That's somewhat unfair - people who are self taught can be excellent just as people can do a degree and not be able to code anything. I think the insanity is to look at a degree and think it tells you one way or another if the person is capable. Interviews exist for a reason. Degrees are a chance to obtain knowledge, and the end result is really just so the employer can make a few assumptions - they still need to check you are capable, because it could go either way.
I have worked with people who have no degrees, A.S., B.S., and M.S. degrees. Some in computer science, some not. What I have found is that there are good software developers across the entire spectrum, as well as bad ones. This is why I am strongly in favor of making a degree a soft requirement: prefer it, but when push comes to shove, let an un- or under-educated individual prove themselves. I believe in entrance exams for jobs, regardless of profession or level of employment. Look for people in three categories:
People who are highly skilled and pass with flying colors. Hire them, train them on whatever product your company developers, and let them be.
People who are not highly skilled, but show promise. Hire them, train them, mentor them, mold them into good developers and give them a chance.
Morons who don't know anything and probably falsified their resume anyway; e.g. claims to be a PHP developer with X years of experience, but demonstrates on the entrance exam that he can't perform basic PHP tasks. Show them the door and explain why.
Maybe in Corporate America, where you have to slave 60 hours a week just to keep your job, and where you're expected to feel guilty for wanting to have a social life.
There have been times at my job where my employer basically says "oh well" when it comes to OT. Like when I have family plans. If I work the hours, nobody even thanks me. It gets tiring. It doesn't happen often, but it always occurs at the absolute worst time.
In Europe (at least developing software in the Netherlands), this is simply not true. The reason: employers realise that a high turnover costs a huge amount of money and worse, delays projects. The latter costs time to market, which can be even more expensive and in extreme cases can kill the company.
Here in the USA, it is cheaper to marginalize or plain old fire employees and then replace them with cheap imported labor. I'm sure you are aware about outsourcing being the new fad here to reduce payroll expenses so the CEO can get a few more million in his bonus. We also hire immigrant or work-visa employees who are willing to work for around 2/3 the salary of an American born and bred here.
It may sound cocky or stereotypical, but many of those "imported" workers are used to worse conditions back home. In much of the world, families live together. Children move out when they marry, not when they reach the legal age of adulthood. Children who do move out get roommates, and live in smaller apartments. Here in the U.S.A., we are taught that everyone needs tons of space. Buy a house. A big car. Lots of land. No spouse or children? You still need 4 bedrooms and an SUV. Too expensive? Fuck it, just go into perpetual debt that will only end when you die. It is our way of life, our culture. Immigrant workers bring their (better) work ethic and (better) lifestyle with them, and employers take advantage of it.
I honestly really hate the fuck out of the USA sometimes. So much injustice for employees.
That's what we get for our bastardized free market economy. Us little people don't have much of a voice in running the corporations, so the people at the top who hold all the cards get to make all the decisions. Being selfish, those decisions benefit the rich, while us working class are being squeezed tight.
The other day I was driving around my suburb and realized that it is visibly going to hell. People who used to have good jobs are moving out because they don't have jobs anymore. The ghetto element is moving in. People who still have good jobs are moving out because of ghetto creep. Malls are closing due to reduced business and increased crime. Businesses move out because of worker safety.
If businesses respected their employees more, none of this would be happening. Wages would be up. People would be employed. The middle class wouldn't be squeezed -- in fact it would be growing as the lower class moves up. This country is destined for some ugly times if this doesn't change: the recent recession is nothing compared to what I believe will happen next.
The F16 is a "4th generation" fighter, whereas the Rafale is a "near 5th generation" fighter.
The U.S. is also willing to invest heavily in upgrading old avionics, making what "generation" it is in to be relatively irrelevant. For example, look at the operational history of the B-52.
You should probably be fired. Even if you're a competent worker, you're clearly not a team player and don't value informing others what is going on or care to learn what others are doing.
Fair enough assessment given the information I provided. I should probably add that the meeting was structured poorly and despite our best efforts, nobody contributed anything of value so attendance in general dropped off. We are looking at other ways to incorporate the agile stand-up meetings into our workspace, but in a different format that will provide value.
If you can't show up on time and show enough respect for your colleagues to listen to what they're working on in case it effects what you're working on, well you're a dinosaur, and don't really fit into a collaborative or agile workplace which, frankly, is the winning model right now.
