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My buddy is a (retired) partner in one of the major UK law firms so he regards that sort of thing as routine.
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The laws of physics including F=M*A do not change for automobiles with gaudy paint jobs.
I doubt the police academy provides significant training on that.
They keep their secret magnificently.
I have & use the Sony version of that.
It's fine for point & shoot snaps.
It's got both mechanical, and electronic image stabilization.
The benefit of resolutions above UHD is:
after the photograph has been taken, if there's a detail that needs clarification,
simply zooming in on it can resolve it.
I'm puzzled that dashcams don't already have license plate reader technology built in.
Most citizens don't have access to State DMV records, and so a license plate number would
mainly be of utility to the police. BUT !
The police can't search a license plate number they don't have.
Perhaps they have a stronger reverence for law in the UK than we do in "the land of the free, and the home of the brave".
My local law court displayed this sign on a shelf in front of the bench where the justice of the peace holds court.
There's a standard government form for such FOIL requests.
I requested a duplicate of a specific digital recording, specifying the precise date on the FOIL request form.
Request denied.
Instead the law judge offered some vague suggestion about how to make arrangements with the ADA to have the recording professionally transcribed by a licensed operator.
I didn't request a transcript. I requested a duplicate of the recording.
Request denied.
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It's comforting to know dysfunction is local, and not universal.
Perhaps his law firm £greases a few palms.
Sadly, for all its charm, the State of New York is as crooked as a timber hitch.
I think that the cost of license plate reader technology is much more expensive than people would realize.
I believe it would require the addition of a CPU, memory, etc., costing over another $100.
There must be more than one reason for consumers / drivers to purchase / install dash-cams in their cars.
BUT !
One plausible if not popular reason, for forensic evidence in case of trouble, collision for obvious example.
"Hit-&-run" may be a subset of such collisions, but may disproportionately represent purchaser incentive.
I'm paying over $500 / year for liability insurance. The car is a 2016, so that's $5K down the tube.
Whereas, the consumer pays ~$100 up front, and then only has to pay $1.oo / year for the gasoline to charge the battery to operate the camera.
A dash-cam is insurance.
And a dash-cam with license plate read technology is deluxe insurance, and a bargain for a one-time cost of a few $hundred, camera + LRT.
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The White House just released an official government report, and among the threats to America it identified: Mickey Mouse and a room full of drag queens.
The report, titled "Saving America's Story," went after the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History over the weekend, accusing its Entertainment Nation wing of pushing "radical, activist ideology."
One of the offenses cited was a wall placard noting that Mickey Mouse's original 1928 design borrowed from blackface minstrelsy - a documented piece of animation history that scholars have written about for decades.
The part that lands closest to home is the gay one. The report flagged video clips of drag queens as inappropriate for young children, and singled out an entire exhibit called "Illegal to Be You: Gay History Beyond Stonewall," down to a harness on display inside it. An exhibit about the years when being gay was a crime is now being treated as one.
The Smithsonian's answer was short. For more than 180 years, it said, it has served the public with nonpartisan, independent scholarship, and it intends to keep doing exactly that. The mouse can wait.
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What is the White House going to try to shut down next?
Maybe this?
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Back to Texas where David Barton is actually a consultant for the State Board of Education
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Christian Nationalist activist Tim Barton claimed an early American preacher inspired the Declaration of Independence by using language about “inalienable rights.” Just one problem: The quote Barton...
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Manhattan high-rise evacuated as officials warn of potential collapse
authorities received reports of falling bricksBy James Cirrone Fox News / Updated July 7, 2026 11:05am EDT
Authorities evacuated a high-rise near Grand Central Terminal after officials warned the building could be at risk of collapse.
Officials with the New York Fire Department said they received a call at 7:57am about falling bricks at 235 East 42nd Street between 2nd Avenue and 3rd Avenue.
Rubble before Monday the 13th?
Back to Texas where David Barton is actually a consultant for the State Board of Education
15K views · 5.9K reactions | Christian Nationalist activist Tim Barton claimed an early American preacher inspired the Declaration of Independence by using language about “inalienable rights.” Just one problem: The quote Barton cited doesn’t appear i
Christian Nationalist activist Tim Barton claimed an early American preacher inspired the Declaration of Independence by using language about “inalienable rights.” Just one problem: The quote Barton...
I do not mind people bringing up religion when it comes to "inalienable rights" because they have to come from somewhere.
But I personally believe they came from evolution.
Manhattan high-rise evacuated as officials warn of potential collapse
authorities received reports of falling bricks
By James Cirrone Fox News / Updated July 7, 2026 11:05am EDT
Authorities evacuated a high-rise near Grand Central Terminal after officials warned the building could be at risk of collapse.
Officials with the New York Fire Department said they received a call at 7:57am about falling bricks at 235 East 42nd Street between 2nd Avenue and 3rd Avenue.
Rubble before Monday the 13th?
They said the pillar buckle is between 21 and 26 story, so they could just top it off lower.
That would leave less weight below, even if that were badly done in the first place.
The components of an I-beam are "web" & "flange".
It's labor intensive. But I've seen I-beams reinforced in situ by welding reinforcing plates to the flanges.
