In Polish, it is called "Wielki Piątek" which translates as "Great Friday". Simiarly; the week is "Wielki Tydzień", translates as "Great Week". I always understood it in the similar vein as the Jewish "High Holidays" as the most important observation of the year.
The discrepancy between "Holy Week" and "Good Friday" always irked me when I learned these terms in English.
"Almost Lost" and "Campgrounds" are brilliant works of level design art. Why bother playing any other map?!
Great game and it is still amazing to me how after all these years I am still finding new moves or nuances of the physics engine to learn and practice.
Don’t you mix up „Almost Lost” with „Lost World”? qztourney6 is kinda linear and rail heavy. And wasn’t in standard map pool too long. But I admit, I had a lot of fun playing 2v2 there!
I volunteer at a church by helping out with some basic IT issues from time to time. I recently had to disable Chrome browser notifications on one of their PCs because the McAffee anti-virus notifications just wouldn't stop. I thought I had already uninstalled the actual McAffee desktop software but I guess it embedded itself into the chrome browser somehow too.
On a related note, I wish Chrome had an easy way to permanently say "don't ask again" (on a site-by-site basis) to the "Do you want to login with a google account?" popup that so many sites have nowadays.
The penalty against normal everyday people like these people seems much stiffer than the penalties levied at sophisticated financial professionals. The traders operating hard-to-prove frauds with a "nod and a wink" approval from their supervisors at large banks and hedge funds always seem to be allowed to reap hundreds of millions of dollars in ill-gotten gains and if caught, give back only a tiny fraction of it, without even admitting guilt.
This is why the SEC has a lucrative whistleblower program:
> The Commission is authorized by Congress to provide monetary awards to eligible individuals who come forward with high-quality original information that leads to a Commission enforcement action in which over $1,000,000 in sanctions is ordered. The range for awards is between 10% and 30% of the money collected.
This appears to assume that the whistleblower would have to leave the company afterward, which may not be justified given (a) the strong anti-retaliatory protections, (b) the highly-regulated nature of Wall Street, and (c) the nature of these settlements. Maybe they're shuffled off to the bench until retirement, though.
Again, I don't know anything, though. I just appreciate the game theory.
I also don't have direct experience, but I would guess some of the same things that motivate someone to run afoul of the SEC would motivate someone else to conspire with them rather than "kill the golden goose."
This really isn't the case. Federal sentencing guidelines for white collar crime are pretty much determined by the amount of money involved in the crime.
Now what is probably true is that the sophisticated professionals probably end up with lesser charges, and therefore lower sentences than outright security fraud. That's not for lack of trying, but simply because it's generally pretty hard to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt against someone who's done both a reasonable job at covering his tracks and has access to high-powered defense attorneys.
So what really happens is the Wall Street trader might do insider trading on say $100 million. But the evidence trail is pretty nebulous, the case would drag on for years, and a US Attorney doesn't want to waste their career making case on a highly uncertain case. So the hedge fund manager settles for a civil "failure to supervise" fine. (Even Michael Milken wasn't convicted of insider trading, but the lessor crime of 'parking'.)
In contrast the dipshit amateur does something stupid like leave a trail of text messages with his golf buddy, and then buys a weeks worth of volume in thinly traded out of money call options. The case is open and shut and they get nailed on the full charges.
>always seem to be allowed to reap hundreds of millions of dollars in ill-gotten gains and if caught, give back only a tiny fraction of it, without even admitting guilt.
As per the SEC indictment, they earned $35k and $73k in ill gotten profits respectively, and were fined $99.7K and $79.9k. That's clearly more than "a tiny fraction"
Ok, if I steal a $300 TV, and get caught do I have the option to simply pay a $900 fine?
Seriously, that's a heads I've made 30k, tails I lose some of my savings account. For people in this position that is all the penalty they received is. Worst case they extend their mortgage, which is already likely many times this fine and so the extension is of minimal impact.
But also the people who commit fraud that takes out hundreds of millions of dollars (corporate collapses, etc) do make large amounts of money, and can plead poverty as a defense against full compensation.
e.g. When Enron collapsed, few of the people responsible were jailed, and in fact were giving themselves bonuses mere days before it collapsed. So it lost people $45 billion directly attributable to fraud, and emptied its regular employee's 401ks and pension funds. The victims whose 401ks and pensions were emptied won all of $85 million of the $2 billion that was stolen, and investors got 11 billion. So they stole billions, repaid a quarter of that, and few actually went to jail. Of the fraction that were sent to jail I can't find evidence that they had to return any of the 700+ million in bonuses they received in the year leading up to the collapse, let alone the prior fraud based bonuses.
> Ok, if I steal a $300 TV, and get caught do I have the option to simply pay a $900 fine?
As another commenters have mentioned, the SEC doesn't have authority to bring criminal changes. That's on the DoJ. Therefore the rest of your rant about how people aren't being punished doesn't really apply.
Also, according to US federal sentencing guidelines, insider trading actually gets you harsher punishment compared to theft[2], 2 more points to be exact. For the duo mentioned in TFA, it's a difference between 10–16 months (for theft) and 15–21 months (for insider trading).
>e.g. When Enron collapsed, few of the people responsible were jailed, and in fact were giving themselves bonuses mere days before it collapsed. So it lost people $45 billion directly attributable to fraud, and emptied its regular employee's 401ks and pension funds. The victims whose 401ks and pensions were emptied won all of $85 million of the $2 billion that was stolen, and investors got 11 billion. So they stole billions, repaid a quarter of that, and few actually went to jail. Of the fraction that were sent to jail I can't find evidence that they had to return any of the 700+ million in bonuses they received in the year leading up to the collapse, let alone the prior fraud based bonuses.
