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In Germany, you can literally walk across the French border without being screened. e.g.
http://static.panoramio.com/ph...

BTW, as far as the shooting example, if they murder you, they can't milk you for tax money for the rest of your life. In East Germany, they let you leave at age 60, when you were no longer useful to the State. Who says the US won't do the same to prevent a "brain drain", considering the current tide of anti-intellectualism that will likely send smart, productive people running.

I'm not talking about multistory apartments. I'm talking residential homes with coax strung everywhere. Between that, power & phone lines, it looked like hell, but it was effective.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/0...
http://www.panoramio.com/photo...

Or, would it be more cost effective, when re asphaulting the street, to not add the carbon blackening compound, and just coldpack it back in place?

Whenever you cross the Oregon/Idaho state line, you can tell by the color of the asphalt. Oregon uses black asphalt, Idaho uses white asphalt. If black asphalt absorbs light and retain heat, maybe white asphalt should be used instead?

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/57930938.jpg

We've gotten some big chunks breaking off Dyrhólaey recently, including one that nearly took a tourist out with it. You know, you might have survived falling off the Azure Window, but you're not going to survive falling off Dyrhólaey.

Cuyahoga! And actually some others before that. http://pratie.blogspot.com/200...

Fact is, a business will do anything to increase profits and to service the shareholders, and anyone who thinks that the invisible hand of the free market will take care of pollution, is not rational.

Imagine your gated communnity home here? http://static.panoramio.com/ph... And there is a lot of that kind of shit left over and still completely useless land long after the late 19th century mine companies just declared bankruptcy and walked away.

This is exactly what happens when for profit corporations can avoid cleaning up after themselves - hell, it only makes sense.

Now, anti regulationists - just who the hell are you to tell us that one group of people are allowed to destroy land forever, and not allow anyone afterwards to make a profit?

Not a cent will be made from forestry.

Not a single real estate company will make anything form building a housing development on that land.

And here's a river that used to be quite a tourist fishing draw, placing money in the hands of hoteliers, bait shops and transportaion to get 'em there. - but never again The pyrite created sulfuric acid is so strong it eats aluminum canoes, but there is zero life in the river anyway.

http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1114/707824672_6b0ae79c5b_z.jpg

And the amazing thing is you "regulations iz bad" jerks will blame it on the EPA if they have a problem trying to clean it up. Yet you worship the assholes who made a profit and wrecked the place in the beginning.

If anyone wants to stand up for their principles, I will challenge you to drink some of that untainted by the EPA water at the bottom of this free marketplace ditch, or the sulfuric river - take your choice. I'll even ship it to ya. Can't be bad. It's regulation free.

It angers me, because those telescopes are ugly and ruin the natural landscape.

You should see what my natural landscape looks like now - much different than 5 years ago.

To the South are many hills that wind whips over, this is a windy area. For as far as they eye can see the very top of each hill is covered with equally spaced wind turbines - so you get to see the turbine in it's entirety . To a town (Walla Walla) the turbines follow the highway and they go on forever, I'm sure there's an end but I haven't seen one. Photo from Google Earth http://www.panoramio.com/photo...

Further insulting, this area is known for it's cheap hydro electric power. Dams along the Snake river and Columbia river, which only allow the strong salmon to survive (a barb - but one mention of the dams and it normally comes up).

After the 1983 Beirut Barracks bombing that killed "241 American servicemen: 220 Marines, 18 sailors and three soldiers" Areas of high security have barriers put in place so you have to weave, no more straight shots.

But using Google Earth I get pillars that autos can't get between
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/82858047?source=wapi&referrer=kh.google.com

For a car to set them off defeats their purpose. Her cars front end wasn't damaged, even after the chase
her front end looks to be fully intact, and these pillars are seen as well in the pictures of the event.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2442703/Miriam-Carey-Woman-killed-outside-Capitol-Hill-trying-ram-gates-White-House.html

Yet they still refer to it as a ramming. "The Connecticut woman who rammed a White House barrier with her young daughter in the car before being gunned down by police was suffering from postpartum depression after giving birth last year, her mother has revealed."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2442703/Miriam-Carey-Woman-killed-outside-Capitol-Hill-trying-ram-gates-White-House.html

