Sorry, I missed the previous link about this and thought I got a scoop. Props to the judge for not going crazy and oversentencing, if nothing else. Though my personal view of the criminal justice system is that pretty much everyone deserves to get off without punishment, because the US system of punishment doesn't make any sense and not punishing someone is better than sentencing them to repeated gang rape.

Do we really need to keep rubbing this in?

Rub it in? It's a badge of honor in my opinion. rtm and merlyn were both hit by early confused laws:

( http://www.lightlink.com/spacenka/fors/ )

My understanding is that RTM disagrees, and if I were him I would too. How would you like it if the first thing that most people free-associated with your name was the stupidest thing you ever did in your life?

I like to think I'd be able to embrace it by this point. I do sympathize with the traumatic affect it had on him.

I feel shame the country I live in treated him the way it did. Geniuses frequently suffer at the hands of lesser mortals.