Technically a 100% of the blame goes to the guy behind who did the rear-ending
Not necessarily. Depends on where you live, I know of a couple cases where I live (Canada):
In Ayers v. Singh, 1997 CanLII 3410 (BCCA) the lead vehicle stopped suddenly at a green light after he became confused by a left turn signal that had turned red, and was then rear ended by a vehicle driven by the plaintiff:
In Niven v. Raguz, 1991 CanLII 506 (BCSC) the plaintiff stopped at a green light in anticipation of an amber light because a police car had been on her right. The defendant rear-ended her, and was found 80% liable for following too close, particularly because of the reasonable prospect of ice or snow on the road surface. The plaintiff was found 20% of the liability for making a stop that was unexpectedly abrupt in the circumstances:
If someone was stopped texting at a green light and they got rearended they would get some or all of the fault here.
Just because you are stopped is no excuse for not being aware of what's going on around you. Honest question, it makes me wonder how much worse the traffic is because people aren't paying attention to the traffic lights.
Nope. I'm not in the US, but up here in Canada they do the subsidizing as well. Plans typically start at $70 and my current carrier (Rogers) has right on their Phone Plan page:
"Bring your own smartphone and save $20/month on the primary line."
So all the plans include the subsidy and always have, until very recently where you can get the subsidy removed when you have your own device. When I tried to BYOD two years ago there were no discount. I guess they've waken up.
I live five minutes from work and I spend more than half my awake hours at the job. When you only have 16 hours of awake time and an 8 hour-a-day job, it's hard to not be under half.
I know of some people with 8 hour-a-day jobs and they spend 2.5 hours commuting, they spend at least 65% of their awake time at the job or commuting there.
Quite a while ago (in 2007?) when the quads came out I joked you needed one for Microsoft, one for Adobe, one for Symantec, which maybe leaves you with one that you could use yourself.:-)
On release day for the original xbox (November 2001?) there were people lined up outside the store to get one. Each store was expected to only get 5 or so. I was third in line. The lineup at the store I was at was about 15 deep. I didn't go to get a 360 at release day, so unsure there. I do remember it being really hard to go to work the next day, though...
Yes, that's what I meant - poor choice of words on my part. The NSA is likely already monitoring all Blackberry encrypted traffic. Posting half-awake doesn't really help either...
In what way would that be a replacement for a phone? Most people (including myself) will not carry a 12" tablet around to use as a phone. Heck, I don't even carry my 7" Nexus around, it stays at home.
For really portable uses, a smartphone is still the best solution. It fits in your pocket!
I had the opposite experience; I've had an iPhone, but my current phone is a Galaxy S3. Using bluetooth, I paired my S3 to my stereo and hit play in the media player and it worked. Tried it with my iPhone multiple times, and while both the iPhone and the stereo said it was connected, the iPhone played through its internal speaker.
I googled this problem and I was not the only one that had this problem.
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I remember a poster from Fable 3: "Feed your brat a Choc-O-Rat!"
Which is almost on topic here. Go figure!
Argh, for the first case, Ayers v. Singh, the person who stopped at a green light and was rearended was deemed 100% at fault.
Not necessarily. Depends on where you live, I know of a couple cases where I live (Canada):
In Ayers v. Singh, 1997 CanLII 3410 (BCCA) the lead vehicle stopped suddenly at a green light after he became confused by a left turn signal that had turned red, and was then rear ended by a vehicle driven by the plaintiff:
In Niven v. Raguz, 1991 CanLII 506 (BCSC) the plaintiff stopped at a green light in anticipation of an amber light because a police car had been on her right. The defendant rear-ended her, and was found 80% liable for following too close, particularly because of the reasonable prospect of ice or snow on the road surface. The plaintiff was found 20% of the liability for making a stop that was unexpectedly abrupt in the circumstances:
If someone was stopped texting at a green light and they got rearended they would get some or all of the fault here.
Just because you are stopped is no excuse for not being aware of what's going on around you. Honest question, it makes me wonder how much worse the traffic is because people aren't paying attention to the traffic lights.
MS whiffed and then they cleared the room. But then afterwards nobody went back in that room to fix it. That's some lasting effects there.
No kidding, wasted many hours on that one with friends.
I also remember Conker's Bad Fur Day. Was laughing so hard at that one.
Nope. I'm not in the US, but up here in Canada they do the subsidizing as well. Plans typically start at $70 and my current carrier (Rogers) has right on their Phone Plan page:
"Bring your own smartphone and save $20/month on the primary line."
So all the plans include the subsidy and always have, until very recently where you can get the subsidy removed when you have your own device. When I tried to BYOD two years ago there were no discount. I guess they've waken up.
I usually use my phone or tablet (whatever I have sitting around close by) when that happens.
I live five minutes from work and I spend more than half my awake hours at the job. When you only have 16 hours of awake time and an 8 hour-a-day job, it's hard to not be under half.
I know of some people with 8 hour-a-day jobs and they spend 2.5 hours commuting, they spend at least 65% of their awake time at the job or commuting there.
Well, if there's three choices to a question the AI will not be able to cope!
You forgot "Now get off my lawn."
Quite a while ago (in 2007?) when the quads came out I joked you needed one for Microsoft, one for Adobe, one for Symantec, which maybe leaves you with one that you could use yourself. :-)
Until they figure out how to incorporate the battery in the wrist straps. Problem solved!
Sure, just go to branch 77928 and apply.
Then use Mint. I'd rather have a Mint than a Saucy Salamander.
I take it you haven't used the washroom shortly after eating a really garlicy dish (or some asparagus, for that matter...)
Yep, and look where that got Blackberry/Research In Motion.
Or even better, have a boot management tool readily available and officially support dual booting.
On release day for the original xbox (November 2001?) there were people lined up outside the store to get one. Each store was expected to only get 5 or so. I was third in line. The lineup at the store I was at was about 15 deep. I didn't go to get a 360 at release day, so unsure there. I do remember it being really hard to go to work the next day, though...
Yes, that's what I meant - poor choice of words on my part. The NSA is likely already monitoring all Blackberry encrypted traffic. Posting half-awake doesn't really help either...
Uh, Blackberry has already allowed India to spy on encrypted messages, what makes you think the NSA isn't already monitoring that traffic?
I was curious so I looked it up. Live chicken range from $5-$15 per, you can get a team of oxen (usually sold in pairs) from $800-$4000.
Assuming the expensive side, for the price of 1024 chicken you could almost get 4 teams, or 8 oxen. So, yeah, don't waste time with chickens...
I think measuring lengths using shards of glass would be better...
In what way would that be a replacement for a phone? Most people (including myself) will not carry a 12" tablet around to use as a phone. Heck, I don't even carry my 7" Nexus around, it stays at home.
For really portable uses, a smartphone is still the best solution. It fits in your pocket!
I had the opposite experience; I've had an iPhone, but my current phone is a Galaxy S3. Using bluetooth, I paired my S3 to my stereo and hit play in the media player and it worked. Tried it with my iPhone multiple times, and while both the iPhone and the stereo said it was connected, the iPhone played through its internal speaker.
I googled this problem and I was not the only one that had this problem.