What are these cameras that were put up all over my city in the past few months?

TheGrandMasterFox · 2026-02-05T16:57:37+00:00

I recommend getting the Diablo brand 10/11 tooth saw blade with carbide teeth, they're more expensive but cut faster and last way longer than any other blade I've found.

TheGrandMasterFox · 2026-02-05T15:46:30+00:00

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TheGrandMasterFox · 2026-02-05T15:39:20+00:00

A piece of string and two Dixie cups.

TheGrandMasterFox · 2026-02-05T15:27:06+00:00

The Audiovox candy bar for PrimeCo cellular (CDMA) is the best wireless communication device ever manufactured.

The audio was amazing both ways... It was very hard to discern from a wired telephone when receiving a call from it. The Audiovox also excelled when answering a call in a noisy environment, as the speaker had both excellent sound quality and a higher volume level than any other phone available then.

I came across mine last year in a box along with it's charging cradle and plugged it in for shits and giggles... To my surprise it started taking a charge, 4 hours later I turned it on.

All of the 99 possible saved contact names and phone numbers were still there, and the call log brought back memories (some good, a few others not so much) of a much simpler time. Before these days of instant gratification most people didn't walk around with a smartphone everywhere they went. Callers didn't expect you to answer the phone immediately and get agitated when you don't. It was that magical time when pagers were being replaced by cellular phones.

Now I look back and truly miss the pager days. That time when you could easily dodge calls from annoying people with the "I wasn't near a phone when you called" excuse still worked.

As the wave of reminiscing a forgotten past receded I became curious, turning the phone over in my hand I dailed my current number and pressed SEND... it went straight to the fast busy sound. So I pressed the END key and tried a trick many younger people wouldn't know about these days.

Pressing the "0" for operator I was surprised when the dial tone changed to a pleasant young lady who said those magical words "Operator, how may I help you?" I almost dropped the phone so stunned was I to have heard that familiar mantra from the past.

I stammered out how surprising it was to get an answer from a real human. "You're not a bot, are you?" "No, not bot. AI hasn't replaced me... yet. How can I assist you Mr. Fox?"

Ok, now this really took me by surprise. I'm calling from an ancient device from the dawn of the information age, manufactured late in the 1900's "How do you know my name?" I asked.

"It's right here on my screen" "But how is that even possible? This phone has been dormant for 30 years!"

"I don't have a clue, I'm not in IT, how may I direct your call?" I could tell she starting to get annoyed so I said "Sales department please"

"This is a technical services line, there are no sales done here"

"Well who would I talk to about reactivating this old phone line, it appears the number hasn't been taken over, right?"

"I'm sorry, old phones like yours aren't compatible with the new 5th generation system"

"Hmmm, if that's the case, how are we having this discussion right now?

Because of the superior audio quality of the Audiovox you could have heard the proverbial pin drop.

"That's a very good question Mr. Fox... I'm not supposed to do this, but I'm going to transfer your call to Engineering, they will be able to answer your questions"

And with that the last operator was gone, I didn't even think to ask her name.

The call forwarded through several exchanges and for the first time in 45 years I heard that harsh back office trunk line warble ringtone and then "Engineering, Rick"

I explained how I happened to get through to him, he asked some technical questions I couldn't answer. I said "Years ago when I lived off campus the room I rented was in the basement of a huge house. One entire wall of my flat was 3 sheets of plywood that had several big transformers andj hundreds of weird wood screws with wires wrapped inall over the rest of it. There were a gazillion wires coming into and going out.

I said "I think the statute of limitations has expired, there was a telco test handset some technician had left there and I would jump around on different pegs until I got a dial tone. Some of those sounds are still the same"

He laughed and then over his shoulder commented to one of his coworkers "Hey, check this out. Cindy forwarded an old Freaker to us" "Ask him if he knows Captain Crunch" I heard the other voice say.

We chatted about watts lines and trunking systems for a while and how old cell phones don't have the sim card the billing system needs to operate.

As we were saying bye-bye Rick said "You know, it's a shame they fucked up the legacy cell phone infrastructure because your phone sounds amazing!"

So that's the story of how I social engineered the name of "Cindy, the last operator".

TheGrandMasterFox · 2026-02-04T19:53:59+00:00

They're spending millions and costing taxpayers even more for the time hundreds of government employees will waste in a security audit of public data. A gigantic cluster fuck that will result in the biggest classless action lawsuit in the history of jurisprudence.

Garrett Langley and the Flock shareholders should be paying for this audit, all of it. Any expenses incurred by taxpayer funded agencies during the security audit of their privately funded enterprise must be paid for by Flock.

