You don't monitor all the ALPR in the nation live - you set up a system where every ALPR installation has a 'wanted' database and reports hits. Typically the list would be updated daily and be built from a mix of local, state/province, and federal records. The systems have a mandatory retention policy to only keep hits against the wanted list.

But then you get somebody who catches on to the great idea that it should be retroactive. Force all those endpoints to hold their plate data for as long as the storage holds out - so you can search for where a plate has gone over the course of the last few weeks, or months... hell, maybe years. And you don't just watch for hits against the wanted list, you want to be able to send out queries like, "select all plates in common between these sites and dates" so you can find what vehicle was at every similar crime you've just figured out is probably the work of the same person or crew.

Then they want to throw the retention idea out the window and put cameras at every intersection and highway on or off ramp, and nobody involved worries about how that's absolutely going to be abused by everyone who has access to it.

What rubbish.

You must be one of those uneducated because in terms of most of things you mention there kids today have it better than almost all children throughout history, with possibly the narrow exception of those of us lucky enough to be born between the end of WWII and maybe 2001 in the USA anyway.

For anything you wrote there to be sensible we'd have to assume that the above cohort is the only mentally health group of children in most of history.. LOL

There are stupid posts, and there are rsilvergun stupid posts, this is one of the latter an amazingly it isnt even an rsilvergun post...

Even if true - irrelevant.

Why because even in the most affluent districts we still see a long term decline in academic performance. The only conclusion that can be support is driver of our education problems is not 'spending'

This complete bullshit. I have multiple teachers in the family. First through third year teachers work a lot. After that you mostly just refresh stuff a little bit at a time.

As to your whole Vietnam fairy tail also nonsense, but cause it completely neglects the demand side of the equation. It is not like any little town or burg anywhere just build some more schools and added classrooms because there was glut of teachers on the market. Honestly the stuff you post here, is fucking retarded dude, it does not pass even the basic smell test, let alone 10 seconds of google research anyone can do because they are already accessing a website.

So now we return to teacher pay... No you won't get rich, but you get incredible job security, summers off, and PTO during the year, generally solid benefits, and also a very average salary on an hourly basis using actual school days + required in service days. Is that a compensation structure that is ideal for every house hold, possibly not, but that is NOT the same saying they are under paid, in terms of career and time investment vs market value of total compensation.

That and this

We took away accountability because it hurt little Johny's "feels" and Shaikwa moaned it was 'racist'

Which a really good documentary might, simply offer the statement or some analysis to the effect that John and Yoko where conceptual artists and not everything they record offered great insights, but we can take a listen anyway to perhaps gain some insight into their process.... During which for visuals you don't then need to try and represent the conversation, you probably just show them and what their surroundings might have been at the time.

I don't know I have heard the subject materials either but at least on the surface here it seems like perhaps the wrong problem is being solved here. He notes he ran out of money. So was the real problem that he ran of actually interesting material he could produce on his budget said "i have stretch this thing out another 20min here, lets just play this old tape of some conversation that did not really go any place and does not add anything but hey it will run the clock, if play the melody of Imagine in the background his fans will watch anything" which then lead us to "ok now what can I put on the screen to while I play this"

The other question is why would you want abstract imagery to accompany a philosophical conversation?

I don't see how that could ever be helpful in a documentary where we are supposed to be learning about what Lennon and Yoko were thinking.

Either philosophy has some concrete premises that can be shown, and should be to help anchor the conversation or it is going to be ideas of a conceptual nature that does not have an visual representation that people would understand in a shared way.

I fail to see how some machine-generated-acid-trip to distract viewers from what is being said helps anybody.

Wrong again. I am running modern catalytic equipped wood stoves. They are 80% efficent and should be effectively reburning in particulate.

So if anything only slightly dirtier in terms of smoke stack emissions vs the natural gas or propane counter parts, and using a renewable fuel. Similarly my wood lot is great space for wild life and preservation of bio diversity.

I would bet the environmental foot print of my home, and domestic energy use is rather dramatically less than yours.

Phonics-based teaching was coming into vogue when I was learning to read. My parents objected because that's not really how English works, and they weren't wrong; my cohort generally has shitty spelling abilities.

Rote memorization of the basics is about the best you can do, because English is too recently cobbled together from too many different languages to have a consistent spelling system. You need to learn Latin, Greek, French, and German at a minimum if you want to be able to reliably deduce spelling from sounds once you're past the elementary level.

Europeans are probably in better shape on that front than Americans or Canadians.

Maybe the moral of the story should be, don't listen to the C suite OR the tech media!

That's amazing. I used Delphi in the 1990s at about the same time as, IIRC, Visual Basic 4.0. I enjoyed it at the time, and Object Pascal was a pretty reasonable language, but outside of maintaining legacy apps, I don't really get it. I'm surprised to see both it and Visual Basic so high on the list.

I guess I'm also surprised to see C at #2. Maybe because of Linux?

This is not how things work under kleptocracies. The US was never particularly strong on communal resources anyway, now it's just not even pretending.

Mozilla has discussed what kind of bugs they found. Here's their blog entry: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/05/behind-the-scenes-hardening-firefox/

You should read it. It's a very level-headed article that avoids the for and against LLM-hype that so many low quality news sources report.

Around close to the same time, Greg Kroah-Hartman also commented on improving reports: https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/03/26/linux-kernel-czar-says-ai-bug-reports-arent-slop-anymore/5226256

Finding bugs is good. Integrating these kind of tools into a testing and build pipeline is a good idea.

Bond died and I've never liked the fan theory that the name comes with the number - for me it's always been the same guy portrayed by different actors and slightly adjusted for the times in which the movie was made.

Between Austin Powers and Jason Bourne, both ends of the Bond spectrum have been done, and done better.

The right holders may not want to hear it, but the Bond franchise needs a longer rest than it's had so far.

That is dumb. I have a multi-stage electric heat pump more than capable of keeping my entire home warm enough. I also have a wood stove, and ~18 or so acres of wood lot.

The cutting and splitting wood is great exercise. Probably does me more good than any gym membership ever could.

Other than the time I put in, which for me is again at that odd nexus between recreation and chores. Kinda like lawn mowing is for a lot guys, the wood is free and renewable. The soil and conditions here are such that all the oaks grow to ~150 or so then tend die out or blow over. If I thinned the woods very selectively I assume many could get bigger. I just harvest the ones that either are not doing well, or are way to near the butt of another; but mostly I just cut up what falls down on its own. - So the wood is as close to "free" as anything in life gets.

Which brings us to the stove. It is a hell of a lot quieter than the force air heat too. Unlike the sad tepid warmth of the air that comes from the heat pump you get that nice intense heat that feels so good when you come in from outside if you stand right by it. A few fans and the entire house is comfortable and the loud electric monster can stay off.

Guests enjoy watching the fire thru the glass, so do I on my own some evenings.

In short in the right situations wood for heat is wonderful! Far better than the 'modern' solutions. Although I'll grant you if you have a 1/8 acre suburban lot and are having someone deliver cord wood by truck to you - ok I'd probably skip the stove too.