I am just against the surveillance state period but this? Wow. I know the city I work in does use LPRs. They are using it as a way to find and track suspects in violent crimes and drug trafficking or so they claim. I don't necessarily disagree with using them in that way as the city has a high crime rate and has forever. The problem is that isn't all they use them for as this EFF article pointed out. Witch Hunts on a suspicion.

I did a binge on John H Bryan's ("The Civil Rights Lawyer") youtube streams recently. I did nothing but lose more respect for the police forces of the US. Honestly, I love listening to Steve Lehto's legal streams as well - kind of the same thing though when it comes to public servants. WTH are our police and officials thinking?

#2 | Posted by LampLighter

I won't debate you on that. Often I am on a VPN so my provider isn't tracking me. Nor is Google or anyone else as I browse in incognito, generally avoid Google even though incognito and vpn'd. There is also services you can use to wipe your tracks from tracking Databases like Incogni.

To further support how bad this is on the part of Comcast and others, the data's valuable and likely "leveraged" in some way. A massive non-commercial example. The Chinese have built a database of "important" people in the US (military officers, politicians of all levels, executives, etc) as well as their family, friends and associates and they HEAVILY leverage commercial databases and social media to do so.

It also isn't about just spying products. They can and are leveraged for DNS, hacking and other actions.

Glad it survived the server crash. Those are generally the days I wish I didn't get out of bed.

That's all? Seriously? He deployed them against Americans. He deployed them against the mayor and governor's wishes. He deployed them without jurisdiction to do so. For something that is largely under control.

This isn't the Rodney King Riots. This isn't BLM riots. This really is a confined area protest with limited bad actors.

#39 | Posted by oneironaut

Links or it didn't happen. You must have oodles.

#5 | Posted by oneironaut

The Concorde had the same problems even in Europe - so try again. The Sonic Booms limited them to Trans Oceanic flights only.

While there are ways to lessen the noise, I don't know how many are practical and to what extent it can be dissipated. If the booms happen near maximum cruising altitude (in the upper 40ks feet), it lessens the noise level but spreads it over a wider area. Nobody is going to build the Quiet Spike version of an airliner either since it is not practical.

#4 | Posted by moder8

I am not so sure it will pass in a good way.

#15 | Posted by oneironaut

Give back Texass at least.

I guess there's a new one every day. I am waiting for raids on employers in Southern California to go full bore. But I think Trump is going to drag them out until the mid-terms then he doesn't care.

#21 | Posted by LampLighter

What a bunch of bunk and lies as normal from Jr. There are and will always be conflicts of interest. True experts doing research are who the panel members were from the ones I checked out. They worked at Universities. Honestly yes they probably had current or past research at least partially funded by corporations. Everything he is criticizing - guess what tRump and Co did? They cut government funded research so where does one get people without corporate influence now? We should double down on government research if not triple down. Then it belongs to we the people - when done properly.

To expand on that, I know people with Polish flags. Does that mean they want to be part of Poland? Seriously...

#11 | Posted by oneironaut

Nuance is clearly lost on you. Everything is not black and white.

Sorry, but a (singular) motorcyclist waiving the Mexican flag is a protestor. What is he instigating? What are his feelings? You clearly have assigned some. What are people agreeing with?

Who feels that California should be part of Mexico again?
What about the rest of the Southwest that was part of Mexico? You know like Texass.

#5 | Posted by humtake

Agreed it is about the semantics. Pull out a mirror. When the police seek to force crowds of protestors to disperse and create conflict - what do you expect to happen? When the actions of tag alongs or worse yet plants looking to start trouble do create it, what do you expect? The police don't target them - it is just the excuse they use to go after the whole protest. I don't agree with things like shutting down expressways but honestly, so be it. Protest is most effective when it is seen, heard and felt.

I am 100% against vandalism and looting but then I think back to the Boston Tea Party. The tradition is older than the country itself.

#2 | Posted by oneironaut

As we seen with the George Floyd Protests in Minnesota all it takes is very few planted instigators to change a protest to a riot. The protestors as stated need to be on the lookout for and shutdown the instigators.

#23 | Posted by oneironaut

Step out of the echo chamber. It is authorized by law when CONGRESS VOTES TO ALLOW IT. A president can not call up the troops against the American People on his own. That is what dictators do.

You know Boaz, you are a have your cake and eat it too type but it goes beyond that.

I don't think you will find a left leaning poster here that will say heads of agencies didn't have biases in the past. Everyone has biases and in general Democrats sought good people to lead Federal agencies. I will say that prior to 2016 even the GOP did. I will say that in general, the Democrats appoint people who's goal is the betterment of the US, enforcement of laws and the protection of the Constitution. When it comes to the GOP that slope has been sliding since Nixon though. But because people have a different perspective doesn't mean either side is wrong. In fact Democrats and posters here in general are not afraid to call out questionable decision by Democrat leadership. And let's face it bad decisions happen. It's not necessarily evidence of some grand collusion against Americans. You know what, we even know that sometimes they seek to mislead us on something for some reason.

That said, MAGA Republicans are seeking to DESTROY the government from within. Period. They want to burn it ALL down. They are seeking to destroy all faith in us Institutions that while flawed have overall done the work of the people for a very long time. They see boogeymen where there are none and their leader helps create them with fictitious and outlandish lies sometimes on a minute by minute basis. And the MAGA sheep gobble them up without question. I have never in all my years (I feel old saying that) seen so much easily disproved trash taken as gospel and repeated over and over by either side as we have seen since Obama was elected and the GOP lost its collective mind fully. And it has escalated EVERY SINGLE YEAR. Y'all have so much fear and hate rotting your brains it is a wonder you can get out of bed - that's probably the hate over powering the fear though. The right is like a paranoid schizophrenic with an arsenal of nukes right now - which is literally true. If you can't see that - baaaaah.

Spent more time with AI in the last month than I cared to. We are talking about the things we want out of it as a company but they executives can't grasp we need data governance first. If you feed it tons of flawed data you are going to get flawed results.

It's a tool but it has a long way to go in general. Just look at Google's search results when you start to investigate something. At least half the time the AI generated content is way off.

That's an animal lover post for sure. Feel good video.

Interesting. I thought Syria and Lebanon were supposed to be on there as well as Gaza and the West Bank...

Syntax error...

They can take a perfectly good car and ---- it up.

#1 | Posted by lee_the_agent

Rednecks are just as good at that except it is mostly trucks.

The left's most hated song and music video of all time

I hope the lefties on this site prove my headline wrong.

Posted by BellRinger

Jeff,

I love the message, I think you totally have who hates it wrong. I think it's the Right's most hated song. Why would anyone on the left "hate" this song? It is about the American dream and freedom.

I don't hate the song in fact I liked it as a kid. Neil Diamond was about the hardest "rock" my parents listened to and it was pretty huge.

As for the message that was then this is now. This was during the height of the Cold War. Frankly today "they" are leaving America because it is not the America Neil sang about.

#10 | Posted by moder8

It is amazing here. The leadership folks I literally know voted for Trump seem to be that woman you alluded to.

Is he talking about all the GOP employers of the people that flooded in? Asking for some people I know.

#2 | Posted by LampLighter

It won't work for anyone unless they want to go out of business. Even though they claimed they weren't looking at it, Amazon was supposedly going to add a tariff surcharge to items to show you the tariff impact. Walmart will increase prices trump threats or not. They just may be sneaky about it. As for others... We announced price increases and that is almost everyone in our industry except for the ones falsely claiming "Made in America". Legally speaking I know it doesn't meet the definition as the Raw materials are not produced in the USA.