#3, A lot of these people aren't yuppies going out to flaunt their equipment. In fact, considering this is the Bay Area, many of them are programmers for some top tech firms.
The guy with the knife doesn't know what kind of file system you have and he doesn't care. All he sees street value.
As for situational awareness, if somebody were to lean over you in any setting, your first instinct would be to be ready to answer whatever it is they are going to say to you. I think the odds against being randomly stabbed are sufficiently low enough where you may not expect it. Also if you RTFA, you'll see that the guy actually did have situational awareness and did notice that somebody was fidgeting with his power cable which is why he got up and subsequently stabbed.
Even if he didn't notice what was going on around him, big deal. People are working so hard nowadays that it feels good to feel like part of society every once in a while. So the guy chooses to get some work done at the coffee shop. When you're focused on working on something real heavily (say, perhaps, your jackassed post) your awareness would be diminished. You wouldn't get too much done if you stopped to check out every person who walked in.
Don't come on here just to be a dick. Some guy got stabbed in the chest, had a collapsed lung and had his chest cavity fill with blood. Luckily he didn't die. Why would you put your thumbs in your ears and wave your fingers at him like that?
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#3, A lot of these people aren't yuppies going out to flaunt their equipment. In fact, considering this is the Bay Area, many of them are programmers for some top tech firms.
The guy with the knife doesn't know what kind of file system you have and he doesn't care. All he sees street value.
As for situational awareness, if somebody were to lean over you in any setting, your first instinct would be to be ready to answer whatever it is they are going to say to you. I think the odds against being randomly stabbed are sufficiently low enough where you may not expect it. Also if you RTFA, you'll see that the guy actually did have situational awareness and did notice that somebody was fidgeting with his power cable which is why he got up and subsequently stabbed.
Even if he didn't notice what was going on around him, big deal. People are working so hard nowadays that it feels good to feel like part of society every once in a while. So the guy chooses to get some work done at the coffee shop. When you're focused on working on something real heavily (say, perhaps, your jackassed post) your awareness would be diminished. You wouldn't get too much done if you stopped to check out every person who walked in.
Don't come on here just to be a dick. Some guy got stabbed in the chest, had a collapsed lung and had his chest cavity fill with blood. Luckily he didn't die. Why would you put your thumbs in your ears and wave your fingers at him like that?