Blackberry users wrongly blamed for London riots Hardware and Software Hardware Mobile and Wearables by happygeek …of the newspapers, could it actually have a point as rioting and looting rip apart the streets of London? The …over the weekend has certainly suggested that much of the rioting and looting that has spread across London has largely …any short term brand damage that being associated with the rioting may cause, or that it acknowledges the part that … Re: Blackberry users wrongly blamed for London riots Hardware and Software Hardware Mobile and Wearables by happygeek A colleague of mine points out that while technology isn't to blame for the rioting it is to blame for the shops being set ablaze. Apparently the looters are making sure that no CCTV evidence of their illegal activity is being left behind. Re: Blackberry users wrongly blamed for London riots Hardware and Software Hardware Mobile and Wearables by 0peth Technology is used to help spread the word about rioting and looting, but it sure isn't to blame for it. Re: Blackberry users wrongly blamed for London riots Hardware and Software Hardware Mobile and Wearables by jwenting [QUOTE=happygeek;1620304]A colleague of mine points out that while technology isn't to blame for the rioting it is to blame for the shops being set ablaze. Apparently the looters are making sure that no CCTV evidence of their illegal activity is being left behind.[/QUOTE] used to be they'd just steal the cameras and VCRs as well... Re: Just a recession or the beginning of The fall of Rome Community Center Geeks' Lounge by VernonDozier … is that if you asked most of those people rioting why they were rioting, they wouldn't be able to articulate any… Did he deserve it? 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Community Center Geeks' Lounge by Reverend Jim If you listen to the media historians they would have you believe that people were rioting in the streets over fears of a Martian invasion. They would have you believe that the entire country went stupid. Of course, that *would* explain 2000 and 2004. Re: What movie have you seen lately? Community Center Geeks' Lounge by GrimJack R-J, about 20% of the audience believed in the broadcast - it was not the historians who would have had you believe in the 'rioting in the streets' it was the print media who blew it up out of proportion. B-t-b, 20% of the radio audience was just under a million people. Re: Trump Community Center Geeks' Lounge by AssertNull … challenges, boycotts, sit-ins, etc. Expressly calls for no insurrection, rioting, or violence of any kind. 3. 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Here, afterwards, they'd shutdown the whole block, get a swat team, call the BATF, if they felt like it the National Guard or militia of choice, and arrest a bunch of believed conspirators. Re: Did he deserve it? Community Center Geeks' Lounge by jasimp [QUOTE=VernonDozier;752342] If the incident is as you describe it, it sounds like clear cut self defense. But if it is, why are there these quotes from the Interior Minister?[/QUOTE] Not how I described it, I was just quoting what I read. Re: Did he deserve it? Community Center Geeks' Lounge by vmanes Molotov cocktail == small WMD Deadly force authorized. end of story. Re: Did he deserve it? Community Center Geeks' Lounge by mrboolf A similar thing happened in Genova, Italy, during 27th G8 summing in 2001. A policeman shot dead a masked guy who was throwing him a fire extinguisher [URL="http://notimaz.blog.kataweb.it/files/photos/uncategorized/carlo4_1.jpg"](photo)[/URL]. You can see it in the act of assaulting the officer inside the car (from where he fired). … Re: Did he deserve it? Community Center Geeks' Lounge by hotmatrixx In my country, if the boy had survived (he was old enough to know what he was doing) and it was a kids can do what ever they want and CANNOT BE ARRESTED if uner the age of 16. that is why the gangs here use 'em. they can go in as kids, take what they want and walk out. if they get away 'great' if they get caught, stuff is confiscated and no action … Re: Did he deserve it? Community Center Geeks' Lounge by jbennet kids can get arrested when they are 7 Re: Did he deserve it? Community Center Geeks' Lounge by Ezzaral >So what do you think, was it right for the officer to shoot him? Definitely. Re: Did he deserve it? Community Center Geeks' Lounge by Ezzaral Yes, it is a bit odd that the officer has been charged, yet the only detail of the incident said that the kid was about to throw a fuel-bomb at them.