Beirut Barracks bombing:
The 19-ton Mercedes-Benz truck then passed between two sentry posts, passed through an open vehicle gate in the perimeter chain-link fence, crashed through a guard shack in front of the building and smashed into the lobby of the building serving as the barracks for the 1st Battalion 8th Marines (BLT). The sentries at the gate were operating under rules of engagement which made it very difficult to respond quickly to the truck. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Beirut_barracks_bombing

You can build things without degrees. I'm pretty sure that the Greeks who built the 2800+ year old caravan bridge didn't have engineering degrees, and that has survived continuous use from the time of Homer to commuter buses.

we both felt a bit odd as there wasn't a need to. It's a statue and a statue is free game

Federal claims court disagrees, it's in the freedom of panorama link you replied to. I'm not sure why you would think otherwise when it has just been pointed out to you.

Was rushed the first reply and a "canned response". This time I did take the time to read the links provided:
"For artworks, even if permanently installed in public places, the U.S. copyright law has no similar exception,
and any publication of an image of a copyrighted artwork thus is subject to the approval of the copyright holder of the artwork."

I'll get the darn photo(s) approved. I'm certain the wish of the reconstructors as well as "The Friends of the Library" was for this to be in the
public domain and why the plaque was added to the photo.

I'm sure wikipedia wished to use the photo as it was removed, replace with a pile of bones, which were replaced again
by the photo until it's deletion date. Now the wikipedia entry is drab looking, it's been cut rather heavily -a good 3/4's of it gone from when I was monitoring it,

I was going to submit this photo as a snub for the photo's rejection http://i42.tinypic.com/34xf6lj.jpg (Photo: Nature trail informative sign of the Kennewick Man); as well as upload it to Google Earth http://www.panoramio.com/ as I do many photo's I take. even it's copyright is in question at this point.

Here is the glass and steel climate controlled edifice this work emerged from. Right next to "Hot Metal " bridge in downtown Pittsburgh. Who must have once lived here to name a thing thus?

La La land office people indulging a gentle decline from the comfort of their ancestors wealth.

Here ya go, Prof Chomsky - here are some pictures of statues built in homage to Shivaji, India's own Robin Hood, who fought for the weak and the oppressed - a real actual person from history, and not a fictional multi-limbed mythological deity:

http://www.indialine.com/travel/maharashtra/shivajiheritage.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/subratomitra/6073279079/

http://500px.com/photo/5242560

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Shivaji_Statue_Apollo_Bunder_Front_View.jpg

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/27769369

Shivaji's dog:

http://amitkulkarni.info/pics/raigad-fort/picture-gallery/Statue-of-Shivaji-pet-dog-Waghya.php

Yes, he even made it to California:

http://ekmarathimanoos.blogspot.ca/2011/11/american-shivaji.html

Just please don't go around telling people that Jesus Montero was a central figure in the Bible, rather than a baseball player.

Having driven through the Fowler Ridge Windfarm in Indiana, I didn't notice any sound. At least nothing that was louder than the road noise my car makes.

You can get surprisingly close to those windmills. Most people I've spoken to seem to find them quite majestic. The only concern is all of the people that stop on the shoulder to take pictures.

Note: this is not my Panoramio account. I just linked to is as a visual aid.

- Taking a picture of London's double-deck red bus: common place.
- Taking a picture of London's double-deck red bus in front of the Big Ben: common place.
- Doing selective desaturation with Photoshop: common place.
- THINKING about taking a picture of the red bus in front of the big Ben and selectively decolorizing the picture: common place (only takes a semi-professional photographer).
- But DOING it is now Copyright Justin Fielder, thank you very much.

[Insert your worst insult here] you!

Or some middle-eastern men would be still alive had they understood they were meant when he talked about killing terrists.

Maybe he's here taking a "mental health" day.

Cupertino is mostly suburban housing and strip malls. Apple's plan would be an improvement.

As isolated corporate campuses go, it's not very isolated. Just in Silicon Valley, there are far more isolated HQs. There's Oracle HQ, which is surrounded by water on three sides and has a huge lawn on the fourth. Like Larry Ellison, it's an in-your-face statement of arrogance.