We also have weekly training meetings where historically we would talk about the application frameworks for our company's product, because some of them are extremely complex and difficult to understand (e.g. hardware and payment system integration). Lately, we have been turning these into sessions where we take a problem someone has been working on and spend a whole hour going through it. A group problem-solving session. These have been extremely productive both in terms of getting stuff done as well as hands-on training with complex, real-world scenarios.
That may not address the specific point you brought up regarding stand-up meetings, but it does accomplish much of the same thing for our organization just on a longer time scale.
Yes, except at my company I noticed a curious trend. Meeting invited employees have developed a spontaneous order of arriving to meetings in inverse order of seniority. The highest seniority employees often don't even arrive at work till a half to full hour after they declared the meeting to start.
I noticed the same thing, especially being the developer with the second most seniority. The most senior developer never showed up, and I showed up about once a month. The meetings were worthless and a waste of time, which those of us who worked on the accounts with the most impact realized. I could spend 15 minutes talking about stupid crap, or fixing important crap that executives had visibility into. Which one made my job less painful?
Why the hell do these morons keep tabling impossible and/or extremely EXPENSIVE (compute-wise) proposals without talking to someone who knows ANYTHING about IT and technology FIRST?
I am sure they did have these discussions, and the expense is part of the benefit.
Money spent by search engines, government agencies, etc. is an externality to the copyright industry. They get to make other people miserable, they believe it will increase their profits, and it involves no expense on their part. Even the lawyers and executives holding these meetings are full-time employees anyway so no money lost there.
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Yeah, what works for me probably won't work for a system builder. Economy of scale is working against you with Linux. I think it would be great to have an LTS version good for 5-7 years. Maybe have fewer releases, but supported longer.
personally i blame Torvalds refusal to accept a driver ABI but then here come the fanbois having a fit, like every other OS is wrong and Linus fricking Torvalds is right, but since as long as he has a pulse Linux won't have one it don't matter anyway. But until the driver situation is fixed me and every other shop is in a catch 22, we'd like to offer your OS but the customer base simply don't have the skills to keep the damned thing running and giving away free support would break us.
I agree, I think a stable ABI is crucial to Linux gaining mainstream popularity. It has to be trivial to download and install a driver the way it works with Windows. The ABI is even stable across versions: the same drivers typically work with Vista, 7, and Server 2008. The only question is 32 bits or 64?
I think the other crucial factor is a stable desktop environment. The problem is both the Gnome and KDE folks seem hell-bent on making tons of changes all the time, and then distribution maintainers come in and make more changes. So the desktop is highly fragmented. What we need is one of them to get their heads out from their asses, figure out what features truly are necessary, and stabilize them.
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I tried a few distributions before settling on Kubuntu 11.10. It just works and everything is easy. The menu has the same search feature that OSX and Win7 have. Type what you want to do, and crap just pops up on the list. Click it and go. All my devices just work. Pop in a flash drive? Automatically mounted and I can drag and drop files and take them with me. Click a picture? Viewer opens up. Not GIMP, which belongs in the "shit that sounds like it might earn me the 'sex offender' badge" bin. Just a regular old picture viewer. Same with music, videos, anything else that Grandma might want to do.
So many people are ready to write-off Ubuntu because of Unity and the batshit insane rambling of Canonical, but damn, Kubuntu gets it right. Take Ubuntu, rip out the stupid half. Put a stake in its heart, douse in holy water, and throw it in the garbage disposal. Then replace the crap with KDE, add in slick installation and setup wizards that are smart enough that they Just Work, other features that OSes for the masses possess, and release.
I may be tech-savvy, but I do not have time to fiddle with idiotic kernel settings or driver incompatibilities. I write software for a living, and I want to use computers to be productive. To use a car analogy, there are gearheads out there that want to restore old cars and spend hours tinkering to get them running like new. The rest of us want to drive to work, the grocery store, the liquor store, etc. Computers need to be like cars. 99% of the time they just need to work with us, not against us, but allow the 1% the ability to screw around with filesystem cluster sizes or whatever makes them happy.
DVI-D is fully compatible with HDCP. In fact I watch Blu-ray movies on my computer in full 1080p over DVI-D. A quick google search for "DVI HDCP" turned up several links that corroborate this.
