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  • sK0pe said:

    Amp said:

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  • Dromaro said:
    Jesus fuck. If a DA tries to claim a person isn't responsible because their parents didn't teach them responsibility the parents should be sitting right next to the little fucks in federal assrape prison!
  • Dromaro said:
    What I don't get is that ignorance of the law and it's consequences has never been a viable defense in court until now.
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  • Wait, was someone handing out lots of money?
  • edited February 2014
    No jail for someone who is a minor, instead they're put into a confinement/rehab facility that he can't leave at anyone's discretion but the state(via his case officer) and the doctors at the facility, at the cost to the parents of about a half-million a year, with strict probation terms that will see him in prison for ten years if he violates them? And he's in Juvenile detention until they figure out terms and a treatment program, which knowing how state programs tend to run, could take multiple years?

    You know, far as I can tell, that actually sounds like a decent punishment that's legally appropriate. Certainly far from the complete lack of punishment or consequences that people keep portraying.
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  • I'm a misanthropic bastard. He should be in assrape prison for FOUR COUNTS OF MANSLAUGHTER
  • Churba said:

    You know, far as I can tell, that actually sounds like a decent punishment that's legally appropriate. Certainly far from the complete lack of punishment or consequences that people keep portraying.

    It would be if poor/black kids of a similar age would have gotten the same sentence.

    Instead of, you know, being tried as adults and thrown in jail for decades. This same judge has been extremely harsh on similar levels of minor-committed crime when the defendants have been black or poor.

  • Yes. The issue here is that they've literally given a name and a special sentence to people who are now literally "Too rich to be arrested."

    It's so poetically awful that he can get away with this just on that argument. People have to live up to their mistakes, and this kid doesn't have to where so many others have. It's nonsense.
  • And let's face it, if money can sway a judge it can sway anyone who makes decisions about when that boy leaves. He's probably going to one of those facilities that caters to celebrities, so it might as well be a day spa.
  • Rym said:

    It would be if poor/black kids of a similar age would have gotten the same sentence.

    I view that as an issue of the judge being the point of failure, not the sentance. The Judge being a racist fuck doesn't mean that the sentence on this occasion was inappropriate, but rather, that the sentences in the other cases are.

    He's probably going to one of those facilities that caters to celebrities, so it might as well be a day spa.

    Apparently it's not, and no.

  • Axel said:

    Yes. The issue here is that they've literally given a name and a special sentence to people who are now literally "Too rich to be arrested."

    It's so poetically awful that he can get away with this just on that argument. People have to live up to their mistakes, and this kid doesn't have to where so many others have. It's nonsense.

    To be clear, he was arrested, tried and convicted. His "condition" only came into play in sentencing.

    I'm very old testament when it comes to dolling out punishments. This individual took it upon himself to consume alcohol and then operate a motor vehicle. The consumption of alcohol alone is illegal by a 16 year old. He thought he could get away with driving drunk and he was wrong. 4 people were killed and more seriously injured.

    He is not worth the four lives he extinguished, in my estimation.

    Normally I'd say throw his ass away for life but that's expensive. It's an unfair burdern on the tax payers to sustain someone who has shown what they have to offer society: little to nothing. In a case such as this, I say fry the kid. He ended 4 lives of his will. The state of Texas on behalf of its citizens should end his.

    It's the only punishment fitting, IMHO.
  • edited February 2014
    I'm going to assume that was irony on your part.
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  • Dromaro said:

    Normally I'd say throw his ass away for life but that's expensive. It's an unfair burdern on the tax payers to sustain someone who has shown what they have to offer society: little to nothing. In a case such as this, I say fry the kid. He ended 4 lives of his will. The state of Texas on behalf of its citizens should end his.

    It's the only punishment fitting, IMHO.

    If you kill him you agree that your society is worse than this kid, essentially you are okay with committing murder against a minor who committed manslaughter.

    Your society is such that you have fostered and allowed for this situation to occur. You have formed a situation where you can give a 16 year old a car that he cannot control in a situation which he could not control it.

    The death penalty is similar to sweeping dirt under a rug. You're not looking for the primary reason that would stop dirt gathering there in the future, just a quick fix to make you feel as if you've solved a problem.
  • Dromaro said:

    Axel said:

    Yes. The issue here is that they've literally given a name and a special sentence to people who are now literally "Too rich to be arrested."

    It's so poetically awful that he can get away with this just on that argument. People have to live up to their mistakes, and this kid doesn't have to where so many others have. It's nonsense.

    Normally I'd say throw his ass away for life but that's expensive. It's an unfair burdern on the tax payers to sustain someone who has shown what they have to offer society: little to nothing. In a case such as this, I say fry the kid. He ended 4 lives of his will. The state of Texas on behalf of its citizens should end his.

    It's the only punishment fitting, IMHO.
    Dude, he's sixteen. What the fuck.
  • What? We were all completely responsible individuals at 16. I know that none of us have learned any lessons or matured in our social interactions since that age. You might as well end it for this guy now. He'll be this way for the rest of his life.
  • Death Penalty is not a solution. I just think he shouldn't get placed in some different version of Juvie than what any other teenage kid without rich parents would be in.
  • edited February 2014
    I was being, as my grandma used to say, ironical.

    I'm going to resist the urge to take up the devils advocate position because it never seems to be taken well here. The man needs to learn he's no different from any other citizen and be treated as such. The sentence he received is a joke, IMHO. To think there is a name for helicopter children, a (seemingly) special legal status for them, and that they getting special sentencing because of that status is repugnant to me. That same judge issuing a 10 year sentence to a black teen for killing someone and 10 years probation to a man who killed 4 and put another into a vegetative state? Show me the equality there. I defy you.

    To be clear, I always get annoyed whenever I see wildly inconsistent treat from any branch of government. Perhaps I'm too much of an idealist that all are created equal.
    Axel said:

    Death Penalty is not a solution. I just think he shouldn't get placed in some different version of Juvie than what any other teenage kid without rich parents would be in.

    I firmly believe he should be treated as an adult. Why? The alcohol. Purchase and consumption of alcohol in Texas requires a person to be 21 years old. An adult. If he were just a reckless driver and this happened with no alcohol, I'd be totally ok with juvenile laws since driving under the legal age of adult legal status is permitted.

    He used a controlled substance he shouldn't have access to, he used it willingly, got behind the wheel willingly. He made adult choices. He needs to understand that and pay the consequences accordingly.
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  • Dromaro said:

    He used a controlled substance he shouldn't have access to, he used it willingly, got behind the wheel willingly. He made adult choices. He needs to understand that and pay the consequences accordingly.

    So make his parents pay for those choices, they're the ones who raised him to be like this.
    He is a kid that made adult choices. How would you handle a 10 year old who is selling drugs on a corner, this kid is making adult choices, would you treat him as an adult?

    I can agree with your point on highly variable sentences based on race but that seems to be an ongoing issue that is prominent in the US.
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  • edited February 2014
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    Post edited by Daikun on
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