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http://www.dailynews.com/breakingnews/ci_15340417

Some law makers in CA would like to make license plates digital so that when the automobile is stopped for 4 seconds or more it will change from just displaying the number to showing an advertisement for a company.

The idea is that they have a $19 billion deficit and they think this is a good way to make cash.

I hate this idea. I am the sort of person who doesn't put a bumper sticker on my car because I have no desire to alter the appearance of the vehicle or to have others looking at my car as anything more than a transportation device. Also, I was under the impression that all the fucking tax money I pay for the car makes it my fucking property. Will I receive any compensation from the advertising companies? If not, then why in the fucking world would I want to do this? I can see it now, driving down the street stopped at a traffic light with a license plate that says something like "My doctor recommends Vagisil".

Seriously, make pot legal, reduce prison sentences for marijuana related arrests. Invest in renewable energy, encourage recycling, and if there still isn't enough money, then place higher taxes on large scale advertisements that already exist.

Posted: Jun 21 2010 11:19 am

Not to mention, would the advertisers have any say in whose cars their ads go on?

I'm sure some companies would not want to be associated with dumb-ass teenagers in pimped out Hondas cutting people off on the freeway and driving like idiots.

Posted: Jun 21 2010 12:06 pm

And uh, I guess we're going to have to buy fancy decoder machines for cops, so they can actually run people's plates when they pull them over...

God my state is retarded. I apologize on its behalf. This is exactly why I consider myself a Texan, and moved to Alaska at the first opportunity. Confused

Posted: Jun 21 2010 12:46 pm

This seems like something you'd see in a proposed future in a film, maybe something akin to BttFII. And you would laugh then, because it's a silly idea. But when these idea start coming to life, it becomes very scary.

Posted: Jun 21 2010 01:20 pm

I predict this would cause even more fucked up traffic jams in urban areas due to people looking at each other's ads. Stupid idea.

Posted: Jun 21 2010 01:21 pm

Wow.

What a wonderfully terribad idea.

Posted: Jun 21 2010 02:07 pm

Yeah, California is starting to get desperate. I love living in the beautiful state (the northern part of it anyway as anywhere south of San Luis Obispo might as well be Mexico at this point) but the government is totally impotent and retarded.

Posted: Jun 21 2010 02:48 pm

What Rycona, said.

Posted: Jun 21 2010 07:13 pm

Yeah if I'm not getting paid for it they can forget it.

Posted: Jun 21 2010 10:06 pm

Although conversely, if they DO want to pay me for it, bring that shit on. Very Happy

Posted: Jun 21 2010 11:16 pm

GPFontaine wrote:

Seriously, make pot legal, reduce prison sentences for marijuana related arrests. Invest in renewable energy, encourage recycling, and if there still isn't enough money, then place higher taxes on large scale advertisements that already exist.

I have a better plan, the state can randomly knife poor people to death. Poor people don't pay taxes, and they are an unwelcome financial drain on the state's money. Also, make English mandatory. If you can't pass a second grade English test, you get knifed to death on the spot. What's great about this idea is that you can also make a game show out of it. Like, a lottery type thing. There will be seven rooms, each with seven poor people in them. In each room, one person will be randomly knived to death. There will also be a bonus knifing, where there are ten people instead of seven. You pay $2 for a ticket and try and guess all 8 knifings correctly. If you do, you win the big jackpot! Hooray!

Posted: Jun 22 2010 01:41 am

Syd Lexia wrote:

GPFontaine wrote:

Seriously, make pot legal, reduce prison sentences for marijuana related arrests. Invest in renewable energy, encourage recycling, and if there still isn't enough money, then place higher taxes on large scale advertisements that already exist.

I have a better plan, the state can randomly knife poor people to death. Poor people don't pay taxes, and they are an unwelcome financial drain on the state's money. Also, make English mandatory. If you can't pass a second grade English test, you get knifed to death on the spot. What's great about this idea is that you can also make a game show out of it. Like, a lottery type thing. There will be seven rooms, each with seven poor people in them. In each room, one person will be randomly knived to death. There will also be a bonus knifing, where there are ten people instead of seven. You pay $2 for a ticket and try and guess all 8 knifings correctly. If you do, you win the big jackpot! Hooray!