If you tell the executive branch, "Hey a whole bunch of D-bags in Congress are being bought and paid for," I'd bet they'd be willing to at least take a look.
Yeah, Obama will take a look to make sure he is bought and paid for by the same people. If so, he'll say he looked and everything checks out. Otherwise, he'll make a big stink about it until he receives just as much money from the same people.
Grateful that you went through an invasive unnecessary procedure?
My family has a history of gastrointestinal disease, and I had symptoms. Hardly "unnecessary" in my case. I am grateful to have a skilled M.D. in charge of the procedure who made an accurate diagnosis (no serious problems, eat more fiber). While I may disagree with the insurance/billing side of this, the medical side was 100% spot on and I am grateful to everyone involved.
I think that is already a solved problem for colonoscopies - 24 hours of nothing but clear liquids and jello plus aggressive laxatives, clears you right out.
According to my butt doctor, I was "squeaky clean" when I had my colonoscopy. The previous day and a half was unpleasant, but I am grateful I went through with it.
The weirdest part of having 100% empty intestines was my lack of hunger. I had zero food or "processed food" in my guts, but I felt content like I had just eaten a decent meal but was not stuffed. Then, when I ate my first meal, I was extremely hungry despite having just eaten.
I also find it highly likely that you are willing to sacrifice soldiers without actually ever having served. An armchar moralist. Gosh, we need more of them.
Not sure about the GP, but I did serve and I am against armed conflict except in self defense. In fact part of the reason I left was because my number was coming up to go to Iraq and I felt it was immoral since it was not self defense. Not only that, Bush refused to be honest about his reasons and kept feeding blatant lies and excuses to the U.S. public. I was not about to die for some rich man's petty conflict.
It isn't allowed. What actually happens is that donations are given to the campaign fund, while lobbyists tell legislators what positions they want them to take (and why). The lawmakers know who's propounding what, and who's given them money, and make a connection - all without an act of explicit bribery having taken place.
Don't forget that except in the most egregious cases, Congress is in charge of enforcing these laws against Congressmen. The FBI will get involved if they commit a crime against someone else, e.g. assault or murder, but routine issues such as bribery require investigation by the same group of people accepting bribes.
They don't understand SOPA, don't want to understand.
I'm trying really hard here not to insult you, but again and again I am SHOCKED people can honestly think and say this!!!
Seriously? You are shocked that I believe a group of businessmen and lawyers do not understand technology and are motivated by the campaign contributions from the people pushing SOPA?
The government is literally PUNCHING YOU IN THE FACE, while saying they LOVE you.
I agree. The real problem here is the public, as a whole, either believes the lies, or sees they are lies but they can't do anything about it.
How many times do you need punched in the face before you start listening to their actions and not their words?!?!
It only took one or two times when I was younger. I have been bitter about the U.S. government for a long time.
Please for the love of $diet-y, WAKE UP
I am awake and I see the situation with great clarity. People who make laws are beholden to money, not true representation of their constituents. If Hollywood decided copyright was not necessary and lobbied for more relaxed IP laws, you can bet your ass that Congress would follow the money and legislate accordingly.
Was just on SOPAtrack.com yesterday and saw that Sen. Mark Kirk from IL got over $760,000 from pro-PIPA/SOPA interests. I'm gunna go out on a limb and guess I know which way he's going.
QFT. They don't understand SOPA, don't want to understand. What they do understand is someone is giving tons of money to pass a bill.
Business as usual in Congress.
What I would like to see happen is repealing all the extra copyright legislation such as the DMCA and not passing any more. Let the content producers use the existing system to sue copyright infringers. Our existing copyright law works. It has teeth. It just requires things such as "evidence" and "due process," which is an annoyance to Hollywood. However, I doubt this will ever happen.
The average is going up because all the lower end IT positions are over seas mostly now, at least that is my guess. I always found these 'average' salaries to be very misleading. Because I always seem to be making below the average.
Same here. I look at IT salary statistics, even ones drilling down to "software engineers" or "software developers" and I end up crying. Sure, I live in a part of the country with a lower cost of living, but so do most people in my career. Am I really getting the shaft that bad? Or are these studies that skewed?
What needs to be made clear to him, therefore, is that no amount of money is going to be enough to save his seat. And rather than wait for election day (which will be too late), take a lesson from the Tea Party and primary the fucker. 'Tis the season, after all....
