1 BONED!

2 You forgot the obvious safety problems.  We have a rash of morons texting while they drive and the state wants to distract them further with ads? 

I'm also curious if the new plates would be in compliance with the flat screen regulations out here.  'Seems to me CA recently banned one of the types of flat screen tvs for eco reasons, but I can't recall which one. 

3 Come on, PA, they'll lose money on every sale but they'll make it up in volume.

4

Never happen.

The real story is the retardation of the people proposing it. 

5 Anyone still living in CA, please get out now and save yourselves from this asshatter.

6 hey, this is just more thinking along the lines of let's spend $2 million dollars to promote condom use in Khazakstan.  Genius.

7 As long as they advertise Bette Midler's latest tour dates, I think they're fabulous.

8

Some guy will hack the plate to display his own "ads" in 3... 2.... 1....

9 The real story is the retardation of the people proposing it.

It's a way to let them deny reality for one day longer.

10

I live inCalifornia and I personally will get out of my car at stoplights and spray black paint on the plate of ANY car in front of me with this abomination.

This is, of course, a Democrat idea.

I can only imagine a freeway full of mesothelioma attorney ads, immigration attorney ads, bail bonds, and tittie bar ads.

 

11 I won't program it with unfortunate "misspellings" that are "coincidentally" the same as my gang affiliation.

I promise.

12
I assume the ads would be uploaded or managed remotely in some way. Which means that it's only a matter of time until the network is hacked: which means that one day, everyone in California will wake up to find their license plates displaying a flaming skull. I, for one, can hardly wait!

13 How about anti-ads?

"If you think this is stupid, vote Republican next time you dumbass."

14 Typical "idea" from idiot boneheads who only have education in "poly science".

15 The real story is the retardation of the people proposing it.

Please, don't insult the mentally challenged by that comparison.  

Some guy will hack the plate to display his own "ads" in 3... 2.... 1....

Yeah, there's a zero percent change that this will be hacked to say Zombies Ahead like that traffic sign in Texas.  Zero.

16 which means that one day, everyone in California will wake up to find their license plates displaying a flaming skull.



A highway full of Blagoskulls.

Nirvana!

17 I'm sure they will run on "absolutely safe" sub-atomic skittle power.

18 If you hate legitimate business advertisements than you sir or madam are STALIN HIMSELF!

19 Has anyone in California done an Enviromental Impact Study? This must be completed first for the plates become operational. Where is the paperwork California? Well, we are waiting little snaildarters?

20 What'th wrong with electric forkth?

21 Hell is the absence of Reason

Farewell, California--from Golden State to dumpster crate

22 Hey! I don't know how I managed before I got my Electric Fork™!!!1!!1!

23 The stupid is strong in this legislature.

24 You're going to love our new Electric Fork. Set it, and forget it!

25 Please explain how an electric fork would be anything other than Awesome.

26 And here we see the kind of brilliance that made California the fiscal juggernaut it is today.

27 And even tho the drought in CA is over, the restrictions stay.
The Central Valley dies.
The entire economy contracts.
(google news, drought over CA)
Eco-social-engineering at its worst.

28
If its power supply is self contained, then how is it recharged?

Like dude..... the unit would contain a totally rad solar collecter epoxied to the roof of your ride.  Then....like.... when the sun goes down or it gets like cloudy..... which is a downer for catching rays..... the bolt on wind tubine generator mounted on the front bumper .... like provides a totally carbon neutral method of long term sustainable green energy.

29 If these fucktards think I'm going to recharge this thing.   Bwhaaaaaaaaaaa.

30 God forbid we should do anything about the most out-of-control public pension system in the country, trim our bloated bureaucracy or stop being the Illegal Ellis Island of the West*

Let's sell license plates instead !  And outlaw those damned plastic bags !  How about we let kids under 18 vote !  We also need to pass a strong resolution condemning Israel, and Arizona, and any other place the faculty at Berkeley doesn't like.

*Coyote Cove, perhaps ?

31
Can I haz my Christy Canyon compilation vanity plates?

32 Listen Ace, CA also wants to legalize Grass, so ya think anyone is gonna pay all that much attention to the plates when they are high? Or driving for that matter?

