Check out the Chinese social credit system. It’s like the financial credit system we have here, but every aspect of your life is scrutinized and used against you in the form of a social credit score. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System Not looking forward to that. Edit: I thought they were patting people down because the video wouldn’t play. So my comment now seems random and out of context/borderline conspiracy theorist.
Hey, one of my aunts lived in Panama City, Fl. Before that she lived in Ft. Walton Beach. She owned two night clubs and two package stores in Ft. Walton Beach. She got one of her night clubs set on fire by the mob who offered to buy the night club but my aunt refused to sell. She married the sheriff and all her troubles went away. She was once married to a small time gangster when she witnessed a mob murder. She was briefly in the witness protection program. Her ex husband was murdered probably by the mob in Louisiana which I found out about while reading a Look magazine in a dentist's waiting room. I've led an interesting life.
Did I ever tell you that I once had a brief discussion with Nelson Rockefeller at a cocktail party? How about the times that I shook hands with Richard Nixon and another time with John F. Kennedy? How about the time when I was an engineer at Boeing and wrote the directions for the assembly of the box that shoots the most powerful nuclear missile in the world, the Peacekeeper, aka MX, missile? What about my ex wife the ex topless dancer who ran off with a bank robber whom I caught in my duplex and tried to beat the wholy shit out of but he begged and cried for me not to hurt him? I grabbed him with one hand on his hair and one hand on the seat of his pants and shoved him in his car with my foot and told him if I ever heard his name again even by accident that I would look him up and hurt him badly. He was picked up that night for driving a stolen car. Yep, a bank robber. Haven't heard his name since and that's been about 47 years. I'll bet he still fears me. Oh good grief, he's probably dead.
Here's the amazing part, I believe in non violence but that guy just drove me to the point where I couldn't help myself. Everybody has a breaking point. Had he not had tears rolling down his face while I grabbed his hair after chasing him down and cocking his head back with my right fist clinched and I was all set to start wailing on his jaw, I would have done him serious harm. He was on his back with his arms and legs up and looking something like a cockroach struggling against impending violence. Man, I wanted to hurt him. While I was out of town visiting my mother in the hospital, he was in my home drinking up all of my several bottles of assorted booze and smoking my God Damned pipe, the son of a bitch. Had to throw out all of my bottles of booze that were replaced with water and my favorite pipe. Years later I ran into her at the Beaverton Fred Meyer on Valentine's day. I was getting my wife a box of chocolates, some red roses and was searching for a nice Valentine's day card when I saw her standing next to me. I put back the card I was looking at and immediately left the store without saying a word and bought my chocolates, card and flowers somewhere else. Haven't seen or heard from her since. That was about 28 or 29 years ago. And now you drag it up, so thanks a lot. Next time don't ask me about my interesting life it's got both joy as well as pain and sorrow in it. Oh come on, I'm just kidding you about you. I would never pummel on you, well, not today anyhow.
Gang up on Sly? Okay, if you're gonna twist my arm. Sly is my favorite punching bag. Yeah, I think the name of the bank robbing gang is the Sly brothers. I once asked Sly why he holds his pinky finger up in the air while he drinks his beer out of a bottle and he said it was part of his gang's gang signs.
Speaking of home internet cameras... Suspect breaks into Northeast Portland home while homeowner watches from work PORTLAND, Ore. — For Spencer Burback, it took a burglary in his own home to bring him back to reality. "Every day you get away with not having an incident, you get a little more complacent. It was kind of a wake up call. 'Oh yeah, stuff can really happen here,'" said Burback, a homeowner. Burback was at work Friday afternoon when his phone alerted him that something suspicious was happening at his home miles away on Northeast 102nd Avenue. He watched in real-time the surveillance video that shows a man casually walking into Burback's backyard. He's seen trying to get into the house through the door, but he realized it was locked. The suspect then walks to the backside of the house and a few minutes later, he shows up with a pair of garden shears to pry open one of the back window. He then grabs a chair and climbs into the house. Police say by the time officers got there, the suspect was gone, leaving a mess at Burback's home. The link has the videos: https://nbc16.com/news/local/suspect-breaks-into-home-while-homeowner-watches-from-work
I just installed a security camera a couple days ago. Now, I can watch activity with either my cell phone or my wife's camera.
I've started checking around on these. Have you spent any time in the Wyze forums? It's pretty fricken entertaining! Super Nerds everywhere; hacking their cameras, sensors and stuff. Putting in telefoto lens's. Opening garage doors with the plugs. Cool shit.... (And some kinda funny)
Screw it. I did the research. This is BY FAR the cheapest way to go. 4 WiFi cameras with motion and night vision (two with 32G cards), two door/window sensors, a motion sensor, and a bridge. 147 bucks at Home Depot. Alerts and video sent right to my phone, with no Alexa, Google, or any of that crap. Free. Probably cheaper on the Wyze site, but I'm setting it up right now. No waiting. Cool stuff....
BTW- Your little thread @EL PRESIDENTE , just cost me 147 bucks. It did save me HUNDREDS, if not more though. That "Ring" stuff looks great, but man; this does the same for way cheaper. Thank you.
Got my WYZE set up and going. 2 regular cams 2 pan cams I like the Pan Cams so much better. Also got 4 Wifi Switches, which work great. May get some lightbulbs for the kitchen, but not sure yet. I may want to do a wifi wall switch though.
I am still messing around with locations for the cams, but I am seriously impressed with the system. Especially how seamless it swaps, when my cel goes from our WiFi network to 4G cel service. The cards for constant recording are a must have too. Gonna take back one cardless cam to get one with the chip. (Yeah, I could just buy any card to shove in it- I'd rather just use one of theirs). Having the 24 hour recording is way better than just the 12 second motion. I haven't looked into the pans. What's better? Do they track motion on their own? I'll check them out.... Are yours outside?
All inside. The pan ones you can control with your phone to point in different areas while you are gone. Good if you have a big room that won't fit on one cam.
