The law as written pretty specifically excludes GPS devices and mapping systems. Yes, it hinges on the meaning of the word "installed" but I find it unlikely that anyone would be prosecuted under this law if they are using a GPS mapping system on their PDA. The intention is clearly to exclude mapping systems.
However, it does appear to exclude the use of laptops by someone riding in the front passenger seat. I doubt that was the intention of the law (it is apparently a revision of the "no TV in the front seat" law), but it does seem to be a technical violation of the law as written. Still I doubt any cop would cite you for that. I mean, there are millions of things a cop could technically cite you for at any given instant, hidden deep in the Vehicle Code, and most of these things they aren't going to bother to pull you over for (like going 5 mph over the speed limit, as a simple example). A cop once told me that they could pull over pretty much anybody within a few minutes because they're bound to violate *something, somewhere* in the Vehicle Code.
Number 6 killing the baby wasn't emotionless --- I think it was a combination of clinical experimentation and the realization that the baby was going to die anyway, and if she killed the baby at that moment, it was a sort of mercy killing.
Note Number 6's somewhat conflicted, pained expression as she walked away.
Note that at least one of the writers said that it was supposed to be a kind of mercy killing from her perspective.
Totally agree (and I also have a physics degree back in the dim mists of time). The myriad science laughers were as nothing compared with the execrable character "development", the hackneyed dialogue, the mind-numbing music, the bland yuppified characters (who are still dancing to Van Halen in the year 2020), the laughable final scene, etc., etc. I will defend Pitch Black, however. It was a much more subtle film, much better shot and edited, with much more impressive and original visuals, and non-stereotyped characters. I think a lot of people had problems because the main characters were neither all good nor all evil, but a combination of both --- but I love stories with ambiguity and dramatic tension.
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I agree. This is rather an overreaction, and it was Harvard's fault in the first place. They're just trying to deflect blame.
The law as written pretty specifically excludes GPS devices and mapping systems. Yes, it hinges on the meaning of the word "installed" but I find it unlikely that anyone would be prosecuted under this law if they are using a GPS mapping system on their PDA. The intention is clearly to exclude mapping systems.
However, it does appear to exclude the use of laptops by someone riding in the front passenger seat. I doubt that was the intention of the law (it is apparently a revision of the "no TV in the front seat" law), but it does seem to be a technical violation of the law as written. Still I doubt any cop would cite you for that. I mean, there are millions of things a cop could technically cite you for at any given instant, hidden deep in the Vehicle Code, and most of these things they aren't going to bother to pull you over for (like going 5 mph over the speed limit, as a simple example). A cop once told me that they could pull over pretty much anybody within a few minutes because they're bound to violate *something, somewhere* in the Vehicle Code.
Frankly, I don't know why we Americans are so damn Puritanical when it comes to sex.
Number 6 killing the baby wasn't emotionless --- I think it was a combination of clinical experimentation and the realization that the baby was going to die anyway, and if she killed the baby at that moment, it was a sort of mercy killing.
Note Number 6's somewhat conflicted, pained expression as she walked away.
Note that at least one of the writers said that it was supposed to be a kind of mercy killing from her perspective.
Totally agree (and I also have a physics degree back in the dim mists of time). The myriad science laughers were as nothing compared with the execrable character "development", the hackneyed dialogue, the mind-numbing music, the bland yuppified characters (who are still dancing to Van Halen in the year 2020), the laughable final scene, etc., etc. I will defend Pitch Black, however. It was a much more subtle film, much better shot and edited, with much more impressive and original visuals, and non-stereotyped characters. I think a lot of people had problems because the main characters were neither all good nor all evil, but a combination of both --- but I love stories with ambiguity and dramatic tension.