It's funny how completely and utterly wrong you are. Every single time of prosperity has been due exclusively to progressivism and liberal policies. It's the utterly braindead and backwards regressives that come along that ruin it for everybody with their unfettered greed (see W. Bush, Trump).
It was not conservatives that put US citizens of Japanese and German descent into camps and confiscated all their property without any crimes committed and without due process. It was not conservatives who were the party of slavery, the KKK, and Jim Crow. It was not conservatives who fought equal rights acts. It was not conservatives who kept a former high KKK leader in the US Senate until 2010.
You're an idiot.
You're a low-info, bigoted, and intolerant useful idiot for Progressivism with zero knowledge of history and nothing but hate for anyone who does not believe as you have been told to believe by others.
Progressives and Progressivism are largely to blame for the decline of the US, and it started as far back as Woodrow Wilson. This is just the chickens coming home to roost. The farther the US has departed from the Constitution, the worse things have gotten across the board. I've watched it occur in real-time over the past six decades. It's glaringly-obvious to any intellectually-honest observer.
[When you get your whores at 5 for a dollar] you don't get too choosy.
I avoid them because they're diseased (MPAA).
Stop spreading MPAA-gonorrhea. This strain is antibiotic resistant and virulent. It even causes gangrene of US copyright law and brain-syphilis among US lawmakers. It's spreading across the planet via US trade policies and treaties and causing societies the world over to rot like week-old fish.
That's pretty much the exact same thing Musk argues, so I'm confused by how this is a disagreement. Is someone interpreting Musk as trying to hinder the development of AI?
Musk wants laws/Acts/etc passed and enforced to make certain AI is not misused. Schmidt wants no or very little effective limits on what "Do Evil" Google/Alphabet can do with AI, so Schmidt deliberately mischaracterizes Musk's position to try to minimize the impact of Musk's message.
The soviet union wasn't even the true concept of communism, their failure means nothing in the grand scheme of things.
Your logical fallacy is: "No true Scotsman".
The problem is believing that one can trust people with power over others and believing people will do unselfish things that benefit others but not necessarily themselves personally. People are shit. They always have been since people became sentient and will remain so as long as people are recognizably human beings. Any power you give people over others will be abused horribly.
It's why the concept of very limited government powers along with checks and balances that pit those with power against each other instead of the population at large allowed the US to become the richest, freest, most prosperous & powerful nation that's ever existed.
Abandoning those core principles is the chief cause of the US's decline and it's domestic social, economic, and foreign problems.
If you're looking for me to defend Bill and or Hillary Clinton, you have another thing coming.
I think you read a bunch of intent you wanted to see that doesn't exist into my statement. It wasn't a judgement of Trump's morality, just a statement of fact.
I referred to "people" in my post and made an observation. Sorry if it was misunderstood. I was not and do not mean to imply an accusation towards you. You did not post anything in this thread I'm aware of that would indicate you would be included in the group I made the observation regarding. I don't know you from Adam.
Trump is of course morally bankrupt garbage, but sleeping with porn stars while his wife was pregnant doesn't even crack the top 100 reasons why.
I agree in large part. I find Trump to be an obnoxious loudmouthed egotist and opportunist who has no base ideological principles to speak of. He contributed heavily to and strongly supported Democrats and the DNC for many years when it was to his personal advantage, and then did a 180 when he saw an opportunity to advance himself. I just hope he sees more of the right things as being to his advantage than bad things.
Maybe you should check out Kaspersky Secure Connection. It's not free, but then, free services typically make you the product rather than the customer.
I'd trust a foreign provider long before a US-based one because of US TLAs, plus a foreign government has far less ability to affect you as an individual than one's own government.
Do you support massive fines Amd jail time for anyone hiring an illegal worker or subcontractor, say the farmers who use them to pick crops as sub market wages or the people who pick them up from Home Depot parking lots?
As a matter of fact, yes, I do support prosecution for anyone hiring illegal aliens be they farmers, suburban homeowners, or megacorps.
In my country the president just bangs porn stars and pays them to shut up about it.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
It's quite hilarious how people who are all for total freedom for anything sexual that isn't harming another or against the will of the participants suddenly get all Puritan when somebody they disagree with politically has a fling with an aging former porn video actress and start sounding like the old '80s "moral majority" Jerry Falwell.