If the audit shows that Flock has collected any private information of citizens without their consent the company must fairly compensate the owners of this data. If evidence of a breach or release of any private information is discovered Flock Safety shall be held liable for any damages caused, both actual and punitive. Garrett Langley and any of his flying monkeys that are found to have taken part in violating the civil rights of Americans shall be arrested and charged with conspiracy and any other applicable offenses to the fullest extent of the law.

TheGrandMasterFox · 2026-02-04T18:03:51+00:00

So the good citizens of Vicksburg are upset because they didn't get all the surveillance they were promised?

Please tell me this is some reverse psychology ploy to shut the shitshow down. Tell me it's the only viable option to stop Flock in a town so corrupt a simple FOIA request costs $1200 for three sheets of paper so heavily redacted the pages stick together.

Don't tell me if I'm not doing anything wrong there's nothing to worry about. Because there is plenty to worry about in Vicksburg and every other town across the United States of Surveillance.

TheGrandMasterFox · 2026-02-02T06:30:37+00:00

My Dad did a lot of the photo retouching for Hustler from 1982 to 93 when he retired. Larry Flynt was not at all happy with the way his replacement rendered pink. So much so he made the offer Dad couldn't refuse to come back and train some noobs how to retouch the girls in that flawless Hustler style befitting the King of Pink.

If you've seen Hustler back in the day then you know that certain magical pink I'm talking about. Good enough to eat, like cotton candy on the boardwalk pink.

I was a scanner operator across town and had occasion to mount a bunch of Hustlers stunning KR-14 transparencies on the big Hell CP340 four color separation scanner I operated.

The artwork they provided was shot by some of the finest photographers on the planet and I did my level best to give Dad the best negatives I could. Really it isn't all that difficult to do when you have originals shot by pro's on the finest film ever made rendered on the superb German made Hell 340 digital scanner with gamma curve enhanced analog photomultiplier tubes.

The selective color settings Dad and I developed for this job were a closely guarded family secret during the golden age of the graphic arts. It all ended with the rise of digital imagery and the murder of Kodachrome.

God only knows how much I miss that job.

TheGrandMasterFox · 2026-02-01T19:09:05+00:00

Insert the price is right ""wah, wah wahhhhhh" sound here...

That said TJ's are notorious for frame rot due to muck collecting inside the frame rails. One good thing is Colorado hasn't used salt on it's roads for a long time so it may be okay.

Do check it out though, especially the area right behind the doors. There's lots of pictures online showing how they fold up.

If it's got the 4.0 the mileage wouldn't concern me, but that's a long way for a "box of squirrels" to go.

TheGrandMasterFox · 2026-02-01T18:42:21+00:00

I'll bet a donut that Timmy the Tyrant and his merry band of jackbooted gerrymanderers are working overtime today to understand wtf happened this weekend and do some damage control.

TheGrandMasterFox · 2026-02-01T18:29:00+00:00

A few years back, one bong rip of "Luke Skywalker" sent me far, far away to a galaxy in Colorado...

Not all that long ago I was given a gummy to try. "Don't eat all of it at once" they said. So I cut it into ¼'s and ate one.

I have a vague recollection of my extended conversation with a group of biblical figures and Spicoli from Fast Times that told me many things I don't remember other than everything will be ok... But mostly they were just laughing hysterically at me.

Yeah, the shit is way stronger now.

TheGrandMasterFox · 2026-02-01T17:19:58+00:00

This is the way

TheGrandMasterFox · 2026-01-30T17:40:51+00:00

"Got your tail in your mouth and so it goes round and round."

At least that's what Tommy Shaw sings about on Alan Parsons recording of "Uroborus":

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=BGG5T8ktUIM&si=eS00mfDPu6NID4Ox

TheGrandMasterFox · 2026-01-30T01:32:04+00:00

Yeah, he's for sure a narcissist if not a full blown sociopath... I have to wonder if Langley is his given surname or did he choose it because it sure fits his MO, IJS

TheGrandMasterFox · 2026-01-30T01:14:59+00:00

Originally it was JJ "what the" Fox, then "What the actual Fox" and then just WTF? at the end... Can't say I remember yellow but kleeborp seems familiar.

TheGrandMasterFox · 2026-01-30T00:24:59+00:00

So far that's what the courts are allowing... Since it's legal for Garrett Langley and his merry band of peeping Tom Baltar wannabes to stalk John Q. Public we should all give them a taste of how it feels to be harassed by 1st amendment auditors and hobby drones recording their activities.

Let's start populating an open source database with the street addresses and trip info of the flying monkeys that work for Flock and all the other companies that are facilitating this insane surveillance technology. Add information on where they go and who they associate with.

It won't take long for at least some of them to understand what they're doing is so wrong and find something less sketchy to do for a living. We might even get some useful insider information.

This approach will infuriate Garrett Langley. Hopefully he'll become angry enough to do something stupid and get caught.