33 This is too stupid even for California. What about freedom of expression? What if I don't want an advertisement on my car? Or does the state claim it owns that square foot on the back and front of my vehicle?

34 28:  Spoken like a true Californian, bra.

35 When hybrids were allowed into the CA diamond lanes with a single occupant, you had to purchase big yellow stickers for the privilege. Rear, right and left side.

The lefties were LIVID, whining like little bitches because the stickers were big and ugly. As we all know, a Prius is beautiful _*snerk* and it would be irretrievably sullied by any sticker plastered on the side.

36 "Ferchrisakes, electric forks make more sense than this."

I've always cherished my nuclear spork.

37

June 22, 2010

Dear President Obama:

You will be the first American president that lied to the Jewish people, and the American people as well, when you said that you would defend Israel, the only Democratic state in the Middle East, against all their enemies. You have done just the opposite. You have propagandized Israel, until they look like they are everyone's enemy - and it has resonated throughout the world. You are putting Israel in harm's way, and you have promoted anti-Semitism throughout the world.

You have brought this to a people who have given the world the Ten Commandments and most laws we live by today. The Jewish people have given the world our greatest scientist and philosophers, and the cures for many diseases, and now you play a very dangerous game so you can look like a true martyr to what you see and say are the underdogs. But the underdogs you defend are murderers and criminals and want Israel eradicated.

You have brought to Arizona a civil war, once again defending the criminals and illegals, creating a meltdown for good, loyal, law-abiding citizens. Your destruction of this country may never be remedied, and we may never recover. I pray to God you stop, and I hope the people in this great country realize your agenda is not for the betterment of mankind, but for the betterment of your politics.

With heartfelt and deep concern for America and Israel,

Jon Voight

38 How long before these license plates are spewing pr0n ... free speech and all?

39 Anyone still living in CA, please get out now and save yourselves from this asshatter.

Posted by: EC at June 22, 2010 02:05 PM (mAhn3)

Where I live ( part of the year ) the beauty of the landscape is worth the ridiculous price--and the local eco-freaks and the many other obstacles and drawbacks

I live in Florida part of the year; I ignore the heat and humidity and flat ugly terrain, etc, etc.  In Cali I ignore what most people on this thread are kvetching about.

in re Mr Brady, "Wherever you go, you ignore stuff"

40

I may be phrasing this wrong so forgive me, but what about the rights of the people who own the automobiles? What if the ads are for things they are against? Can the government really force you to advertise for a company on your own private property (assuming a car is considered private property)?

41 An electric fork, vibrated ultrasonically could jab through tough-skinned dinner vegetables like butter, and through butter like water. I want one. If they don't exist, I'll make one.

42 They might as well all be douche ads.

43

I may be phrasing this wrong so forgive me, but what about the rights of the people who own the automobiles?

My car, my choice!!!!11!!

44 You forgot to mention that the state is effectively forcing its citizens who wish to drive to become rolling ad dollar generation machines!

45

I am willing wager $1.36 that President "Shit for brains" takes up the Iranian offer:

Iran has offered to help solve the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill and extricate U.S. President Barack Obama from the mess that has caused his already sinking popularity to drop even further. A New York Times/CBS poll published Tuesday morning revealed that 59 percent of Americans think the president does not have a Â“clear plan” for combating the spill, and 61 percent said the presidentÂ’s response to the spill was “too slow.” The survey also showed a lack of confidence that President Obama can stop the flow of oil soon and give necessary help to residents affected by it. Nearly half of the respondents replied it will take “several months” to stop the spill, and 16 percent said the spill will take a “year or longer” to end. However, Iran is ready to rescue President Obama if he requests help, the semi-official Fars News Agency reported Tuesday. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast underlined Tehran's technical capability to help the United States control the oil spill and the resulting slick, which he said is a "humanitarian issue." One day earlier, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, otherwise known as the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), offered to provide experts to help the Americans. "The experience of Iranians' presence in curbing oil spills in a number of neighboring states in the Persian Gulf, such as Kuwait, demonstrates Iranian capabilities and skills, and the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps is ready to help curb the oil spill,” Commander of the IRGC's Khatam ol-Anbia Headquarters General Rostam Qassemi stated. “If Americans and Britons and also the Western companies find themselves incapable of capping the oil spill, [they can] ask Iran, [we] will study the case, and sendÂ… IRGC experts to the region to help prevent the continuation of this serious crisis,” Qasemi added. An oil rig leased by British Petroleum exploded on April 20, killing 11 workers before sinking two days later and spilling hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico every day. The oil slick threatens tourism, the fishing industry and nature reserves. Iran made political hay out of the oil spill, noting that "despite American-promoted sanctions against the Islamic Republic, the IRGC is prepared to fulfill its humanitarian duty.”  Qasemi added, “Considering Washington and London's claims that they are economic and industrial superpowers, the U.S. and Britain's inability to stop the oil spill two months after the initial incident is ‘humiliating and shameful.'"   