Can you reference specific cases here? It's easy to point at a giant organization where Something Bad happened, and demand that everyone involved be punished, but that's not how the justice system works. You can't enact some sort of collective punishment for everyone involved with enron, you have to prosecute each person individually for the specific offenses that person committed. I suspect the reason for the lack of fines is that they didn't actually do anything illegal, or that they were difficult to prosecute, not because it's legal to defraud people.
> Also, according to US federal sentencing guidelines, insider trading actually gets you harsher punishment compared to theft[2], 2 more points to be exact. For the duo mentioned in TFA, it's a difference between 10–16 months (for theft) and 15–21 months (for insider trading).
Is demonstrably false because as TFA says, the penalty for insider trading is a fine, no jail time, and no need to admit guilt.
> I suspect the reason for the lack of fines is that they didn't actually do anything illegal, or that they were difficult to prosecute, not because it's legal to defraud people.
Yet we know from multiple trials, and multiple lawsuits, that what they were doing is in fact illegal, because if what they were doing _was_ legal then instead of saying "most had no jail time" I would be saying "none had any jail time", instead of "only paying back a quarter" they would not have had to pay back any.
> Ok, if I steal a $300 TV, and get caught do I have the option to simply pay a $900 fine?
In California, you don't need to do anything because it won't get prosecuted. In places with saner approaches to property crime, the store may decide not to press charges if you pay a penalty to them or agree not to step foot in their stores again.
> tails I lose some of my savings account
You're not working in the financial services industry again with an insider trading conviction.
> [F]ormer Enron CEO launched Veld Applied Analytics, billed as a sophisticated online platform to invest in oil and gas assets.
So skilling is back on energy resources, e.g. exactly where he was at Enron
> [CFO Andrew Fastow] has since made a career on the public speaking circuit, with one agency listing his availability to lecture on “corporate culture” at universities and corporations around the world for a $10,000 to $20,000 fee.
Not exactly finance, but I also don't know how I ever get to be paid 10-20k/hour
I can't find anything about the others, but the two big names seem to be doing well for themselves
I'd hardly compare being CEO of a crappy startup with 2 news articles about it to one of the largest multinational corporations in the world. You can probably find some shit fund to work for with an insider trading conviction but you won't work for the big boys again.
> but I also don't know how I ever get to be paid 10-20k/hour
There are former felons who now lead nonprofits (I'm sure with 6 figure salaries) [1]. I quote: "In its third year, Just Leadership has a staff of 20 people and a $7.5 million budget for 2018–2019"
If people still decide to pay the guy after he's committed fraud, that's on them.
I'll also note Fastow went to prison for 6 years so it's not like he just paid a fine and got off. And the only reason it was 6 years instead of double digits was he informed on people.
Insider trading laws apply to everyone, professional or amateur alike. Probably worse for a professional because you jeopardise your career prospects at the same time. And insider trading is just so much easier to discover and investigate compared to other kinds of financial crime.
Sounds to me like your abrasive attitude and deficiency in soft skills may have strained your relationships with your boss and coworkers. Improving your interpersonal skills will be very beneficial to you in the long term, even if it does not salvage your current situation.
If I were you, I would just start searching for a new job and make a conscious effort to be easier to work with in your next job. No one likes having to work with jerks, no matter how technically skilled or brilliant they may be. I'm not saying you are a jerk but it sounds like others may see you that way.
While I agree with the article's main takeaway that you need to have a good relationship and work together with recruiter, I mostly disagree with the negative scaremongering about sharing your resume. Every single recruiter I have ever shared my resume in order to apply for a particular role explicitly asked me to confirm a "right to represent" statement and only then would they share my profile with a target company.
In my most recent job search as a senior front-end developer, I turned my LinkedIn profile to be "seeking work - visible only to recruiters" and I corresponded with over 300 recruiters over the course of 4 months. My initial reply message to every recruiter who contacted me included a greeting, my salary expectations, my phone number, and my schedule during which I am free to chat, as well as a copy of my resume. They all appreciated that I laid my cards on the table since it eliminated 15-30 minutes of pointless back and forth required for them to get this information from me, and they could also cut the conversation short immediately if whatever role they represented wasn't a good match.
This kind of job search process took relatively long but ultimately, with little effort, I was able to land a gig that's a perfect fit at the top range of my salary expectations.
Pro-tip: create a dedicated email address for the purpose of your job search and NEVER include your primary phone number on a resume which you share with recruiters or portals such as dice.com.
> Every single recruiter I have ever shared my resume in order to apply for a particular role explicitly asked me to confirm a "right to represent" statement and only then would they share my profile with a target company.
So far as you know. I once had a great conversation with a recruiter where they were pairing up myself and a former co-worker to join the team of a 2nd former co-worker for a year-long contract. It was just about a slam dunk deal, and everyone involved wanted to move forward with it... until HR informed us that our resumes had been submitted without our knowledge or permission (from old resumes they found online), but we were in their system already and could not be brought in by our recruiter. Nor could we get the first recruiter to work with us as the 2nd recruiter had the contract to fill the roles.
In the grand scheme of things, we just moved on to other jobs, but there are definitely cases where the systems in place, and bad actors, throw wrenches into the works no matter what you do.
The discrepancy between "Holy Week" and "Good Friday" always irked me when I learned these terms in English.