Google HQ is somewhat isolated; they now have almost all of the Shoreline Industrial Park. Their architecture is standard industrial park, built for SGI before SGI tanked.

For over-the-top corporate HQ design, there's Excite@Home. Yes, they're long gone. But before that dot-com went bust, they built an awesome headquarters complex on a finger of land a full mile out in the middle of San Francisco Bay. It has spectacular architecture, isolation, impressive open spaces, baseball fields, a health club with Olympic size pool, and a marina. Excite@Home went bust before moving in. The buildings were vacant for years, as a real estate company tried to rent them out. It was strange to walk through the huge complex of beautifully maintained empty office buildings. EA, Dreamworks, and some pharma companies now rent space there. It's still underutilized.

IBM's Almaden Research Center is the purest expression of the isolated research center. It's on a mountaintop south of San Jose, surrounded by open land and parks. You enter through a modest gate, then drive half a mile through the hills, seeing nothing but open land and trees. Then you see IBM's glass and steel buildings. The view of the mountains from the cafeteria is spectacular. Much good work came out of there during IBM's glory years, including disk drive technology and several Nobel prizes. Today it's a shadow of what it once was.

Compared to all of those, Apple's planned HQ is nothing.

Before "people just don't get it" you should realize the density of "big three" Nordic countries is much lower than the US... (land area not being the same kind of factor, what matters in the end is how many people pay for each proportional part of infrastructure). Sweden has 2/3 the population density of the US, Finland 1/2, Norway 2/5.

You should realize how different they are from the rest of Europe (not the least because of separation by a sea...); and developing their infrastructure very much independently, the populations very much paying for it - as one of the most prosperous places in the region, they contribute much more to the European structural funds than they receive

Yes, one look at population maps (vs. NY map you provide nearby) is also revealing.
If anything, those two maps might as well suggest lower concentrations, lower emphasis on top-density urbanism (though that is also how the lowest administrative divisions of the maps seem to be different; anyway, the four countries at the table here have fairly similar rates of urbanization). Also not particularly centred and contiguous at large (but remember, with a mere ~half the overall population density), Yours likewise concentrate near water, plus they display much more of the desirable "beads on a string" layout.
Generally, people everywhere concentrate in population centres. Most importantly, those who do are a proportionally dominating group in connectivity stats - if the stats are poor, that's who they mostly reflect; not the few secluded ones.

Surely you don't think Europe lacks rural areas, with farms and cows? (not so much "affluent suburbs"* though...). Also, nearby you say you live in suburbia* of a 7k city and... could walk out your front door right now, walk for maybe 20 minutes, and punch(?!) a cow.
I live in an apartment block virtually in the centre of a 20k city, and would need to walk for maybe 15 minutes before I could do that (not like there's any good reason?)... but here's the thing, I would be already out of the city and on a dirt road after 5 minutes.

All in all, you probably focus on the wrong administrative level; what makes the real difference probably isn't visible on a county (or whatever the local "city+ or ++" terms are) level, isn't about huge / structural differences due to geography. Heck, the US does seem to have a very decent backbone... (and that's where the billions were supposed to go, right?) But something seems to break down at a local level.

Some would point out less-checked greed; well, maybe. Perhaps the major difference (*and one which I hinted at) is the suburban sprawl (and you choose such travesty), at the scales and issues of local interchanges; a layout actually sort of more contiguous and centred (radiating relatively uniformly around it). That's not particularly conductive to many kinds of public infrastructure, "corridors" often work much better, lower the costs, if you don't want to go with full-blown city blocks. Heck, they seem to be typical even in rural areas in my (larger) region - where it's hard to not stumble on houses densely packed, nearly connected, along the road (not the nearest one with cows that I mentioned, just suitable Gmaps shots from other (nearby) minor villages; overall, possibly at least as close as in your "city suburbia"? ...but mostly along one filament of course, usually at most with very few short branches along the way; not a grid needed to be covered throughout), sometimes even enough for municipal lights

Before "people just don't get it" you should realize the density of "big three" Nordic countries is much lower than the US... (land area not being the same kind of factor, what matters in the end is how many people pay for each proportional part of infrastructure). Sweden has 2/3 the population density of the US, Finland 1/2, Norway 2/5.

