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God, I can just see the wet dreams of an advertising exec now. If an australian bloke can replicate million dollar systems with $100, the advertising companies can surely wank out the money for license plate readers a quarter mile ahead of their billboard with good identification. The new electronic billboards already switch what ad they're showing every half minute or so now, and I bet they could do what ze big boiz do with the auctioning of ads.

I think right now most of the US doesn't allow random API access to license plate and registration data, but I really have no idea... How much do you think companies would ~~bribe~~ pay for some laws to be changed about that?

The way you word things matters. How many polls have shown the difference in opinion on 'obamacare' compared to 'affordable care act?'

But a subpoena is a not a thing cops do. They do not issue or execute subpoenas.

Eh, sort of. In an investigation, the cops (usually a detective/investigator since this doesn't involve street-level stuff) are using something called a grand jury subpoena. It's not the same thing as a subpoena issued by a court (which, by the way, are often executed by cops... usually something like a constable or marshal's office that works directly with the court). The cop types up the subpoena, which is usually incredibly basic and just says who the subpoena is for, what they want, and what the charge is or may be, and then brings it to the district attorney. The district attorney signs off on it, and afterwards the cop sends it off to the company (and it's 99.999% of the time a company, because the legalities about your dealings with a business make it much easier to obtain the information than other things in your life, meaning it 'bypasses' the legal rulings about searches). No judge involvement is necessary for these types of subpoenas.

Working from my memory, I can also sort of recall that the 'date' listed on those subpoenas isn't really tied to a specific court date either. The stock forms I remember the cops using just said that they gave the company a time limit of 'X.' I'd have to see the specific paperwork that was filed in order to say whether the prosecution truly overstepped themselves into illegal/unethical behavior.

Sort of like the natchez-trace highway in the south. It's got a speed limit of something like 50mph, and the cops loooove to sit on it. I want to do an ironbutt on it with my scooter, but that requires a 46.something average speed. There's a challenge there that I just love.

I'm jealous that you can put your hair up like that. Mine would tie itself in about 20 interesting knots and stay that way :D

I think 3 of the dozen or so public schools around where I grew up had uniforms (lucky me, I went to one of them, ugh), while every private school (90% of which were some flavor of christian) had them. Most were more along the lines of 'dress code' than uniform though. I'm remembering khaki pants and bland colored polos more so than the blazer/tie/coat thing. It's probably because it's hot as balls on leather in the sun around here, so anything more than that would be killing kids or the AC budget.

DAmnit! I thought my wildly eclectic bright red underwear with zippered pockets let me be queer enough in my sea of solid colored maroon/black/blue/and-the-one-odd-blue/green/brown/maroon-camo underoos. Now you're telling me I have to get a partner with drawings/designs?

Uh... is there something coming out of the bottom of that horse?

The 2000s were the height? You're at least a decade off: https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/mcmartin-preschool and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-care_sex-abuse_hysteria and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_panic

I personally remember my brother being forced to destroy his gold cartridge Ocarina of Time when my mother heard/thought it was pagan witchcraft. She watched him do it and claimed she saw green fire/smoke blaze up from it and claimed that it was the devil that had been inside. So that was the later 90s, I guess.

I seem to recall the .xxx going live/large-time in the late 00s era. There was an article series in the newspaper about my area's colleges all suing to gain control of the (college name).xxx sites.

The acreage per cow is very dependent on where you are. I have a friend with a mother who just wanted to raise cows in her retirement (and reap the sweet tax breaks of having a 'ranch'), and they support roughly 1 cow per acre with slight supplementation of food cubes during the winter. Go out to someplace that's famous for cattle like west texas, and suddenly it's a lot less,but they have so much range out there that they can let the cows go nuts.

Damn, you better stick that back in, or some anime character is going to have a completely different first episode ending.