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Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate

posted by martyb on Thursday February 23 2017, @10:19AM   Printer-friendly
from the IRL-there-is-no-respawn dept.

Celestial writes:

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/.

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  • (Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Thursday February 23 2017, @01:19PM

    by q.kontinuum (532) on Thursday February 23 2017, @01:19PM (#470684) Journal

    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

    by mhajicek (51) on Thursday February 23 2017, @03:53PM (#470736)

    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

      by q.kontinuum (532) on Thursday February 23 2017, @04:22PM (#470751) Journal

      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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