Illinois has also been doing this for several years, especially around the Chicago area.
There are some locations where they have signs up stating that "No Toll is Being Taken" and others that are not marked. The transponders they used to use had displays and beeped when accessed, I imagine that's why they put up signs, people used to notice accesses. Of course, the new replacement ones do not have any external indicators that they are being polled so that allows them to interrogate them anytime silently.
They are now also interrogating them at small antenna sites between the major toll gates for traffic flow analysis, but AFAIK they are not using them anywhere but on the tollways. It is not known if they are gearing up to do speed measurement or anything nefarious with them, I don't think they can get away with that since not all vehicles have them.
Hey, if I had wanted to hear from an asshole, I'd have farted.
While you're at it, you can also thank Slashdot for providing you a forum to spew your worthless opinion, an absolutely useless off-topic troll. I believe it is you who is the moron, but it's more likely you're one of those almost-jackbooted thugs that call themselves police in this country and perpetrates these atrocities.
These are real, they are happening, and it's the truth. If you don't like it, then that's just too fucking bad. This is the 'murrica fucks like you have produced and now you think I'm ranting because some of use don't like it? Again, too fucking bad. You gotta work on taking that pesky 1st Amendment out next, then I guess you can come and arrest me.
I sincerely hope you get caught in one of these sometime and they let the dogs crawl up your ass and beat you until you bleed, then take your dazed, worthless dumbfuck ass to jail. If you're one of them then maybe one of the sheep you prey on will be your last when they get sick of getting picked off one at a time.
Now if I was really juvenile, I would have said "Fuck You and anyone that looks like you!" and MEANT it.
There's certainly no attraction, if you're not here, don't bother. If you have to come, be careful!:D
I was raised and lived most of my life here, and now I'm retired, and disabled, so moving away would be a big hassle - If I could, I might, if the housing market didn't suck so badly.
Also, things haven't always been that bad here, like everywhere in the country they are slowly boiling the frogs and eroding our freedoms, but they just turned up the heat a little bit more here, I guess. Most of my life it's been tolerable - not fantastic, but livable. Recently, things have been starting to suck much harder.
We are the WORST state on nearly every possible thing, with the possible exception of NY. We were the LAST to pass concealed carry, we just passed Medical MJ but YOU CAN'T GROW YOUR OWN, what kind of bullshit is that? An obvious cash grab, that's what. I could go on...
This state is fucked up in more ways politically, legally, and financially than I can count. Living here pretty much sucks out loud.
Yep, every holiday, especially ones with long weekends like this one coming like clockwork there are huge statewide coordinated dragnets, so that's almost a state-wide one guaranteed nearly monthly, and just for shits and giggles, a lot of the smaller communities set up their own city version of the safety check just over a hill or on a blind offramp from an expressway so you can't see it until you're on it, and there's no turning around.
I live in a suburb of one of the 3 largest cities in the U.S. It may not be as bad as that near you. Yet...
Obviously you don't live near or have experienced "roadside safety checks" where the local gestapo indiscriminately pulls over every vehicle in a fishing-expedition for anything from forgotten safety-belts (seat belts) to that roach that's been under your seat for 15 years, or perhaps some actual rare real violation such as drunk driving, etc.
They pull vehicles over with no probable cause and subject them to searches if they twitch or sweat or the carefully trained "police dog" sits on command to please it's trainer and thus will hit on everyone, every time so they will always have cause to search you. Or they might ask you a few questions to see if you appear nervous. Well, of fucking course you're nervous, you are in severe danger of having your life fucked with, completely upset and turned upside down with a mere crook of their finger.
Also, lately they have been talking about expanding the role of TSA to harass people at sporting events, and at train and bus terminals, so the erosion of our freedom/society is not only continuing, it's expanding, or trying to.
This, all the suburban traffic cops are all dressing like SWAT-team members for either the intimidation factor, or that they think it looks "cool" and there was oodles of extra Homeland Security grant money to pay for all that neat stuff.
