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  1. Esperanto is a non-evolved, made up language that should be banished.

  2. Re:Good for you sir! on Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Funny, you have to go to court over it. If it isn't criminal, why does traffic court exist?

  3. Re:Good for you sir! on Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    If #3 were true, then they would have long since gone to the trouble to get documented.
    If #4 were true, then they would have long since gone to the trouble to get documented.

    After all, since 2003, it's been "Papers, Please" at every job I've ever gotten, and as a contractor up until recently, I have had a lot of them. I keep my birth certificate, driver's license, and social security card in my wallet.

    And that is as a natural born citizen.

    Stop pretending that bringing children across an international border isn't within the very definition of child abuse.

  4. Re: Good for you sir! on Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Not if you are white and mentally ill and in Portland, OR. There it is called "ignoring police orders" and is worthy of summary street execution without a trial.

  5. Re:Good for you sir! on Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Who the heck is so ignorant that they don't know crossing an international border without permission is illegal?

  6. Re:Invading privacy? on Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    1. If you are suspected of a crime, then you've done something wrong
    2. Police state sucks, but thanks to the Patriot Act of 2003, that's what we are living in.
    3. It isn't- and therefore, likely, the question isn't one of Vigilant sending *ALL* footage to police, but rather only inquires of the type "can you search your records for suspect license #xxxyyyz (can you imagine having that job? That's why modern visual search algorithms are so important). It's only when they already have probable cause that they ask for the data.

  7. Re:Invading privacy? on Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Then why do they have government owned CCTV cameras in England?

  8. Re:Invading privacy? on Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    "The invasion of privacy is where they send it to ICE without you doing anything wrong. "

    ICE is also too busy to look at millions of hours of boring parking lot footage. 99% of those cars aren't their target.

    If you aren't doing anything wrong, then your license plate is never going to come up on their pattern match, because gasp, they aren't looking for people who have done nothing wrong.

  9. Re:Invading privacy? on Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure the police are far too busy to look at several million years worth of camera footage when there is no suspicion a crime has been committed.

  10. Re:Invading privacy? on Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    What part of the Patriot Act did you not understand? We now live in a police state. Start acting like you do, and you'll have fewer problems with "Police misconduct"

  11. Re:Invading privacy? on Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    I see that they ARE meant for tracking. That's why there is a law that they must be visible. If they were only for identification purposes, there'd be no need to display them.

  12. Re:Invading privacy? on Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) · · Score: 0

    I thought "Born in East LA" was just a fictional story. Did this happen to you?

  13. Re:Invading privacy? on Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe that is who we need to deport- the employers.

  14. Re:Invading privacy? on Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    We can always change the behavior of ICE to make it worse.

  15. Re:Invading privacy? on Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    And that 3rd party consumer data broker could just as easily hire a teenager with a modern phone at $5/hr to get the same information.

    PUBLIC IS PUBLIC. Where you go has *always* been public information, just the tracking has gotten more automatic.

    Next you'll be suing tire companies for broadcasting the location of your car through the tire pressure sensor RFID

  16. Re:Invading privacy? on Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    People who think privacy still exists outside of their front door are living in a state of denial.

    And that includes for the electronic access you allow through your front door.

  17. Re:Spiders are very wise on Spiders Can Fly Hundreds of Miles Using Electricity (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    If Putin wants to be able to export natural gas, he has to go through Trump to get to Germany now.

  18. Re:How the car is different than the phone on Owning an iPhone is the Number-One Way To Guess if You're Rich or Not, Research Finds (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it's because they hid the SSID setup outside of the WIFI setup.

  19. Re: Owning a luxury car (or jet/yatch) is even be on Owning an iPhone is the Number-One Way To Guess if You're Rich or Not, Research Finds (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple hasn't come up with anything better since Woz. And that is why I *have* moved on, and do not consider Apple to be a viable computer company or consumer product company.

  20. Re:Spiders are very wise on Spiders Can Fly Hundreds of Miles Using Electricity (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    What makes you think Trump wouldn't do the same to Putin, if the profit were enough?

  21. Re: Owning a luxury car (or jet/yatch) is even bet on Owning an iPhone is the Number-One Way To Guess if You're Rich or Not, Research Finds (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Old enough to realize a good design when I see it- and realize bullshit flash when I see it. Mac was bullshit flash. Even Woz admitted that it was Steve Jobs who killed the Apple III- insisting on a fanless design with no air vents for aesthetic purposes, leading to the infamous "Pick it up and drop it" advice from tech support (to reseat all the chips).

    In a time when IBMs had EGA and were headed for VGA, Jobs released the Mac I- with a black and white screen.

    And yes- Woz doesn't know me. Never met him.

    And I haven't purchased *anything* Apple since 1985. Too damn expensive.

    Now if we switched topics to how suddenly, in 2018, a 1mhz 16 bit computer is suddenly relevant due to replacing all of its peripherals with a raspberry pi, that would be interesting (TI99/4A & the TI-PI 32k expansion sidecar)

  22. Re:Spiders are very wise on Spiders Can Fly Hundreds of Miles Using Electricity (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Enough for him to make money *AT ANYTHING*. Why is it you think he doesn't pay subcontractors? And yes, of course he is monetizing his presidency- and that's why he owns puny politicians like Putin and McConnell, because all they can see is the money POWER brings, which is nothing in comparison to the Trump name.

  23. Re:no individual brand is as predictive... yeah on Owning an iPhone is the Number-One Way To Guess if You're Rich or Not, Research Finds (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    I earn more than 100k. I have neither a Bentley nor an iPhone, and refuse to follow stupid trends to bad technology.

  24. Re:How the car is different than the phone on Owning an iPhone is the Number-One Way To Guess if You're Rich or Not, Research Finds (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, as a techie, I find I waste a lot more time trying to set up iPhones than Android. Especially on wifi for elderly relatives.

  25. Re:Owning a luxury car (or jet/yatch) is even bett on Owning an iPhone is the Number-One Way To Guess if You're Rich or Not, Research Finds (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    You sank my battleship!