Orogun01

Please, an autistic kid can do a better ending for ME. I hear that they dream great TV series

Well. From what we read around here, he was a quite "normal" guy until he, after visiting Britain, became "increasingly radical and angry". Maybe he was known there for these tendencies, but I think very few, if any, in Sweden knew of the extent of his radicalization. Also, I very much doubt that he had training with explosives, from what I've read... I could have made a better bomb myself, from the descriptions of those. "After visiting Britain"

I'm not breaking out the good stuff for our second cold front.

@Krezack: It's not revenge, I have no ill will to these individuals. Rehabilitation doesn't work, most offenders often become repeat offenders; why you support a failing structure is beyond me? My beef is actually with the people who take the side of the criminals instead of the common public, I'm not for the complete mistreatment of prisoners but the main focus of the penal system should be to protect the society where normal people live. @Nepenthe: It doesn't matter that most people view prison as punishment, for the hardcore criminal it is something of a second home. Some spend most of their life on the inside, they are obviously not frightened or deterred by the prospect of prison.

I'd say my impressions were the opposite. I was never treated harshly (most of them were scared ****less of having a lawyer there), but never fairly or with any respect, apart from the respect you give to somebody who you suspect can tie you into legal loopholes for the rest of your natural life. Clearly your military culture is at an advantage over ours. Military as a prison is an institution, the big difference is that you probably won't be stabbed, raped, robbed, or likely to develop a drug addiction in the military. Plus my sting in the military is something I remember to be harsh but ultimately enjoyable; that said I wouldn't do it again. The comparison really isn't fair since both have very different objectives and populations. The whole point wasn't to equate the two, but to instead point out that people will generally view even a rather "soft" limitation of personal freedoms pretty ****ing opressive. It shouldn't matter what people think, prison should be punitive within the confines of the law. Otherwise the whole concept fails, specially since most hardcore criminals scorn general viewpoints.

Drank a whole lot of whiskey to bury the cold down. Now I think that i'm drunk and cold.

I'd say my impressions were the opposite. I was never treated harshly (most of them were scared ****less of having a lawyer there), but never fairly or with any respect, apart from the respect you give to somebody who you suspect can tie you into legal loopholes for the rest of your natural life. Clearly your military culture is at an advantage over ours. Military as a prison is an institution, the big difference is that you probably won't be stabbed, raped, robbed, or likely to develop a drug addiction in the military. Plus my sting in the military is something I remember to be harsh but ultimately enjoyable; that said I wouldn't do it again. The comparison really isn't fair since both have very different objectives and populations.

I don't see why they need the Reapers considering that all the tomfoolery and all the fan's criticism surrounds the Reaper's storyline. Just like DA could do without the GW ME can do better without the Reapers and just with a galaxy full of political tensions; not a plotline out of a flash gordon episode.

Yes. They just don't have the room for cells for everyone. They have converted gyms and other large spaces into dorms. As was mentioned earlier, the entire system needs an overhaul, the death penalty is a super small problem overall, in terms of how many prisoners are put to death each year. Not that I'm making light of it, I just think that any proper overhaul will naturally render the death penalty obsolete. Maybe, but that depends on the kind of treatment that it's given in consideration to the overhaul. If it's one of those "they are still human and deserve such treatment" i'm worried that in the end we may end up compromising the effectiveness of prison as a deterrence. Actually I think that it has gone down the drain since some prison conditions are much better than what some people have on the outside. So if prisons become any nicer how are we going to convince people that we are actually punishing criminals?

A depressing end game from Bioware? Never. If I put 100 hours into a game series, I expect a happy ending. I'd really be ticked off by anything else. But if you put 2 hours into a movie it's okay if it doesn't have a happy ending. I'm perfectly okay with a bad ending as long as it's done properly.

