Thanks Jemster and Katie and geenab65, at least some rational thinkers. You can't blame everything on the Obama administration or the Bush administration.

This is the first I've heard of the sculptures and I might go up to Boulder to view them. And then have lunch there. Others probably would too if they knew about it. Of course I'll cover my license plate. :-)

Um. I think I said the same thing El Lobo. Read it again. They need a warrent to come to my house. We agree on that. We just don't agree on whether they can run the plate randomly when I'm on the street.

Just to show I'm consistent, I don't care that the TSA checks my luggage to make sure I don't have contraband, explosives, guns or the like. And I don't care that they use technology to speed up the search of my luggage. But they better not come to my house without a warrent.

That isn't what the cops do now. They record licenses numbers they see. Not because the car fits any description but because the car is near them. Just in case. Again, I don't have a problem with that. You'd like them to have probable cause. I want them to have probable cause to come to my house and look in my garage but I couldn't care less if they record my license when I'm on the road.

So you are against the police sitting at a light and typing in license numbers of cars to check for stolen vehicles? Or your neighbors noting the license numbers of cars on your street? If so, I still don't agree with you but at least you're consistent.

BTW, I still haven't heard anyone explain the difference between the police doing this manually and now employing cameras. Do people like El Lobo think that a cop sitting in a car shouldn't type in the license numbers of cars on the road to check for stolen vehicles? Did you complain about that process before or are you just scared now because the camera can do it so much faster?

Where does it stop? Oh please. Give it a break. This is not new - just improving a process that has gone on forever. If your neighbors stood at the corner and recorded every license plate that drove down your street, you wouldn't care. Why do you care if a camera does the same? You're not being stopped. Your license is being read. You want to complain about something, complain about check points where they stop you for no cause and want to see if you're drunk. Scanning your license is nothing.

I would like someone to explain to me how this is intrusive. You drive on a public road and the police routinely run your license plate. Now a machine routinely runs your license plate. What if they hired 100 more police in Boulder City and those humans typed in every license plate? Would that be okay because they were people? I don't get it. It isn't as if they are stopping your car and searching you. And don't tell me that if your house was robbed you wouldn't want the police to scan the licenses of every car that drove down your street that same day. Boycott Boulder if you want. Hide from the cameras. Stay in your homes. Fine by me. Less traffic when I drive up there.

In the long run, the court cases will cause the casinos or the legislature to ban smoking inside the casino. Then the casino will become like the airport where you have to run through the gauntlet of smokers to get inside the building. It won't be health concerns that make the casinos buckle, it will be the money.