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Big Brother Will Be Watching You In Florida
An anonymous reader submits "The Florida Times Union is running a story about the city of Manalapan putting up cameras and an automatic optical recognition system to check the license plates of every car to drive through town. As usual the article spins the system as something positive to battle crime. Just one step close to Eric Arthur Blair's vision of 1984."
All you have to do is drive into town in reverse!!!
For a slashdotter, that means not buying anything from an ebay seller who lives there.
How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
The submitter is just a little too clever for their own good. Maybe he should have respected Mr. Orwell's privacy, and not leaked his real name. Now he's at risk for identity theft. ;)
Manalapan has a population of 321. It's probably just some guy with a pair of binoculars.
...Yet
Fortunately, in Florida, Big Brother is 87, confined to a Rascal scooter, and has very poor eyesight.
You know what?
of a story my brother told me (my big brother as it happens) about a speed camera that was put on the road somewhere in england. It was pointed against the traffic and took pictures of speeding vehicles from the front. Some pictures showed motorcyclists going through at 110mph with the middle finger sticking up!
Drill baby drill - on Mars
Until they bring in a series of Sonny Bono 'license plate extension acts'
If Sonny Bono starts introducing new legislation, I hope the cameras can be modified to photograph and track all the walking undead going through town.
... installs some cameras and suddenly it's the Feds giving you a "rat hat".
Put down the bongs, people.
Radar clocks Mini at Mach 3
Picture a rubber beach sandal, stomping on a human face forever.
Wait just a damned minute! Your wife has headlights?
And it shows a frickin'*FLORIDA* plate!
Too Funny!
I agree with your ipse dixit despite your ad hominem, although prima facie evidence has indicated ad infinitum (as you noted a priori) that Slashdotters are cannot post sans such phrases a fortiori, being that said phrases are the de facto lingua franca of condescending morons et cetera and it is easier to insert such phrases than to begin with tabula rasa.
Handy list of Latin phrases said morons use. Now you, too, can sound like a condescendant!
True story.
What do you mean councilman Jones never shows up for work on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays? Let's have a talk with him
could be useful
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
Well, you could be traveling from Poland to Hungary and just steal a car in Germany on the way.
So what? This is nothing new. Everyone knows Pro Baseball has been tracking our automobile movements from space with their satalite network using our air bag sensors since the mid 90's and look at how much safer we all are at games?
He managed to get into the car with his ass exposed above the steering wheel and drive through the intersection with the license plate covered up. How he managed to steer the car is beyond me.
Can anyone confirm if this story is true or bogus?
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Yeah, I did that. This is the picture I got. Seems to work fine to me - what's your issue?
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What!? Who let a lawyer onto Slashdot!?
A Con-descendant? None of the Australians I know sound like that.
Actually, they ARE in there. I microwaved a stack of license plates and my microwave just about exploded. Obviously the goverment trying to hide the evidence.
(Florida local news, approximately 2 weeks from now)
Newscaster: "And in other news, Manalapan local commerce has apparently dried up due to a sudden and prolonged lack of incoming traffic. Commuters are seemingly going out of their way to avoid the town completely, and speculation is rampant that Manalapan is about to become a ghost town. Ongoing negotiations with Wal-mart developers have been stalled for the past 3 days, and rumors of a mass exodus due to newly-proposed tax increases are running wild..."
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