46 They might as well all be douche ads.

Posted by: Joanie (Oven Gloves) at June 22, 2010 02:22 PM (HaYO4)

How would you measure your audience?  So many Likely Douches, but how can one be sure about such things? 

47 At least with an electric fork you can twirl spaghetti.

48 This is a good idea. It will generate revenue and could also be used to teach the moronic public why they should be in favor of gay marriage and open borders.

49

I think they have the right idea.

The problem is they didn't go far enough.

Tattoo's on convicts.

Convicts love tattoos, they're all inking themselves up as it is. Might as well turn it into a revenue stream! You've got all those guys working on the side of the highway picking up trash, they're like portable billboards.

Make em take off their orange shirts so everyone can see  "I just saved a ton of money on my car insurance with Geico!" tattooed on their back.

50 No, no...not the an electric fork.

We need an electric spork. 

It will do twice the job for the same price as the electric fork.

51 From the article:

"The idea is not to turn a motorist's vehicle into a mobile billboard, but rather to create a platform for motorists to show their support for existing good working organizations,"
Such as ACORN, the Center for American Progress and People for the American Way.  And the good folks at Amazon - where fine books like "The Crash of 2008 and What it Means" and "The Alchemy of Finance" are now available.

(Thanks for the ducats, bras !!!)

52

An electric fork, vibrated ultrasonically could jab through tough-skinned dinner vegetables like butter, and through butter like water.

And right on through your tongue like...

53 40 I may be phrasing this wrong so forgive me, but what about the rights of the people who own the automobiles?
_______________

Driving is a privilege, not a right.

54 As we all know, a Prius is beautiful _*snerk* and it would be irretrievably sullied by any sticker plastered on the side.

Remember the "Intel Inside" campaign?  Priuses should all have "Asshole Inside" stickers.

55

How would you measure your audience?  So many Likely Douches, but how can one be sure about such things? 

Posted by: SantaRosaStan ( catcher's mitt ) at June 22, 2010 02:24 PM (JrRME)

 

Douche is as Douche does.

 

(I didn't understand the question)

56 #53  Driving is a privilege, not a right.

Yep, they'll argue that you don't need one of these license plates if you don't drive on public roads.

57 Dude, you morons aren't thinking the right way.  This is *PERFECT*!  "No, your honor, I totally wasn't stalking that hot chick.  I was trying to read the ad on her license plate, so I *HAD* to follow her in to her driveway.  Now should I have been wearing pants when I climbed out of the car to get a closer look?  Maybe.  But it's not like I forced her to climb in my trunk with the dead hobo.  She *CHOSE* that option."

58 52 Details!

59 > Make em take off their orange shirts so everyone can see "I just saved a ton of money on my car insurance with Geico!" tattooed on their back. "When I get that 'not-so-fresh' feeling..."

60

I'm sure they'll include a GPS device inside the plate that will document and transmit your moving violations so you can pay even more money back into the system.

61

Driving is a privilege, not a right.

So under that scenario the government is entitled to force us to do whatever they want in order to have that privilege? I mean I know they sort of already do with the licensing fees etc. but where does that stop?

62

An electric fork, vibrated ultrasonically could jab through tough-skinned dinner vegetables like butter, and through butter like water.

1.) Mount blender on hinge near ceiling with spring mechanism to maintain vertical posture.