I would definitely watch that, especially if they used some Cannibal Corpse for the soundtrack.

Posted: Jun 22 2010 01:50 am

Nothing that hasn't been said already can be added, but I can put this one spin on it:

I'd laugh my ass off if someone got into a hideous wreck, and the license plate rose to the occasion:

"are your life insurance premiums paid?"

Context sensitive plates could remove all the sting, Passing by a cow ranch? "Big Mac Attack!"
Passing by a local public school? "For all your ditch-digging needs!"
In Nevada? "Call on our call girls!"
Best yet? Get drunk and drive your car into a river. "Buy Yaaaaamaaaahaaaa boooooooaaaattttsss......*bzzt*"

Title: Hugh Joined: Sep 23 2007 Posts: 1591

I saw a Florida licence plate, once. It said MyFlorida.com at the top. That was pretty strange, I thought.

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

Syd Lexia wrote:

GPFontaine wrote:

Seriously, make pot legal, reduce prison sentences for marijuana related arrests. Invest in renewable energy, encourage recycling, and if there still isn't enough money, then place higher taxes on large scale advertisements that already exist.

I have a better plan, the state can randomly knife poor people to death. Poor people don't pay taxes, and they are an unwelcome financial drain on the state's money. Also, make English mandatory. If you can't pass a second grade English test, you get knifed to death on the spot. What's great about this idea is that you can also make a game show out of it. Like, a lottery type thing. There will be seven rooms, each with seven poor people in them. In each room, one person will be randomly knived to death. There will also be a bonus knifing, where there are ten people instead of seven. You pay $2 for a ticket and try and guess all 8 knifings correctly. If you do, you win the big jackpot! Hooray!

What if you haven't passed the second grade yet? Do you still qualify? I know a lot of 5 year olds who won't be pleased about this news.

Does a person who is both poor and unable to speak English get double knifed or do two knifings cancel each other out?

Posted: Jun 22 2010 09:55 am

GPFontaine wrote:

Syd Lexia wrote:

GPFontaine wrote:

Seriously, make pot legal, reduce prison sentences for marijuana related arrests. Invest in renewable energy, encourage recycling, and if there still isn't enough money, then place higher taxes on large scale advertisements that already exist.

I have a better plan, the state can randomly knife poor people to death. Poor people don't pay taxes, and they are an unwelcome financial drain on the state's money. Also, make English mandatory. If you can't pass a second grade English test, you get knifed to death on the spot. What's great about this idea is that you can also make a game show out of it. Like, a lottery type thing. There will be seven rooms, each with seven poor people in them. In each room, one person will be randomly knived to death. There will also be a bonus knifing, where there are ten people instead of seven. You pay $2 for a ticket and try and guess all 8 knifings correctly. If you do, you win the big jackpot! Hooray!

What if you haven't passed the second grade yet? Do you still qualify? I know a lot of 5 year olds who won't be pleased about this news.

Does a person who is both poor and unable to speak English get double knifed or do two knifings cancel each other out?

also, this means the governor would also get knifed to death

Posted: Jun 22 2010 12:09 pm

California has a three strikes law, right? Meaning, if you commit three felonies, your third felony is an automatic life sentence.

Well, that means you've got a lot of lifers in California. Put them up to task. Make them do all your construction/cleanup/dirty jobs. Around here, prisoners on the side of the raod with a shotgun-wielding sheriff, picking up litter, are a very common sight.

Or, organize pay-per-view specials, akin to Bumfights. Prisoner Fights. Put it on Pay-Per-View, and give them the same tools they have in prison. If one of them wants to make a shank out of a toothbrush and CAN, it's permissible. You could turn this into a WWE style event, minus the storylines. Put six prisoners into a steel cage match. Winner gets cigarettes for a week free or something. If you've got six prisoners on death row, then you have yourself a REAL Elimination Chamber match.

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I would not want to drive around advertising someone elses shit on my car.

Posted: Jun 22 2010 02:42 pm

Because we needed to poke holes in my super serious "knife everyone to death" platform.

Posted: Jun 22 2010 03:35 pm

You might say some are trying to knife your platform to death!