A lot of K9s are basically just officers' pets. The dog and/or handler either aren't trained to begin with, or their training isn't maintained properly.
The main manifestation of this is that there's a lot of them that smell drugs on the driver's seat of every car they check, because they smell butt, but this kind of shit happens, too. Lucky for the cow that it was something too big for the dog to properly mess up, unlucky for everyone else it was something that could properly mess up all present.
Is this a USA thing?
Regular pets are definitely not K9 units and go through extensive training to be able to ride around on calls...
Some/most officers do adopt the dogs but it's not like fluffy is attending carjackings.
They aren't actually pets ("constitutional sheriffs" like to just bring their dog to work but it's not exactly normal), what I mean by "basically pets," is that K9s generally live with their handlers and while many (not all and barely most) states require police dogs to be certified, few if any require them to ever be recertified. Ongoing training gets neglected and the trained police behaviors start getting replaced with pet behaviors. So you have K9s who chase animals, alert on random interesting smells, or get defensive in situations where they shouldn't.
Drug checks are, as I said, the biggest symptom of this - once upon a time, drug sniffing was criticized for having accuracies barely over 50%. Those were innocent times, as the best tests in the last 30 years have found accuracies barely over 40%, and tests in some states have found rates as low as 5%.
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A lot of K9s are basically just officers' pets. The dog and/or handler either aren't trained to begin with, or their training isn't maintained properly.
The main manifestation of this is that there's a lot of them that smell drugs on the driver's seat of every car they check, because they smell butt, but this kind of shit happens, too. Lucky for the cow that it was something too big for the dog to properly mess up, unlucky for everyone else it was something that could properly mess up all present.
Is this a USA thing?
Regular pets are definitely not K9 units and go through extensive training to be able to ride around on calls...
Some/most officers do adopt the dogs but it's not like fluffy is attending carjackings.
They aren't actually pets ("constitutional sheriffs" like to just bring their dog to work but it's not exactly normal), what I mean by "basically pets," is that K9s generally live with their handlers and while many (not all and barely most) states require police dogs to be certified, few if any require them to ever be recertified. Ongoing training gets neglected and the trained police behaviors start getting replaced with pet behaviors. So you have K9s who chase animals, alert on random interesting smells, or get defensive in situations where they shouldn't.
Drug checks are, as I said, the biggest symptom of this - once upon a time, drug sniffing was criticized for having accuracies barely over 50%. Those were innocent times, as the best tests in the last 30 years have found accuracies barely over 40%, and tests in some states have found rates as low as 5%.
Meanwhile the usual suspects on SCOTUS have ruled that you aren't allowed to ever challenge a dogs accuracy.
I'm guessing the gone right is that they didn't try this with Tabasco?
No, the gone right is that some idiot eventually will.
Next to the sun-your-taint challenge will be the dip-your-balls-into-ghost-pepper-sauce. I still don't see how this could go wrong. This is all good news gone good.
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I'm guessing the gone right is that they didn't try this with Tabasco?
No, the gone right is that some idiot eventually will.
Next to the sun-your-taint challenge will be the dip-your-balls-into-ghost-pepper-sauce. I still don't see how this could go wrong. This is all good news gone good.
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It's not that bad with the fresh chillies, I've almost routinely rubbed 1.2-1.4 million Scoville chilli juice into my eyes* when I've been cooking with them**. It's apparently very much not the only way I'll learn.
*usually because I've been chopping the chillies and accidentally touched my face. Then assumed the tingling was due to an eyelash in my eye and gone to brush it out without thinking to wash my hands first.
Powders probably going to be worse, and I'm not saying the experience was particularly pleasant but wouldn't say it's hospital level pain.
**Komodo dragon chillis, which aren't great - they're very hot but also just really peppery (like an extreme scotch bonnet) and Bedfordshire Super Nagas which are really nice. They've got a really strong fruity flavour and a hint of smokiness that still comes through even after you've added a bit of cream or coconut milk to tone down the madness of the heat. That said, both taste better than they look when we're talking this up-close.
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Crikes. I got a little splatter on my hand when I hit a guy with some 2 million sc unit (IIRC) foam. It was a... vigorous sensation (the guy getting it in the eyes enjoyed it even less).
Even at half the strength, getting something like that in my eyes (or mouth)... *insert nopenopenope gif*
Then again, stuff with habenero peppers is usually my line of 'this has stopped being delicious and now is just unenjoyable.'