You should realize how different they are from the rest of Europe (not the least because of separation by a sea...); and developing their infrastructure very much independently, the populations very much paying for it - as one of the most prosperous places in the region, they contribute much more to the European structural funds than they receive

Yes, one look at population maps (vs. NY map you provide nearby) is also revealing.
If anything, those two maps might as well suggest lower concentrations, lower emphasis on top-density urbanism (though that is also how the lowest administrative divisions of the maps seem to be different; anyway, the four countries at the table here have fairly similar rates of urbanization). Also not particularly centred and contiguous at large (but remember, with a mere ~half the overall population density), Yours likewise concentrate near water, plus they display much more of the desirable "beads on a string" layout.
Generally, people everywhere concentrate in population centres. Most importantly, those who do are a proportionally dominating group in connectivity stats - if the stats are poor, that's who they mostly reflect; not the few secluded ones.

Surely you don't think Europe lacks rural areas, with farms and cows? (not so much "affluent suburbs"* though...). Also, nearby you say you live in suburbia* of a 7k city and... could walk out your front door right now, walk for maybe 20 minutes, and punch(?!) a cow.
I live in an apartment block virtually in the centre of a 20k city, and would need to walk for maybe 15 minutes before I could do that (not like there's any good reason?)... but here's the thing, I would be already out of the city and on a dirt road after 5 minutes.

All in all, you probably focus on the wrong administrative level; what makes the real difference probably isn't visible on a county (or whatever the local "city+ or ++" terms are) level, isn't about huge / structural differences due to geography. Heck, the US does seem to have a very decent backbone... (and that's where the billions were supposed to go, right?) But something seems to break down at a local level.

Some would point out less-checked greed; well, maybe. Perhaps the major difference (*and one which I hinted at) is the suburban sprawl (and you choose such travesty), at the scales and issues of local interchanges; a layout actually sort of more contiguous and centred (radiating relatively uniformly around it). That's not particularly conductive to many kinds of public infrastructure, "corridors" often work much better, lower the costs, if you don't want to go with full-blown city blocks. Heck, they seem to be typical even in rural areas in my (larger) region - where it's hard to not stumble on houses densely packed, nearly connected, along the road (not the nearest one with cows that I mentioned, just suitable Gmaps shots from other (nearby) minor villages; overall, possibly at least as close as in your "city suburbia"? ...but mostly along one filament of course, usually at most with very few short branches along the way; not a grid needed to be covered throughout), sometimes even enough for municipal lights

Before "people just don't get it" you should realize the density of "big three" Nordic countries is much lower than the US... (land area not being the same kind of factor, what matters in the end is how many people pay for each proportional part of infrastructure). Sweden has 2/3 the population density of the US, Finland 1/2, Norway 2/5.

You should realize how different they are from the rest of Europe (not the least because of separation by a sea...); and developing their infrastructure very much independently, the populations very much paying for it - as one of the most prosperous places in the region, they contribute much more to the European structural funds than they receive

Yes, one look at population maps (vs. NY map you provide nearby) is also revealing.
If anything, those two maps might as well suggest lower concentrations, lower emphasis on top-density urbanism (though that is also how the lowest administrative divisions of the maps seem to be different; anyway, the four countries at the table here have fairly similar rates of urbanization). Also not particularly centred and contiguous at large (but remember, with a mere ~half the overall population density), Yours likewise concentrate near water, plus they display much more of the desirable "beads on a string" layout.
Generally, people everywhere concentrate in population centres. Most importantly, those who do are a proportionally dominating group in connectivity stats - if the stats are poor, that's who they mostly reflect; not the few secluded ones.

Surely you don't think Europe lacks rural areas, with farms and cows? (not so much "affluent suburbs"* though...). Also, nearby you say you live in suburbia* of a 7k city and... could walk out your front door right now, walk for maybe 20 minutes, and punch(?!) a cow.
I live in an apartment block virtually in the centre of a 20k city, and would need to walk for maybe 15 minutes before I could do that (not like there's any good reason?)... but here's the thing, I would be already out of the city and on a dirt road after 5 minutes.

