What about somebody who lives above a dive bar and below another dive bar?

Yep. Here's my recent example. My state has a turnpike that recently switch to cash-less tolling, where if you don't have a transponder in your car they take a photo of the license plate, look up the address for it, and mail you a bill. I have a transponder in my vehicle and a card for payment on file so I should never receive a bill in the mail, but I did. The tag reported was for my trailer, which I hadn't pulled on the turnpike in quite a while. Besides, a trailer doesn't get its own bill; it's billed with the towing vehicle. So I'm looking at this piece of paper that claims my trailer was seen going down the turnpike, at one location only, by itself, with no tow vehicle. It turned out it was a misread of a tag for a white mini-van, not my black trailer. I would have thought that there would be a sanity check before sending out the bills -- if a tag came up as being registered to a trailer it would at least set a flag to have a manual review of the image, but nope, just send the bill. Fortunately it was able to be resolved with just a phone call. I'd like to think that every time a misread gets reported that they use it to improve the accuracy of the system, but I doubt it.

Sadly, there are people who will blindly follow what their device tells them to do and not put any thought into it, not even asking themselves "does this make sense?" I know a woman who was driving to a place she'd been to many times but apparently had the GPS set to "shortest" instead of "fastest", and it directed her to get off a highway some 50 miles before she normally would. She didn't question it one bit. Arrived much later than normal. If her GPS told her to drive off a cliff, she'd point the car to the ledge and hit the accelerator.

And she votes.

A phobia is an irrational fear. It there is a group who publicly state they want to kill people like me and have a history of carrying out such attacks, then not liking them is completely rational and justified.

As someone else mentioned, this is (sadly) a common use of our tax dollars. I know several people (former co-workers) who work (or worked) at a defense contractor, and they all had similar stories. Some had to wait just a few weeks but others would drag on for months, even over a year in one case, waiting for their clearances. Regardless, they had to show up and put in the time every day. Sometimes they'd do training, sometimes they'd be assigned a task that didn't require clearance, and other times they just had to wait and do nothing. It's been happening for decades, across multiple administrations.

Another story about that particular contractor... They used to hold auctions when they would scrap equipment, computers, etc. I purchased a couple of pallets of computer gear from them once, including a MicroVAX 3400. They would pull hard drives out of any computers they sold, but apparently someone didn't realize the VAX had a hard disk. I hooked a VT320 up to the console port, got it to boot VMS, and used the "oops, I forgot the sys admin password" procedure. They had done a partial job of wiping it, but there was still some stuff. I printed out a list of user names and took it to one of my (at the time) co-workers who had previously worked at that plant. "Hey, you know any of these people"? "Yeah, where'd you get this list?" Good times! Was going to put NetBSD on it, but it wasn't quite ready at the time.

I was going to say the same thing. Mine have gotten so weak that once the temperature drops below about 50 F (10 C) they stop being read, and that cutoff temperature has been rising for the last few years. I told my dealer, who has otherwise provided excellent service, that the batteries in them were getting weak and I'd like to have them serviced (I assume they replace the whole sensor, and not just the batteries), and I intentionally took it to them on a cold day to be sure the TPMS light was on. But apparently the vehicle sat in their warm service bay long enough and heated up enough that when they tried it they said "no problems found". So now I'll just wait until the TPMS light is on 100% of the time before I take it back to them for that.

I've considered having them replaced the next time I have the tires replaced, but I do that at Walmart and I've heard the non-OEM sensors they install can be problematic with some vehicles, so I'm a bit hesitant.

I never used WordPerfect, but I do remember using similar cards with other software. Those were the days! And the column of function keys down the left side of the keyboard was so convenient they of course had to get rid of it. And while I'm going down memory lane, I'll also say I miss the control key being in the correct location instead of way down in the corner like it is now.

You young whippersnappers with your fancy keyboards to create files directly from your command prompt. Back in my day, we had to chisel our 1's and 0's out of stone. Heck, we didn't even have ones and zeros, we had to use I's and O's.

So the next war will be between those who want to block out the sun and those who want to reflect more sunlight onto Earth?

Yep, I never said it was by "popular" vote. I understand how the system works.

Correct. It's good that we still have an elected president.

I don't remember. Running VMS on a VAX, I haven't rebooted since the Bush (senior) administration.

Funny you should say that, that's exactly why mine got kicked back overnight.
"This government computer can process over nine tax returns a day. Did you really think you could fool it?"

I've been using Free Fillable Forms for a few years now with Firefox and haven't had any issues. And this is running on FreeBSD with Ublock Origin installed. Yeah, each year I'm a bit surprised it still works, but I'll take my wins however I can.

"This government computer can process over nine tax returns per day. Did you really think you could fool it?"

I just re-submitted my return this morning after their computer rejected my return at 1:01 am this morning due to, of all things, a missing zip code that I forgot to transcribe.

I wonder what model VAXstation Ts'o had. Not that it matters, I just have fond memories of using VMS on VAX clusters around that same time.