Since when do incumbents face primaries? I've heard about it for very unpopular candidates, where even their own party won't back them for reelection, but not otherwise. I could be wrong -- I'm not trying to be a dick, I am curious.
I think you have the right idea though, issues like this need popular support. That is very difficult to do given the size and population density in this country.
"Passing unconstitutional laws is not the same thing as 'The crime of betraying one's country...'"
Yes, it is.
Please, go after the Congressmen responsible for unconstitutional laws in court using that argument. While I disagree that it is treasonous, I do agree that they need to be held accountable and pay consequences. Given that the Constitution itself specifies that the only penalty for treason is death, I would fully support you in your effort.
Maybe that would encourage our elected representatives to pass constitutional laws that benefit We the People, not We the Corporations.
US military action isn't driven by "imperialism"; imperialism doesn't work, as Britain and France showed. The US is trying to convert other nations into trading partners with compatible economies and governments. That may or may not be a reasonable thing to do, but it is not "imperialism".
I never said the United States is engaging in imperialism: I was comparing what our government does to the old British imperialism, where they made everyone else's business their own. Regardless of the reason for the U.S. doing what it does, I believe it is wrong. Not only does our government install puppets around the globe (generally with spectacular failures), they do so at great cost to the taxpayers (of which I am one).
Furthermore, the Middle East should be Europe's financial and military responsibilitiy, not ours.
Correct, given the fact that the Middle East are not our neighbors. I think the case for intervening in Mexico is much stronger given the proximity, and the fact that the violence there does affect our shared border.
Passing unconstitutional laws is not the same thing as "The crime of betraying one's country, esp. by attempting to kill the sovereign or overthrow the government." (ref: Google)
While one could argue that the laws themselves constitute "betrayal" of some party (e.g. the citizens of the United States), this is not the same thing as treason.
The problem is, the constitution has no teeth: there are no penalties for any one, or any combination, of the executive, judiciary, or congress violating the constitution's explicit directives (and their oaths as well.) None whatsoever.
Actually, there is one penalty, and it applies to all three branches: impeachment and removal from office.
The problem with this procedure is that we effectively have multiple branches working together toward the same goal (in this case, an ex post facto law). In this arrangement, it is extremely unlikely that that U.S. House of Representatives will vote to impeach anyone.
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I have worked with people who have no degrees, A.S., B.S., and M.S. degrees. Some in computer science, some not. What I have found is that there are good software developers across the entire spectrum, as well as bad ones. This is why I am strongly in favor of making a degree a soft requirement: prefer it, but when push comes to shove, let an un- or under-educated individual prove themselves. I believe in entrance exams for jobs, regardless of profession or level of employment. Look for people in three categories:
There have been times at my job where my employer basically says "oh well" when it comes to OT. Like when I have family plans. If I work the hours, nobody even thanks me. It gets tiring. It doesn't happen often, but it always occurs at the absolute worst time.
Here in the USA, it is cheaper to marginalize or plain old fire employees and then replace them with cheap imported labor. I'm sure you are aware about outsourcing being the new fad here to reduce payroll expenses so the CEO can get a few more million in his bonus. We also hire immigrant or work-visa employees who are willing to work for around 2/3 the salary of an American born and bred here.
It may sound cocky or stereotypical, but many of those "imported" workers are used to worse conditions back home. In much of the world, families live together. Children move out when they marry, not when they reach the legal age of adulthood. Children who do move out get roommates, and live in smaller apartments. Here in the U.S.A., we are taught that everyone needs tons of space. Buy a house. A big car. Lots of land. No spouse or children? You still need 4 bedrooms and an SUV. Too expensive? Fuck it, just go into perpetual debt that will only end when you die. It is our way of life, our culture. Immigrant workers bring their (better) work ethic and (better) lifestyle with them, and employers take advantage of it.
That's what we get for our bastardized free market economy. Us little people don't have much of a voice in running the corporations, so the people at the top who hold all the cards get to make all the decisions. Being selfish, those decisions benefit the rich, while us working class are being squeezed tight.
The other day I was driving around my suburb and realized that it is visibly going to hell. People who used to have good jobs are moving out because they don't have jobs anymore. The ghetto element is moving in. People who still have good jobs are moving out because of ghetto creep. Malls are closing due to reduced business and increased crime. Businesses move out because of worker safety.
