Being followed by paparazzi does not allow you to drive at illegal speeds through Paris.
Indeed it doesn't. But it does seem to have provoked it nevertheless, and no doubt was a distraction.
She died because the driver was drunk, AND she wasn't wearing a seat belt.
Correction: She died because the driver was drunk AND the paparazzi were hounding them contributing to speed and distraction AND she wasn't wearing a seat belt
Once you've accepted that more than one thing contributed to the death, as you have, then it makes no sense to exclude the paparazzi's contribution to the death.
Indeed it can be argued that Lady DIana Spencer would not have died were it not for the Paparazzi's actions. For sure it appears her driver was drunk. But the speed at which he drove appears to have been due to the pursuit by paparazzi.
The law is the law. But in terms of real justice I think that paparazzis should take the occasional smashed camera or phone or punch in the mouth as part of the job. They take the job on, usually freelance, in the full knowledge that they are harassing people, and from time to time those harassed people will will snap and strike back. It seems to be adding insult to injury to go running to the police and pressing charges. But what else can one expect from such scum?
Which is clearly absurd- he took it, then he threw it out a window. Just because a thief dumps what he stole in a river doesn't absolve him of the crime.
Arguably it's more vandalism than theft. I'd say it would be closer to taking a baseball bat to someone's car than stealing his wallet and keeping the money.
I think it's pretty straightforward. Look at the retail price of the phone without a contract. If it's older, depreciate it or look at second hand prices of such phones.
An unlocked, contract free iPhone 4S is $649 - $849 (16GB - 64GB).
Pickpocketing is certainly different. It's a crime of deception... done well the victim doesn't know who the criminal is. It's a crime of financial gain for the criminal.
In this case, the criminal wanted the victim to be in no doubt who did it. And he didn't do it for financial gain, but in his own mind as serving out justice.
Absolutely. Also it's like a neck tie. Many people in many situations and many industries may not need them. But if you're in an industry or situation where it's expected, people won't take you seriously if you don't have one. If you are self employed or work in anything connected with sales, you'd be mad not to have them. If you lose a single job or sale because someone didn't take you seriously, you've lost more than the cost of printing a batch. And it's not as if carrying a few in your wallet is any hardship.
Personally I don't have them and don't need them, but they are essential for some people.
The lies about Apple's manufacturers or the facts about Daisey? I think the lies about how the employees are mistreated are more interesting and important than Daisey lying about that mistreatment.
Ah, the attempt to make a virtue out of a preference for shitty products.
You can't be a gearhead if you drive a BMW. That's way to well designed and pleasant to drive.
Try driving this customised Edsel, with a mixture of fat and skinny wheels, hydraulic jacks and blue under car illumination. You have to be a real good driver to drive this.
The US has a larger percentage of institutionally poor people due to our asshole forefathers thinking Slavery was just a grand idea, and due to our border with a third world country.
No, you have a large percentage of poor people because your country is run by the rich for the rich, more so than any other. And they've managed to persuade the gullible less well off that capitalism is good and social welfare is bad.
Depends if it's an iPad with cellular data or wifi only. The former does GPS, the latter just does location via attempted trilateration of Wifi router strength. Either way, if it's inside, it's not mecessarily going to be accurate to the specific home.
Each side has their own version of events. When it comes to conflicting stories from a university professor and a cop, I'd take the word of the professor every time.
Not that profs never lie. But I know cops lie regularly.
Tetris is far from the only puzzle game. Take any game in the pipe-panic genre for example. You can drag and drop pipe sections from the hopper to the grid with a touchscreen. With a console controller "it sucks".
Take one of the biggest puzzlers in recent years - Bejewelled. You have to select a jewel in a grid. It's best on a tochscreen whereyou can tap the jewl directly. It's almost as good on a PC with a mouse where you have a handy indirect pointing device. On a console with buttons and joysticks, you're making cursor movements to move around the grid before you can press select to pick the jewel. That sucks.
How would Tecmo Bowl or Madden or NBA Jam or whatever work better on a touch screen than on a gamepad?
I don't know those particular games. But what you are doing is asking how particular games designed with indirect control through buttons and joysticks would work on a touch screen. Of course sports games is a wide field and there are plenty of ways of designing sports games using multi-touch. And if one then took a game designed for multi-touch and asked how well it can play on a console with buttons, you'd be forced to say badly.
Kind of how FPSs which were originally on PCs sucked on consoles because the mouse pointer aiming mechanism didn't transfer well to buttons and joysticks. - FPSs designed specifically for consoles were fine because the design took into account the controllers.
Each control method has it's strengths and weaknesses. The best games are designed with the particular platform's control method(s) in mind.
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Being followed by paparazzi does not allow you to drive at illegal speeds through Paris.
Indeed it doesn't. But it does seem to have provoked it nevertheless, and no doubt was a distraction.
She died because the driver was drunk, AND she wasn't wearing a seat belt.
Correction: She died because the driver was drunk AND the paparazzi were hounding them contributing to speed and distraction AND she wasn't wearing a seat belt
Once you've accepted that more than one thing contributed to the death, as you have, then it makes no sense to exclude the paparazzi's contribution to the death.