[Godwin Alert] This is just shy of the good old Nazi checkpoints - "Papers, Please" and actual jackboots would be the only things missing. So, yeah - even travel within supposedly safe areas of this "free" country is getting fucked up and are becoming hazardous to your rights and so-called freedom. What little you (we) have left, anyway.
Almost all of those model cars run on "Glow Plug Fuel" which is like diesel fuel/oil or Nitromethane. If you tried to use gasoline or petrol you would probably blow up the model engine. Not that this distinction would make any difference to the TSA thugs, most likely, but there you are.
Why is very simple, people don't trust them. They use technology to prevent a simple mechanical device from working, which do you think is more likely to break?
Guns are life-saving devices when used by the police or military. Murphy's Law says it all, and if their life-saving device won't function for whatever reason they are dead. Period.
Then there is also the old remote-control problem like using a magnetic or EM/RFI field to jam the gun's mechanism and render it useless remotely, but I'm sure they already addressed this, right? Right?
Bottom line is no one trusts the technology, it's too new, unproven, and an introduction of multiple points of failure in an otherwise tested and time-proven technology.
Here comes a whole new spate of 419-style "My client was a prince who died with a huge bunch of bitcoins and I need help smuggling them out of the country, please help..." scam emails.
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The number of skeletons in [most famous person]'s closet is usually directly proportional to how sanctimonious or pious they act in public.
Illinois has also been doing this for several years, especially around the Chicago area.
There are some locations where they have signs up stating that "No Toll is Being Taken" and others that are not marked. The transponders they used to use had displays and beeped when accessed, I imagine that's why they put up signs, people used to notice accesses. Of course, the new replacement ones do not have any external indicators that they are being polled so that allows them to interrogate them anytime silently.
They are now also interrogating them at small antenna sites between the major toll gates for traffic flow analysis, but AFAIK they are not using them anywhere but on the tollways. It is not known if they are gearing up to do speed measurement or anything nefarious with them, I don't think they can get away with that since not all vehicles have them.
Hey, if I had wanted to hear from an asshole, I'd have farted.
While you're at it, you can also thank Slashdot for providing you a forum to spew your worthless opinion, an absolutely useless off-topic troll. I believe it is you who is the moron, but it's more likely you're one of those almost-jackbooted thugs that call themselves police in this country and perpetrates these atrocities.
These are real, they are happening, and it's the truth. If you don't like it, then that's just too fucking bad. This is the 'murrica fucks like you have produced and now you think I'm ranting because some of use don't like it? Again, too fucking bad. You gotta work on taking that pesky 1st Amendment out next, then I guess you can come and arrest me.
I sincerely hope you get caught in one of these sometime and they let the dogs crawl up your ass and beat you until you bleed, then take your dazed, worthless dumbfuck ass to jail. If you're one of them then maybe one of the sheep you prey on will be your last when they get sick of getting picked off one at a time.
Now if I was really juvenile, I would have said "Fuck You and anyone that looks like you!" and MEANT it.
There's certainly no attraction, if you're not here, don't bother. If you have to come, be careful! :D
I was raised and lived most of my life here, and now I'm retired, and disabled, so moving away would be a big hassle - If I could, I might, if the housing market didn't suck so badly.
Also, things haven't always been that bad here, like everywhere in the country they are slowly boiling the frogs and eroding our freedoms, but they just turned up the heat a little bit more here, I guess. Most of my life it's been tolerable - not fantastic, but livable. Recently, things have been starting to suck much harder.
The lovely fucked up state of Illinois.
We are the WORST state on nearly every possible thing, with the possible exception of NY. We were the LAST to pass concealed carry, we just passed Medical MJ but YOU CAN'T GROW YOUR OWN, what kind of bullshit is that? An obvious cash grab, that's what. I could go on...
This state is fucked up in more ways politically, legally, and financially than I can count. Living here pretty much sucks out loud.
Cuz this happens *so* often...?
Again, you must not be from around here. :)
Yep, every holiday, especially ones with long weekends like this one coming like clockwork there are huge statewide coordinated dragnets, so that's almost a state-wide one guaranteed nearly monthly, and just for shits and giggles, a lot of the smaller communities set up their own city version of the safety check just over a hill or on a blind offramp from an expressway so you can't see it until you're on it, and there's no turning around.
