Rod Manchester

Author, Ham Radio Operator, and retired Project Manager

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@AdamJarchow Apparently playing golf and having a boat are racist too. Dude knows how to ostracize voters!
There was a reason he dropped out of the race...

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@MrPitbull07 Break up NOW!!!

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@MichaelARothman It's a campaign promise, nothing more. If we prosecuted those all politicians would be behind bars.

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@prouddadfour C, no doubt. They caused the Iran and Illegal alien problem.

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Look up and look around K-Mart shoppers and you'll see the flashing blue light is flashing once again in the automotive department where for the next five minutes, and five minutes only, you'll find auto body filler on sale for the low low price of Five dollars and thirty-one cents. That's right, only five dollars and thirty-one cents! So hurry on back to the automotive department and take advantage of this and many more savings. Thank you for shopping at your Vallejo K-Mart!

I may have done this a time or two. K-Mart, 500 Redwood Street, Vallejo, CA

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@ThomasSowell Help me, I'm drowning in a sea of liberal tears.

No wait, that's just a puddle...

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@prouddadfour Great

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@prouddadfour Tab wasn't invented until 1963

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Then help me understand the difference please. If the flyaway cost is $82.5M then how can it be possible to suddenly increase the value to $196M? I get the cost in government $$ includes long term maintenance and upgrades, but if the aircraft is destroyed then those costs no longer apply. Or is this just "somehow" government math not mathing?

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@prouddadfour Jimmy Davenport

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@jonsrennie I stopped wearing a watch the day I retired.

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Flock Safety Systems, and their brethren companies, are a 4th Amendment violation just waiting for SCOTUS to say it outloud.

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A police chief in Oshkosh, Wisconsin caught Flock lying to his city council, and killed the $8 billion surveillance company's contract less than a day after the council had approved it.

Here's how it happened.

The night before, Oshkosh's council was set to renew its deal with Flock Safety, the license plate camera company backed by a16z and Tiger Global.

One council member asked the Flock rep a plain yes-or-no question. Does this system build a heat map of everywhere a specific car travels over time?

Flock's rep said no.

The council believed him and voted 5 to 2 to renew. By the next morning, Chief Dean Smith's own officers had told him that answer was false.

So he pulled up the system himself. He watched it generate the exact heat map Flock had just sworn it couldn't make.

Then he walked into an emergency meeting and said it out loud: "Because of this misrepresentation, I can no longer recommend Flock."

Understand what a heat map is, because it's the whole trick.

Flock sells cities a tidy little story. A car drives by, we snap a photo, we read the plate, that's all it is.

But the same system can quietly average out where your car goes day after day and paint your routine onto a map.

Not one snapshot at one corner. Your pattern. Where you sleep, where you work, where you keep going back and how often.

A Flock employee later admitted on the record that the software does exactly that.
So the pitch and the product are two different things. The company wins the contract selling a plate reader, then sits on a moving map of your life.

The only reason Oshkosh caught it was one skeptical question and a police chief who bothered to check the answer.

The vote to rescind was 7 to 0. Unanimous.

Flock called the whole thing "one small misconception" from a long meeting and said it was disappointed nobody let it explain.

A surveillance company worth eight billion dollars got caught lying about whether it maps where you drive. Its defense was that the lie was small.

Oshkosh got one honest answer by accident. Congress can make it the rule.

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A warrant is required for LE to gain access to my phone data, a warrant is required for LE to put a GPS tracker on my vehicle, Flock data access should be the same way. I do not object to the cameras themselves, I object to the AI database that retains, collates, and organizes my activities. And anyone who pays flock gains that access.
Ask yourself, did the gun range in Milwaukee that recently terminated their agreement with Flock have the same access as LE? As an HOA President who installed a Flock camera at their entrance?
GET A WARRANT!

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