2.) Mount plastic tubing to top of blender's detachable lid.

3.) Attach pull rope to bottom of blender, up through eye-ring on ceiling and then down next to a dining chair.

4.) Put food in blender.

5.) Activate blender.

6.) Place tube in mouth.

7.) Pull rope.

63

For all you guys who know something about what this might take..

..last week, the neighbor across the street had his shingle roof replaced..I don't know the total arear of the roof, but the house is about 3500 sq ft, with a pretty severeley pitched roof in places...a crew of Mexicans did it in about a day and a half...that included stripping the old material.....I thought that was ptetty impressive

Today, a group of Amish guys did the same to the house three doors up..in four hours!!!

64

How longer before Teh Jug-eared Won shows up, giving quickie sermonettes?

But since they would only display only when the car was stopped, I think we could counter with things like:

"If you hadn't voted Donkey for the last 30 years, instead of reading this while sucking carbon monoxide, you would be in your fucking awesome flying car, wouldn't you?"

65 49 Entropy - +1

"If you have to guard me, shouldn't someone be guarding your pension ? SEIU"

"You're in good hands.  Now bend over."

"Rock the Vote-Down with Brown in '12"

"My cellmate just got back from Chino and all I got was this lousy sleeve.  And I had to toss his salad for it."

66

-->So under that scenario the government is entitled to force us to do whatever they want in order to have that privilege? I mean I know they sort of already do with the licensing fees etc. but where does that stop?

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at June 22, 2010 02:32 PM (RZ8pf)

State governments have very wide latitude on this.  Liberals are allowed to build their states into liberal hellholes, if they so desire (and they obviously do).  The key is that they cannot create money and cannot be bailed out by the federal government.  That's the theory, at least.

67 "This is madness!"

"This... is... CALIFORNIA!!!"

68 Possible plate ads.

Repeal Prop 13!  Support SEIU!  Mary Carey for Governor!  Brawndo, it has electrolytes!

69

they'll lose money on every sale but they'll make it up in volume.

Do they need to buy a bigger delivery truck?

70
Aren't license plates the automotive equivalent of "papers"? Where are the celebrity activists promoting driving without plates to protest oppression?

Plates inspire Hate
My car is a citizen of the World

71

Driving is a privilege, not a right.

Y'know, I'ma call BULLSHIT on this already.

Driving is none of the government's business when it's a private car on private property.

Driving is not a priviledge. "Use of public roads" is not "driving".

OK so... use of public roads is a privledge? Within reason. But...

Who's roads are they? Who's the public? Who's taxes do you think payed for them?

What if I told you "walking on a public sidewalk is a privledge not a right" and then made you wear a goofy hat? Or a helmet?

A helmet with an LCD screen that had ads playing on it 24/7? And an orange reflective vest. And a flotation device.

"Use of the public air is a privledge, not a right".

Oh sure, you can breath all you want in your own private airspace. But when breathing public airspace, you have to follow their regulations. If you don't like it, hey, don't breath. Or buy yourself a SCUBA tank. Your choice.

72

(I didn't understand the question)

Posted by: Joanie (Oven Gloves) at June 22, 2010 02:31 PM (HaYO4)

The question asks itself ( not expecting to be answered )

73 My first step as owner of one of these plates would be to "accidentally" inactivate it (on my way out of the State. . .permanently).

But relax, this is NEVER going to happen.

The same fiscal bankruptcy that is making the CA lunatics even consider this idiocy will also ensure that it never happens. . .capital expense to start it up is way too high.

74 If I still lived in California -- which, thank God, I don't -- I wouldn't go for this nutcase notion unless I was paid to carry the advertisement on my plates.

Free vehicle registration? Yeah, that's okay. Not in the plan, though.

But to be a helpless bystander forced to carry advertising for a product I may not necessarily like or use? Or, worse, that I think is bad? No. The state has no right to do that.

Same with being forced to buy a so-called "health" plan Osama Obama deems is "good" for me.

75 Can see it now: tweet to your LP "get off my ass" obvious response: road rage ... dead people.

76 This will lead to another controversy.. should alochol/cigarettes/other 'undesirables' be able to advertise on the plates?

