It's to notify police to stop the car if they see it on the road. The US has a lot of infrequently used or unused cars that gradually transition to a sedentary life in a garage or yard. It's not illegal to let your registration or inspection lapse if the car isn't being driven. If you drive a car with a lapsed registration or safety inspection sticker, police will notice, stop you, and issue a ticket.
> It's not illegal to let your registration or inspection lapse if the car isn't being driven.
True in many states, but California wants vehicles to have valid registration
even if the vehicle is not at all operational. The owner gets a break on the
cost, but Sacramento still wants their due.
Nothing prevents DMV and police having interconnected database. Which would allow automatically communicating vehicles removed from use or with lapsed MOT.
They do, the stickers are mostly to make it easier for cops to see expired reg without having to type in every license plate or have a vehicle fitted with LPR. They can also look up the vehicle status in the DMV database, and via an interstate compact.
That works fine if you live in a tiny country. But in the United States there are tens of thousands of law enforcement agencies authorized to write tickets. Some of them are massive organizations like state highway patrols. Others are towns of 200 people, or even individual schools that don't have the time, money, or infrastructure to integrate with a national system.
Sure, but do we really want to encourage ubiquitous LPR on every police vehicle? It's already becoming the norm in some cities but that's not exactly an unmitigated good.
The tag is to indicate that the vehicle has paid the appropriate taxes for using the roads. If the tax on the vehicle is not paid then it should not be used on the roads.
Without the tag there is no way to enforce that without the police having to manually enter the plate number for every vehicle they see. Hence the tag: if the police see a vehicle without an up-to-date tag applied it is not legally allowed to use the roads since the owner hasn't paid to keep the roads maintained from the wear incurred by the vehicle while driving on them.
There is an argument to be made that the police could simply use a system that reads license plates up and checks the information automatically, but there are so many 4th amendment abuses/workarounds that the police already use it's hard to imagine much public support for such a system.
While I have no problem with the tag, your claim is false:
> Without the tag there is no way to enforce that without the police having to manually enter the plate number for every vehicle they see.
Police have automatic systems that scan vehicles. I was pulled over once due to an inconsistency in my vehicle registration data (not anything visible on the plate/exterior) because the computer in the police vehicle flagged my car and they decided to follow up on it.
In my case, it was just a quirk of the vehicle owner being unlicensed to drive and there was no violation - but the system correlated the DMV registration details and license status of the owner and flagged the car.
fast accurate plate scanners are relatively new. At most, only on police cars for the past 10 or so years. Many police cars still don't have them, only dedicated highway patrol cars. The sticker system has been in place for over 80 years. Systems that work, that are are generally not difficult to implement stick around past when they're technologically outdated.
The US's anti-surveillance laws and sentiment keep ubiquitous camera systems from existing in many places, and keep the ones that do exist, quiet. In my state, Massachusetts, traffic cameras legally cannot be used to issue citations. Automated toll collection, which uses highway mounted plate scanners, faced substantial backlash from people for privacy reasons. And Massachusetts is one of the least anti-government states in the country. If it got out that the police were monitoring which cars were on the road and how often they were driven, there would be literal riots.
in the very early 2000s, home routers weren't a thing. Cable modems hooked up to a single computer. If you were a business, you got a PIX, but home setups were frequently done with a computer that had 2 ethernet ports and either used Windows's "home internet sharing" or Linux's ipchains and NAT. This was typically fine, because very few houses had multiple computers. I knew many people who would get a separate cable modem for each computer in their house.
By the mid 2000s, Linksys started coming out with their little WRT routers, which were affordable by home users and mostly just plug and play.
What you describe is late 90's, not early 2000's. Broadband was rolling out across many areas of the US in the late 90's (@Home cable modems, DSL, etc.)
Modern password managers run into issues regularly that still require a user to copy/paste a password out of a secure location. I don't know what the solution is for these situations with passkeys, but I know I don't trust password managers to do it right.