Where was that same moral outrage when Bill Clinton left a long & sordid trail of sexually abused women and Hillary attacked any of them that came forward (#metoo, anyone?) and tried to destroy them personally.
I smoked a pack a day, and ended up using a vape (a mod box, not a little stick thing which has failed me in the past) to quit.
I save far more than the money they're talking about, and actually quit.
People buy a carton at a time, $100 isn't really much more than just quitting rather than buying a carton.
I smoked ~2-1/2 packs/day for 45+ years and also quit by switching to vaping using a mod-box. Tried those little pen/stick types and ended up going back to smoking. Don't even get me started about those crappy little things the tobacco companies have been trying to push. They're horrid. and that's being generous.
I agree completely, the money they're talking about is less than the money saved from quitting. I know that even the savings combined with the cash payment TFA refers to would not have motivated me enough to quit. Now I'm 3+ years smoke-free. The best part for me is that I'm a musician in a working band and in many venues I don't have to go outside to smoke between sets, often in bitter winter cold which isn't good for a guitarist's hands.
Entering the country illegally is a very low level crime.
Only in the US and only because of amoral Leftists who encourage illegal immigration to inflate the census rolls to fraudulently gain more representation in Congress and to pad Democrat voter rolls. In any other nation I can think of, illegal border crossing is a very serious crime and in more authoritarian nations can get you imprisoned, tortured, and/or summarily shot dead. Those pushing the "open borders" bullshit seek to destroy the US as a nation.
Rudyard Kipling, the guy that invoked the "white-man's burden" as an ongoing theme in his poetry... Yeah, we should definitely worship everything he has ever written...;^)
Beautiful strawman you've built, there. I made no claims about "worshiping" anything.
But I suppose if you can't put together a coherent opposing argument you don't have many options if you're triggered.
Real science doesn't come with a political agenda.
Politics is as distinct from science as religion is. People with an agenda are just abusing statistics.
Continue these delusions of yours at your peril.
Rudyard Kipling recognized the dangers of these political/ideological trends back in 1919 and tried to warn us.
--- The Gods of the Copybook Headings
AS I PASS through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.
We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn
That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn:
But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind,
So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind.
We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace,
Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market Place,
But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come
That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome.
With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch,
They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch;
They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings;
So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things.
When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."
On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "The Wages of Sin is Death."
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."
Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
Seconded. Chandra Wickramasinghe is a one-trick pony whose answer to absolutely everything is panspermia. (life from space)
Bravo for engaging in honest skepticism of the claims.
And yet, many people here calling out this study will not use the same level of skepticism about AGW claims of impending disaster if we don't engage in massive upheavals in society, technology, industry, and standards of living across the board that *just happen* to fit certain political agendas so perfectly that one might suspect shenanigans.
This is precisely the kind of partisan selective amnesia and bias that will guarantee a Trump 2020 reelection victory.
ISIS - No longer a major threat.
US economy - Heading back in the right direction.
N. Korea - Coming to the negotiating table.
That's just off the top of my head.
If you're incapable of giving credit where credit is due don't expect your criticisms to carry any weight with anybody outside your echo chamber. Even many life-long Democrats I know are disgusted with the Left at this point.
I wonder what would happen if the concept was applied to the local law enforcement, I think it would be a more violent reaction.
Check out some of the "photography is not a crime" (PINAC) videos on YT. I imagine the reactions would be quite similar. Note that he doesn't have deep pockets. Just a regular dude.
.. will be available in the vast majority of mobile devices... will be mandated for every phone sold in North America
Eventually, owning and carrying a smartphone will be compulsory - it will serve as your government ID and will sub for driver's licence, passport, Social Insurance / Social Security card, health card, etc. There will be no rooting, no disabling of location services, no turning off mobile data and WiFi. 'Airplane Mode' will be turned off and on automatically - there will be a separate always-on low-power RF transceiver specifically for that purpose. If you are allowed to turn your phone off, it won't be fully off - it will be recording audio all the time. Letting your battery die without a damned good excuse will be a criminal offence. As will putting your phone in a Faraday cage.
Part of me kinda thinks I'm just trolling here - but the bigger part is afraid that much of what I've outlined above may really come to pass. After all, if I could go back to 1980 and tell my then-self what happens in the world after 2000, that earlier self would be totally incredulous.
They're already working on essentially that very technology.