Not to mention, I'm sure these things can be hacked, which at best would lead to someone putting personal messages on the plates and at worst lead to the facilitation of crimes by changing a license number easily.

77 PGiS, look at the North East.  Liberals bitch about the cost of buying and owning a car in their own state and keep on electing the same idiots that keep raising their fees and taxes.  Instead of voting them out, they turn around and go to a neighboring state that has lower taxes and fees and purchase the item there.  They never address the problem.  Just go to greater lengths to avoid paying taxes that their elected officials keep slapping on them.  So no, CA won't get smart anytime soon.  They're following the NE model.

78 71 and all other driving = privilege = BS comments:

Agree - CA (and everyone else) uses that dodge to get around self-incrimination rights on breathalyzers and a bajillion other sketchy infringements on drivers' rights.  It's truly bullshit - we paid for the roads and have a right to freely travel (somewhat more well-documented than our rights to gay marriage and abortions).

They need to come up with a better rationale than "driving is a privilege not a right" which is no more logically justifiable than "because we say so, that's why."

79

CDR M, I donÂ’t have to look at the Northeast, our state government follows the same model here (for example the ludicrous candy tax).

 

What galls me about state governments and money, and perhaps this is unique to our state but I doubt it, is that they pass taxes on certain items, or vote for a state lottery, and as the taxes are being passed it is for a specific reason, and yet somehow a few years down the road they are able to rob that tax fund (0r lottery fund) blind for some other reason and then have to raise taxes once again, ostensibly for the thing they already raised taxes for. In our state, basic education is the fund that keeps getting robbed blind.

80 This traffic jam brought to you by Carl's Jr.

81 but rather to create a platform for motorists to show their support for existing good working organizations

People already do this.  I think they call it a bumper sticker.

82

PGiS, you are correct about WA.  I've lived there twice and remember some pretty steep costs and taxes.  Lotteries are the biggest scam.  It's for the children!  Yeah, right.

I remember in CA after every big quake, the tax would go up to pay for the damage but once the damage was repaired, the tax just stayed.

83

"Use of the public air is a privledge, not a right".

Oh sure, you can breath all you want in your own private airspace.


This sounds a lot like the justification for banning smoking in privately-owned bars.

84 81:  Thanks for reminding me.  I propose we tax all bumper stickers.

85 I see this as evidence that CA has completely slipped any tenuous grasp on reality that it might have ever had.

More evidence (from the AOSHQ headline link about this yesterday):

Other measures scheduled to be heard in the Legislature this week:

— Bicyclists would be the latest group prohibited from using hand-held communications devices on the go, under SB1475 by Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto. The bill would extend the state's handsfree requirements for drivers to bicyclists and strengthen the penalties for violators. In addition, driver's license exams would have to include a section on the dangers of cell phone use and text-messaging while operating a motor vehicle. The bill is scheduled to be heard by the Assembly Transportation Committee on Monday.

Get that?  No more texting while bicycling.  All the folks at the Onion have to do for material is follow the CA legislature.

86 Did ya notice that the SmartPlate company is Frisco-based? The company website is a single page placeholder. The CEO, M. Conrad Jordan doesn't show up in web searches for anything except this one article.

This is nothing more than a shady fly-by-night douchebag with political connections trying to create a government-dependent "business" out of thin air.

87 I'm hacking that to scroll "Don't like my driving? Call 1-800-EAT-SHIT"...

88 Why not hack the plates to NOT display the number when a button on the dash is pushed? You know, to avoid those picture-taking "enforcement" devices?

89 61 So under that scenario the government is entitled to force us to do whatever they want in order to have that privilege? I mean I know they sort of already do with the licensing fees etc. but where does that stop?
_________________

When enough people get pissed enough to stop driving that it costs them revenue.

90 71 ] Driving is a privilege, not a right.
Y'know, I'ma call BULLSHIT on this already.
________________

Hey, don't hassle me about it; it's already the excuse they use so they can ask for your driver's license at whim.

My wife was hassled the other day for not having her driver's license on her when she was the passenger in the car. I'm still upset about it.