I live in a suburb of one of the 3 largest cities in the U.S. It may not be as bad as that near you. Yet...
Obviously you don't live near or have experienced "roadside safety checks" where the local gestapo indiscriminately pulls over every vehicle in a fishing-expedition for anything from forgotten safety-belts (seat belts) to that roach that's been under your seat for 15 years, or perhaps some actual rare real violation such as drunk driving, etc.
They pull vehicles over with no probable cause and subject them to searches if they twitch or sweat or the carefully trained "police dog" sits on command to please it's trainer and thus will hit on everyone, every time so they will always have cause to search you. Or they might ask you a few questions to see if you appear nervous. Well, of fucking course you're nervous, you are in severe danger of having your life fucked with, completely upset and turned upside down with a mere crook of their finger.
Also, lately they have been talking about expanding the role of TSA to harass people at sporting events, and at train and bus terminals, so the erosion of our freedom/society is not only continuing, it's expanding, or trying to.
This, all the suburban traffic cops are all dressing like SWAT-team members for either the intimidation factor, or that they think it looks "cool" and there was oodles of extra Homeland Security grant money to pay for all that neat stuff.
[Godwin Alert] This is just shy of the good old Nazi checkpoints - "Papers, Please" and actual jackboots would be the only things missing. So, yeah - even travel within supposedly safe areas of this "free" country is getting fucked up and are becoming hazardous to your rights and so-called freedom. What little you (we) have left, anyway.
Almost all of those model cars run on "Glow Plug Fuel" which is like diesel fuel/oil or Nitromethane. If you tried to use gasoline or petrol you would probably blow up the model engine. Not that this distinction would make any difference to the TSA thugs, most likely, but there you are.
You. Have a funny way. Of punctuating sentences. Hmm.
Maybe a laxative will help.
You can only converge on absolute crappiness, but never actually achieve it, like a perfect vacuum.
By that theorem, even the crappiest thing has a tiny percentage of non-crappiness.
Yeah I want to declare an automatic Godwin when these stupid fucks bring up "mrurm umrm OBAMA,.." or "graug urgma FOX...". Sheesh.
You guys sound like 6 year olds having a dick waving contest. "My Dad can beat up your Dad AND Glenn Beck".
Jesus Christ, give it a rest.
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No, it doesn't mean that bitcoins in general are a Ponzi scheme, it's just about someone USING them in a specific scam that was a Ponzi scheme.
When they run out of crack, they get REALLY hungry!
A successful dealer doesn't do his own shit, he SELLS it.
You either make stash or money selling, but never both.
I love that show! :D
Seriously, you mean NCIC.
Nope.
I own a Beretta 92FS, a 40 year old design, and a Remington 12-Gague pump shotgun, a well over 100 year old design.
Why is very simple, people don't trust them. They use technology to prevent a simple mechanical device from working, which do you think is more likely to break?
Guns are life-saving devices when used by the police or military. Murphy's Law says it all, and if their life-saving device won't function for whatever reason they are dead. Period.
Then there is also the old remote-control problem like using a magnetic or EM/RFI field to jam the gun's mechanism and render it useless remotely, but I'm sure they already addressed this, right? Right?
Bottom line is no one trusts the technology, it's too new, unproven, and an introduction of multiple points of failure in an otherwise tested and time-proven technology.
Here comes a whole new spate of 419-style "My client was a prince who died with a huge bunch of bitcoins and I need help smuggling them out of the country, please help..." scam emails.
Apparently, you only need to be 51% sure. ;)
No, they have Pharoahs...
Or, more importantly, losing or even worse, giving up their personal FREEDOM over the purported "boogeyman".
Welcome to the new McCarthyism. Any time you do anything "they" don't like, you're a ter'ist...
Hey, every time I hear Google Fiber I think it's some new Breakfast Cereal that helps you shit...
Hey, will someone fix the troll-bot? He's broken again!
This is old news! I have been getting rich forwarding emails from Microsoft's Email Beta Test program for years now.
That check should be showing up any day now...