All in all, you probably focus on the wrong administrative level; what makes the real difference probably isn't visible on a county (or whatever the local "city+ or ++" terms are) level, isn't about huge / structural differences due to geography. Heck, the US does seem to have a very decent backbone... (and that's where the billions were supposed to go, right?) But something seems to break down at a local level.

Some would point out less-checked greed; well, maybe. Perhaps the major difference (*and one which I hinted at) is the suburban sprawl (and you choose such travesty), at the scales and issues of local interchanges; a layout actually sort of more contiguous and centred (radiating relatively uniformly around it). That's not particularly conductive to many kinds of public infrastructure, "corridors" often work much better, lower the costs, if you don't want to go with full-blown city blocks. Heck, they seem to be typical even in rural areas in my (larger) region - where it's hard to not stumble on houses densely packed, nearly connected, along the road (not the nearest one with cows that I mentioned, just suitable Gmaps shots from other (nearby) minor villages; overall, possibly at least as close as in your "city suburbia"? ...but mostly along one filament of course, usually at most with very few short branches along the way; not a grid needed to be covered throughout), sometimes even enough for municipal lights

How long until I have to pay M$ a licensing fee for using my android device? Oh wait, I own an HTC, I already gave them $5. Damn you Steve Ballmer, I hope you get sea sick on your yacht.

This is pretty close: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/25931549

I'm guessing it was for the Desalination plant. http://www.panoramio.com/photo/7190472

That was probably part of the reason they built the reactor in the first place. (Old school desalination).

Maxam resides in Chesterbrook, New York, has no friends, is hated and despised by her neighbors, and is known locally as the "Queen Of Foster Flats Road."

There is no Chesterbrook, NY. The address is 7 Foster Flats Road, Chestertown, NY. No signs visible as Google Street View chose to stay on the main road, she'd probably have sued their asses off. But maybe she put up this one :]

Cool overhead shot. It lead me to some even more illuminating ground photos.

This barren photo appears to represent the natural state of the island. If you go about one mile there's this photo from the edge of the green zone looking out over the barren island. A mere quarter mile further we find this photo at the heart of the green zone.

I'd say it's quite a striking transition from dry barren red rock to that wet greenery. I'd say it pretty well qualifies as "Terraformed! Like Jurassic Park style." It's all the more striking when you realize that you can walk from the barren desert on one side in to that third photo, and walk back out to barren desert on the other side, in probably less than two hours. I expect boundary is advancing at a decent rate each year, and the area of the biome increasing by the square of the radius.

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Cool overhead shot. It lead me to some even more illuminating ground photos.

This barren photo appears to represent the natural state of the island. If you go about one mile there's this photo from the edge of the green zone looking out over the barren island. A mere quarter mile further we find this photo at the heart of the green zone.

I'd say it's quite a striking transition from dry barren red rock to that wet greenery. I'd say it pretty well qualifies as "Terraformed! Like Jurassic Park style." It's all the more striking when you realize that you can walk from the barren desert on one side in to that third photo, and walk back out to barren desert on the other side, in probably less than two hours. I expect boundary is advancing at a decent rate each year, and the area of the biome increasing by the square of the radius.

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Cool overhead shot. It lead me to some even more illuminating ground photos.

This barren photo appears to represent the natural state of the island. If you go about one mile there's this photo from the edge of the green zone looking out over the barren island. A mere quarter mile further we find this photo at the heart of the green zone.

I'd say it's quite a striking transition from dry barren red rock to that wet greenery. I'd say it pretty well qualifies as "Terraformed! Like Jurassic Park style." It's all the more striking when you realize that you can walk from the barren desert on one side in to that third photo, and walk back out to barren desert on the other side, in probably less than two hours. I expect boundary is advancing at a decent rate each year, and the area of the biome increasing by the square of the radius.

