> According to court documents obtained by ZDNet, and the suspect, Vishwanath Akuthota, 27, filmed himself while destroying some of the computers.
Never understood why people film their own crimes?
Former student destroys 59 university computers using USB Killer device
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Going to throw out a guess and say it's because selling you an item after you called it a bong is admitting that it's indeed a bong.
Ah, that makes sense, question answered. My second question is that if bongs and water pipes are the same thing, why does the law distinguish their purpose by their name? It seems like given " I want to buy a water pipe for smoking the marijuana " and " I want a bong to smoke tobacco ", the second should be legal to request, not both.
_bong_ is considered drug slang, water pipe is not.
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#203> According to court documents obtained by ZDNet, and the suspect, Vishwanath Akuthota, 27, filmed himself while destroying some of the computers. Never understood why people film their own crimes?
To show their shitbird criminal buddies and giggle over?
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When we (Dutch) ask in school why our sentences are so low, it is explained that if the punishment does not fit the crime, you will be incentivized to add more crime because you are already facing prison time, so why would you care about a few years more or less. Aka if the crime for rape is almost the same as murder you might as well kill the victim to have less chance of being caught. We have not a lot of crime and…
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Please kill this ignorant, toxic and racist ("tribal warfare" and "reason and enlightenment" are pretty blatant dogwhistles) post.
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#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I hope he gets the full 10 years. Ten years for vandalism ? That's injustice. You don't even know why he did it. Perhaps he was just an idiot, perhaps he had a legitimate grievance that he didn't know how to "rectify" otherwise. > Nothing like the US Penitentiary System to teach you a lesson. Oh really? Then why does the US system have one of the highest rates of recidivism in the world? Why does the US have the hi…
> Perhaps he was just an idiot, Considering he filmed it, this is the most likely explanation anyway; you should ruin someone life over that? Make him pay 200k in fines and that’s it; jail time is insane for this imho.
Problem is, the fine will be paid by his parental units, which doesn't teach him a lesson at all; in fact, it reinforces the lesson that he can do anything he wants, and parents will take care of it.
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I'm guessing he's a rich kid from India, with rich parents who are bankrolling his education. I hope he gets the full 10 years. Nothing like the US Penitentiary System to teach you a lesson.
> I'm guessing he's a rich kid from India, with rich parents who are bankrolling his education. What is this guess based on?
I grew up in India and had friends who were rich and entitled? A guy I knew one day decided to kick in the car doors of a dozen cars because he was pissed (I think because he didn't get to park there...?). Anyways, cops were called, but parents wrote out hefty checks and that was it. I have seen this kind of behavior before.
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It's just a piece of plastic. Very intricate, relatively expensive silly plastic. You are demanding blood and to trade off a huge chunk of human life for the silly piece of machinery (which he gonna pay fore anyway), are you feeling well, my friend?
The reason I think this is going to result in jail time, is this is not just one or two isolated incidents. But instead the 59 incidents make this a willful act of vandalism.
It doesn't get more "wilful" than filming yourself doing it, with glee.
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Most foreigners who can afford to come to the US for a post graduate education come from a relatively comfortable situation at home.
The problem with this is that law is not written exclusively for foreign postgrads.
That is not really a problem because there is usually a lot of flexibility given to the judge in sentencing. The judge can determine an appropriate sentence within the maximums (and sometimes minimums) set by the law.
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Is there something about the United States that would cause you to think there are more "malignant individuals" than in other countries? Why wouldn't the Netherlands or Japan have as many "malignant individuals" at young ages?
The GP is making a thinly-veiled racial argument--the U.S. is supposed to be uniquely bad because of its minority population. You can see similar rhetoric employed on neo-Nazi websites regularly.
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#210 Some people are issued devices like these by their employers…