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Using R44 And A PowerBook To Bust Illegal Seawalls
Sylvestre writes "Ken Adelman, founder of TGV and Network Alchemy, is using a digital camera, helicopter, and a Power Book to take a high resolution photograph every 500 feet down the California coast. The goal? Busting people putting up illegal sea walls. The catch so far? One golf course covered the beach with boulders. Also of note: the website has 44 gigs of photos so far, runs on solar power, and is Microsoft Free. Best use of technology I've seen all month!"
3 posts and ./ed .. hehehe.. sombody quick take a picture
Apple is the weaker of the two. Two roughly equal bad guys who fight among themselves => a much better situation than one bad guy who has time to focus on crushing the little guys.
I find it rather amusing (in a sad way) that some people are "proud of not using any Microsoft products" (which are made by well-fed and well-paid programmers) but don't have any problems with using, wearing or even advertising "Nike products", for example (which are made by exploited workers - often children - in 3rd world countries).
It seems to me that some people confuse morality with fashion.
Being "Microsoft-free" should not be an end in itself, or something to brag about. There are plenty of good (positive) reasons to use other operating systems and open-source software; you shouldn't use them simply to be "Microsoft-free", that's an insult to the developers.
RMN
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>I know the Prius has a longer range than a gas-only car.
Basically, a hybrid car is only half a solution. If it's going to use gas, it's a little pointless -- I already own an economy car, and when I looked at the prius it's only going "save" the environment (ok, my pocket book) about another 20% - 30% (and most of that only during the city part of the drive). It's something, but in the end it's just nothing, even if everyone saved 20% the effect isn't going to be that spectacular.
And I know enough about batteries to know they'll be at about 50% of capacity (at best) when the electrolyte nears freezing temperatures. And I've read enough about 100% electric cars to know that a 2-hour run without a recharge isn't bad. And since my round trip is already an hour, a completely electric vehicle just doesn't cut the mustard.
Now, when I can actually get my hands on a Hydrogen powered vehicle, then I'll be a lot more interested.
>I don't know enough about your local situation to comment intelligently about it. For example, I don't know if trains are feasable or desirable.
Trains aren't much of a problem, except since they were never well integrated into the city, it's too late to add them now. The majority of the train tracks run through the city, with one or two stops. There's probably a Kitchener-Waterloo map on mapquest, if it matters.
>Yup, and without all that shit life just ain't worth living is it?
So, just a minute, you're telling me I should live an undereducated and sub-par lifestyle because my desire to become more educated in satellite receiving technology is harming the environment in a roundabout way?
That seems mighty unfair. I think I would ask everyone to stop buying/making/working on computers too, since these encourage factories to use all those horrible chemicals that do far more damage to the environment than my car's tailpipe, not to mention the electricity required to power today's mean machines. Everyone should be using a C64. Now there's a machine you could power with a battery.
>Now fucks like you have decided to move up there year-round, mostly fucking yuppies who can't handle the 'din' of the city so they want to fuck up the mountains with Wal-marts and strip malls.
Fucks like me, eh? You don't seem to get it. That pisses people like me off and we just don't end up on your side, even if you do stop talking trash. I've seen it so many times. I've seen people who once support greenpeace (etc) quit when they finally become the enemy-du-jour.
Two, I really don't care about noise. I already explained my reasons for being here, and it actually has nothing to do with wal-marts or strip malls.
Three, I actually don't care if you enjoy time away from civilization. In fact, in contrast to you suggesting we suburbanites have "fucked up" your wal-mart free atmosphere, I would say we've improved it. Nothing like a convenient convenience store, IMHO.
>I'm just irritated with people like you who want to blame everyone else but yourself and still bitch about the pollution and the traffic.
I bitch and blame about the pollution and traffic because there _are_ ways to easily solve these problems _and_ keep everyone happy. In fact, I bitch the most because so few people seem to understand all it takes is to properly co-ordinate a public transport system, and it'll be used. Instead I hear unhelpful whines like "Destroy the economy by selling all your suburban homes and live in Arcologies in the city", or "Don't make another road, you'll squash some frogs." Now, if frogs were in any danger of becoming rare, I might agree. But they just aren't! And that road is required to increase the efficiency of traffic, and therefore the efficiency of public transport.
Can I do something about it? No. I don't live in the city, and therefore don't get a lot of say in how it operates, even if it is just a hop, skip and a jump from my door.
>Wake up, your lifestyle is part of the problem.
No, people implementing poorly thought out solutions, and listening to people who would rather us all walk to work from inside some kind of inhuman arcology, is the problem, since that just isn't going to happen. People will die of smog before you can force them to be jailed up like that. [And force/jail are the right words, since few people would willingly live there.]
Give me a bus and I'll take it. Just make sure it gets me there within 2x the time it takes to drive to the destination. It isn't hard, and many other cities have done a beautiful job of it (even Toronto, which still has a poor transport system, at least has one that can do this).
>If you don't want to change anything in YOUR life stop whining and suck up the smog.
Why change my lifestyle when there's better solutions which will ultimately save everyone money?
I am not your enemy. I am willing to co-operate. I simply think there's solutions out there that leave everyone relatively satisfied, rather than a few extremely happy, and the rest of us miserable.
And, if I may also use the words, wake up and smell the burgers. America will either drown in it's love for simple and fast, or someone will figure out a compromise that lets us keep it all. Option number two seems best, especially since it's not too hard to do.
Just my two cents.
If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC