My LaPorte

11/07/2024

Could OCP, Omni Consumer Products, spawn from something like FLOCK Safety Systems? To jar your memory a little, OCP was the Mega Corporation in RoboCop which "OWNED" Detroit.

FOIA filed on LaPorte's FLOCK system. I have a lot of information to shuffle through to see if all my questions were answered. One big question was what safeguards are in place to prevent abuses of the system.

Communities all over the state and country are aligning themselves with FLOCK. In addition, several mega-corporations, such as FedEx have lso joined the observation ranks.

From he information I have received back, the City of LaPorte has eight or eleven cameras according to the documents. They are placed at many of the heavily traveled entrances to the city. The initial cost to the city was about twenty grand, with an annual price of around $27,000.

The best answer on quick scan of the documents on how they will preven abuse, is buried witthin the INDOT agreement where it is required that they use the system ethically. Just looking down south to Clark County, Indiana, we see how far ethics goes in some law enforcement agencies. (Not just Jamie, his wife and daughter, but alegedly LEO employees were also moonlighting for the Noel's private company while also earning pay on the county dime, such as on duty watching a location charged with being protected by Noel's private company.)

There's an agregation clause in the agreement between FLOCK and the city, which appears that FLOCK can do what they want with the data collected without having to ask for permission or redefining the contract

These are my comments for now, without having digested any more than a taste of the information in my control.

The though crossed my mind as to posting the locations of the cameras... But wait, wouldn't that be telling unscrupulous persons how to avoid the tracking? Perhaps, but the cameras are obvious and all one has to do is to plot routes into town and if they see a camera, recalculate, recalculate, recalculate. Hint... try the side streets.

FYI, Michigan City and South Bend... and many other local communities also partner with FLOCK.

10/09/2024

Time to file a FOIA with the City of LaPorte requesting information regarding their arrangement with Flock Safety as well as the locations of all the cameras, their purpose (plate readers and otherwise) and perhaps other misc info involved.

Perhaps I should check other entries into the city as well.

09/20/2024

The Laporte Sunflower Festival is underway with the festival eve entertainment with NAWTY on the main... And only stage.
If I post the video here, Facebook will probably delete it for copyright violations, however by posting it to YouTube and linking it here, YouTube will probably let the original copywriter holder monetize it but allow the video to stay up.
Here is Nawty killing it with Barracuda.

Barracuda, the opening "sound check" for Mary at the Laporte Sunflower Festival. Downtown Laporte

09/20/2024

Amazing.... I never... NEVER knew!!! :O

Looking at some One... ONE Hit Wonder playlists... well, in this instance, a SINGLE playlist of ONE hit wonders, I find Smash Mouth at #2, #53 and #155, Weezer at #17 and #26, REM at #47, #154 and #158, Back Street Boys at #86 and #89... along with others like Santana, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Alanis Morrissette, Everclear, 4 Non Blondes, Gin Blosoms and Third Eye Blind. On this same list I fail to find Vehicle by Ides Of March... And I guess I'll leave it up to each and everyone else with their own opinion of if Devo qualifies as a one hit wonder with Whip It.
Falco is also there with Amadeus... yeah, that was a number one, but Der Kommisar also hit the US charts before After The Fire came out with an English version of same....
OTOH, I guess Nena belongs on the One Hit Wonders list since they/she only had one song on the US charts... actually two, the English version of 99 Balloons a year later than 99 Luft Balloons got airplay but didn't make the charts... although Nena (she) does have some other popular songs in Germany... including one with One Hit Wonder Kim Wilde (Kids In America) " Anyplace, Anywhere, Anytime."
So really, are there truly any One Hit Wonders out there? Perhaps Plastic Bertrand Band... although they do cover Peter Schilling (who was also covered by David Bowie) doing Major Tom. So not only is there a German and an English version, but a French version as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TjK84APbDg

09/02/2024

Don't you just hate it when you have a table and some rude alpha hotels decide that standing in front of you blocking the view of the band for everyone behind them is just fine?

07/06/2024

A bit concerning. I noticed today the Indiana DNR has attached itself to the Shirley Heinz Land Trust. I'm understanding that this is in the capacity of a Nature Preserve and not as a State Park, however I'm also wondering if the DNR's overly aggressive entry and parking structure might at some point apply to the preserves. Imagine if I had to pay DNR $2 each time I stepped a foot over my property line. (Which is shared for about 300 ft with Ambler Flatwoods.)... Or $7 to park in the small 5 space lot off of Meer Road.
https://www.in.gov/dnr/state-parks/rates-and-fees/entrance-fees/

06/01/2024

It's a few months old, but it's a classic... and in Indiana at that..... besides, I'm not sure how many subscribers Mike Norton of KULT News mentioned, but when he reaches a certain number (perhaps it was 60K) he has said he will extend a ring to his counterpart, Stacie, both seen in this uncontroversial video (unlike the video where he was arrested for videoing through a bank's window in Indy.)

Perhaps this will serve as butthurt cream for Sgt Brown of Indy...

https://youtu.be/pR2fg5S14bw?si=b-SKnHNjRkrjpcYb&t=567

This clip has nothing to do with GA, it's the bonus footage at the end of that episode.... so go get your fudge packed!

KULT News visited Savannah, GA on March 22, 2024 and we found a visually stunning city with very few people seemingly paranoid about a man with a camera. And...

05/26/2024

So who do you tell when your bank is under cyber attack? Hmm, he customer service number.... the only alive destination on thei Saturday night of Memorial Day weekend is the FRAUD department. FYI, it is overseas and from all the help they were able to give me, I am able to extrapolate he notion that if my house is on fire, I should call the fire department the next business day.
After 30 minutes on the phone, I did get through to a supervisor, but I didn't get through to her. "Do you have an onshore contact if their is a situation you can't resolve? Am I correct in assuming you are offshore, in the Philippines?" She replied "We are offshore."
Hoping to spark some emotion, I asked if perhaps I should just call the CEO or other bank board member this holiday evening and let them know... Didn't work in getting an IT number from them, or some other onshore contact they may have... they MUST have.
Well, I posted on their FB page on Memorial Day Weekend posting, the situation and the lack of any way to contact them, and tagged one of their board members. (Couldn't find the CEO's FB, but got a former bank president) with a (Sorry, but no one will listen) after his tagging.
Someone is trying to do a Man In The Middle Attack on Horizon Bank. I used two different browsers and two different service providers and it persisted, and a third browser, Firefox, not requiring HSTS and I was able to get through but I sure am not going to enter any credentials on that unsecure connection.
It appears that they haven't fk'd with the subdomain investors.horizonbank. com but there's no way to link over to the root domain... and trying a deep dive to a url found through using Firefox, still ran me into the brick wall.

05/17/2024

Once people start realizing that the blue nozzle is not the E-85 that is bad for non-flex type vehicles, and it starts selling more than the Ethanol spiked unleaded, will they raise the price!

04/27/2024

Today's weather storms may include us on this third day of extreme weather.

03/28/2024

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