>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.

There is also a correlation between Russia's population decline and the ozone hole. Just saying.

I'd stop trying to explain that. These people just want to say they hate gay people without saying they hate gay people. To anyone with half a brain, yes, they know you need to go through a marathon of conversation options in order to get the man-on-man action happening.

I refer you to my sig line. =p

It must be really hard for you to avoid going out of your way to pick all the appropriate conversation options in order to end up experiencing such a situation. When I played the game, I had to pay close attention in order to purposefully put my character into such a relationship.

Want some company?

"If you haven't seen the words 'health care' in news headlines lately, you must be living under a rock."

Or perhaps you aren't an American.

At this rate it won't be long before they're able to do the same with live cats.

Maybe.

e^(pi*i) = -1 vs. e^(tau*i) = 1

There's a difference between questioning a theory based on evidence to the contrary and questioning it simply because it is controversial. One of the few other scientific theories that seems to enjoy this distinction is the theory of evolution. However, you'd be hard pressed to find as many slashdotters making the same argument against that theory.

It was insinuated that continued development would reduce the number of parameters to adjust. If you program, don't you ever put in a bunch of extra settings that a user would never touch, but you would like to play with until you get things just right?

As he stated at the beginning of the demo, the plugin was still in development and there appeared to be a multitude of sliders and settings to set in order to get any particular photo to come out 'just right'. I'm assuming he had limited stage time and felt that saving all those settings to be loaded on an as needed basis would save time.

Otherwise, would you have been more content to sit there and watch him fiddle with sliders and settings for 5-10 minutes per photo in order to achieve the results he produced with saved settings? In fact, he explicitly stated that he was loading some presets.

Additionally, if you look at the file size column when he loads the pre-defined parameters, they are single-didgit file sizes, Most likely 1 KB each.