91 The lefties were LIVID, whining like little bitches because the stickers were big and ugly. As we all know, a Prius is beautiful _*snerk* and it would be irretrievably sullied by any sticker plastered on the side.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 22, 2010 02:18 PM (Aqzx6)

Unless that sticker is pro iWon, right?  Then it just glorifies beautifies the car.

92 Get that?  No more texting while bicycling.  All the folks at the Onion have to do for material is follow the CA legislature.
Posted by: rockhead at June 22, 2010 02:54 PM

How else am I supposed to get the Overnight Volleyball Net pic to my site?

93 From the article:

The bill's author, Democratic Sen. Curren Price of Los Angeles, said California would be the first state to implement such technology if the state Department of Motor Vehicles ultimately recommends the widespread use of the plates.

[...]

"We're just trying to find creative ways of generating additional revenues," he said.

How about this for an idea: CUT SPENDING.

94 Can we haz stimulus nowz ?

95 I'm pretty sure this isn't going to happen, but if it does, the resulting license plate hacking will be awesome.

96 Just to add on to my #88, how about this..... The bill isn't actually meant to be passed, it's just a means of generating the consulting contract for the feasibility study.

97 Hmmmm.

I fully expect someone will figure out a way to connect a cellphone's bluetooth to one of these digital displays.  Imagine that...

"FSCK U!!"

"3@T M3!"

etc etc etc

98 License plate?  Who needs a license plate when the car is being tracked so that the ads can be updated?  When they will be able to know where your car is at any time, when it is traveling, which direction, and how fast?  The license plate as such isn't needed when a transponder has been installed.

99

My wife was hassled the other day for not having her driver's license on her when she was the passenger in the car. I'm still upset about it.

Posted by: Anachronda

 

Tell her to respond in either Spanish or with a hearty 'Allah akbar'.

100

I'm thinking that if the license plate were tied into the air bag then it could display ads for body shops and ambulance chasers when the car crashed... or funeral homes.

101

I'm thinking the fallout from red light cameras will be hilarious:

-Dear Mr. BURGER KING:

Your vehicle, with California license plate IT TAKES TWO HANDS TO HANDLE A WHOPPER was observed on camera violating the red light on MULHOLLAND DRIVE on or about.......

102 They'll be powered by solar like a calculator.  And wind energy from the windmill that attaches magnetically to the roof of your car (superglue for Corvettes).  A small wire then transfers the power to your license plate.  This is so simple...

103

@40

Yeah, I can imagine a rape victim being followed by a stalker and her license plate alternating between a viagra and cialis ad.

104 Didn't Caligula have a similar problem? I think he got the Senator's wives to help out. Er, I'll have to look that up, but was it a bake sale or something?

105 Dear Jug Eared One,

You are a fucktard.

I resign

106
Comment from a normal human being living behind the Iron Curtain in California (and I'll abandon this police state for the Free World in a heartbeat if I lose my job):

 California is the failed experiment in Socialism that should scare the hell out of America.  Socialism always collapses.  Learn from our failure and DO NOT BAIL US OUT!  We should be compared to the collapse in Greece.

107 Just what drivers need - another distraction.

108 But we must
never
ever
EVER

consider cutting spending.

109 This plan makes perfect sense to me.

110 Get out of here, liberal douche!

111 Possible plate ads.

Repeal Prop 13!  Support SEIU!  Mary Carey for Governor!  Brawndo, it has electrolytes!
Posted by: Kratos

Thread winner.

112 Too complicated.  Where a state slogan would go on the plate, just put a Flatulin or "Brawndo--The Thirst Mutilator  It's Got Electrolytes!" logo.  CA is already in Idiocracy-world.

113 Oops, someone beat me to the Idiocracy ref.

114 That's because it's so apt to this situation. It's perfect.

115 1) Flashing License Plates
2) ????
3) Profit!

116 Just another example of a state legislature that has WAY TO MUCH time on it's hands.

We weren't broke when we only had a part time legislature.

117 117 1) Flashing License Plates
_________________

Did somebody say "flashing"?

118 1. If this thing is wired into the vehicle's electrical system for power, who pays for the installation? And how long will it take?