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Skipping right past whether something can be "more correct" or not--I'll meet those of you who wish to discuss it on the 'inflatable hover fort' at David Mitchell's Soap Box--I felt it might be useful to add to AthanasiusKircher's comment on "sinked" as a "relatively minor historical dialect form". I agree, with the caveat that it's still useful to know, as uncommon (or, dated) usage can still be prominent. In Iowa City, Iowa, the Old Capitol Building sports a plaque just to the right of the west entrance (about halfway down the page, the 1840's plaque is partially visible behind the rightmost pillar). The building is a popular place to study for UIA students, so one afternoon I also found myself there, thought it quaint that the plaque had such a "glaring" grammatical error, then corrected myself with a dictionary later. While trying to find a picture of the plaque--in vain--I discovered that it's not difficult to find other references to that "-ed" vs. "-t" construct from the time (everything from Masonic texts to new settler's constructions). Having been born several generations too late (and not grammar's bitch for the most part), I couldn't possibly comment on the dialect's influence...but they did put it on a rather important building for the time.

Still, I'm definitely not arguing for anything other than, e.g., swim/swam/swum. "Swimmed", to me, just sounds wrong--and in support of your BS call, it would appear the BBC agrees.

Fuel? They use windmills so that their wooden shoes don't get wet. Sure, in the Netherlands everybody walks around like this.

Well. Except the hookers and drug dealers, that is. So about 50%.

Some photos from around Treese:

Chat
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/3579757

Cave Ins
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/3579725

I don't know what's uglier, the ground level photos or the satellite images.

Some photos from around Treese:

Chat
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/3579757

Cave Ins
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/3579725

I don't know what's uglier, the ground level photos or the satellite images.

Some photos from around Treese:

Chat
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/3579757

Cave Ins
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/3579725

Some photos from around Treese:

Chat
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/3579757

Cave Ins
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/3579725

I'd really like to see Google open the API so anyone can upload 360 degree image sets and add to the mapping collection.

I think that was the original idea with Panoramio. They show up in Google Earth and they have quite a few 360-degree photos in addition to the usual ones.

Your comment appears to say that haloes were widely used in pre-Christian religious depictions. That is not established in your quoted source. [...]

Just because you looked in the wrong place doesn't mean they don't exist.

I looked at the source you mentioned first, it didn't support your statement, I asked for expansion. Nor did I say they didn't exist, nor even that I'd looked in the right places. I've been trawling around lots of sites looking for pre-Christian images of haloes as everyone says they were widely used by everybody in depictions all over before CE. Yours is the first hint of actually imagery.

The pictures from Taq-e Bostan (eg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taq-e_Bostan, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithra, http://static.newworldencyclopedia.org/1/10/ArdashirII_.jpg) are either Ardashir I or II. I again can't find a better image but if you notice each of the old-king, new-king and priest wear crowns/helms with what appears to be a fabric band (ribbon) extending down, on the right 2 images this comes down in drapes from the central crown on the left images it appears to hang from the ray-like crown (reminiscent of Aztec headdresses, http://images.travelpod.com/users/mebiner/2.1230803220.elaborate-aztec-headdress.jpg). In the other images Ardashir's crown appears to have an ostrich feather or similar. It seems a leap to suppose that only one of the crowns depicted is an artistic device.

The fabric pieces can be seen best in images like http://flickr.com/photos/37514330@N00/3202629664 [or http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/16084455.jpg%5D which unfortunately doesn't include the priest (Izad Mithra, or in the Taq-e Bostan page it's said to be Izad Bahram; Izad being the Zoroastrian form of Yazata which means "worshipful" and some render as "god").

It's the best I've seen however, a good find, dating from 300BCE around Persia. I'd want to see other instances of "haloes" in the Persian culture of the time to be convinced on this, as like I said I think it's just a picture of a headpiece.

And you suck at reading too, if you didn't even follow the link [http://home.comcast.net/~taoistresource/art_halo.html] in the "quoted source" you complain about.

You did say "according to this page" and not "according to links on this page". Obviously being an illiterate makes it hard for me to check your post to be sure, perhaps you could do that?

Buddhist art and writings don't appear to exist from before about 100-200AD the canon of Buddhist lore being passed down orally since 400BCE. Whilst that link shows images it doesn't date the images, so establishing a date from them is impossible. They appear mainly to be Thangka which date from a Nepalese influence in 600AD.

The greek image of apollo is one I know, it's about 200AD IIRC (certainly post-Christian). The others look like standard depictions of Helios, being the sun after all, they're more than likely CE. The naive image at the bottom is similar in showing gods of the Sun, Dawn and Morning Star, that they should be shining is not necessarily a depiction of deity/holiness but a simple reflection of their purpose - but they'd be relevant if dated early.

