WHERE WAS LEONARDO THEN?

Hey, Boo Spinner here with a question. Yeah! The one in the title.

You know I am usually telling you about things you probably have not thought about yet. For example. The traffic signal camera is quick but software is quicker. So, is GOV software telling the camera to venture beyond telling the signal to change colors? Beyond visual doppling to check your speed?

Is the traffic control cam looking farther and wider than we thought? Is evil GOV software telling it to do naughties? What if it catches a car shot of your mammary mountains in the hands of your neighbor while peeking inside your car? Could those shots be siphoned off for avocational GOV worker exploitation?

Could such software be called among the knowing something salacious like "Software Bits for Software Tits?" Imagine the possibilities! Hubby is sitting there supposedly doing the bills on the home office PC. But he has learned about multitasking. Could Hubby Tubby be doing both the Bills and Lils? Is he watching something like INVASION OF PRIVACY on pornagain.com? Whammo! mama's mams make a movie clip! A chuckle and a buck for the GOV programmer.

OK, THAT'S THE STUFF I AM NORMALLY ASKING ABOUT.

But today I was watching Leonardo DiCaprio's little movie about saving planet earth.

A pet peeve jumped up and demanded to be petted. Almost everything in the news now is about global warming, over consumption of fossil fuels and fast food spilling the beans about how much those fishy smelling BASS 'TARDS in polly ticks running criminal get rich schemes lied to us so much about global warming that now both global warming and the lying about it are vying for Font Size Championships in all the news headlines.

And every celebrity is trying to one up every other celebrity to see who can do the most Hang Haliburton and Save the Good Ship Earth stuff.

Don't get me wrong. It is so refreshing not to hear what master political analyst Bill O'Reilly is yelling about. It seems like just yesterday he was an entertainment reporter with Debra Norville. And where is Rush. With the change in the weather will a deluge of proof come that Rush (where did he get that name?) is, after all, a bigger, fatter idiot than Al Frankin said he was?

Don't get me wrong. I love Leonardo and, truth be told, he has been fighting evil longer than most.

BUT HERE IS MY BIG QUESTION.

WHERE THE HELP WERE ALL THESE SAVE THE WORLD PEOPLE, ALL THESE DO-GOODERS, WHILE BUSHLET AND BUDS WERE HAVING A YUGOSLAVIAN FREE REIGN RAPING TRUTH, AS DOLLY POLLY TICKS SAYS IN HER BLOG ?

This administration ran amok the last decade not just trying to destroy the earth but trying harder to destroy its inhabitants, no matter the color of their passports.

NOBODY SAID ANYTHING!

What real news got to the public got there via sites like those linked to by ourSLOdotcom.

So, to take advantage of this stand and deliver opportunity to utilize a survey, let me put it to you.

Why did we get so little truthful news the past decade?

Now, I am expecting to see in a moment a way to put some multiple choice answers to that question in the sidebar for you.

Help me settle this question in my own mind before I damage myself. Why did we leave poor Michael Moore out there hanging in the wind, all alone?

If one of the multiple choice answers is not your own pick, comment me, baby.

Just in case this survey thing does not work, here are the choices. Pick that one you think answers the question best or most of the time.

1. The government controlled the press through threat, intimidation.

2. The news and entertainment media found it more profitable to stifle itself.

3. The news and entertainment really believed they were reporting accurately GOV was telling them the truth.

4. The news and entertainment media were encouraged by the democrats reluctance to tell the lobbyists "keep your money, somebody has to have the courage to say something."

5. The news and entertainment media heard so much religious support for the administration that they actually began to feel the administration was morally correct and many people in the news and entertainment industry got saved or whatever as a result of religious popularity.

OK, I am waiting for some comments and and survey responses. Otherwise I will just consider lack of response another definition of nondescript.

did i scare you,
Boo Spinner

BOO SPINNER HERE AND JUST IN TIME TO WARN YOU

JUST IN CASE BLOGGER DOES NOT SAVE MY BLOG AUTOMATICALLY I AM SAVING IT NOW. HEY IF YOU HAD JUST LOST TWO HOURS BECAUSE YOU DOZED OFF AT THE KEYBOARD, THEN CAME TO, OR TO, OR TWO AND YOUR BEAUTIFUL CONSPIRACY THEORY HAD GONE UP IN DREAMS YOU CANNOT FIND AGAIN ANDDDDDD THE SOFTWARE HAS DONE THE SAME IN THE CYBER REALM - - - - WELL THEN, YOU CAN APPRECIATE THAT BLOGGER WOULD SAVE IT AUTOMATICALLY FOR YOU.

Thanks for letting me test my CAP acity.

Nevertheless, being a natural dozer and a conditioned skeptic and an educated paranoiac, and ..., I try to take every precaution.

I know what you are thinking. This is just a small paragraph but, hey, a par, pair, of any size and kind, when destroyed, is indicative of some kind of operational failure

Fifty thousand other bloggers will put up worthless drivel in the time it takes to rebuild that little paragraph. So, see, I am thinking of you, protecting you, in my effort to get ME and MY conclusions on dangers out there before you are driven daft and driverless by drivel from other sources.

But that is not what I want to talk to you about.

I want to tell you about: CAMERAS, SURVEILLANCE, THE TRAIL YOU LEAVE, NOT JUST BEHIND YOU BUUUUUTTTTTTT IN FRONT OF YOU.

GOTTA PEA! WATCH MY SEAT!

OK, I am back and here's the dope. No, I don't mean dope. I hope the people with the power to take you away and do things didn't hear that. When I say dope, I mean info, story, details.