I've used iCloud, Google Chrome, Lastpass, and 1password, and they all break consistently in a few scenarios. Three that come to mind are:
- SSO or other systems where multiple logins are linked to the same account on different host names. The password manager will require you to essentially create a separate entry for the new site that becomes disconnected from the original.
- Having multiple logins for the same site. This breaks especially with services that use a multi-stage login, but in general it breaks frequently. If you have kids or parents whose accounts you manage, password managers will invariably ask to update the wrong password, or attempt to auto-fill the wrong password regularly.
- Sites that request you enter the old password at the same time as you enter your new password for verification when changing a password. Password managers can't figure this out, and as a result whenever I have a password manager generate a new credential, I also make sure to copy it to a temporary location until I've verified that it was saved. Typically, because you entered the old password on the password change page, that save doesn't go through.
In the end, all these security features just boil down to how secure your password reset/customer support function is. If you're going to require people to reset their passkey every time they log into your site, why not just use a "magic link" email session initiator and be done with it?
I don’t know, I’ve found quite a few work arounds for stuff like this with BitWarden where the experience is pretty seamless and I routinely deal with all of these issues except SSO.
BitWarden has its problems but generally I find the experience pretty good - indeed far superior to the other services you mentioned. The ability to use “secure notes” and the convenient way that has been implemented in BW has allowed me to be fine in all the scenarios you’re mentioning.
Of course, you’re right, you still have to copy the password in somewhere, but ultimately I feel like that’s a lower threat if properly handled than what I used to do (shitty insecure passwords).
The other thing is I barely ever use the browser extension for the password manager. All of the browser extensions I’ve tried other than BitWarden have been janky and even that’s only ok. Still, try BW I like it way better than lastpass and 1password.
Then the child should stay with the parent most able to provide for them. The big issue a lot of people have with the inequity of child support is that fathers who want custody of their kids are continually denied it by the state.
Involved, stay-at-home, full time fathers are given at best 50% custody and then a hefty child support obligation and told to go out and get a job. Uninvolved mothers are given primary custody by default and then collect a massive paycheck as a result.
Common law marriages are not as easy to happen by accident as many people assume. Living together doesn't matter. Common law marriage, in every state I've checked, requires that you have a ceremony and present yourself as a "married couple" publicly. You have to go around telling people you're married for it to matter.
> Common law marriage, in every state I've checked, requires that you have a ceremony and present yourself as a "married couple" publicly. You have to go around telling people you're married for it to matter.
It generally does not require a ceremony (but it does usually require an explicit mutual agreement), and living together does matter (cohabitation is commonly a requirement or evidence of common law marriage), but other than that you are right that publicly presenting as married is often a requirement (and otherwise is evidence).
And here is Colorado, which is more evidence based and does not identify cohabitation as even a form of evidence (though it does have joint ownership of property): https://pitkincounty.com/288/Common-Law-Marriage
you can scream all you want, most people who buy new cars won't care and will just lease for 3-5 years no matter what the manufacturer puts behind a paid upgrade/software subscription. They never have to repair their cars, because nothing breaks for the first 5 years. The used market might care, but manufacturers don't care about the used market at all, since they get no money from it.
Banks don't hold substantial cash. They send whatever cash they collect to the local federal reserve to be recycled and get fresh cash to hand out to people every morning from the same federal reserve. I don't think I've gotten a "used" bill from a bank in over a decade.
You may not believe it, but the situation is very well documented and certainly a thing that is removing housing stock from cities around the world.
Housing has a value as an investment, and leaving the housing unoccupied reduces the cost to maintain the investment. Tenants have a lot of protections in many jurisdictions, and an owner is responsible for maintenance, depreciation and damages, while a tenant cannot be evicted by the landlord who wants to sell a unit without a substantial waiting period, if at all.
The small wheels on the front and back are an add-on, called fangs (https://land-surf.com/products/fangs%e2%84%a2-2-1). I’ve had them on my Onewheel for years and I’m not sure they’ve ever actually saved me on a nosedive. The front of the board comes down with a lot of force very quickly and even if the little wheels do keep the board rolling, the rider has been rapidly shoved forward and will likely go over the front anyway.