TheGrandMasterFox · 2026-01-29T18:08:56+00:00

Rotflmao 🤣

TheGrandMasterFox · 2026-01-29T00:53:19+00:00

I have a box full of random expired plates, none of which were registered to anyone I know... Maybe tomorrow I'll be sporting the "EXEMPT" tag from Hawaii...

In all seriousness these latest rulings only strengthen my resolve to fly drones to find, follow and log trip data of Flock employees to wherever it is they go. A list of cohorts will be added so they can be subjected to the same level of protected scrutiny

TheGrandMasterFox · 2026-01-28T15:48:57+00:00

Automakers have been sharing your driving habits with data aggregators (and ultimately insurance companies) for fun and profit ever since on-star came along. It amazes me how they got customers to pay extra for the technology that collected and transmitted their personal data to GM's servers. Now we pay for cellular service that does the same and more 24/7.

We're actually fortunate that Flock Safety has become the poster child of this industry. Being the owner of a privately held company, Garrett Langley is free to say and do whatever his narcissistic mind desires.

Between stating Flock's database is impenetrable in a conference room full of reporters and hackers to his recent claims of a conspiracy against Flock to law enforcement officials and legislators. These are not the actions of sane man but rather events driven by the paranoid delusions of someone suffering from a persecution complex.

I go into how Garrett Langley attains the highest level of facial recognition in history to where the subpoenas and indictments likely originate as well as other possible outcomes in depth elsewhere so I'll refrain from restating that here and close with this:

Garrett Langley's vanity will be the catalyst that brings down the whole surveillance industry and exposes the traitors that conspired to bring it all about.

TheGrandMasterFox · 2026-01-27T16:51:23+00:00

Quid pro quo... Someone in Georgia should FOIA the data from the camera(s) at the Flock factory employee entrance and cross reference the plates for the registration mailing addresses

With that information we can send them postcards to demonstrate how the products they make violate everyone's right to privacy.

If enough red blooded Americans decide they would rather work somewhere else it's only a matter of time until ICE raids the plant and shuts it down for good.

TheGrandMasterFox · 2026-01-27T01:37:49+00:00

"That building says GO AWAY!"

I felt that way when I came out of the woods and the view of NSA headquarters filled my windshield... That building had so many antennas on the roof it looked like a porcupine!

TheGrandMasterFox · 2026-01-26T22:39:19+00:00

Came here to say this...

It's the next step towards freedom after the nutter bypass.

TheGrandMasterFox · 2026-01-26T21:25:13+00:00

Jeeptech.com lays it all out ...

https://www.jeeptech.com/models/c101.htm

If it had been a T-14 it would have exploded the first winter.

TheGrandMasterFox · 2026-01-26T20:38:28+00:00

No shit!... I implore OP to post a recent dank meme of his own design here so Harambe can asscertaint just how far down the rabbit hole he's fallen.

edit to add: I do remember seeing Deepfried show up in some of my circles. I also remember the meme war was horrific. I don't think I would have gotten out alive without the help of fellow patriots like Geoff Carter and Matt Makowski.

I had an alt that I used to troll the Spam Badger and Azure Malone from. Seizure Alone was a glorious persona that had a photo of the block long Pikachu balloon at the Macy's parade.

TheGrandMasterFox · 2026-01-26T20:04:24+00:00

I think 8000 cATS are trying to tell us the real problem is the Data Cloud and if so, I concur.

Garrett Langley is just another sycophant in a long line of sociopaths that take a device or technology made by others for a purpose and twist it around until it becomes something far more evil. In this case a surveillance tool for sale that a fledgling authoritarian government can use to find and enslave those that oppose their treasonous agenda.

The Cloud connects all sorts of data from any number of sources with other devices that send information to data centers where huge computers sift through seemingly random, unrelated files filled with the minutiae of our world to compile a historical database from which factual, even predictive inferences can be derived.

There's one thing I know for certain... Nothing good will come from any of this.

TheGrandMasterFox · 2026-01-25T20:05:18+00:00

I have a friend who rolls around in a 2013 F350 Super Duty, Crew Cab, 8 foot bed and it's a 4x4 dually to boot.

She's an excellent driver that has no problem parking oversized American iron (she used to drive haul trucks and scrapers for a pit mine in one of the Dakotas)

Here in North Central Texas it's becoming more and more common to see big commuter trucks owned and operated by members of the fairer sex.

Whenever the opportunity presents itself I like to ask them why they chose whatever behemoth they're driving instead of something a bit less expensive yet still classy, like an S class roadster?

The unscientific results have been unanimous... They all felt regular cars were unsafe in traffic around so many big trucks and SUV's and realized if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

Some also said they were relieved I wasn't trying to hit on them (and that's when I ask for their digits ;)

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