Machines Think They Know Everything
“On January 25, 2010, the National Archives announced in the Federal Register that filming, photographing, and videotaping by the public will be prohibited in all exhibition areas in the National Archives Building, Washington, DC, beginning February 25, 2010. [. . .] In spite of a more than 30-year-old regulation explicitly stating that flash photography was prohibited, prominent signs stating the policy throughout the exhibition areas, and security guards reminding the public, Archives staff estimated that the documents were subjected to approximately 50,000 flashes a year. While enforcement of this policy has always been a National Archives priority, new cameras with automatic flash have made the policy almost impossible to enforce.” (link)
Vader
March 22, 2011
His Majesty: “So America’s founding documents can’t endure the light of day?”
His Majesty’s sense of humor is a bit mordant for me at times.
John Mansfield
March 22, 2011
This has the makings for spinning of a good rumor. Something about the flashs just being an excuse to reduce public scrutiny from the nefarious plan to ALTER THE CONSTITUTION! Each night a secret team of forgers, part of the archive’s black budget, modifies another clause. Why go to such trouble, you may ask, when we already have a judicial branch that manages the task just fine without running a graveyard shift? That’s what they want you to ask! Classic misdirection, getting you to worry about the Constitution instead of what they’re really up to.