I used to have a fun novelty plate when I lived in California, but when it came time to get new ones, I went with the most boring, plain plate I could.
With how many crazy assholes there are on the road these days, anything I can do to promote my own inconspicuousness is something I'll do. No bumper stickers, no cute plate frames, nothing. When I'm not carrying skis, the rack comes off
Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates
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Re: Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates
#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
ØØ7 Don't forget that the cost is not only the bureaucratic fee; you also have to buy a vintage Aston Martin or Lotus, to display the plate.
While clever, as a Scandinavian I regret to inform you that I would read that as: Uh Uh Seven, not (double) Oh Seven ;)
a money-saver! uh uh seven belongs on a vintage Ford Pinto!
Re: Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates
#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
they shouldnt be paid at all. they're in prison for a reason. they have a debt to society. a great many of those people didnt do 'one bad thing' then got caught. it was just the last bad thing they were caught for. any many of them did 'the bad thing', then continued doing other bad things up until the point they were put in prison.
> they're in prison for a reason. Often that reason is "too poor to afford proper representation" or "looked vaguely like the actual criminal" or "took a plea bargain because the justice system was threatening them with an immorally-long wait for a trial and a likely worse outcome".
That doesn't justify ignoring our established punishments. Good luck with a system that sets everyone free just in case.
Re: Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates
#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
Different scenario but it reminds me of when Missouri prosecuted a reporter who found that teacher's SSN numbers were exposed in the HTML of a webpage > "Parson described the journalist as a “perpetrator” who “took the records of at least three educators, decoded the HTML source code, and viewed the Social Security number of those specific educators” in an “attempt to steal personal information and harm Missourians.”…
Isn't html copyrightable and thus it is a publication? (And thus exposed by the author). Or am I in the wrong ballpark here?
What makes something a publication is the act of publishing, not the format that it takes.¹ Copyright is implicitly granted at publication² although registration is required in order to sue for infringement.³
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1. Within some limitations: certain types of creative works, most notably typefaces, are excluded from copyright law, although it was determined that digital font files that describe the outlines of the characters are programs and thus eligible for copyright. Bitmap font files on the other hand, as an expression of a typeface design are not eligible for copyright.
2. Although works created by federal employees as part of their job are explicitly excluded from copyright protection.
3. Note though, that the timing of the registration impacts what you can sue for. If registration takes place after the infringement you can only sue for actual damages, but if it takes place before the infringement you can sue for punitive damages.⁴
4. I should add the obligatory disclaimers that all of the above only describes US copyright law and also I’m not a lawyer (although I did used to watch Law and Order a lot) so everything in this comment could quite likely be completely wrong.
Re: Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates
#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
Isn’t there an xkcd abut a license plate of zeros an Os and ones and LS and the cops just say “it’s the guy with the plate again”.
https://xkcd.com/1105/
That plate wouldn’t be allowed in Illinois where there is a hard requirement that all digits follow any letters on the plate.¹ The thing that I find mystifying is that they charge more for a vanity plate that’s all letters than one that’s letters and digits.
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1. Although some specialty plates end up having suffixed letters, usually shown on the plate stacked.
Re: Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates
#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
> they're in prison for a reason. Often that reason is "too poor to afford proper representation" or "looked vaguely like the actual criminal" or "took a plea bargain because the justice system was threatening them with an immorally-long wait for a trial and a likely worse outcome".
That doesn't justify ignoring our established punishments. Good luck with a system that sets everyone free just in case .
Where in the world did I imply that?
Re: Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates
#157> Most people never think twice about the random mix of letters and numbers the DMV assigns them. I started thinking about it when someone parked next to me in a nearly-identical model - same brand, year, etc, the only difference was some roof accessory - and a nearly identical license plate. (Think ABC D12 and ABC E12). I started trying to open their car door, and was confused until I noticed some things in their fr…
When you realize the total combos of car key possibilities, you have a decent chance your key would work, too!
Back in the 90s, I was on a trip and ended up parked next to a car which had a car alarm that responded to the key fob for my car alarm. It was very disconcerting.
Re: Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates
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When you realize the total combos of car key possibilities, you have a decent chance your key would work, too!
I borrowed my friend's Prius once and accidentally opened the door to the wrong one and got in for a second before slowly realizing things felt off.
Around 2009ish I parked our dark grey Prius next to another dark grey Prius while going to the Beverly Hills Farmers’ Market and when I came back to the car, there was a third dark grey Prius parked next to the two original dark grey Priuses.
Re: Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates
#159Hehe, I do a similar thing for phone numbers and I got real good ones almost for free :)
phone numbers seem risky, years back I got randomly assigned a "cool" number (I think it ended with 8888 or something) and it seems it was on all possible fax spam lists, constant calls all hours of the day and the night, had to change it asap.
My then-fiancée had a cell number that ended with 5 zeroes and a 1 and she got many wrong number calls from people who were trying to reach numbers that ended with 0-001x
Re: Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates
#160I’m boring. The process for us was: Wifey and I thought of cool names, went to register with our shortlist written on paper, most didn’t work, until one did. Though now we’re considering dropping it because it costs too much.