I was the original "right on red" fan. A California fan. All good ideas came out of California. These were the extraordinary people. They came from everywhere else. Not for welfare. Not for free education. (The rest of the country did not have free first two years of college in the old days.) These were pioneers, frontier people, new idea people. Ideas that worked.

Right on red. What a concept! How could you improve on that. What a time saver!

And then the price on video cameras came down.

Until they did, the rare case where a vehicle intersecting a boulevard, with straight across intent, in the late night hours, traffic signal red, HAD a PROBLEM. The same problem the right turn people had had before "right on red." THEY WAIT! The full three minutes or five or whatever the length of time in which they could have written a blog article.

Unless, unless, unless that driver was fortunate enough to have beneath the vehicle a buried plate sensitive to the pressure of things as heavy as car.

In that rare case the wait was not long at all. Pressure was sensed. Sensing triggered a change in signal light color. Driver crossed the boulevard and went on with life.

Ah what could be better than "right on red?" (I am surprised politicians never picked up on that phrase.)

What could be better than "right on red" was "straight ahead on green, a green that arrived before the vehicle even came to a complete stop."

Good idea but, Zeus, digging up that asphalt, installing sensor plates, running sensor lines - wow, labor intensive and time consuming, and costly stuff!

The price of video cameras came down.

Government combines must have stock in video cameras big time.

But a good idea IS, after all corruption has gone to bed, a good idea.

The camera, like the human eye, had a brain behind it. A brain with time enough to do a lot of things with the information being seen out there in reel-ality.

• match the time at fifty feet away with the time at ten feet away with a red signal
• match the time at fifty feet away with the time at ten feet away with a GREEN signal
• SO MUCH FOR SPEEDERS AND SIGNAL RUNNERS
• capture a license plate number
• hand it off to central info system
• wait
• central info system puts together all available info about that vehicle
• if any irregularities are encountered, pass the information off to the people who have the power to do something about those irregularities - orrrrr just wait and watch
• maybe move the process of information on that vehicle to code teal, or mauve, or firebrick, or Hell forbid, ORANGE

Wow! Is that all? I wish I had never started thinking about this. I am getting spooked. How are you doing? OK? OK.

That's not all! The vehicle has a driver. But first, an aside, Why do we change verbiage for the situation? Why am I saying 'vehicle' instead of auto or car or truck? To cover all bets about what that thing is on wheels? I don't think so but later for that. THE DRIVER.

• time lots of time - even without sequential time IT (not i-t meaning the word 'it' but IT, the abbreviation for Information Technology) has a little thing up its sleeve called concurrency, which is a bit like doing several things at once
• while getting the license plate number, observing the beautiful form and comeliness of that person walking along the sidewalk, and scoping out the donut shop window for how many glazed donuts are left in the counter case (more on that later), the camera collects a few miles of footage on the driver: seatbelt? phone? (more on that later) smoker? (more on that later) expressions? (more on that later)
  
• get a clear photo and pass it to info central (IC)
• pass all driver info collected in the previous button to IC
• IC software (all is software) passes the pic for identity processing
• is the driver the owner?
• is the driver on the owner's insurance? (SURE THEY CAN)
• is the driver not found by any software application to be related to this 'vehicle'?
• if yes, run history on driver and determine all possible scenarios and pass of as appropriate
• lots of possibilities? yep. stolen car (oops, I mean vehicle), otherwise wanted by the people with the power to do things to, I mean about, people like that?
• software determine through subsystems this driver should be somewhere else at the moment??
  
• for example - checking on her husband whom another camera has reported seeing playing hugabunch near the corner of Union and Congress.
• and, as Kurt Vonnegut was so fond of saying, AND SO ON

OK, I have to stop here. I just must go check the security system, get the weather report, see if my neighborhood watch cameras are all functioning and feeding all right, and some other stuff that, frankly, you don't have a "need to know" on

Let me leave you with this thought. I HAVE NOT EVEN OPENED THE DOOR ON POSSIBILITIES. OK. JUST ENOUGH TO PEEK.

We simple must devote some consideration along the way to time perception. For now let's just say this. Do you know how they say that in a moment of crisis or whatever, your entire life passes before your eyes (and I assume the other four senses but we're hung up on eyes)???

How can that be your whole life flashing by in a flash? Well, as Einstein would probably say, "IT IS RELATIVE." Not 'IT" as in Information Technology but 'IT' as in the antecedent, "time." Computer chips operate in the realm of nanoseconds. Something like this.

If a nanosecond were an inch you could go around the world twice in three seconds.

So while the software on a chip (a brain) behind a traffic signal camera (the eye) is waiting for the camera to deliver a frame (it does, say, 25 in a second) the software routine can get up, stretch, go to the toilet for a 1 and a 2, brush the teeth, shave, order pizza, shower, put on fresh clothes, taking time for all the socially important things like fashion, matching color, fit considering the run amok diet, walk around the block, come back, collect the frame of footage (wow, look at the size of that steering wheel hand's little pinky diamond), thank the camera and take a nap while waiting for the next frame. Lots of time! (to use a cliche brings time and space together)

I do not mean to be hard to get but if you want podcasts of some of these articles, if you want material that expounds on these ideas, if you want the book, "HI, I AM BOO, OOPS DID I SCARE YOU" then put in a comment about that. Put in a comment on anything relevant to this article, relative to me, or my donut recipe, or if you or your organization need any kind of training in feeling more insecure in general or going outside specifically, comments. I love comments and categorizing them if you get my grift, I mean drift.

Boo Spinner here. Oops, did I scare you?