Texas DA on Trial for Building TF2 Gaming Rig Using Public Funds Options
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#1 Posted: : Friday, March 14, 2008 4:52:16 PM
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Okay, this is just too fucking weird, not to mention INCREDIBLY stupid.  The District Attorney, and I mean THE DA, not one of his deputies, of Rockwell County, Texas, is in trouble.

Rockwell County DA's website HERE.

He apparently built a "backup" server for the office using public funds and is going through one of three trials at the moment as a result.  Here's what they said of the computer:

"The computer – equipped with two hard drives, seven fans, high-end video and audio cards, a wireless Internet connection and cables that glow under ultraviolet light – is designed for playing video games, prosecutors say."

They found ebay crap, personal emails, video game cheat sheet and it was paid for with public funds.

This fucker's toast. What a dumbass.  Lose your job, kiss your law license goodbye, do not collect $200 and go directly to jail!

Here's the full story from The Dallas Morning News.
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#2 Posted: : Friday, March 14, 2008 5:55:28 PM
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Pretty sure TF2 was never mentioned.

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#3 Posted: : Friday, March 14, 2008 6:09:45 PM
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Meh.  I'm certain it can play TF2 in any event.
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Twitchy: "I pulled a Cantrip . . ."
GivePeaceAChance: "If the Tempest had nipples, I'd pinch that shit."
Xylicon: "I'm about to deliver my [Richard] in your face for posting that stupid shit. "
WDF?: "He keeps reaming me... night after night... I'm rather sore."
GivePeaceAChance: "OMG MY NIPS ARE HARD"
llenta: "cantrip, you fail!!!"
Filliam H. Muffman: "i'm on top of dick"
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His life as he knows it is over, his new life as a jail bitch will begin.
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Fucker's an idiot... for getting caught.
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what's even more stupid is how tax dollars are going to be used to buy prison mop-heads that are going to become prison-bitch wigs for the ex-DA


HAHA stupid horse, the sign says Deer crossing

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Twitchy: "I pulled a Cantrip . . ."
GivePeaceAChance: "If the Tempest had nipples, I'd pinch that shit."
Xylicon: "I'm about to deliver my [Richard] in your face for posting that stupid shit. "
WDF?: "He keeps reaming me... night after night... I'm rather sore."
GivePeaceAChance: "OMG MY NIPS ARE HARD"
llenta: "cantrip, you fail!!!"
Filliam H. Muffman: "i'm on top of dick"
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Whats sad is we have here a "small fish" of a D.A. who got busted for 1 computer that held 80% of his personal stuff and the rest was in fact business related.  Who the fuck cares about 1 computer worth less than $2500.  Someone shook this guy down for a reason. Theres more to this story.   I want to know about all the "bigfish".  Where are the stories on politicians from Washington and so forth who take BIG money to vote one way.  Bribes, illegal land deals, insider trading ect.  Its sad that some small time Lawyer makes the Dallas Morning News front page for 1 computer and the real criminals are fishing off the coast of bermuda paid for in full by some special interest group or by our taxes. (Just a rant..)  Reoccuring disappointment in our news oraganizations and media coverage wears thin.
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Arc wrote:
Whats sad is we have here a "small fish" of a D.A. who got busted for 1 computer that held 80% of his personal stuff and the rest was in fact business related.  Who the fuck cares about 1 computer worth less than $2500.  Someone shook this guy down for a reason. Theres more to this story.   I want to know about all the "bigfish".  Where are the stories on politicians from Washington and so forth who take BIG money to vote one way.  Bribes, illegal land deals, insider trading ect.  Its sad that some small time Lawyer makes the Dallas Morning News front page for 1 computer and the real criminals are fishing off the coast of bermuda paid for in full by some special interest group or by our taxes. (Just a rant..)  Reoccuring disappointment in our news oraganizations and media coverage wears thin.
  You kinda have a point there..
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he could of gotten away with it if he didn't build a fucking ricer PC.
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he could of gotten away with it if he didn't build a fucking ricer PC.


What are you talking about? 7 fans are totally necessary, and the glow-under-UV-light wires add horsepower.
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#14 Posted: : Monday, March 17, 2008 2:19:10 PM
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stealth wrote:
Dick Cheney's Mechanical Heart wrote:
he could of gotten away with it if he didn't build a fucking ricer PC.


What are you talking about? 7 fans are totally necessary, and the glow-under-UV-light wires add horsepower.


Yeah, the attorney that he hired says that he got the parts he purchased because they were on sale.  I can maybe believe that the glow-in-the-dark cables were cheaper, but those cables usually connect to a modular power supply.  I can believe that such a power supply would be cheaper.

However, the SATA cables or the IDE cables needing to glow in the dark is a bit much.  Cables that don't glow in the dark come for free with the mobo.  So that don't fly.

However, seven fans?  On sale?  Shoot, my Gaming Rig #1 has an 80mm case fan, a fan on the CPU and two in the power supply that are necessary or internal to the basic components.  The GT 8800 graphics card has a fan, so we're up to what? Five fans? 

I added a fan for the HD, added another fan in the front and added a fan blower that occupies two of the card slots in the back which pulls air near the graphics card, sound card and PSU and blows it out the back.  That's eight fans, but it probably can do without three of them.  It runs really cool but sounds like a small jet engine.

I would be interested if someone could find out the specs to that machine.
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Twitchy: "I pulled a Cantrip . . ."
GivePeaceAChance: "If the Tempest had nipples, I'd pinch that shit."
Xylicon: "I'm about to deliver my [Richard] in your face for posting that stupid shit. "
WDF?: "He keeps reaming me... night after night... I'm rather sore."
GivePeaceAChance: "OMG MY NIPS ARE HARD"
llenta: "cantrip, you fail!!!"
Filliam H. Muffman: "i'm on top of dick"
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Cantrip wrote:
stealth wrote:
Dick Cheney's Mechanical Heart wrote:
he could of gotten away with it if he didn't build a fucking ricer PC.


What are you talking about? 7 fans are totally necessary, and the glow-under-UV-light wires add horsepower.


Yeah, the attorney that he hired says that he got the parts he purchased because they were on sale.  I can maybe believe that the glow-in-the-dark cables were cheaper, but those cables usually connect to a modular power supply.  I can believe that such a power supply would be cheaper.

However, the SATA cables or the IDE cables needing to glow in the dark is a bit much.  Cables that don't glow in the dark come for free with the mobo.  So that don't fly.

However, seven fans?  On sale?  Shoot, my Gaming Rig #1 has an 80mm case fan, a fan on the CPU and two in the power supply that are necessary or internal to the basic components.  The GT 8800 graphics card has a fan, so we're up to what? Five fans? 

I added a fan for the HD, added another fan in the front and added a fan blower that occupies two of the card slots in the back which pulls air near the graphics card, sound card and PSU and blows it out the back.  That's eight fans, but it probably can do without three of them.  It runs really cool but sounds like a small jet engine.

I would be interested if someone could find out the specs to that machine.
  My last computer had 6 case fans standard.  This one I just built has 2 250mm side fans and then a fan in the front, it's basically a wind tunnel.  Then there are whatever fans the devices inside come with.  I'm set really, my case is currently at 21 degrees and that's with the graphics card fan turned down to 50%.
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