No population has ever regretted being extremely cautious about allowing government to expand it's powers & scope, whether directly or by using private sector resources to accomplish their goals.
This isn't about paying for lunch, it's about eliminating burner phones. Once all phones are legally required to have this, they can ensure nobody has anonimity.
That and it's a perfect tool for moving to a cashless society where government knows everything you buy, sell, or pay for and can add it to their dossier database and also be able to track and tax individual transactions at the micro-payment level in real-time.
However, these legal fees only apply if they are being prosecuted for not complying with the law (when, and more importantly, if they are). Hiding "we're tracking you... (20 pages later)... and if you agree, click this button" in a EULA / click-through isn't going to fly, particularly if there is no opting out.
Bullshit.
It requires keeping teams of specialist lawyers on retainer and an entire new department in the company that does nothing towards generating revenue, only monitor compliance and deal with GDPR-related issues with users and government. Regulatory compliance costs are a real thing and hurt smaller enterprises far more than some megacorp.
You are welcome to try. You should however be aware that the rules that apply to the populace do not necessarily apply to the Ruling Elite, and that you might incur life-altering consequeces for acting... Unwisely. Just saying. Take it as friendly advice. Those are difficult times, the economy being what it is, people should be mindful of their places.
Although that may be true, what price would you pay and what risks would you be willing to take to fight for the freedom and personal privacy of yourself and everyone else including those you care most for? Make no mistake, this is the start of monitoring, tracking, storing, and analyzing the movements of every vehicle and person which is Big Brother writ far larger, and ends up at a place far more dangerous than anything in "1984".
Better yet, scan entrances to a CIA operation and cross-check your data with employment records to find the people registered for unrelated jobs: those are your spies.
I'm not suggesting to expose spies or compromise national security or any criminal investigations. I'm simply suggesting that these sorts of invasions of privacy might get more attention if important people actually had a personal stake in protecting personal privacy because of bringing home the fact to them that their power does not insulate them.
After all, as they like to tell us, ALPR doesn't require any special permissions and is not illegal because if you're in public anyone can photograph/video you and/or your vehicle without your permission and they can do anything with that data including storing it in a database and using algorithms on it and posting it to the internet. Goose-gander.
Your signature implies you might have a slanted view of the world.
Accurate != slanted.
but a minimum standard should be the ability to talk like an adult,
Hitler was a great orator. So was Stalin, Mao, and many other brutal dictators and leaders both past and present.
Words mean squat. Actions are what counts. Hillary's actions have been those of a corrupt plutocrat. I don't like Trump as a person, but he's actually accomplishing things I think are good. He's also accomplishing, or trying to accomplish, things I don't like, but they have been far outweighed by the good so far. ISIS is no longer a threat, the US economy is doing better, and he's gotten N. Korea to the negotiating table. Things the last few administrations have failed to accomplish.
yep, so keeping a private life is not easy to do, that's why I am asking [about protection from ALPR privacy invasion]
Buy an ALPR unit yourself and situate it covertly by the parking lot entrance/ramp for your city's/State's Capitol/City Administration building(s) and/or Federal buildings, record their plates and build a database, and publish it online.
People, especially people in power, don't typically care about invasions of privacy by big data until it's *their* privacy being compromised.
Make it personal for those in power if you want something done about it.
Any chances a stingray is in a public location where it could be stolen? That would make for an interesting tear down.
Another interesting idea would be to build some R.F. "white noise" generators with a high-frequency R.F. diode and a few small passive components, use a solar cell to power it and charge a tiny battery, attach a length of wire to serve both as antenna and as a means of slinging it up and hanging it on the pole-mount where the Stingray units are mounted. It would be small, about a quarter the size of a cigarette pack.
They only generate a very low level signal, but placed right next to the Stingray unit, would swamp the receiver's front-end rendering the unit useless.
CB'ers used to use something similar against asshole CB'ers. Sling it into a tree or bushes on the property near the antenna, and the receiver of the CB hears nothing but noise.
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It's funny how completely and utterly wrong you are. Every single time of prosperity has been due exclusively to progressivism and liberal policies. It's the utterly braindead and backwards regressives that come along that ruin it for everybody with their unfettered greed (see W. Bush, Trump).
