Yeah, our prisons have a STELLAR record of rehabilitation here. Yes sir.

Hospitalization is a much better option.

What's interesting to me about this is that cyclic hiring is not something new. Every industry that actually MAKES something does this, especially when they have hard deadlines to hit.

I don't understand the logic behind:

Please be joking. Please be joking.

I don't think anyone is suggesting that the layoffs are out of anything but self-interest. It's a tragedy of the commons thing — the suggestion is that the short-term benefit to revenue comes at the long-term expense of employee morale. Bad morale (maybe) means less productive workers and most definitely drives people…

The thought might seem silly—why get rid of developers just to replace them in a few months?—but this sort of thing happens often. And the explanation is simple, according to one ex-employee. The development team didn't need those people for pre-production—the period of time in which the basics of a game are…

implying they'd care it probably will come with it or a special edition at most i still dont understand how anyone could justify buying it on its own

MGS 5 will be so big, we will forget that they were selling demos for $29.99. :D

It appears that everyone is in the wrong, here, but the onus always rests upon the adult security professional to be in control of him/herself in a situation like this.

Gender equality just isn't everyone's passion, and y'all are gonna have to learn to make your peace with that instead of picking on people for it. It's fine, really! I bet many of you are just bored to tears by environmental activism, or by trying to find a cure for cancer, or economic justice, or whatever other…

"polish" was more likely fixing a fuck ton of crashes and major errors instead of fixing annoyances the design had.

Here's the thing: I'm appalled at what they did, and I think while we need to take into account that they're kids, the girl needs justice. On balance, I think psychiatric care is best.

"I don't know if sitting in an American prison will really lead to good evaluation etc. They're not known for their progressiveness."

There's a pretty standard bail schedule depending on what the crime they're being charged with is and that amount can be adjusted up if they have a previous criminal record or if they're perceived to be a flight risk because they're wealthy or other specific circumstances. $500,000 actually sounds about right given…

I'm a hardass about these things but they should be tried as juveniles. They are so young they think Slenderman is real and they can go live with him. They are disturbed, and I don't argue that. They are unable to separate reality from fantasy. They are dangerous. But they're not acting from a basis of pure…

It isn't necessarily a binary choice.

Under psych eval, medical science may decide they will *never* be ready to rejoin society. But we lose the opportunity to learn *and* the opportunity to cure if we just ship them off to prison and forget about them.

I honestly don't know where I stand. I hate the idea of trying a 12-year-old as an adult, but I'm also incredibly disturbed at just how premeditated the crime was. Frankly, I wish there was some middle ground, a way to try juveniles for incredibly heinous crimes that involved a longer sentencing.

I mean, why do we even have a separate system for trying children and adults if every time a child does something horrific, we're just going to try them as an adult anyway. We, as a society, have decided that crimes have a different connotation and weight when you're younger, and I think we either need to accept…

Everything about this is incredibly messed up. I live a county over from where this happened and it's everywhere on the radio, news, etc. These are all children - I'm horrified by the two girls' actions and horrified by people calling for them to be tried as adults.

I bow to a clearly adept master in the feminist arts. /gong