Clicking Around The Internet Can Be Disturbing

[MIKolbe]

[quote name='Laudate_Dominum' date='27 May 2010 - 03:12 PM' timestamp='1274987562' post='2119210']
I was reading about supermax prisons and apparently they try to make it impossible to commit suicide. Like, you will endure this dehumanizing hell and we control you so much that you cannot even kill yourself to escape this sentence. If you refuse to eat you will be strapped into a restraint chair and fed by force, usually by inserting a feeding tube. That guy who tried to get on a plane with explosives in his shoes had this happen for example.

[IMG]http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h119/NoonienSoong_2006/supermx.gif[/IMG]

Apparently the light and weird television thing are privileges that can be lost if you're naughty. The idea is total solitary confinement, no contact with other prisoners or the outside world, sensory deprivation, etc.

Also learned that Woody Harrelson's (the actor) father died in a supermax prison and while back and that he was a notorious hitman who was convicted of killing a federal judge and confessed to have been part of the JFK assassination. Also learned that that FBI guy who had been spying for the Russians for more than twenty years, who is now in supermax, was a member of Opus Dei and that he went to confession regularly, as well as daily Mass, but also was a pervert who taped sex with his wife for friends to view and let people watch them having sex through the window.

What a crazy world this is...
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iawtc..

i am NEVER going back!!

[IgnatiusofLoyola]

[quote name='MIkolbe' date='28 May 2010 - 12:46 PM' timestamp='1275068769' post='2119760']
iawtc..

i am NEVER going back!!
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[img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/rotfl.gif[/img] WIN!!!! Me, either.

[Laudate_Dominum]

Was just talking about this with phatcatholic. The thing where you're reading something on wikipedia, then decide to click a related article, then another, etc., and before you know it you're reading about something totally random and unrelated to the original page you were interested in. This sometimes happens on youtube as well, or just googling. The internet is the biggest diversion ever imo.

[ardillacid]

[quote name='aalpha1989' date='27 May 2010 - 07:19 PM' timestamp='1275002393' post='2119392']
Although I think it's a good thing they make suicide near impossible. The conditions may be inhuman and evil, but suicide is still worse.
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Since solitary is torture, I think that mitigates the culpability of the prisoners who decided to end it.

[Nihil Obstat]

[url="http://xkcd.com/609/"]xkcd- Tab Explosion[/url]

[MIKolbe]

[quote name='notardillacid' date='28 May 2010 - 02:06 PM' timestamp='1275070001' post='2119766']
Since solitary is torture, I think that mitigates the culpability of the prisoners who decided to end it.
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good point

[Marie-Therese]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' date='28 May 2010 - 02:07 PM' timestamp='1275070044' post='2119767']
[url="http://xkcd.com/609/"]xkcd- Tab Explosion[/url]
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lawl

[Innocent]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' date='29 May 2010 - 12:37 AM' timestamp='1275070044' post='2119767']
[url="http://xkcd.com/609/"]xkcd- Tab Explosion[/url]
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And this one: [url="http://xkcd.com/214/"]XKCD: The Problem With Wikipedia[/url]

[SaintOfVirtue]

[quote name='notardillacid' date='27 May 2010 - 04:16 PM' timestamp='1275002177' post='2119390']
Smash the tv, make a shank out of the innards, and stab yourself.

People got no imagination these days
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Actually you could simple open it up and touch the transformer. 30,000 volts and three seconds later, you won't remember what happened.

honestly though, people accidentally kill themselves all the time by doing that. Trying to service their TV without a clue what they're doing.

[SaintOfVirtue]

[quote name='CatherineM' date='27 May 2010 - 04:48 PM' timestamp='1275004136' post='2119411']
They keep them from committing suicide because when one does, their family sues.
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The sad thing is the family probably wins most of the time as well.