There's no punishment in between lwop and the dp. No remorse can be the straw that breaks the camels back.

I'm sure you're right about what the judge was thinking, but this is a ridiculous and arbitrary way to run a justice system. The primary factor in determining how much punishment someone deserves should be "Did you participate in a massive systematic campaign of fraud and intimidation?" not "Are you sorry about it?" At most, that should be a minor factor.

And it is...

The judge here was offering a massive freeroll and these arrogant ****s spit in his extended hand.

lol, Reason magazine gets pwned (scroll down to the update)

http://reason.com/blog/2015/04/15/on...s-remember-whe

If that's your view then, shouldn't you be upset about the judge offering a massive freeroll to a bunch of convicted criminals? If it's not an outrage that most of them got 7 years, isn't it an outrage that some people who were roughly as culpable got a year of house arrest?

Yes, plea deals generally bother me in one respect: They distort and minimize the extent of what the criminal did. Agg assault pleads to simple, and the guy who chased someone with a knife is indistinguishable from Pat Tillman punching an ******* in a bar.

However, because I also believe that criminal sentences are too draconian, pleas help reduce these sentences to more reasonable levels.

Yeah, this. 20 years/serve 7+ is like a child molesting/aggrevated assault on an old lady sentence. Does the judge offer them a ride home if they bow their heads and apologize?

The difference between doubling a sentence would be dramatic enough, but between a long prison sentence and going home with house arrest/parole?

And when they can just go fishing for whatever charges the threat of a draconian sentence makes Pat Tilman take a plea even if it was purely self-defense.

Politics and technology do not mix. These idiots probably made a lower bid than a firm that actually knew what the **** they were doing and had some friends in the legislature get the deal to sail through so their equipment could get certified by morons that don't know the first thing about security.

The government is pretty poor at buying tech.

At first I had some sympathy for the teachers. But if they're ignorant enough to through away a post conviction plea deal, it sounds like they're about as bad as it gets. I say good for the judge. He knows the facts of the case better than anyone. **** em.

Not sure if you know how charging works, but police drop charges wayyyyyyy more than they fish.

you know who else sucks at it?

literally everyone else*

Star Wars Episode VII: A Black Actor Appears

Bad at maintaining it too, and not just healthcare.gov

At my office we decided to get rid of stamps.com since we weren't sending enough letters to justify the $16/mo charge. I have a usps account and tried to log in to buy stamps online, but I forgot my user name (and pw obv). I tried getting the info e-mailed to me, but there is NO ****ING OPTION to enter an e-mail address and have your user name sent to you. You're just **** out of luck if you don't know your user name.

I had to create a whole new account. So dumb.

:nod:

I worked in government tech. We never had a budget to, like, replace our old ****ty broken laptops or buy extension cords, but we would occasionally get a crate with a $100,000 sparkling tech thing on it.

"Holy ****, this thing is cool! But we don't really need it for anything. Also it's incompatible with Windows 7, and it's not in compliance with the regulations. And no one paid for a service contract. And the power supply in the box is the wrong voltage."

Same stuff at my company. "Hey guys we payed $millions for APIGEE and we're not using it at all. So your group is going to be the guinea pig on this feature that literally no customers or partners are asking for."

We will also spend $750k on some ridiculous project management software at the drop of a hat - but won't spend $5k to make sure we have enough licenses for basic things that everyone needs - like version control software. So we end up having people share accounts and all kinds of ridiculous stuff.

Suzzer, what does your company do (generally)? I've never had those kinds of experiences, working first on video games and now on consumer tech.

If any of your companies want to drop a milly or two on some sexy biotech, let me know.

What a terrifying new digital world we live in. Cops run the risk of being filmed on phones by randoms while shooting unarmed people in the back and sports announcers must endure the horror of becoming the number one news story of the day because their tantrums were caught on video. When will this Orwellian nightmare end?

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Video definitely O'Keefe'd, imo. Heroine obv being unjustly pilloried.

I worked for a company with about 150 people that spent huge money on something from Vantage that never worked despite having teams of consultants around for a year. Also, heaven help you if you wanted to touch something in Oracle. What we did in an hour on Mysql would take a month easy on Oracle because they felt the need to have endless meetings before doing anything to the precious Oracle DB.

Fortune 500 entertainment company.

On the one hand, this chick deserves whatever she gets. It's one thing for some random nobody to say something stupid on twitter and get pilloried for it (like that justine sacco bozo) but this is 100x worse, if for no other reason than she think her "fame" (lol she's like a c-lister in ESPN's bimbo stable) in and of itself both proves and is the reason she's better than the plebes. And on top of that, she continued the tirade even after realizing she was on video!

On the other hand, some of the news stories about this are a little ... dishonest?

http://hotair.com/archives/2015/04/1...ttendant-clip/

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment...-in-ugly-rant/

Calling this person a "parking lot attendant" is a stretch IMO. Her car was towed. I mean, I don't want to sound sympathetic to this ESPN nobody (it's not like the lady at the lot decides which cars to tow or whatever) but this isn't your run of the mill "just paying for my parking" situation (obviously if you want to generate white hot outrage you can't have a victim who is NO ANGEL).

our 3k+ person company just got a new phone system, the UI looks like someone drew it with crayons, complete with fields you can't see due to colors clashing

pretty sure it was a sweetheart deal for someone on the board's yokel cousin who knows him some visual basic or something