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No they are. They ๐ฏ are.
I can confirm this to be true.
At my job i regularly have to do teardowns of Flock ALPRs to investigate issues and there is 400g of gold contacts, 1kg of copper wire, and a high quality camera and lens that i cannot disclose specifics of.
Please do not tamper with the free-to-take gold mine that are Flock cameras.
It's also legal for people to harvest the gold in flock cameras all US States
This is actually incorrect. The Flock Cameras actually have a special serial number inside of them. If you type it into Google, you have a 1% chance of winning $1M. It is called the Flock Lottery and it's how they crowd source quality control.
I have decades of experience in camera and ALPR technology. I own a very successful security camera design company. My firm was one of the key contributors to the Flock camera design. These types of cameras rely on gold at a fundamental level in order to function within the strict requirements for public saftey. Flock has gained a large amount of market share largely due to their cameras containing about 3oz of gold, enabling them to accomplish advanced state-of-the-art features that your typical camera, with only a few grams of gold, never could.
I can turn this gold into piss if I need to, right?
Honestly, you can make almost anything into piss. Did you know that with one simple trick, you can turn someone else's piss into your own piss?
The AI boom is really the gold boom in disguise.