If businesses respected their employees more, none of this would be happening. Wages would be up. People would be employed. The middle class wouldn't be squeezed -- in fact it would be growing as the lower class moves up. This country is destined for some ugly times if this doesn't change: the recent recession is nothing compared to what I believe will happen next.
The U.S. is also willing to invest heavily in upgrading old avionics, making what "generation" it is in to be relatively irrelevant. For example, look at the operational history of the B-52.
Fair enough assessment given the information I provided. I should probably add that the meeting was structured poorly and despite our best efforts, nobody contributed anything of value so attendance in general dropped off. We are looking at other ways to incorporate the agile stand-up meetings into our workspace, but in a different format that will provide value.
We also have weekly training meetings where historically we would talk about the application frameworks for our company's product, because some of them are extremely complex and difficult to understand (e.g. hardware and payment system integration). Lately, we have been turning these into sessions where we take a problem someone has been working on and spend a whole hour going through it. A group problem-solving session. These have been extremely productive both in terms of getting stuff done as well as hands-on training with complex, real-world scenarios.
That may not address the specific point you brought up regarding stand-up meetings, but it does accomplish much of the same thing for our organization just on a longer time scale.
I noticed the same thing, especially being the developer with the second most seniority. The most senior developer never showed up, and I showed up about once a month. The meetings were worthless and a waste of time, which those of us who worked on the accounts with the most impact realized. I could spend 15 minutes talking about stupid crap, or fixing important crap that executives had visibility into. Which one made my job less painful?
I am sure they did have these discussions, and the expense is part of the benefit.
Money spent by search engines, government agencies, etc. is an externality to the copyright industry. They get to make other people miserable, they believe it will increase their profits, and it involves no expense on their part. Even the lawyers and executives holding these meetings are full-time employees anyway so no money lost there.
Yeah, what works for me probably won't work for a system builder. Economy of scale is working against you with Linux. I think it would be great to have an LTS version good for 5-7 years. Maybe have fewer releases, but supported longer.
I agree, I think a stable ABI is crucial to Linux gaining mainstream popularity. It has to be trivial to download and install a driver the way it works with Windows. The ABI is even stable across versions: the same drivers typically work with Vista, 7, and Server 2008. The only question is 32 bits or 64?
I think the other crucial factor is a stable desktop environment. The problem is both the Gnome and KDE folks seem hell-bent on making tons of changes all the time, and then distribution maintainers come in and make more changes. So the desktop is highly fragmented. What we need is one of them to get their heads out from their asses, figure out what features truly are necessary, and stabilize them.
I tried a few distributions before settling on Kubuntu 11.10. It just works and everything is easy. The menu has the same search feature that OSX and Win7 have. Type what you want to do, and crap just pops up on the list. Click it and go. All my devices just work. Pop in a flash drive? Automatically mounted and I can drag and drop files and take them with me. Click a picture? Viewer opens up. Not GIMP, which belongs in the "shit that sounds like it might earn me the 'sex offender' badge" bin. Just a regular old picture viewer. Same with music, videos, anything else that Grandma might want to do.
So many people are ready to write-off Ubuntu because of Unity and the batshit insane rambling of Canonical, but damn, Kubuntu gets it right. Take Ubuntu, rip out the stupid half. Put a stake in its heart, douse in holy water, and throw it in the garbage disposal. Then replace the crap with KDE, add in slick installation and setup wizards that are smart enough that they Just Work, other features that OSes for the masses possess, and release.
I may be tech-savvy, but I do not have time to fiddle with idiotic kernel settings or driver incompatibilities. I write software for a living, and I want to use computers to be productive. To use a car analogy, there are gearheads out there that want to restore old cars and spend hours tinkering to get them running like new. The rest of us want to drive to work, the grocery store, the liquor store, etc. Computers need to be like cars. 99% of the time they just need to work with us, not against us, but allow the 1% the ability to screw around with filesystem cluster sizes or whatever makes them happy.
DVI-D is fully compatible with HDCP. In fact I watch Blu-ray movies on my computer in full 1080p over DVI-D. A quick google search for "DVI HDCP" turned up several links that corroborate this.
Yeah, Obama will take a look to make sure he is bought and paid for by the same people. If so, he'll say he looked and everything checks out. Otherwise, he'll make a big stink about it until he receives just as much money from the same people.