It was not conservatives that put US citizens of Japanese and German descent into camps and confiscated all their property without any crimes committed and without due process. It was not conservatives who were the party of slavery, the KKK, and Jim Crow. It was not conservatives who fought equal rights acts. It was not conservatives who kept a former high KKK leader in the US Senate until 2010.
You're an idiot.
You're a low-info, bigoted, and intolerant useful idiot for Progressivism with zero knowledge of history and nothing but hate for anyone who does not believe as you have been told to believe by others.
Strat
Boomers broke the planet, never mind just the US.
Bullshit.
Progressives and Progressivism are largely to blame for the decline of the US, and it started as far back as Woodrow Wilson. This is just the chickens coming home to roost. The farther the US has departed from the Constitution, the worse things have gotten across the board. I've watched it occur in real-time over the past six decades. It's glaringly-obvious to any intellectually-honest observer.
Strat
...Is like putting Dracula in charge of blood-bank security.
WCPGW?
Strat
[When you get your whores at 5 for a dollar] you don't get too choosy.
I avoid them because they're diseased (MPAA).
Stop spreading MPAA-gonorrhea. This strain is antibiotic resistant and virulent. It even causes gangrene of US copyright law and brain-syphilis among US lawmakers. It's spreading across the planet via US trade policies and treaties and causing societies the world over to rot like week-old fish.
Strat
That's pretty much the exact same thing Musk argues, so I'm confused by how this is a disagreement. Is someone interpreting Musk as trying to hinder the development of AI?
Musk wants laws/Acts/etc passed and enforced to make certain AI is not misused. Schmidt wants no or very little effective limits on what "Do Evil" Google/Alphabet can do with AI, so Schmidt deliberately mischaracterizes Musk's position to try to minimize the impact of Musk's message.
Strat
The soviet union wasn't even the true concept of communism, their failure means nothing in the grand scheme of things.
Your logical fallacy is: "No true Scotsman".
The problem is believing that one can trust people with power over others and believing people will do unselfish things that benefit others but not necessarily themselves personally. People are shit. They always have been since people became sentient and will remain so as long as people are recognizably human beings. Any power you give people over others will be abused horribly.
It's why the concept of very limited government powers along with checks and balances that pit those with power against each other instead of the population at large allowed the US to become the richest, freest, most prosperous & powerful nation that's ever existed.
Abandoning those core principles is the chief cause of the US's decline and it's domestic social, economic, and foreign problems.
Strat
If you're looking for me to defend Bill and or Hillary Clinton, you have another thing coming.
I think you read a bunch of intent you wanted to see that doesn't exist into my statement. It wasn't a judgement of Trump's morality, just a statement of fact.
I referred to "people" in my post and made an observation. Sorry if it was misunderstood. I was not and do not mean to imply an accusation towards you. You did not post anything in this thread I'm aware of that would indicate you would be included in the group I made the observation regarding. I don't know you from Adam.
Trump is of course morally bankrupt garbage, but sleeping with porn stars while his wife was pregnant doesn't even crack the top 100 reasons why.
I agree in large part. I find Trump to be an obnoxious loudmouthed egotist and opportunist who has no base ideological principles to speak of. He contributed heavily to and strongly supported Democrats and the DNC for many years when it was to his personal advantage, and then did a 180 when he saw an opportunity to advance himself. I just hope he sees more of the right things as being to his advantage than bad things.
Strat
A free unlimited VPN is still a welcome offer.
Maybe you should check out Kaspersky Secure Connection. It's not free, but then, free services typically make you the product rather than the customer.
https://usa.kaspersky.com/secu...
USD $4.99/month
I'd trust a foreign provider long before a US-based one because of US TLAs, plus a foreign government has far less ability to affect you as an individual than one's own government.
Strat
Do you support massive fines Amd jail time for anyone hiring an illegal worker or subcontractor, say the farmers who use them to pick crops as sub market wages or the people who pick them up from Home Depot parking lots?
As a matter of fact, yes, I do support prosecution for anyone hiring illegal aliens be they farmers, suburban homeowners, or megacorps.
Hypocrite much?
Nope.
How about you?
Strat
In my country the president just bangs porn stars and pays them to shut up about it.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
It's quite hilarious how people who are all for total freedom for anything sexual that isn't harming another or against the will of the participants suddenly get all Puritan when somebody they disagree with politically has a fling with an aging former porn video actress and start sounding like the old '80s "moral majority" Jerry Falwell.