Crikes. I got a little splatter on my hand when I hit a guy with some 2 million sc unit (IIRC) foam. It was a... vigorous sensation (the guy getting it in the eyes enjoyed it even less).
Even at half the strength, getting something like that in my eyes (or mouth)... *insert nopenopenope gif*
Then again, stuff with habenero peppers is usually my line of 'this has stopped being delicious and now is just unenjoyable.'
Some people apparently enjoy using tear gas as a condiment.
It's not that bad with the fresh chillies, I've almost routinely rubbed 1.2-1.4 million Scoville chilli juice into my eyes* when I've been cooking with them**. It's apparently very much not the only way I'll learn.
*usually because I've been chopping the chillies and accidentally touched my face. Then assumed the tingling was due to an eyelash in my eye and gone to brush it out without thinking to wash my hands first.
Powders probably going to be worse, and I'm not saying the experience was particularly pleasant but wouldn't say it's hospital level pain.
**Komodo dragon chillis, which aren't great - they're very hot but also just really peppery (like an extreme scotch bonnet) and Bedfordshire Super Nagas which are really nice. They've got a really strong fruity flavour and a hint of smokiness that still comes through even after you've added a bit of cream or coconut milk to tone down the madness of the heat. That said, both taste better than they look when we're talking this up-close.
I'm hoping you've at least learned to wash your hands well after cooking with them before you have to go to the bathroom.
State Rep. Rebecca White (D-Windsor) introduced the bill, which would allow drivers to add one of six available emojis to their license plate when registering a vehicle in Vermont. The symbols would be added in addition to the plate's registration number, and would not replace any letters or numbers assigned by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles nor those selected by the vehicle's owner.
"As long as they're appropriate, I'm all for it," said Mary-Jo Roldan.
The bill does not state which emojis drivers would be able to choose from. There were 3,019 recognized emojis at the time of the bill's introduction.
"I guess it's an OK idea. I wouldn't say it's good. I wouldn't say it's bad. It's not hurting anybody," said Pam Buck, of Weathersfield.
It's not that bad with the fresh chillies, I've almost routinely rubbed 1.2-1.4 million Scoville chilli juice into my eyes* when I've been cooking with them**. It's apparently very much not the only way I'll learn.
*usually because I've been chopping the chillies and accidentally touched my face. Then assumed the tingling was due to an eyelash in my eye and gone to brush it out without thinking to wash my hands first.
Powders probably going to be worse, and I'm not saying the experience was particularly pleasant but wouldn't say it's hospital level pain.
**Komodo dragon chillis, which aren't great - they're very hot but also just really peppery (like an extreme scotch bonnet) and Bedfordshire Super Nagas which are really nice. They've got a really strong fruity flavour and a hint of smokiness that still comes through even after you've added a bit of cream or coconut milk to tone down the madness of the heat. That said, both taste better than they look when we're talking this up-close.
I'm hoping you've at least learned to wash your hands well after cooking with them before you have to go to the bathroom.
State Rep. Rebecca White (D-Windsor) introduced the bill, which would allow drivers to add one of six available emojis to their license plate when registering a vehicle in Vermont. The symbols would be added in addition to the plate's registration number, and would not replace any letters or numbers assigned by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles nor those selected by the vehicle's owner.
"As long as they're appropriate, I'm all for it," said Mary-Jo Roldan.
The bill does not state which emojis drivers would be able to choose from. There were 3,019 recognized emojis at the time of the bill's introduction.
"I guess it's an OK idea. I wouldn't say it's good. I wouldn't say it's bad. It's not hurting anybody," said Pam Buck, of Weathersfield.
Could bring back license plate spotting as a game for road trips
State Rep. Rebecca White (D-Windsor) introduced the bill, which would allow drivers to add one of six available emojis to their license plate when registering a vehicle in Vermont. The symbols would be added in addition to the plate's registration number, and would not replace any letters or numbers assigned by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles nor those selected by the vehicle's owner.
"As long as they're appropriate, I'm all for it," said Mary-Jo Roldan.
The bill does not state which emojis drivers would be able to choose from. There were 3,019 recognized emojis at the time of the bill's introduction.
"I guess it's an OK idea. I wouldn't say it's good. I wouldn't say it's bad. It's not hurting anybody," said Pam Buck, of Weathersfield.
Easy license plate identification is necessary and important. Adding a bunch of superfluous, ambiguous signals makes everyone's life harder for absolutely no benefit. And if you're running out of plates, then there's no way that adding a smiley face vs. a winky face is a better solution for accuracy and accounting than just adding more alphanumeric characters until you get to a ridiculous string length like 20 characters.