My family has a history of gastrointestinal disease, and I had symptoms. Hardly "unnecessary" in my case. I am grateful to have a skilled M.D. in charge of the procedure who made an accurate diagnosis (no serious problems, eat more fiber). While I may disagree with the insurance/billing side of this, the medical side was 100% spot on and I am grateful to everyone involved.
According to my butt doctor, I was "squeaky clean" when I had my colonoscopy. The previous day and a half was unpleasant, but I am grateful I went through with it.
The weirdest part of having 100% empty intestines was my lack of hunger. I had zero food or "processed food" in my guts, but I felt content like I had just eaten a decent meal but was not stuffed. Then, when I ate my first meal, I was extremely hungry despite having just eaten.
Not sure about the GP, but I did serve and I am against armed conflict except in self defense. In fact part of the reason I left was because my number was coming up to go to Iraq and I felt it was immoral since it was not self defense. Not only that, Bush refused to be honest about his reasons and kept feeding blatant lies and excuses to the U.S. public. I was not about to die for some rich man's petty conflict.
The TV does not call it corruption, so the vast majority of my countrymen do not think it is corruption.
Don't forget that except in the most egregious cases, Congress is in charge of enforcing these laws against Congressmen. The FBI will get involved if they commit a crime against someone else, e.g. assault or murder, but routine issues such as bribery require investigation by the same group of people accepting bribes.
Seriously? You are shocked that I believe a group of businessmen and lawyers do not understand technology and are motivated by the campaign contributions from the people pushing SOPA?
I agree. The real problem here is the public, as a whole, either believes the lies, or sees they are lies but they can't do anything about it.
It only took one or two times when I was younger. I have been bitter about the U.S. government for a long time.
I am awake and I see the situation with great clarity. People who make laws are beholden to money, not true representation of their constituents. If Hollywood decided copyright was not necessary and lobbied for more relaxed IP laws, you can bet your ass that Congress would follow the money and legislate accordingly.
QFT. They don't understand SOPA, don't want to understand. What they do understand is someone is giving tons of money to pass a bill.
Business as usual in Congress.
What I would like to see happen is repealing all the extra copyright legislation such as the DMCA and not passing any more. Let the content producers use the existing system to sue copyright infringers. Our existing copyright law works. It has teeth. It just requires things such as "evidence" and "due process," which is an annoyance to Hollywood. However, I doubt this will ever happen.
Same here. I look at IT salary statistics, even ones drilling down to "software engineers" or "software developers" and I end up crying. Sure, I live in a part of the country with a lower cost of living, but so do most people in my career. Am I really getting the shaft that bad? Or are these studies that skewed?
Since when do incumbents face primaries? I've heard about it for very unpopular candidates, where even their own party won't back them for reelection, but not otherwise. I could be wrong -- I'm not trying to be a dick, I am curious.
I think you have the right idea though, issues like this need popular support. That is very difficult to do given the size and population density in this country.
Please, go after the Congressmen responsible for unconstitutional laws in court using that argument. While I disagree that it is treasonous, I do agree that they need to be held accountable and pay consequences. Given that the Constitution itself specifies that the only penalty for treason is death, I would fully support you in your effort.
Maybe that would encourage our elected representatives to pass constitutional laws that benefit We the People, not We the Corporations.
I never said the United States is engaging in imperialism: I was comparing what our government does to the old British imperialism, where they made everyone else's business their own. Regardless of the reason for the U.S. doing what it does, I believe it is wrong. Not only does our government install puppets around the globe (generally with spectacular failures), they do so at great cost to the taxpayers (of which I am one).
Correct, given the fact that the Middle East are not our neighbors. I think the case for intervening in Mexico is much stronger given the proximity, and the fact that the violence there does affect our shared border.
Passing unconstitutional laws is not the same thing as "The crime of betraying one's country, esp. by attempting to kill the sovereign or overthrow the government." (ref: Google)
While one could argue that the laws themselves constitute "betrayal" of some party (e.g. the citizens of the United States), this is not the same thing as treason.
Actually, there is one penalty, and it applies to all three branches: impeachment and removal from office.
The problem with this procedure is that we effectively have multiple branches working together toward the same goal (in this case, an ex post facto law). In this arrangement, it is extremely unlikely that that U.S. House of Representatives will vote to impeach anyone.
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