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Oh good, even less chance to catch hit and runs. Removing license plates would mean a field day for criminals all to appease a few tinfoil hat wearers.
by seattle_spring 8y ago
Oh good, even less chance to catch hit and runs. Removing license plates would mean a field day for criminals all to appease a few tinfoil hat wearers.
- thinkloop 8y agoImagine having to plate and infringe upon 300+ million people just to appease some hit-and-run foil pants wearers
- acct1771 8y agoTinfoil amplifies signals. That, and "conspiracy theorist", are propaganda terms, and should be rejected.
- chapium 8y agoIf you have the correct vitamin supplements you can dampen your output.
- seattle_spring 8y agoYeah, no. /r/conspiracy has a 1000 comment thread that witchhunts people at my friend's company because it shared an address in SF with some dating site loosely related to Hillary Clinton. People I cared about were literally threatened with their lives.
- acct1771 8y agoEverybody that reads about conspiracies, or discusses conspiracy theory, must be just like those people. ...wow.
- dsfyu404ed 8y agoCriminals already just use stolen cars and/or stolen plates.
- donatj 8y agoI doubt most hit-and-runs are committed in stolen cars.
- DINKDINK 8y agoOh good, even less chance to catch murderers. Removing your citizenArmTattoo[1] would mean a field day for criminals all to appease a few tinfoil hat wearers. How would we ever hold people accountable if every person, every thing isn't tracked, documented, sorted, profiled, and predicted? These privacy advocates really should be called what they are: criminal protectors and that in and of itself should be a crime. Good thing we've been tracking everyone, it'll be really cheap to round them all up. /s [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identification_in_Nazi_concentration_camps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identification_in_Nazi_concent...
- seattle_spring 8y agoYou're comparing licensing multi ton killing machines to tatooing Jews in Nazi Germany? You're actually serious?
- CompanionCuuube 8y agoWhy not? Our cities are built around widespread use of multi ton "killing machines", where walkability is often sacrificed so that cars become the only realistic option.
- dang 8y agoPlease don't do this here.
- yjftsjthsd-h 8y ago> all to appease a few tinfoil hat wearers. Straw manning does not make your position look stronger. Privacy is a valid concern.
- dang 8y agoYour comments in this thread broke the site guidelines. Could you please review and follow them when posting here? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Note, in particular, "Don't be snarky" and "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith." Also the one against calling names (such as "tinfoil hat wearers").
- seattle_spring 8y agoUnderstood regarding name calling, but the other guy literally cited a wikipedia article on Nazi Concentration Camps to corroborate what he was talking about. How did I in that case did I respond to a "weaker interpretation that was easier to criticize"?