Was there any confirmation of mental illness? Failing a suicide bombing does not automatically amount to crazy. We have very different views on mental illness, anyone willing to kill himself to further nothing is definitively not sane. I seriously doubt that furthering nothing was his objective. It's more of a result of his failure. If he bombs himself to kill a multitude because he believes that he will be rewarded in heaven he is literally advancing nothing on earth. If anything he is setting back Islam buy making them look like fanatics, in my book pathological fanaticism is a mental illness.

Was there any confirmation of mental illness? Failing a suicide bombing does not automatically amount to crazy. We have very different views on mental illness, anyone willing to kill himself to further nothing is definitively not sane.

People on life imprisonment spend their life on prison. More time, still best that they are confined. I'm not really sure where you are going with this. What do you mean by confined anyways? Stuck in a cell with little interaction with other inmates. Do you understand how difficult it is to do that in today's prison system? Small cells. BTW that's a horrible prison setting, anyone can cut someone else throat with impunity because he sharing the room with 20 other guys. Do they really do that in today's prisons?

People on life imprisonment spend their life on prison. More time, still best that they are confined. I'm not really sure where you are going with this. What do you mean by confined anyways? Stuck in a cell with little interaction with other inmates.

Awesome. Maybe now they will have decent fighting animations.

People on life imprisonment spend their life on prison. More time, still best that they are confined.

big reveal ME3 release date, big whoop.

VGA big BW reveal, BW also dev of the year.

I am pretty sure I nuked her in the first game. What the hell did you do? Forget about all the emotional stuff, let's talk about the big alien orgy we got coming for ME3.

Well, I'd say that depends on the general prison regime and what the "alternative" for "unsocial" types is. If there's a basic prison regime where you can feel relatively safe in your incarceration (which I believe is mostly available in minsec federal prisons in the US), a medium regime where you are forced to spend time with nasty people (but only if you misbehave) and Marion USP style "small black hole with an hour of limited sunlight per day" regime, you should generally be ok. Reward good behaviour, punish bad. Not necessary to fry people to make that (further) point. You still make no mention of the fact that they are still alive and active criminal within the system. Drug peddling, killing, a week in the hole means nothing to a guy that has to stay in prison for the rest of his life. He's gonna make his bones, find a place within the existing structure and that means doing favors, the one most often asked is the killing since a guy in a life sentence has no qualms about it. Basically life imprisonment screws the whole concept of rehabilitation for both the sentenced and the others around him. Not sure how the situation would be different to somebody on death row. Doesn't last as long I guess They could basically be confined to their cells the whole time.

Well, I'd say that depends on the general prison regime and what the "alternative" for "unsocial" types is. If there's a basic prison regime where you can feel relatively safe in your incarceration (which I believe is mostly available in minsec federal prisons in the US), a medium regime where you are forced to spend time with nasty people (but only if you misbehave) and Marion USP style "small black hole with an hour of limited sunlight per day" regime, you should generally be ok. Reward good behaviour, punish bad. Not necessary to fry people to make that (further) point. You still make no mention of the fact that they are still alive and active criminal within the system. Drug peddling, killing, a week in the hole means nothing to a guy that has to stay in prison for the rest of his life. He's gonna make his bones, find a place within the existing structure and that means doing favors, the one most often asked is the killing since a guy in a life sentence has no qualms about it. Basically life imprisonment screws the whole concept of rehabilitation for both the sentenced and the others around him.

Neither of those necessarily means that imprisonment is bad in itself, the problem is more in the way the sentences are carried out in practice and how the society handles people who've served their sentences. Since you reasonably can't execute all criminals (unless that's what you are calling for), these problems would need to be solved both with or without death penalty. Unless the idea is to push criminals further and further from society until they commit a capital offense and can thus be justifiably executed. What i'm talking about it's the prison mentality; the alternative to capital punishment is life imprisonment which basically gives a con a reason not to care what he does to other inmates. They are the hitmen, rapists, and drug dealers on the inside and because they are still in contact with other inmates they spread their corruption further.

I resent that comment humans have earned their place on the galaxy with the blood spilled on the battle with Sovereign.