2. In regards to hacking the display, I can see people reprogramming the plate to show random license numbers, or the number of somebody they don't like. Let them get the traffic-cam citation.

3. What about the poor schmoe whose plate is displaying an ad for his employer's competitor?

4. Then there's the California driver who is in another state - a state that does not allow this type of plate. Draw your own conclusions. "You in a heap o' trouble, boy!"

119 You forget to mention the most egregious effect showing advertising on the license plate would have.  Each and every driver would be carrying around a tracking device that allowed the state to know every movement, track every mile they drive and, if the program is written "correctly" have a permanent record of exactly how the car was driven at any given moment.  Ten miles over the speed limit?  No need for a radar gun - you're carrying the danged thing with you.

This whole thing is a completely outrageous violation of our rights to privacy!

120

How about state and government workers wear uniforms with advertisments inked on the  back?

I like that better, since the revenue is going to their pensions.

121

Ten miles over the speed limit?  No need for a radar gun - you're carrying the danged thing with you.

It's OK, the unit malfunctioned so they don't have your license number and can't tell who you are.

122

Dammit!

Who has Unit #472841004 at 08:00:69:02:01:FC? That bastard is going 35 over! Why didn't we write it down somewhere??? We need more funding!

123 121 You forget to mention the most egregious effect showing advertising on the license plate would have. Each and every driver would be carrying around a tracking device that allowed the state to know every movement, track every mile they drive and, if the program is written "correctly" have a permanent record of exactly how the car was driven at any given moment.
_________________

Nothing new for the California legislature. They've already floated the idea of every car having a black box to record where you've driven so the pump can automatically adjust the tax rates at your next fillup based upon which roads you've used.

124 "...lead to the facilitation of crimes by changing a license number easily.
Posted by: DBarr"

That would beat 007's rotating plates all to hell.

125

 They've already floated the idea of every car having a black box to record where you've driven so the pump can automatically adjust the tax rates at your next fillup based upon which roads you've used.

I would game the living hell out of that.

Officially, I'd drive 400 miles a year.

126 120 Rusty Bill

1. If this thing is wired into the vehicle's electrical system for power, who pays for the installation?

You get a voucher for $50 off your next electric vehicle (expires in six months). Hey, that almost sounded believable!

2. In regards to hacking the display, I can see people reprogramming the plate to show random license numbers, or the number of somebody they don't like.

Someone could hack everybody's numbers to start shuffling around at random intervals-- hilarity would ensue.

Also, pron.

127 You forgot to mention that the state is effectively forcing its citizens who wish to drive to become rolling ad dollar generation machines! Hello! What about fucking LAW ENFORCEMENT? When LAPD need to get the licence plate number of the stolen car driven by the meth head, and all of a sudden a "Jack in the Box" ad pops up...can you say "lawsuit"?

128 This traffic jam brought to you by Carl's Jr. "Fuck you, I"m driving."

129 Renee Sharp, the California director of the Washington-based Environmental Operating Group,cheap wholesale also stated she hoped the law would dissuade customers from purchasing fairly high radiation phones till their impact within the human body is totally understood. The advocacy group provided reports as well as other counsel towards city's Department in the Atmosphere as they produced the policy. "We're also hoping it is going to spur better debate about no matter whether the current federal standards are satisfactory or not," Sharp explained. "We definitely don't consider that men and women are certainly not going to purchase mobile mobile phones due to radiation." Industry officials wouldn't speculate within the influence to their small business, cheap cell phones but many of the nation's most well-known cellular cell phones have comparatively higher SAR levels. That is because many of individuals well-known mobile phones are wise cell phones, which have Wi-Fi and Bluetooth receivers, at the same time as standard cellular capability, that add to their total SAR rating, based on Walls. Under the law, bigger chains could have to location SAR notices starting in February, while other stores will have until finally 2012. While the supervisors were largely unanimous, reaction outside of Town Hall and across the nation was mixed.

130 I've seen panels above license plates that have lighted messages scrolling across the panels. They're cool. I've thought that I could put one to a variety of different uses, but never got around to looking into buying one.

131 Another problem: Does California's prison population have the skills needed to make these high-tech license plates?