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A man in Russia has been convicted of murder and sentenced to nine and a half years in prison for repeatedly stabbing his friend to death after a heated argument over AMD and Nvidia graphics card coolers.
[...] two Russian friends started arguing over which Graphics processor is better, nVida[sic] or AMD, and one of them ended up being killed in the most gruesome manner.
Aleksander Trofimov, 37, hacked his friend to death [in Russian] with a knife, after hitting him twice in the head. His friend, Evgeny Lylin, died instantly as a result. The murderer was so offended at the victim, he stabbed his dead body 11 times after a while.
The incident took place in the quite[sic] town of Saransk, Russia. The friends used to work together as colleagues a few years ago, and kept in touch ever since. Aleksander invited his friend for a few drinks, and both of them got drunk.
This led to the discussion about which cooler of a GPU is better [sic], nVidia or AMD. The discussion soon took a turn for the worst and Aleksander ended up murdering his friend for claiming that AMD was better.
Although the incident took place over an[sic] year ago, Aleksander got convicted and sentenced only recently. He was handed a nine and a half year prison sentence for the crime.
Additional coverage, in Russian, at http://by24.org/2017/02/17/russian_programmer_killed_and_burned_collegue_because_of_nvidia_features/.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Username on Thursday February 23 2017, @11:33AM
How many times can you stab someone to death?
(Score: 5, Funny) by MostCynical on Thursday February 23 2017, @11:47AM
Once. At a certain point after that it is either an aerobic workout, or art.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 23 2017, @01:35PM
Hah Hah Hah LOL LOL LOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Art ! Oh god y'er kill'n me !
Oh.... wait a minute....... maybe that wasn't the best choice of words .....
(Score: 3, Touché) by ledow on Thursday February 23 2017, @03:07PM
Aerobic for you.
Surely it gets more and more anaerobic for the other guy.
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Thursday February 23 2017, @09:58PM
All those extra holes to let air in?
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(Score: 2) by jasassin on Thursday February 23 2017, @11:48AM
11
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(Score: 5, Funny) by mhajicek on Thursday February 23 2017, @03:51PM
I'm imagining the tootsie pop owl.
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(Score: 2) by Username on Friday February 24 2017, @06:49PM
Not sure if you can spawn camp IRL.
(Score: 2) by jasassin on Friday February 24 2017, @11:08PM
Twice now.
Whatta we got here? A cup a haters? A cup a haters?
I've got one word to describe you, and I'm gonna spell it out for ya S A W F T...
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(Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Thursday February 23 2017, @01:19PM
Good question. Should we use brackets to clarify? E.g.
"(stab someone) to death", seeing the stabbing as a joint activity of multiple stabs accumulating in the death of the victim, or is "stab to death" referring to the stab that irrevocably initiated the transition?
I would say "once". Even if you perceive the stabbing as a joint activity, each stab contributes only a fraction of the death, summing up to "1".
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(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Thursday February 23 2017, @03:53PM
Unless the subject receives medical attention and resuscitation. Then you can kill them again later.
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(Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Thursday February 23 2017, @04:22PM
If you "kill" someone, and the victim is successfully revived, could you still be charged with murder? Or would it be attempted murder?
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday February 23 2017, @05:04PM
It would be interrupted murder.
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(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday February 23 2017, @06:18PM
Aborted murder?
*ducks*
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday February 24 2017, @06:06PM
Fowl play
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(Score: 2) by Username on Friday February 24 2017, @06:36PM
That’s flocking funny.