@xxXX_Insanities_Birth_XXxx: Your world is frighteningly back-and-white. There are a huge number of problems - both moral and practical - with the unimaginably brutal penal system that you describe, but here's just a little "food for thought" for you:

@OkayOctane: Hey, don't get me wrong. I'm all for stringing up criminals when their crimes are as excessive as your examples. My objection was the claim that "50% of the prison population only deserves a noose", which I believe grossly over-estimates the number of inmates that genuinely are irredeemable monsters.

@Michael Forsberg: Plenty of those items are still there. It's just that they now also have a spa ;)

@Esper mind tricks: @NecronomiconUK:

@Riquez: "I can get 6-8 months off work & play games all day."

@Fukitsu: As in:

@Megaman LXIX: The counter-argument might be that there's something to be said for teaching criminals to channel their aggressive tendancies into video games rather than assaulting real people.

@xxXX_Insanities_Birth_XXxx: "50% of the prison population only deserves a noose"

@Showmeyomoves!: They do... but in prison, it's a live-action roleplaying game ;)

@gaztrain: I believe that the expression is "Oh Snap!"?

@toratoko: Actually, even the humble 1st gen iPod Touch has substantially more graphics firepower than the increasingly ancient DS. I know you don't want to hear that and I'm truly sorry, but there it is.

@SleepingLesson: Apple had already been talking about adding a "premium content" section containing only the larger high-quality works from the bigger development studios, which may help.

@Bonuslevel: Indeed, but everyone seems not to notice that.

@Nobuyuki: The PS2 EyeToy IS a "motion controller". Motion control was a waste of time then, and a waste of time now.

@oldtaku: As a related observation, the guys at Insomniac were so happy with the water implementation that they did for Resistance 2 that they've apparently put the source code on their web site for any other PS3 developer to use (you don't even have to credit them, let alone pay them). I think that this sort of…

@BritBloke916: Whoops, detached comment meant for -MasterDex-, obviously.

"just like America, those that aren't a aprt of it, despise it."

With its largely adult ownership and multi-touch screen, the iPhone and iPod Touch are just crying out for some photorealistic interactive porn. Damn Apple and their standards of decency ;)

@gerrylum: It is coming to PS3, apparently, so you'll likely have both and be spoiled for choice.

@TheWon: "They copy everything else."