Hindu art is full of haloes, eg http://www.hindu.com/fline/fl2503/stories/20080215250306500.htm the end of that page shows a Jaina shrine from 900AD. "Hindu art" by T. Richard Blurton states that imagery of Vishnu appeared in the "early centuries AD

You might want to look at Panaramio as well..

http://www.panoramio.com/

Or these alternatives

http://www.globalmotion.com/ - ( GlobalMotion Media, Inc. develops applications that bring together the best of online, mobile and location-aware technologies. The company operates EveryTrail the leading online community for GPS trip sharing, and licenses its technology platform to corporate customers. GlobalMotion is located in Palo Alto, the heart of Silicon Valley ).

http://www.wolpy.com/ - ( Track yours and your friends' travels ).

http://www.mapyro.com/ - ( Put your Trips, Treks and Tours on the Map ).

These are just afew websites that'll let you post your trvels, some with geo tags.
If you must create panoramic shots, you can stitch your photos together with the information / software from the above mentioned posts.

This one here: http://www.panoramio.com//photo/1320452

The simple answer: lots of dikes are built to guide the rivers to the sea. In some places the land is several meters lower than the riverbed. This usually doesn't go wrong, but if it does (during very hot summers) the dikes may break and flood parts of the land. This is what actually happened in Wilnis in 2003. The dike gave away to the water and the canal poured into the surrounding land. The canal was quickly sealed and the water pumped away. Luckily most of the land is divided into separate sections, so that only small parts flood. Basically, when the dikes break, we need to pump like crazy.

It is interesting and at least a sad commentary how there is such a disproportionate concern. Here some military site is shown in the open and people complain, even though (as another pointed out) a rail line and highway run right along the fence line. As a conspiracy theory, anyone have a guess what secret, strange flash can be seen in the middle of the base (@ 56 3'16.70"N 4 49'5.95"W)? Look at the elevation, there are plenty of surrounding hills from which people can take pictures, such as at least two on the Panoramio layer on Google Earth; http://www.panoramio.com/photo/1100160 or http://www.panoramio.com/photo/1100421

This was covered just last week on the Oogle Earth site [http://www.ogleearth.com/2009/03/sun_stupidity_w.html] There is a small, old dam in rural south Carolina that is quite obviously to have intentionally been pixelated [35 1'13.34"N 81 0'27.92"W], though there are plenty of user photos that show the thing and one can even use the new GE 5 feature to see old pics that clearly provide details.

As others pointed out, the only folks with an extreme interest in such a place and the means to do anything of note would already have their own eyes in the sky that can gather much more detailed data. More security theater, IMHO.

It is interesting and at least a sad commentary how there is such a disproportionate concern. Here some military site is shown in the open and people complain, even though (as another pointed out) a rail line and highway run right along the fence line. As a conspiracy theory, anyone have a guess what secret, strange flash can be seen in the middle of the base (@ 56 3'16.70"N 4 49'5.95"W)? Look at the elevation, there are plenty of surrounding hills from which people can take pictures, such as at least two on the Panoramio layer on Google Earth; http://www.panoramio.com/photo/1100160 or http://www.panoramio.com/photo/1100421

This was covered just last week on the Oogle Earth site [http://www.ogleearth.com/2009/03/sun_stupidity_w.html] There is a small, old dam in rural south Carolina that is quite obviously to have intentionally been pixelated [35 1'13.34"N 81 0'27.92"W], though there are plenty of user photos that show the thing and one can even use the new GE 5 feature to see old pics that clearly provide details.

As others pointed out, the only folks with an extreme interest in such a place and the means to do anything of note would already have their own eyes in the sky that can gather much more detailed data. More security theater, IMHO.

I recommend Monaco over São Paulo on common sense grounds

If it's a question of common sense, Rio de Janeiro trumps both São Paulo and Monaco. Prices a tenth of Monaco's and kidnapping ratio a hundredth of São Paulo's.

Take the neighborhood where I live for instance. Big houses cost the equivalent of US$2 to 3 million, and a four-bedroom apartment goes for US$350k. Now how's that compared to a single-bedroom apartment in Monaco? How many layers of bullet-proofing can you get for your Porsche at that price?

