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New Jersey Bans Smiling in Driver's License Photos | |
| Stu Offer Upgrade  User ID: 16666051  United States09/21/2012 05:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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| ReVbo™ User ID: 24170099 United States09/21/2012 05:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I thought they were all doing that now. Alabama wouldn't let me smile for my driver's license 3 years ago, and I was told not to smile for my passport photo last week. It's because they want to be able to run you through facial recognition software whenever they want. And that ain't no conspiracy theory. It's what the lady at the DMV AND the guy at Walgreens told me. John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1581778  Canada09/21/2012 05:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 22705154 Canada09/21/2012 05:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It's banned so that facial recognition software can be employed no other reason. We already have had this police state tech in Canada for years now. It was funny the media ran the propaganda during the Stanley cup riot saying ICBC our provincial car insurance monopoly wasn't letting the RCMP have access to the facial recognition database.... Ya right lol, anything "serious" happens the gov freely shares that info. |
| shenandoah User ID: 2636202 United States09/21/2012 05:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Going to the department of motor vehicles can put a frown on anyone's face, but for New Jersey residents, smiling is officially against the rules. Quoting: Stu The New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission has cracked down on drivers smiling in their driver's license photos because their smiles could interfere with new facial recognition software. New Jersey resident Velvet McNeil told the Philadelphia Inquirer Thursday that when she went to get her license at her local New Jersey motor vehicle center, she was told she could not smile for her photo. Shocked, McNeil said she walked out of the center. "Your picture means a lot," she told the newspaper. "It's who you are." [link to news.yahoo.com] It doesn't "mean a lot" to me. I don't believe my DL pic is "who I am", lol. I never smile for them, because I can't stand the way they take your picture. |
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| ReVbo™ User ID: 24170099 United States09/21/2012 06:01 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Going to the department of motor vehicles can put a frown on anyone's face, but for New Jersey residents, smiling is officially against the rules. Quoting: Stu The New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission has cracked down on drivers smiling in their driver's license photos because their smiles could interfere with new facial recognition software. New Jersey resident Velvet McNeil told the Philadelphia Inquirer Thursday that when she went to get her license at her local New Jersey motor vehicle center, she was told she could not smile for her photo. Shocked, McNeil said she walked out of the center. "Your picture means a lot," she told the newspaper. "It's who you are." [link to news.yahoo.com] It doesn't "mean a lot" to me. I don't believe my DL pic is "who I am", lol. I never smile for them, because I can't stand the way they take your picture. No kidding. DL picture means nothing to me. It's the only picture I'm forced to take, and I don't appreciate someone forcing me to have my picture made just to be allowed to drive my own car. John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. |
| Herman The Kid User ID: 17951882 United States09/21/2012 06:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | When I got my DL pic taken I tried to look as drunk as possible so when a cop pulls me over I look just like the pic and all is normal. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1396903  You m-m-m-muh-make me HAAA-PEEE. Psalm 34:14 - Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it. Romans 5:8 - But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 24111178  Portugal09/21/2012 06:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 24000290 United States09/21/2012 06:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I think it's different mods and what's going on that day. Plus they have their favorites that they know if they need to pin something they can click on their name and find something important or if they just get a whim and sometimes I think they've just been drinking alot. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 24186080  United Kingdom09/21/2012 06:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 8924323  Australia09/21/2012 06:13 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | this is how it is in Australia. i have to look like a thug in my picture. absolute joke that i have to give the government money for an ID (that IT wants me to get). if the government wants me to get a slave card with a mug shot on it, the least they could do is pay for it for its people! |
| caz13 User ID: 24195273 United Kingdom09/21/2012 06:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Going to the department of motor vehicles can put a frown on anyone's face, but for New Jersey residents, smiling is officially against the rules. Quoting: Stu The New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission has cracked down on drivers smiling in their driver's license photos because their smiles could interfere with new facial recognition software. New Jersey resident Velvet McNeil told the Philadelphia Inquirer Thursday that when she went to get her license at her local New Jersey motor vehicle center, she was told she could not smile for her photo. Shocked, McNeil said she walked out of the center. "Your picture means a lot," she told the newspaper. "It's who you are." [link to news.yahoo.com] It's preparation for the inevitable re-education camps and the future of america in general. Every photo licence I've seen looks just like a mugshot. caz13 |
| SpaceCommand User ID: 1009022 United States09/21/2012 06:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.southparkstudios.com] It's a Jersey thing..... "With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things." William Wordsworth And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe—the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God. John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address Lincoln's economic advisor Henry C. Carey explained the universal issue in his 1851 Harmony of Interests: "Two systems are before the world.... One looks to pauperism, ignorance, depopulation, and barbarism; the other to increasing wealth, comfort, intelligence, combination of action, and civilization. One looks towards universal war; the other towards universal peace. One is the English system; the other ... the American system, for ... elevating while equalizing the condition of man throughout the world." "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein |
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| UndercoverAlien User ID: 24188049  Brazil09/21/2012 06:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This shouldn't be a problem to Portuguese people, in a nation of long time slave traders, genocides and thieves! Last Edited by UndercoverAlien on 09/21/2012 06:49 PM "Do or do not. There is no try." (Yoda) |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 24131199 United States09/21/2012 06:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I thought they were all doing that now. Alabama wouldn't let me smile for my driver's license 3 years ago, and I was told not to smile for my passport photo last week. It's because they want to be able to run you through facial recognition software whenever they want. Quoting: ReVbo™ And that ain't no conspiracy theory. It's what the lady at the DMV AND the guy at Walgreens told me. lol if facebook can recognize your face with a smile or without then the government can lmao just another step to removing our dignity |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 20399685 United States09/21/2012 06:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | SMILES KILL...Didn't you know?    2C-I or 'Smiles': The New Killer Drug Every Parent Should Know About [link to shine.yahoo.com] :amazing: |
| Smile please User ID: 6988499 Australia09/21/2012 07:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This whole has nothing to do with smiling. The requirements - No smiling, looking straight ahead, etc is for Facial Recognition Technology, providing a reference photo for face dimensions. Couple that with facebook type "Tag your Friends" photos, and pretty soon you have enough photos at hand to build a 3d representation of most of the faces logged. Using these its fairly easy to see you can start to regognize faces from different angles, and in real time, if you had enough computing power - and they do. How's that for big brother. |
| So Not a Princess User ID: 1452738 United States09/21/2012 07:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Just put on your burka thingie and smile as big as you like. They'll never know and they can't criticize you because you might be a mooselim. By the way, applause to the poster who said no one is smiling in New Jersey.  Last Edited by So Not a Princess on 09/21/2012 07:06 PM "This has all happened before and it will all happen again." **sigh** |
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we need to nip this shit in the bud