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Spam King and Family Dead In Murder-Suicide
Lt.Hawkins was one of many readers sending in word that the escaped spam king discussed yesterday was found dead in Colorado, after apparently killing his wife and 3-year-old daughter. A teenager was injured, and an infant was found alive in the car.
"What a nightmare, and such a coward," U.S. Attorney Troy Eid said. "Davidson imposed the 'death penalty' on family members for his own crime."
No comprende? Let me type that a little slower for you...
I saw another article that linked to this one http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_9985333 that had a couple of other details.
It sounds like they weren't just a big happy family...
Davidson was housed in a minimum security facility. Minimum security institutions, also known as Federal Prison Camps (FPCs), have dormitory housing, a relatively low staff-to-inmate ratio, and are work and program-oriented. FPCs are generally located adjacent to larger institutions, where inmates help serve the labor needs of the larger institution
I doubt his life was that terrible during the time he spent there. But then again, I can't speak for his ass.
I would have said sociopath, not psychopath, but I think your point is valid.
Damn, it wasn't even a shitload of debt. The article said he had 3.5 million in the bank and half a million in gold, etc.
Hell, pay me 3 million dollars to sit in White Collar prison for 21 months.
I've had several job queries from a local (Thornton Colorado) spam company. The first time I did a little research on the company and turned it down. Now, each time I get pinged by a headhunter, I reply that I don't work for spamming companies.
[John]
Shit better not happen!
I know you were going for comedy points, but it's more a force of habit and generally accepted "curse phrase" by society than a religious affirmation.
I like to think of online DRM as something akin to a college -- you pay for lessons until you learn something.
We aren't celebrating that he killed his family, if anything we're celebrating he killed himself, but most of us probably just joke about it.
There are plenty of people out there, mainly the elderly, who really want to believe things. These people could have lost a good deal of money on spammed stocks and other things, possibly ruined themselves financially. Someone could have bought v!4gr4 and poisoned himself. This guy wasn't stupid. He had to have inured himself against the possibility that he was going to hurt someone just like the guys who sweet-talk little old ladies out of their life savings.
Rehabilitation is good ... for people who WANT to be rehabilitated.
If you had a poor family background, child abuse ... yeah, you deserve rehab.
If were fed bad ideas growing up about morality ... yeah, you deserve rehab.
If you had a known, tested-for mental illness with a physical component ... yeah, you deserve rehab.
The spam king was NONE of that. He grew up just fine. He knew exactly what he was doing, and he just didn't give a damn. His final acts while alive demonstrate exactly the values he held: he was more important that others and was willing to shove them aside at every opportunity to further his own interests, and he would do whatever it took to manipulate others into doing his bidding.
What would rehabilitation do? Teach him that stealing is wrong? He knows that already. Teach him how he hurt others? He knows that. How to be a productive human being? He is. How to engage in mutually-beneficial economic transactions with others? He did it all the time. How to empathize? He's not interested, and he damn well had the chance to learn how to, every moment of his life.
I can understand your dislike of those who reject prisoner rehab, but you must make room for the possibility that some are well beyond that.
Information theory is life. The rest is just the KL divergence.
I can't believe a father would really kill his innocent little child.
This kind of murder-suicide is a relatively common experience (murder-suicides being highly uncommon events in the first place). Customarily, they are committed by Caucasian men. The shrinks and the profilers believe that this particular type of murder is an insidious relative of a "vanilla" suicide. The male figure feels shamed due to personal and professional failings and feels that he is unable to provide for his family. In a state of depression he determined to kill himself. However, the basis for the suicidal impulse is the fear of being unable to care for the family, a result guaranteed by the suicide. Therefore, the perpetrator, as "patriarch" decides to commit suicide for the entire family. That way, he can prevent them from dealing with the consequences of his failings and his suicide. These cases often appear in connection with financial failures.
--AC
I am only have a mild arachnophobia. If I see a small spider across the room I dont flip out, but once its gone I get really nervous and jump if anything touches me. Once at home I was asleep and rolled over facing the wall I saw a large spider on the wall so I jumped outta bed turned the lights on but it was gone. I ripped the room apart, not damaging anything but dismantled the bed etc, and since I couldnt find it I slept in a different room wrapped in blankets. If I ever had an episode where I saw spiders crawling out of everything, I'd probably flip out and kill shit ninja style until the police got me, although it may look more like star wars kid. That sounds terrifying!
Yeah, keep in mind that IBM in Germany built the machines for managing the concentration camps, wrote the software, printed the punch cards, and even sent people on site to do service. The service contract payments went to IBM in New York, not to IBM Germany. Now, you can argue all day whether that means the IBM of today should be held responsible for that, or for that matter if the Krups of today should be held responsible for making gas chambers, but either way you just have to remember not to expect morality from a corporation.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
"Mother Teresa liked making people suffer."
Fixed that for you.
Not a Twitter sockpuppet... but I wish I was.
"Most likely it was a guy named Bubba that had a 12 in surprise for his "wife" back in the cell."
I highly doubt "Bubba" would be serving time in a minimum security prison. They don't call it federal "pound you in the ass" prison for nothing!!
"But this one goes to 11!"