Where was that same moral outrage when Bill Clinton left a long & sordid trail of sexually abused women and Hillary attacked any of them that came forward (#metoo, anyone?) and tried to destroy them personally.
Strat
I smoked a pack a day, and ended up using a vape (a mod box, not a little stick thing which has failed me in the past) to quit.
I save far more than the money they're talking about, and actually quit.
People buy a carton at a time, $100 isn't really much more than just quitting rather than buying a carton.
I smoked ~2-1/2 packs/day for 45+ years and also quit by switching to vaping using a mod-box. Tried those little pen/stick types and ended up going back to smoking. Don't even get me started about those crappy little things the tobacco companies have been trying to push. They're horrid. and that's being generous.
I agree completely, the money they're talking about is less than the money saved from quitting. I know that even the savings combined with the cash payment TFA refers to would not have motivated me enough to quit. Now I'm 3+ years smoke-free. The best part for me is that I'm a musician in a working band and in many venues I don't have to go outside to smoke between sets, often in bitter winter cold which isn't good for a guitarist's hands.
Strat
Entering the country illegally is a very low level crime.
Only in the US and only because of amoral Leftists who encourage illegal immigration to inflate the census rolls to fraudulently gain more representation in Congress and to pad Democrat voter rolls. In any other nation I can think of, illegal border crossing is a very serious crime and in more authoritarian nations can get you imprisoned, tortured, and/or summarily shot dead. Those pushing the "open borders" bullshit seek to destroy the US as a nation.
Strat
Rudyard Kipling, the guy that invoked the "white-man's burden" as an ongoing theme in his poetry... ;^)
Yeah, we should definitely worship everything he has ever written...
Beautiful strawman you've built, there. I made no claims about "worshiping" anything.
But I suppose if you can't put together a coherent opposing argument you don't have many options if you're triggered.
Strat
Real science doesn't come with a political agenda.
Politics is as distinct from science as religion is. People with an agenda are just abusing statistics.
Continue these delusions of yours at your peril.
Rudyard Kipling recognized the dangers of these political/ideological trends back in 1919 and tried to warn us.
---
The Gods of the Copybook Headings
AS I PASS through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.
We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn
That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn:
But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind,
So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind.
We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace,
Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market Place,
But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come
That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome.
With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch,
They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch;
They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings;
So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things.
When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."
On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "The Wages of Sin is Death."
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."
Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
Seconded. Chandra Wickramasinghe is a one-trick pony whose answer to absolutely everything is panspermia. (life from space)
Bravo for engaging in honest skepticism of the claims.
And yet, many people here calling out this study will not use the same level of skepticism about AGW claims of impending disaster if we don't engage in massive upheavals in society, technology, industry, and standards of living across the board that *just happen* to fit certain political agendas so perfectly that one might suspect shenanigans.
Fascinating, indeed.
Strat
He'd need to do something positive first.
This is precisely the kind of partisan selective amnesia and bias that will guarantee a Trump 2020 reelection victory.
ISIS - No longer a major threat.
US economy - Heading back in the right direction.
N. Korea - Coming to the negotiating table.
That's just off the top of my head.
If you're incapable of giving credit where credit is due don't expect your criticisms to carry any weight with anybody outside your echo chamber. Even many life-long Democrats I know are disgusted with the Left at this point.
Strat
I wonder what would happen if the concept was applied to the local law enforcement, I think it would be a more violent reaction.
Check out some of the "photography is not a crime" (PINAC) videos on YT. I imagine the reactions would be quite similar. Note that he doesn't have deep pockets. Just a regular dude.
Strat
.. will be available in the vast majority of mobile devices ... will be mandated for every phone sold in North America
Eventually, owning and carrying a smartphone will be compulsory - it will serve as your government ID and will sub for driver's licence, passport, Social Insurance / Social Security card, health card, etc. There will be no rooting, no disabling of location services, no turning off mobile data and WiFi. 'Airplane Mode' will be turned off and on automatically - there will be a separate always-on low-power RF transceiver specifically for that purpose. If you are allowed to turn your phone off, it won't be fully off - it will be recording audio all the time. Letting your battery die without a damned good excuse will be a criminal offence. As will putting your phone in a Faraday cage.