BUT that elevates renovation costs to near demolition costs.
I'm puzzled about why the structural failure is so far above ground.
There are I-beams on the lower floors that support multiples of the weight that buckled the beams above.
This suggests a materials issue, perhaps an engineering deficiency.
Not clear to me why the structure would survive occupation, but not renovation. Heavy equipment? Vibration?
I am not sure, but I think the greatest stress is always in the middle, between the stationary bottom foundation and the top oscillating in the wind?
I would not trust any of the beams at or above the buckle, since they could all have experienced fatigue that can not be seen.
I would only trust the beams below the buckle if the weight were greatly reduced.
Excellent.
I hadn't thought of that, but should have, although
the few pics I've seen suggest the failed I-beams were forced to bow out of the compression axis.
Thanks for that one R5.
I wouldn't trust any below.
When the cascade failures collapsed the World Trade Center towers the floors above the conflagration rode the rest of the building to the ground.
This site has a good video of more detail, and we can see that instead of residents, it was construction workers who were forced out.
https://pix11.com/news/columns-buck...t=newsletter&user_id=66c4c2e3600ae1507591628f
Which means that after Pfizer left the building in 2018, the new owner must have decided to add floors?
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You can't DOGE your way out of science
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The current surge in “explosive diarrhea” cases across the U.S. is linked to cyclosporiasis, a parasitic illness caused by Cyclospora cayetanensis. This parasite spreads when people eat or drink food or water contaminated with feces, often from contaminated fresh produce International Business Times Singapore+1.Why the Source Is Still Unknown
Public health investigators have not yet identified a single, specific food, grower, or supplier responsible for the outbreak. Several factors make this difficult:- Complex genetics: Unlike bacteria such as E. coli or Salmonella, Cyclospora has a more complex genetic makeup, making it harder to link cases to a common food source using DNA fingerprinting tools like PulseNet www.healthandme.com.
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- Seasonal and variable patterns: Cyclosporiasis is seasonal (May–August) and can occur in people who have not traveled abroad, which complicates outbreak tracing TIME+1.
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'Smaller than the tiniest scale in nature': Physicists made a black hole out of light and used it to test S...
Andrey Feldman / Wed, July 15, 2026 at 12:41 PM GMT-5
An illustration of particles whizzing away from a black hole. New research offers insights into Hawking radiation, the process by which select particles are able to escape a black hole's pull.
Physicists have coaxed a black hole's most famous glow out of a strand of optical fiber and, for the first time, watched that light react back on the simulated black hole that produced it.
The result gives researchers a rare, hands-on look at Hawking radiation — the faint thermal emission that Stephen Hawking predicted should leak out of black holes — and offers a first clue about the tiny push that could, in principle, make a real black hole slowly evaporate, the research team said in a new study.
Working with a tabletop experiment in optical fibers, the international team detected both the radiation and its long-sought "back reaction" — the way the radiation feeds energy back and reshapes the object that created it.
According to the new study, published July 1 in the journal Nature, the light behaved exactly as Hawking predicted it should: like the glow of a warm object, with a definite temperature and a spectrum that fades away steadily toward higher frequencies. It did so even in a regime where the usual textbook description of a black hole should break down.
An infographic explaining how Hawking radiation works, contrary to the predictions of general relativity. | Credit: ALAIN BOMMENEL,VALENTINA BRESCHI,WILLIAM ICKES via Getty Images
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Andrey Feldman / Wed, July 15, 2026 at 12:41 PM GMT-5
An illustration of particles whizzing away from a black hole. New research offers insights into Hawking radiation, the process by which select particles are able to escape a black hole's pull.
Physicists have coaxed a black hole's most famous glow out of a strand of optical fiber and, for the first time, watched that light react back on the simulated black hole that produced it.
The result gives researchers a rare, hands-on look at Hawking radiation — the faint thermal emission that Stephen Hawking predicted should leak out of black holes — and offers a first clue about the tiny push that could, in principle, make a real black hole slowly evaporate, the research team said in a new study.
Working with a tabletop experiment in optical fibers, the international team detected both the radiation and its long-sought "back reaction" — the way the radiation feeds energy back and reshapes the object that created it.
According to the new study, published July 1 in the journal Nature, the light behaved exactly as Hawking predicted it should: like the glow of a warm object, with a definite temperature and a spectrum that fades away steadily toward higher frequencies. It did so even in a regime where the usual textbook description of a black hole should break down.
An infographic explaining how Hawking radiation works, contrary to the predictions of general relativity. | Credit: ALAIN BOMMENEL,VALENTINA BRESCHI,WILLIAM ICKES via Getty Images
Where three great theories collide
Hawking radiation is famous because it sits at the crossroads of physics' biggest ideas.'Smaller than the tiniest scale in nature': Physicists made a black hole out of light and used it to test S...
Scientists made a breakthrough discovery about the physics of Hawking radiation by making a miniature black hole out of light in the laboratory.
Is Kimmel missing his own show because of TBdp?
Galloping on the porcelain bronco?
Any point in connecting the dots to DOGE here?
Seems cyclosporiasis is getting more publicity
than all Trump sons combined.
The attraction differential is unmistakable,
appears to be a determining factor.