> They had been stopped by a production assistant so as not to interrupt filming. But for some reason, the PA had a last-minute change of heart and let Juan and little Melissa walk to their seats — and into the background of the show’s action.
> “Can you imagine had Melissa not asked for a snack?” Juan marveled.
(…)
> Juan was released, but couldn’t catch a break. Due to a clerical error, he had to report back to county jail two days later. The tombs had just been rocked by racial unrest after a murder inside, and Juan was actually afraid “I would be killed.”
> Melnik had assumed it would be cleared up in 24 hours. Instead, Juan, a declared-innocent man, was there for two hell-filled weeks.
> In 2007, Juan received $320,000 in a settlement of his civil lawsuit against the LAPD and the city of Los Angeles for false imprisonment, misconduct and defamation.
a settlement just short circuits the process. Without a settlement, it goes to court and, depending on the jurisdiction and case details, decided by a judge or a jury, and again depending on the jurisdiction and case details, penalties are decided by a judge or a jury.
Really it's pretty similar to criminal court with the exception that neither party will have a criminal charge or criminal judgement against them at the end of it. No one will go to jail.
> They had been stopped by a production assistant so as not to interrupt filming. But for some reason, the PA had a last-minute change of heart and let Juan and little Melissa walk to their seats — and into the background of the show’s action.
Why is a PA able to stop a ticket holder from going to their seats just cause a show is filming at the same time a game is on? Seems shitty for anyone that bought a ticket that day.
I guess this was coordinated with the event organizer; perhaps the filming happened in a way that wouldn’t interfere with watching the actual event; and the ticket holders were instructed to follow the PA’s guidance.
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> Once a friend of mine called me excitedly after she attended a football game in Massachusetts. There were signs everwhere that announced that they were filming the crowd for a Warner Brothers Music video and by giving your ticket for entry you are giving permission for your image to appear in this video.
Ticket holders have to follow instructions from stadium staff. My point was that stadium staff decided to allow filming - not sure why to focus on the PA at this point, they’re likely allowed to do that.
The focus isn't on the PA, sure they're just the hand of the studio. My point is that it's crappy that the studio allows filming to interfere with and block ticket holders from going to their seats.
Haha, thanks! Yes, sometimes I do it too, but for this spacing thing I kept hitting enter and never realized this was an actual problem that I could do something about!
Also, I have to say, getting a 3D printer has definitely done this for things around the house. Every small niggle that used to fly under the radar and tolerated now has a tiny plastic thing fixing it once and for all.
I am disappointed I couldn't find any of the OPUS games by SIGONO on your website. Though I think some (or at least OPUS: The Day We Found Earth) were temporarily removed from the play store.
> My preferred approach to [thread safety] is to explicitly not think about thread safety, and delegate this concern to the caller.
Good call IMO. If I was the author then I’d implement this; it would mostly work for current use cases, would be a pain to maintain and impossible to extend. I learned something today.
> You're telling me that everything can be computed with just these 5 instructions? Word processors, YouTube, video games, all of it?
Note the “computed” - this is about computing the results, there’s no mention of IO or UI.
E.g. a Turing complete language might still not allow you to build a word processor or YouTube; you could compute the color of every pixel, but you’d still need a way to display it.
> They had been stopped by a production assistant so as not to interrupt filming. But for some reason, the PA had a last-minute change of heart and let Juan and little Melissa walk to their seats — and into the background of the show’s action.
> “Can you imagine had Melissa not asked for a snack?” Juan marveled.
(…)
> Juan was released, but couldn’t catch a break. Due to a clerical error, he had to report back to county jail two days later. The tombs had just been rocked by racial unrest after a murder inside, and Juan was actually afraid “I would be killed.”
> Melnik had assumed it would be cleared up in 24 hours. Instead, Juan, a declared-innocent man, was there for two hell-filled weeks.
> In 2007, Juan received $320,000 in a settlement of his civil lawsuit against the LAPD and the city of Los Angeles for false imprisonment, misconduct and defamation.
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