State Rep. Rebecca White (D-Windsor) introduced the bill, which would allow drivers to add one of six available emojis to their license plate when registering a vehicle in Vermont. The symbols would be added in addition to the plate's registration number, and would not replace any letters or numbers assigned by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles nor those selected by the vehicle's owner.
"As long as they're appropriate, I'm all for it," said Mary-Jo Roldan.
The bill does not state which emojis drivers would be able to choose from. There were 3,019 recognized emojis at the time of the bill's introduction.
"I guess it's an OK idea. I wouldn't say it's good. I wouldn't say it's bad. It's not hurting anybody," said Pam Buck, of Weathersfield.
Easy license plate identification is necessary and important. Adding a bunch of superfluous, ambiguous signals makes everyone's life harder for absolutely no benefit. And if you're running out of plates, then there's no way that adding a smiley face vs. a winky face is a better solution for accuracy and accounting than just adding more alphanumeric characters until you get to a ridiculous string length like 20 characters.
State Rep. Rebecca White (D-Windsor) introduced the bill, which would allow drivers to add one of six available emojis to their license plate when registering a vehicle in Vermont. The symbols would be added in addition to the plate's registration number, and would not replace any letters or numbers assigned by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles nor those selected by the vehicle's owner.
"As long as they're appropriate, I'm all for it," said Mary-Jo Roldan.
The bill does not state which emojis drivers would be able to choose from. There were 3,019 recognized emojis at the time of the bill's introduction.
"I guess it's an OK idea. I wouldn't say it's good. I wouldn't say it's bad. It's not hurting anybody," said Pam Buck, of Weathersfield.
Easy license plate identification is necessary and important. Adding a bunch of superfluous, ambiguous signals makes everyone's life harder for absolutely no benefit. And if you're running out of plates, then there's no way that adding a smiley face vs. a winky face is a better solution for accuracy and accounting than just adding more alphanumeric characters until you get to a ridiculous string length like 20 characters.
Ah, I see. Well, that makes a lot more sense, then. Still pretty stupid IMHO but whatever, it's not American government if you can't try to find a way to fuck it up in an attempt to be like a corporation and make a quick buck.
Crikes. I got a little splatter on my hand when I hit a guy with some 2 million sc unit (IIRC) foam. It was a... vigorous sensation (the guy getting it in the eyes enjoyed it even less).
Even at half the strength, getting something like that in my eyes (or mouth)... *insert nopenopenope gif*
Then again, stuff with habenero peppers is usually my line of 'this has stopped being delicious and now is just unenjoyable.'
Some people apparently enjoy using tear gas as a condiment.
State Rep. Rebecca White (D-Windsor) introduced the bill, which would allow drivers to add one of six available emojis to their license plate when registering a vehicle in Vermont. The symbols would be added in addition to the plate's registration number, and would not replace any letters or numbers assigned by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles nor those selected by the vehicle's owner.
"As long as they're appropriate, I'm all for it," said Mary-Jo Roldan.
The bill does not state which emojis drivers would be able to choose from. There were 3,019 recognized emojis at the time of the bill's introduction.
"I guess it's an OK idea. I wouldn't say it's good. I wouldn't say it's bad. It's not hurting anybody," said Pam Buck, of Weathersfield.
Some real stupid shit gets brought up here in Vermont, but the Senate and House did just pass paid family leave for parents and family care.
I mean, it probably won't get approved by our republican governor (ugh) but at least it's getting there.
Wouldn't it be more forward-thinking to just allow an arbitrary unicode character? If there's no matching approved emoji, just render the spot as an empty space. That way, anything that does get approved for the license plate font would be automatically filled in rather than forcing people to request a plate change manually.
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State Rep. Rebecca White (D-Windsor) introduced the bill, which would allow drivers to add one of six available emojis to their license plate when registering a vehicle in Vermont. The symbols would be added in addition to the plate's registration number, and would not replace any letters or numbers assigned by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles nor those selected by the vehicle's owner.
"As long as they're appropriate, I'm all for it," said Mary-Jo Roldan.
The bill does not state which emojis drivers would be able to choose from. There were 3,019 recognized emojis at the time of the bill's introduction.
"I guess it's an OK idea. I wouldn't say it's good. I wouldn't say it's bad. It's not hurting anybody," said Pam Buck, of Weathersfield.
