Been a while since my last post. Frankly I have been a little busy. By the end of this post some will attach labels to me. Well get over yourself I have been called worse by better people.

First up will be the ALPRs. They were sold as “Safety”. Law-enforcement tells the are an effective and powerful tool.

I leave it up to you to decide for yourself if they are effective or not. I am in the not effective camp. There are near daily news articles describing innocent people’s troubles caused by these ALPRs. As we used to say, “one aw-shit wipes out a hundred at-a-boys”.

I leave it up to you to decide for yourself if they are a powerful tool or not. One thing for sure is that they do not have to power to prevent crime. But as they say concerning power. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutly.

I again will leave it up to you if the ALPR’s have anything to do with safety or not. We are treated near daily with reports of those with access to the system using it to track former interests. Does it make you feel safer that someone, a former or perspective interest, can access this data to track your movements?

I for myself do not believe these ALPRs are for “safety”. They are just another tool of the “Surveillance State”.

Next up will be “Data Centers”. It seems that these data centers are all the rage. I just have to wonder why data centers are being built around the country. How much data is being collected, what is being collected and on who? What is the purpose of having all this data and how will the information be used?

From what I read and understand these data centers are “resource hogs”. Who will “foot the bill”?

Data is just information. Data centers have been with us for ages; they were called Libraries whether public or personal. With Libraries you would have to actually read for yourself, and with the information you obtained you might just have to think for yourself. Just another tool of the Surveillance State.

Now I move to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Yes, I am still referring to it as artificial. For now, I will just leave with this little nugget. “To err is human to really mess things up you need a computer”.

A little bonus. The fuel shortage or crisis, whichever is the scary word for today. First off there must not be a shortage, not when we have politicians flying all around the country for political or party rallies and back. There seems to be plenty for that purpose. The people attending have fuel to get there and back. As for it being a crisis, that may well be, but it is a man-made crisis.

Well, that is all for today, part 2 will be forthcoming.