Whilst those 2 points are doubtless true, neither one contradicts what I said.
Indeed the first of your points I already made.
That's true. But I suppose the relative novelty is to give them a reward that costs nothing: points (or some other advancement) in a game.
Indeed it can be argued that Lady DIana Spencer would not have died were it not for the Paparazzi's actions. For sure it appears her driver was drunk. But the speed at which he drove appears to have been due to the pursuit by paparazzi.
The law is the law. But in terms of real justice I think that paparazzis should take the occasional smashed camera or phone or punch in the mouth as part of the job. They take the job on, usually freelance, in the full knowledge that they are harassing people, and from time to time those harassed people will will snap and strike back. It seems to be adding insult to injury to go running to the police and pressing charges. But what else can one expect from such scum?
As I recall when this video was a story on Slashdot, most people were on the side of the phone thrower.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hut3VRL5XRE
Which is clearly absurd- he took it, then he threw it out a window. Just because a thief dumps what he stole in a river doesn't absolve him of the crime.
Arguably it's more vandalism than theft. I'd say it would be closer to taking a baseball bat to someone's car than stealing his wallet and keeping the money.
I think it's pretty straightforward. Look at the retail price of the phone without a contract. If it's older, depreciate it or look at second hand prices of such phones.
An unlocked, contract free iPhone 4S is $649 - $849 (16GB - 64GB).
It appears it's a 3rd degree felony.
This is no different than pick pocketing someone.
Pickpocketing is certainly different. It's a crime of deception... done well the victim doesn't know who the criminal is. It's a crime of financial gain for the criminal.
In this case, the criminal wanted the victim to be in no doubt who did it. And he didn't do it for financial gain, but in his own mind as serving out justice.
It's more vandalism than theft.
Absolutely. Also it's like a neck tie. Many people in many situations and many industries may not need them. But if you're in an industry or situation where it's expected, people won't take you seriously if you don't have one. If you are self employed or work in anything connected with sales, you'd be mad not to have them. If you lose a single job or sale because someone didn't take you seriously, you've lost more than the cost of printing a batch. And it's not as if carrying a few in your wallet is any hardship.
Personally I don't have them and don't need them, but they are essential for some people.
The lies about Apple's manufacturers or the facts about Daisey? I think the lies about how the employees are mistreated are more interesting and important than Daisey lying about that mistreatment.
FTFY.
Daniel Phillips, your past might be a bit distorted.
Ah, the attempt to make a virtue out of a preference for shitty products.
You can't be a gearhead if you drive a BMW. That's way to well designed and pleasant to drive.
Try driving this customised Edsel, with a mixture of fat and skinny wheels, hydraulic jacks and blue under car illumination. You have to be a real good driver to drive this.
You possibly make the habit of being a a rapist though.
Raping young girls has a cost too.
Is this the end of your possible, rapist activities?
The fact people really need to know is that you, Daniel Phillips, might be a rapist
I wouldn't. America is a miserable place for the poor. The rich in most countries are pretty happy.
What's the matter? Has Fox News not told you what to think today?
The US has a larger percentage of institutionally poor people due to our asshole forefathers thinking Slavery was just a grand idea, and due to our border with a third world country.
No, you have a large percentage of poor people because your country is run by the rich for the rich, more so than any other. And they've managed to persuade the gullible less well off that capitalism is good and social welfare is bad.
Depends if it's an iPad with cellular data or wifi only. The former does GPS, the latter just does location via attempted trilateration of Wifi router strength. Either way, if it's inside, it's not mecessarily going to be accurate to the specific home.
Too late. They already are.
Each side has their own version of events. When it comes to conflicting stories from a university professor and a cop, I'd take the word of the professor every time.
Not that profs never lie. But I know cops lie regularly.
I tried Tetris on an iPhone. It sucked.
Tetris is far from the only puzzle game. Take any game in the pipe-panic genre for example. You can drag and drop pipe sections from the hopper to the grid with a touchscreen. With a console controller "it sucks".
Take one of the biggest puzzlers in recent years - Bejewelled. You have to select a jewel in a grid. It's best on a tochscreen whereyou can tap the jewl directly. It's almost as good on a PC with a mouse where you have a handy indirect pointing device. On a console with buttons and joysticks, you're making cursor movements to move around the grid before you can press select to pick the jewel. That sucks.
How would Tecmo Bowl or Madden or NBA Jam or whatever work better on a touch screen than on a gamepad?
I don't know those particular games. But what you are doing is asking how particular games designed with indirect control through buttons and joysticks would work on a touch screen. Of course sports games is a wide field and there are plenty of ways of designing sports games using multi-touch. And if one then took a game designed for multi-touch and asked how well it can play on a console with buttons, you'd be forced to say badly.
Kind of how FPSs which were originally on PCs sucked on consoles because the mouse pointer aiming mechanism didn't transfer well to buttons and joysticks. - FPSs designed specifically for consoles were fine because the design took into account the controllers.
Each control method has it's strengths and weaknesses. The best games are designed with the particular platform's control method(s) in mind.
It was a question, not a statement. A question to which I'd expect the answer to be "No".
Is "duh" the sound of your own inanity? Because you're not saying anything that moderately insightful or news to anyone.