-based vehicles. The sub-launched missiles are the Sagarika (700 km range and tested successfully but not yet in service) and the K-4 (3500 km range which is under development and hasn't had any flight tests as yet)

India does not have any ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) in service yet. The first one - the Arihant was launched last year and is undergoing tests. All other submarines are either SSKs or SSNs

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