Post subject: NES in news
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I'll start with: Unusual application of the NES 'Zapper' gun Two men, 18 and 20, robbed a gas station in Kentucky and acquired $100 after threating the clerk with a Zapper light gun. Only in the court the clerks found out the gun was harmless. The robbers earned a 10 years sentence each for their Duck Hunt gaming session. Source: http://www.v2.fi/uutiset/pelit/1385/
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Wow, this has to be one of the funniest crimes ever commited. :) I have no idea what those men were thinking. Probably not much at all.
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The robbers earned a 10 years sentence each for their Duck Hunt gaming session.
10 years sentence? Isn't that a little too harsch? Though it could be that I'm from Sweden, and the jail-time here overall pretty low.
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Did they say whether it was the orange gun or the gray gun? Everybody knows they changed the gun to orange to make it look less realistic.
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Armed robbery is classed as a serious offence (like murder and kidnapping) in most countries, which is why is some countries there can be some very excessive penalties.
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So is it classified as armed robbery even if the weapon in question was proven harmless?
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They were armed with something that is designed to look like a weapon. Just because it wasn't a real gun doesn't mean they didn't try to get the money through a means of putting the clerk's life in apparent danger.
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Do you want to say for sure what's harmless if someone's threatening you with it? Maybe they modified that Zapper to shoot deadly heat rays!
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I bet if major gun manufacturers came out with brightly colored guns, there would be a lot more successful robberies. *pictures a lime green and bright pink Smith+Wesson* Then again, you can't blame the gas station clerks; I mean, even the packaging says "incredibly accurate".
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BoMF wrote:
Do you want to say for sure what's harmless if someone's threatening you with it? Maybe they modified that Zapper to shoot deadly heat rays!
I'm no engineer, but I wouldn't be too concerned about any heat rays generated by a plastic gun.
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Cpadolf wrote:
So is it classified as armed robbery even if the weapon in question was proven harmless?
Yes, because robbery is the taking of the property of another by force. The force here being the sales assistants fear for their immeadiate safety (they did not know that the gun was fake). It is what differentiates this instance from an instance of theft (no force necessary).
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Nintendo to End Support for Original NES Nintendo has reportedly decided to stop all repairs of the original Nintendo after 24 years of support, Agence France Presse reported on Friday. A spokesperson said that the company has decided to end support due to increasingly short supplies of replacement parts. The iconic game system was sold as the Nintendo Entertainment System in the US and Europe, and as the Famicom in Japan. Nintendo's Ken Toyoda said that while the company is sad to turn its back on the NES, the company wanted its legions of loyal fans to focus on the Wii, currently the best selling next-generation console worldwide. Nexgenwars.com, a tracker of game console sales, says the Wii has shipped 12.26 million consoles, compared to 12.2 million for the Xbox 360 and nearly 5.08 million for the PS3. Source A little old (a couple of days? I think it might've been mentioned on IRC), but relevant.
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mr_roberts_z wrote:
Nintendo to End Support for Original NES
I would never have thought that they even kept support during the 16- and 32-bit era. That they had it until now is mildly mind boggling.
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Wow... They wouldn't even repair my GameBoy Colour a couple years ago... I'm surprised the NES kept support for so long.
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Chamale, the NES started it all for Nintendo. Of course, they would keep support for it. By the way, I got my GBC fixed a little over 4 months ago. Why spell color with a our?
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Rridgway wrote:
Why spell color with a our?
Canadian/British spelling (though it was advertised as "Color" here too).
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AKA wrote:
Armed robbery is classed as a serious offence (like murder and kidnapping) in most countries, which is why is some countries there can be some very excessive penalties.
IMO law should make a distinction between putting someone's life in real danger (ie. there's a possibility that the victim could actually die, for example if the gun goes off intentionally or by accident) and simply making someone believe they are in a life-threatening situation without that being really so. Deliberately putting someone's life in real danger is reckless and should be punished more severely. Making someone believe he is in danger is not good either, but since there's no real danger I don't think the punishment deserves to be that great.
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I would never have thought that they even kept support during the 16- and 32-bit era. That they had it until now is mildly mind boggling.
A similar thing: Intel released its 80386 processor in 1986. They are not producing it anymore. Wanna guess when the stopped producing it?-)
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Warp wrote:
AKA wrote:
, but since there's no real danger I don't think the punishment deserves to be that great.
"No real danger" is a very subjective thing. What if one of the clerks had a heart attack due to the stress and died? Would you still consider the thieves innocent, since if they hadn't tried to rob the store the clerk would still be alive? It's situations like this that explain why, if a death occurs during a felony, the felons are likely to be charged with murder (in the US).
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Warp wrote:
A similar thing: Intel released its 80386 processor in 1986. They are not producing it anymore. Wanna guess when the stopped producing it?-)
I didn't know, so I checked Wikipedia...
Wikipedia wrote:
In May 2006 Intel announced that production of the 386 would cease at the end of September 2007. Although it had long been obsolete as a personal computer CPU, Intel, and others, had continued to manufacture the chip for embedded systems, including aerospace technology.
Silly.