Did Johnny Penry's abusive childhood prevent him from developing a moral compass that might have stopped him from murdering Pam Carpenter? Or is he just another cold, calculating killer?
Those wily IT guys.A computer tech who was a contract worker
for the energy giant Calpine is going to federal prison for a year and
a day because he hacked into an employee's computer and used it for
nefarious purposes.Actually, not all that nefarious -- he used
the financial information contained on the computer to receive a little
more than $6,000 in loans "from various online financial loan
institutions," according to the US Attorney's office.Six thousand bucks? In loans, not straight-up cash
For most rock acts, the traditional way to deal with success is to rework their lyrics, image and sound to become palatable to a larger audience. Usually this means brightening the subject matter, cleaning up the bad words, softening the sharp edges on those power chords and getting haircuts that cost more than the previous album.
This is a process commonly known as "selling out"; however, it doesn't always work that way. Sometimes, for whatever reason, the artist in question becomes angrier