Part of me kinda thinks I'm just trolling here - but the bigger part is afraid that much of what I've outlined above may really come to pass. After all, if I could go back to 1980 and tell my then-self what happens in the world after 2000, that earlier self would be totally incredulous.
I'll just leave this here.
https://youtu.be/s2NNZdigSXg
They're already working on essentially that very technology.
No population has ever regretted being extremely cautious about allowing government to expand it's powers & scope, whether directly or by using private sector resources to accomplish their goals.
Strat
This isn't about paying for lunch, it's about eliminating burner phones. Once all phones are legally required to have this, they can ensure nobody has anonimity.
That and it's a perfect tool for moving to a cashless society where government knows everything you buy, sell, or pay for and can add it to their dossier database and also be able to track and tax individual transactions at the micro-payment level in real-time.
Strat
However, these legal fees only apply if they are being prosecuted for not complying with the law (when, and more importantly, if they are). Hiding "we're tracking you... (20 pages later) ... and if you agree, click this button" in a EULA / click-through isn't going to fly, particularly if there is no opting out.
Bullshit.
It requires keeping teams of specialist lawyers on retainer and an entire new department in the company that does nothing towards generating revenue, only monitor compliance and deal with GDPR-related issues with users and government. Regulatory compliance costs are a real thing and hurt smaller enterprises far more than some megacorp.
Strat
You are welcome to try. You should however be aware that the rules that apply to the populace do not necessarily apply to the Ruling Elite, and that you might incur life-altering consequeces for acting... Unwisely. Just saying. Take it as friendly advice. Those are difficult times, the economy being what it is, people should be mindful of their places.
Although that may be true, what price would you pay and what risks would you be willing to take to fight for the freedom and personal privacy of yourself and everyone else including those you care most for? Make no mistake, this is the start of monitoring, tracking, storing, and analyzing the movements of every vehicle and person which is Big Brother writ far larger, and ends up at a place far more dangerous than anything in "1984".
Strat
Better yet, scan entrances to a CIA operation and cross-check your data with employment records to find the people registered for unrelated jobs: those are your spies.
I'm not suggesting to expose spies or compromise national security or any criminal investigations. I'm simply suggesting that these sorts of invasions of privacy might get more attention if important people actually had a personal stake in protecting personal privacy because of bringing home the fact to them that their power does not insulate them.
After all, as they like to tell us, ALPR doesn't require any special permissions and is not illegal because if you're in public anyone can photograph/video you and/or your vehicle without your permission and they can do anything with that data including storing it in a database and using algorithms on it and posting it to the internet. Goose-gander.
Strat
Your signature implies you might have a slanted view of the world.
Accurate != slanted.
but a minimum standard should be the ability to talk like an adult,
Hitler was a great orator. So was Stalin, Mao, and many other brutal dictators and leaders both past and present.
Words mean squat. Actions are what counts. Hillary's actions have been those of a corrupt plutocrat. I don't like Trump as a person, but he's actually accomplishing things I think are good. He's also accomplishing, or trying to accomplish, things I don't like, but they have been far outweighed by the good so far. ISIS is no longer a threat, the US economy is doing better, and he's gotten N. Korea to the negotiating table. Things the last few administrations have failed to accomplish.
Strat
yep, so keeping a private life is not easy to do,
that's why I am asking [about protection from ALPR privacy invasion]
Buy an ALPR unit yourself and situate it covertly by the parking lot entrance/ramp for your city's/State's Capitol/City Administration building(s) and/or Federal buildings, record their plates and build a database, and publish it online.
People, especially people in power, don't typically care about invasions of privacy by big data until it's *their* privacy being compromised.
Make it personal for those in power if you want something done about it.
Strat
Any chances a stingray is in a public location where it could be stolen? That would make for an interesting tear down.
Another interesting idea would be to build some R.F. "white noise" generators with a high-frequency R.F. diode and a few small passive components, use a solar cell to power it and charge a tiny battery, attach a length of wire to serve both as antenna and as a means of slinging it up and hanging it on the pole-mount where the Stingray units are mounted. It would be small, about a quarter the size of a cigarette pack.
They only generate a very low level signal, but placed right next to the Stingray unit, would swamp the receiver's front-end rendering the unit useless.
CB'ers used to use something similar against asshole CB'ers. Sling it into a tree or bushes on the property near the antenna, and the receiver of the CB hears nothing but noise.
"Let them eat noise!"
Strat