Easy license plate identification is necessary and important. Adding a bunch of superfluous, ambiguous signals makes everyone's life harder for absolutely no benefit. And if you're running out of plates, then there's no way that adding a smiley face vs. a winky face is a better solution for accuracy and accounting than just adding more alphanumeric characters until you get to a ridiculous string length like 20 characters.
State Rep. Rebecca White (D-Windsor) introduced the bill, which would allow drivers to add one of six available emojis to their license plate when registering a vehicle in Vermont. The symbols would be added in addition to the plate's registration number, and would not replace any letters or numbers assigned by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles nor those selected by the vehicle's owner.
"As long as they're appropriate, I'm all for it," said Mary-Jo Roldan.
The bill does not state which emojis drivers would be able to choose from. There were 3,019 recognized emojis at the time of the bill's introduction.
"I guess it's an OK idea. I wouldn't say it's good. I wouldn't say it's bad. It's not hurting anybody," said Pam Buck, of Weathersfield.
Easy license plate identification is necessary and important. Adding a bunch of superfluous, ambiguous signals makes everyone's life harder for absolutely no benefit. And if you're running out of plates, then there's no way that adding a smiley face vs. a winky face is a better solution for accuracy and accounting than just adding more alphanumeric characters until you get to a ridiculous string length like 20 characters.
Honestly I’d get rid of every single one of those and make everyone use the standard plate
As annoying as I find vanity plates, and I find them pretty annoying, I'm totally on board with letting people pay the state more money so that they can put dumb shit on their car.
Like if a state passed a 100k surcharge per swear word on a license place I'd be a-ok driving behind "FukMgic" or "FkUrMom"
Because now not only do I know they suck as human beings I also know that they donated thousands of dollars for the privilege of advertising they're shitty human beings.
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As I understand it, they currently pay a bit more and the proceeds go towards various charities connected with whatever the thin on the plate is.
Which in theory is not a terrible thing but there are 55 of these special design plates (not counting those that are simply the standard design with a simple indicator for disabled parking or collector vehicle, which I’m fine with because it’s still the easily identifiable standard license plate at its core).
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You might think that his speeding tickets get assigned to NULL in the database and disappear. Instead, what happened is that when a license plate reading is unclear, it gets set to NULL. And since there was now an actual 'NULL' string in the database, all those tickets got sent to him.
Then came the citations. Dozens of them, deposited in bulk to his mailbox. Parking violations, stand-stop violations, fines of $37, $60, $74, $80, from Fresno to Rancho Cucamonga. “I’ve never been to Fresno,” Tartaro says of the California city.
That setup also has a brutal punch line—one that left Tartaro at one point facing $12,049 of traffic fines wrongly sent his way. He’s still not sure if he’ll be able to renew his auto registration this year without paying someone else's tickets. And thanks to the Kafkaesque loop he’s caught in, it’s not clear if the citations will ever stop coming.
You might think that his speeding tickets get assigned to NULL in the database and disappear. Instead, what happened is that when a license plate reading is unclear, it gets set to NULL. And since there was now an actual 'NULL' string in the database, all those tickets got sent to him.
Then came the citations. Dozens of them, deposited in bulk to his mailbox. Parking violations, stand-stop violations, fines of $37, $60, $74, $80, from Fresno to Rancho Cucamonga. “I’ve never been to Fresno,” Tartaro says of the California city.
That setup also has a brutal punch line—one that left Tartaro at one point facing $12,049 of traffic fines wrongly sent his way. He’s still not sure if he’ll be able to renew his auto registration this year without paying someone else's tickets. And thanks to the Kafkaesque loop he’s caught in, it’s not clear if the citations will ever stop coming.
If this is the case I'm thinking of, didn't the courts rule the government needs to fix that?
You might think that his speeding tickets get assigned to NULL in the database and disappear. Instead, what happened is that when a license plate reading is unclear, it gets set to NULL. And since there was now an actual 'NULL' string in the database, all those tickets got sent to him.
Then came the citations. Dozens of them, deposited in bulk to his mailbox. Parking violations, stand-stop violations, fines of $37, $60, $74, $80, from Fresno to Rancho Cucamonga. “I’ve never been to Fresno,” Tartaro says of the California city.
That setup also has a brutal punch line—one that left Tartaro at one point facing $12,049 of traffic fines wrongly sent his way. He’s still not sure if he’ll be able to renew his auto registration this year without paying someone else's tickets. And thanks to the Kafkaesque loop he’s caught in, it’s not clear if the citations will ever stop coming.