I recommend Monaco over São Paulo on common sense grounds

If it's a question of common sense, Rio de Janeiro trumps both São Paulo and Monaco. Prices a tenth of Monaco's and kidnapping ratio a hundredth of São Paulo's.

Take the neighborhood where I live for instance. Big houses cost the equivalent of US$2 to 3 million, and a four-bedroom apartment goes for US$350k. Now how's that compared to a single-bedroom apartment in Monaco? How many layers of bullet-proofing can you get for your Porsche at that price?

Thank goodness no one seems interested in aggregating and geolocating all those random photos and combining them into a cohesive image.

Yep, if we just shut down Google Street view we'll be guaranteed privacy in any public location, yes-sir.

Seriously, Google Street View is basically useless in terms of "evil government surveillance". Even if we had Star Trek technology capable of identifying any citizen in a country of 300 million from a bad photo, the chances of catching someone in some recognizably suspicious activity from a single photo taken on a random date from a public street is downright infinitesimal. We're not talking about 24/7 video cameras on every street corner here.

The only real "privacy" concern is a social one: A few people caught by Google Street View will be doing something embarrassing or indiscreet. Someone may find an embarrassing photo, post it on teh internets for the subject's friends/coworkers/family to find, and ignominy ensues. But there are lots of other places to find photos on the Internet; anyone doing something embarrassing in public view runs a risk of public humiliation, Google Street View or not.

Of course, you could try to mitigate the risk by enacting laws which criminalize showing photos of an individual without their consent. But trying to enforce such such laws would, ironically, require a complete lack of anonymity — at least for anyone with a camera — and move the nation several notches towards "police state". Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.

And also high dynamic range.

"Seriously, why let them set the rules?"

Because it's their product? You have choices.

That assumes human beings have infinite solidarity towards other human beings.

It'd be like those "fake eyes" pattern butterflies actually thinking "hey wait, those are not eyes, I can't be cheating it's not fair and dropping their camouflage.

Reality is, most people, at least most smart people weight the pros and cons of going against someone's rules to get better value. Solidarity is there, but it's not paramount.

Do you think corporations have much higher % of legal software licenses because they feel bad for piracy? They do it since they're more vulnerable if they don't buy.

Your average consumer is not so vulnerable to this kind of threat. If pirated Windows works better, he'll try and use it instead.

I think tagging works best in services such as Panoramio where you can actually make something of the photo you tag. Since Panoramio is by definition a "landscape photos" service, tagging public dominion images will never create any problem.

The only way out of personal tagging photo services is if companies like Flickr keep an e-mail address for those seeing their photos online and wanting them off. But they will have to prove they are the guys/gals on the photos. How will they do that? Sending other photos or ID?

A mess...

Flikr is doing that, there's also Panoramio (http://www.panoramio.com/), that even let you see photos in Google Eath (http://earth.google.com). A lot of interesting things are happening in that area...

What about Panoramio, it's a wiki that let's you place photos on the map, and edit the description...

Yeah, this has been going on for a while now and there's a few main players in the game.

Flickr is of course a common one and lots of people use it.

Smugmug lets you geolocate your images too for those of us out there selling prints.

If you use a photoblog powered by Pixelpost, there is an addon available to let you map out your photos.

Finally, if you want to get your images overlayed in Google Earth, you'll want to go through Panoramio.

Now, there are two main ways to get your images geolocated in the first place:

1) You can manually do it by selecting a photo and then clicking a point in the world using Google Earth or Google Maps. While this works, it's really slow and tedious. Programs like Picasa supports this method by letting you click your location through Google Earth.

2) If you have a GPS receiver, you can create a tracklog as you travel and then use a program such as RoboGeo to automatically correlate the timestamp of the image you took to your location at that specific point in time and then stamp that info into the image's EXIF info. Then when you upload your images to the web, the GPS info will be automatically read and placed into the map. This is, by far, the easier method.

But Panoramio links show up in Google Earth, and can also be browsed using Google Maps.

Here are the pictures I have taken and uploaded (not much I know, but I just started playing with it):

http://www.panoramio.com/user/336919

Richard Akerman also has an excellent summary on the currently available software/hardware to geotag photos.