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  1. Re: Turkey.
    George Washington’s Farewell Address is arguably the most important speech delivered on US soil. If you read it you can only come to the conclusion that Turkey is of no Constitutional concern to this country.

    Our government supports and protects at the point of a gun the murder of 900,000 unborn every year. Perhaps we should be more concerned with getting our government in order before mingling into the affairs of sovereign nations.

    1. nd “do something” about regime change in China for what they are doing to their Muslims: massive concentration camps with hundreds of thousands of innocent people of all ages being tortured and “re-programmed” and often killed. Not to mention what they do to Christians, but what they do to Muslims is unspeakably worse.

      Not to mention what they did to Tibet long since.

      We are America. We are not the dictator of all nations.

      1. I disagree, Janet. What China does within their borders is not America’s problem, we have enough of our own. Frankly, it’s ridiculous that 110 million working Americans are expected to police and support 7.6 BILLION other people on this planet. Certainly I am sympathetic to their plight but if it gets bad enough for them they will do something for themselves or die trying. And Muslims are the last people I will advocate defending. The entire history of the Islamic religion is subjugation and genocide, the Chinese government is just doing what they need to do to contain a threat.

  2. re: Licence Plate Tracking

    Many large cities have implemented these ALPR systems.

    I discovered this while going through my company’s website traffic. I’ve seen web hits from cities where my company drivers had passed through with a company vehicle. Bear in mind, my vehicles DO NOT have a placard or emblem on them, phone # or website address.

    Notably, we got web hits from Cincinnati and just North of San Diego, just hours after my driver passed through. We almost never get hits from these cities. The driver was on the interstate the entire way, and not on surface streets.

    It would seem that someone (or a contractor) was sifting through the ALPR database, looking up who owned what vehicle and doing a manual websearch on the company name.

    This was disturbing to me and it indicates the level of surveillance we face in America.

  3. Death of a Nation:

    Get the federal government out of the drug business, period. The government supports the legal drug cartels, big pharma, just look at what the CDC and the FDA do to support and even push drugs for big pharma. Start with the MANDATORY vaccinations that harm so many of our fellow citizens.

    The feds also support the illegal drug cartels. How? By continuing to pursue the insane, immoral, unjust, and unconstitutional war on those citizens who smoke something, inject something, snort something, or otherwise ingest something that a bunch of lunatic politicians don’t approve of. And don’t discount the fact the these self-same lunatic politicians are routinely being bribed by big pharma, big alcohol, and yes, big drug cartel to keep cannabis, opium, and coca illegal. Look at the tens of BILLIONS of our dollars that get spent every year to maintain a prohibition that should have never been imposed in the first place. Show me, in the Constitution, where the States granted the authority to the federal government, to dictate (as in dictatorship) to 325,000,000 what they may or may not eat, drink, smoke, chew, sniff, snort, patch onto their skin, stick into a vein in their arm, or for that matter, shove up their rear ends. It isn’t there, it does not exist. And these self-same lunatic politicians never learn from history. What is the history of prohibition? Has it ever in history achieved the STATED desired goal? No, never. It has, however, achieved the UNSTATED goal. The unstated goal is power for the federal government, power for the politicians, power for the law enforcement community, power for the judges, power for everyone except US.

    I have never advocated the use of any drug, by anyone, for any reason. Yet if you have self ownership, if you own you, then that decision should be yours, and yours alone. The caveat being, as long as you harm no other person, Because without harm, what crime could you possibly commit?

  4. Hugh Farnham,
    For a mere $2K Nvidia’s new GPU can perform 10 billion operations per second and 125 trillion deep learning operations per second and 16 trillion graphics operations per second.

    Those aren’t people sifting through the ALPR data. The future has arrived.

  5. I heard from a guy who does water bombing that before they can get in the air to go water bomb these fires, they must wait for a government official to brief them on it, then they can take off. Sometimes it takes more than a day for the government official(s) to get there. So they are literally waiting around, twiddling their thumbs, waiting on the government to come brief them and clear them to go water bomb the fires. Essentially, the government wants these fires. I mean, fire is a good thing, to put minerals in the soil, but it needs to be controlled so it doesn’t destroy stuff.

  6. License Plate Tracking
    I wonder if a set of IR LEDs built into a license plate frame, some pointing at and reflecting off of the plate, and some pointing out at the camera (wherever it is), would defeat the ALPR?

    1. probably not, simple visible-light imaging is sufficient for data recog. in any case license plate recog is temporary, soon all (civilian) modern cars will be fitted with iff electronics and auto-shutoffs if iff is failed. eventually if you do something unapproved your car doors will lock and the vehicle will drive you to the police station for convenient arrest – no more dramatic police chases.

      1. There’s a product from the UK called Stealthplate that is a type of clear plastic that allows visible light, but blocks the near-IR spectrum that most cameras use.

        It’s clear enough to not have the cop write you a ticket, but good enough to block ALPR at night.

        I’ve tested it with my DVR cameras at home, and it does block out a plate. License plate toll cameras seem to have an issue with it as well.

    2. Yes, IR leds will make it more difficult for cameras to read license plates, especially at night. There are also IR reflective coatings (that are transparent to visible light) that may also be effective. Keep in mind that using such measure may make your vehicle stick out and be flagged though.

  7. Restoring Cast Iron
    I have read that one reason the older cast iron cooks better than new cast iron, is that the older cast iron has has a metal/steel spatula scraped across the inside so much that the inside is much smoother than new cast iron.

  8. Excellent, I can attest that is WV we have enough right-of-ways cleared out that forest fires shouldn’t be a problem and can be contained into a small area quickly and dealt with swiftly.

  9. On drug ODs: Warning. This will sound harsh, but here goes.

    I am over 60, and can recall the beginnings of anti-drug education in the schools. Then came the DARE program, Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No”, the commercials on TV showing a fried egg (“This is your brain on drugs.”) And the tragic lives/deaths of celebrities who abused drugs.

    If people by now haven’t gotten the message that drugs are bad, dangerous, addictive, and can kill you, then it’s hopeless. It’s sad that people are dying from this, but, in a way, it’s Darwin Awards.

    1. Vox,you forgot the grandaddy of drug propaganda “Reefer Madness”. Watch this again and try not to laugh at the insanity. Then make sure you show it to teenagers and they will be more against the “drug wars” as the hypocrisy it is.

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