If this is the case I'm thinking of, didn't the courts rule the government needs to fix that?
Probably. I haven't followed up on the case. But I think the case is emblematic of the chthonian horrors that most modern government, banking, and insurance systems are built on. I currently work as a Business Intelligence analyst at an insurance company, where my job is to retrieve data from truly ancient systems and present it in an intelligible form for management and customers. I have looked into the abyss and the abyss stared back at me. Things travel between systems as CSV files, where missing data might be denoted as 'Unknown', 'No information', 'NULL', or an empty string. You build code to account for those and pray that nobody invents a new string that breaks your code. The economy of the entire world runs on shit like this.
You might think that his speeding tickets get assigned to NULL in the database and disappear. Instead, what happened is that when a license plate reading is unclear, it gets set to NULL. And since there was now an actual 'NULL' string in the database, all those tickets got sent to him.
Then came the citations. Dozens of them, deposited in bulk to his mailbox. Parking violations, stand-stop violations, fines of $37, $60, $74, $80, from Fresno to Rancho Cucamonga. “I’ve never been to Fresno,” Tartaro says of the California city.
That setup also has a brutal punch line—one that left Tartaro at one point facing $12,049 of traffic fines wrongly sent his way. He’s still not sure if he’ll be able to renew his auto registration this year without paying someone else's tickets. And thanks to the Kafkaesque loop he’s caught in, it’s not clear if the citations will ever stop coming.
If this is the case I'm thinking of, didn't the courts rule the government needs to fix that?
Yeah he actually sued and won. All the tickets were dropped and he got a bunch of money for being harassed by the government.
You might think that his speeding tickets get assigned to NULL in the database and disappear. Instead, what happened is that when a license plate reading is unclear, it gets set to NULL. And since there was now an actual 'NULL' string in the database, all those tickets got sent to him.
Then came the citations. Dozens of them, deposited in bulk to his mailbox. Parking violations, stand-stop violations, fines of $37, $60, $74, $80, from Fresno to Rancho Cucamonga. “I’ve never been to Fresno,” Tartaro says of the California city.
That setup also has a brutal punch line—one that left Tartaro at one point facing $12,049 of traffic fines wrongly sent his way. He’s still not sure if he’ll be able to renew his auto registration this year without paying someone else's tickets. And thanks to the Kafkaesque loop he’s caught in, it’s not clear if the citations will ever stop coming.
If this is the case I'm thinking of, didn't the courts rule the government needs to fix that?
Probably. I haven't followed up on the case. But I think the case is emblematic of the chthonian horrors that most modern government, banking, and insurance systems are built on. I currently work as a Business Intelligence analyst at an insurance company, where my job is to retrieve data from truly ancient systems and present it in an intelligible form for management and customers. I have looked into the abyss and the abyss stared back at me. Things travel between systems as CSV files, where missing data might be denoted as 'Unknown', 'No information', 'NULL', or an empty string. You build code to account for those and pray that nobody invents a new string that breaks your code. The economy of the entire world runs on shit like this.
When I worked at the bank we had tons of records that technically all existed in accordance with regulation. Whether we could even find a computer to read those records was an issue no one had any interest in bothering with on the assumption it would hopefully never come up.
Considering that the guy picked NULL in a foolhardy attempt to dodge fines&fees I don't have a lot of sympathy for his plight. I might even call it karma.
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They aren't actually pets ("constitutional sheriffs" like to just bring their dog to work but it's not exactly normal), what I mean by "basically pets," is that K9s generally live with their handlers and while many (not all and barely most) states require police dogs to be certified, few if any require them to ever be recertified. Ongoing training gets neglected and the trained police behaviors start getting replaced with pet behaviors. So you have K9s who chase animals, alert on random interesting smells, or get defensive in situations where they shouldn't.
Drug checks are, as I said, the biggest symptom of this - once upon a time, drug sniffing was criticized for having accuracies barely over 50%. Those were innocent times, as the best tests in the last 30 years have found accuracies barely over 40%, and tests in some states have found rates as low as 5%.
https://www.popsci.com/you-can-taste-garlic-with-your-feet/
Meanwhile the usual suspects on SCOTUS have ruled that you aren't allowed to ever challenge a dogs accuracy.
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No, the gone right is that some idiot eventually will.
Next to the sun-your-taint challenge will be the dip-your-balls-into-ghost-pepper-sauce. I still don't see how this could go wrong. This is all good news gone good.
