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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

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Post by fy20 »

hn_acc1 wrote: post #145
0xffff2 wrote: post #143

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I guess you're in AZ? In CA, the absurd yearly cost is enough to keep me from bothering with anything more than the basic olates.

This. When I moved from Ontario, Canada (where they charge a yearly fee for them), to CA, I was all excited to get a vanity plate - until I saw they also charge a yearly fee.. In the most ironic twist of all - Ontario did away with license plate renewals a few years ago, and now, I would actually consider a vanity plate.. I've always wondered if a regular plate was better for avoiding speeding tickets - a vanity plat…

I had a friend who used to work as a QA for an ANPR parking system. He said that they had to investigate an issue where the car with 11111 kept appearing in the system as unpaid, but at different places across the network at the same time.

The issue turned out to be drain covers in the field of the view of the cameras, which the system was detecting belonged to car 11111.

Re: Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates

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Post by saghm »

MetaWhirledPeas wrote: post #153
macintux wrote: post #68

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> 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 .

Being paid for labor while imprisoned is not anywhere close to being set free.

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Post by wvenable »

consp wrote: post #85
cyral wrote: post #59

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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?

Raw data isn't copyrightable. You can't copyright the contents of phone book, for example.

Re: Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates

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Post by renewiltord »

actionfromafar wrote: post #133
btilly wrote: post #97

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It's called pay-to-stay. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay-to-stay_%28imprisonment%29 for more. This happened in Oregon to my kind of brother in law. (Married to half sister of my half siblings - what do you call that?) He's Native American, so the local police thought that they could target him with a BS charge. They lost. The private jail that he'd been kept in, now that they weren't getting paid by the state,…

And that's Oregon ... there are worse places, too.

Well, the governor of Oregon was a Klansman in the 1920s.

Re: Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates

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Post by kurtis_reed »

qingcharles wrote: post #89
embedding-shape wrote: post #45

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> To be clear, the prisoners aren’t literally forced to do this work. Not 100% true it seems, but happy for someone else to correct me. > Prison labor in the US is mostly optional - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_Stat...

It's technically optional in most institutions, but not practically optional. For instance, a lot of labor can reduce your sentence, can give you better housing and can enable you to afford things on commissary you might need (e.g. phone time, hygiene products etc).

Ok so optional then

Re: Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates

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Post by fleroviumna »

reactordev wrote: post #12
rsstack wrote: post #4

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In New York it's the same, they make the license plates and also school furniture, and maybe other things too. I was scared for a moment when I was told by USPS Informed Delivery that I have incoming mail from Auburn Correctional Facility - but it was a license plate.

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Re: Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates

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Post by ilya_m »

culi wrote: post #108
Svip wrote: post #3

In Denmark, you can buy a vanity plate (ønskenummerplade) for 8'000 DKK (needs renewal every 8 years), and it can be between 2 and 7 characters long; but the best part is that they permit all Danish letters, including Æ, Ø and Å. One could likely write a script quickly to check these platforms for short combinations, such as ØÅ, which appears to be available.

So what happens when ÁÀÂÅÅÀÄ run a red light?

A fine for faking a license plate, may be? ÁÀÂÀÄ are not in the Danish alphabet.

Re: Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates

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Post by 20after4 »

btilly wrote: post #97
HWR_14 wrote: post #94

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Where? I've never heard of that

It's called pay-to-stay. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay-to-stay_%28imprisonment%29 for more. This happened in Oregon to my kind of brother in law. (Married to half sister of my half siblings - what do you call that?) He's Native American, so the local police thought that they could target him with a BS charge. They lost. The private jail that he'd been kept in, now that they weren't getting paid by the state,…

Smells a little bit like the Kids for Cash¹ corruption scandal from a few years ago. Just last year, President Biden commuted the sentence of one of the corrupt judges who had been convicted for sending kids to a private detention center in exchange for kick-backs from the owner of the facility. For some reason presidents love to pardon despicable evil people, way more often than they ever seem to pardon people who genuinely deserve mercy. Trump is the worst offender of all in this regard, it seems like he's selling pardons to anyone who will pay the price²³.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal

2. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/L8oj3-vdJ-8

3. https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2023/05/16/giulian...

Re: Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates

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Post by 7bit »

antonymoose wrote: post #123
pavel_lishin wrote: post #27

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I don't agree with your "slave labor is ok if the slave committed a crime" position, and find it morally indefensible.

Stepping aside the fact that I think most everyone here is playing fast-and-loose with the “slave” terminology here… Why do you feel prisoners doing low wage labor to be wrong? Practically everyone in human history since the dawn of time has had to go out and produce something of value. Why, all of a sudden, should a murderer or rapist get to sit on their ass and consume what we all produce? I find nothing questionab…

I don't think you know what humble job means, and meant to say humiliating pay.
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