Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Friday, April 2, 2010

Our Creeping Police State

The town of Tiburon, California is placing license plate cameras on the roads into the town to monitor every vehicle entering or leaving the town. The cops claim that they will only keep the data for 30 days.

Yeah, as if I believe that. Data storage is pretty cheap.

This, by the way, is the leading company who sells those fucking things. The uses of those cameras are going to mushroom. Companies will put them in their employee parking lots. Shopping centers will put them at their entrances and exits. More and more municipalities and and states will put them alongside roads. Elsag is pushing them as Big-Brother cams, though they don't exactly call them that.

We could stop it, of course. But we won't, for the people who now say that they are so concerned about freedom and liberty are only worried about "socialized medicine". They've never been worried before about increased police surveillance and they aren't about to start now.

9 comments:

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Unknown said...

I'm gonna build my own surveillance camera system to locate all the police cruisers and post their locations on the Internet. After all, if they're not doing anything wrong, they have nothing to worry about, right? Right?

SkinnyDennis said...

My local town uses cameras and GPS on the meter maid carts, to note your plate # and the time. So no more scrubbing off chalk marks from your tires and hanging on to that parking spot.
The evil thing is, you can't even drive 2 blocks away and park again, they'll still nail you for parking longer than allowed downtown. And they've got your plate recorded.
However my motorcycles have only a rear plate of course, and the law says you must park backed into the curb.

Anonymous said...

You know, this does not surprise me one bit. I seen countless Bush apologists make the claim that if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. Of course, these same people call themselves conservative/libertarian. In short, they are full of crap.

Eck! said...

I mentioned this before, COPSEYES a device from a short story SF that I can not remember the name of.

Now they are almost real..


Eck!

SkinnyDennis said...

Eck!

Cloak of Anarchy?
http://www.larryniven.org/stories/cloak_of_anarchy.shtml

smellsofbikes said...

I haven't gotten a chance to try this out yet, but I've read that laser pointers will burn holes in the sensors of standard digital cameras. I can't help but wonder if they won't do the same thing to these.

Of course, the problem is *finding* them. However, people have done some interesting stuff with automated video analysis of the light reflected by lenses from bright flashes, to locate optics.

Now it's just a matter of putting them all together...

Eck! said...

Thanks SD that was it. I have have Larry Nevin in my collection and that was notable.

To smellsofbikes, read the story at SD link. Anarchy is an unstable game, you change the rules they will too. Oh, and their budget is bigger.


Eck!

smellsofbikes said...

Their budget is bigger, but there's not much else we can do. They're certainly not going to stop putting cameras up.