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I've already seen someone deliberately rub powdered Carolina reaper into their eyesv immediately after snorting it so it's not a far stretch
WTF
I've seen that video. He also vaped a bunch of it. I'm pretty sure that guy isn't quite right in the head.
I have a Carolina Reaper paste a friend gave me.
I don't care what you think your tolerance is for spicy food, that stuff it to be handled with respect.
The gone right is that the paramedics now have a new story to tell at the pub after hours.
No joke this is hospitalization-levels of pain. How did they end up?
Hot peppers being a nicely compartmentalized method of 'look what I can do!/ B U tuffs enuff?'
No clue. I don't even remember why I watched the video, but the dude vaped it, snorted it, then rubbed it into his eyes. It was bizarre to watch.
BME Pain Olympics for the squeamish.
Edit: If you don't know what that is for the love of God DO NOT GOOGLE IT.
*usually because I've been chopping the chillies and accidentally touched my face. Then assumed the tingling was due to an eyelash in my eye and gone to brush it out without thinking to wash my hands first.
Powders probably going to be worse, and I'm not saying the experience was particularly pleasant but wouldn't say it's hospital level pain.
**Komodo dragon chillis, which aren't great - they're very hot but also just really peppery (like an extreme scotch bonnet) and Bedfordshire Super Nagas which are really nice. They've got a really strong fruity flavour and a hint of smokiness that still comes through even after you've added a bit of cream or coconut milk to tone down the madness of the heat. That said, both taste better than they look when we're talking this up-close.
Even at half the strength, getting something like that in my eyes (or mouth)... *insert nopenopenope gif*
Then again, stuff with habenero peppers is usually my line of 'this has stopped being delicious and now is just unenjoyable.'
Some people apparently enjoy using tear gas as a condiment.
I'm hoping you've at least learned to wash your hands well after cooking with them before you have to go to the bathroom.
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And he only ever did that once, because his hands did not appreciate the pseudo chemical burns all night long
Could bring back license plate spotting as a game for road trips
Spot the meme car!
Easy license plate identification is necessary and important. Adding a bunch of superfluous, ambiguous signals makes everyone's life harder for absolutely no benefit. And if you're running out of plates, then there's no way that adding a smiley face vs. a winky face is a better solution for accuracy and accounting than just adding more alphanumeric characters until you get to a ridiculous string length like 20 characters.
Eh, it's not part of the actual license string, just arbitrary decoration. As such, it's not that much worse than anything on this page:
https://www.dol.wa.gov/vehicleregistration/specialdesign.html
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Ah, I see. Well, that makes a lot more sense, then. Still pretty stupid IMHO but whatever, it's not American government if you can't try to find a way to fuck it up in an attempt to be like a corporation and make a quick buck.
Some real stupid shit gets brought up here in Vermont, but the Senate and House did just pass paid family leave for parents and family care.
I mean, it probably won't get approved by our republican governor (ugh) but at least it's getting there.
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As annoying as I find vanity plates, and I find them pretty annoying, I'm totally on board with letting people pay the state more money so that they can put dumb shit on their car.
Like if a state passed a 100k surcharge per swear word on a license place I'd be a-ok driving behind "FukMgic" or "FkUrMom"
Because now not only do I know they suck as human beings I also know that they donated thousands of dollars for the privilege of advertising they're shitty human beings.
Which in theory is not a terrible thing but there are 55 of these special design plates (not counting those that are simply the standard design with a simple indicator for disabled parking or collector vehicle, which I’m fine with because it’s still the easily identifiable standard license plate at its core).
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
You might think that his speeding tickets get assigned to NULL in the database and disappear. Instead, what happened is that when a license plate reading is unclear, it gets set to NULL. And since there was now an actual 'NULL' string in the database, all those tickets got sent to him.
If this is the case I'm thinking of, didn't the courts rule the government needs to fix that?
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Probably. I haven't followed up on the case. But I think the case is emblematic of the chthonian horrors that most modern government, banking, and insurance systems are built on. I currently work as a Business Intelligence analyst at an insurance company, where my job is to retrieve data from truly ancient systems and present it in an intelligible form for management and customers. I have looked into the abyss and the abyss stared back at me. Things travel between systems as CSV files, where missing data might be denoted as 'Unknown', 'No information', 'NULL', or an empty string. You build code to account for those and pray that nobody invents a new string that breaks your code. The economy of the entire world runs on shit like this.
Yeah he actually sued and won. All the tickets were dropped and he got a bunch of money for being harassed by the government.
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