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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!"
Sure its one thing to report something you casually spot, but to run around like some kind of environmental super-hero, without reguards for peoples privacy .. come on seriously. Maybe that golf course has a permit? Now you're going around badmouthing them when they've obtained legal means to build that wall. Asshole.
..There's a-dooin's a-transpirin'
Yes, it's much better to deny people the right to build a seawall, and then spend billions on beach reclamation projects. Sheeeeerrrrr Genius (said in Wile E. Coyote voice)
A better use would be to take the computer and beat in the skull of the head of the Army Corps of Engineers and the greenie-weenie's he serves.
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
That reminds me of the reason they blocked building a bypass route near my area. An environmental group said a bunch of frogs would be killed because of it.
Well, that's just great. Instead we have 20 minute idle times and the city's smog is so bad it kills many asthmatics per year.
Won't someone think of the poor people.
Has it occurred to you that maybe all those people shouldn't have moved to a place with crappy transportation infrastructure? Or that if driving their cars kills asthmatics, maybe the solution is to pollute less rather than destroying more (publicly owned, pollution-cleaning) ecosystem?
More to the point, in the long term, adding more suburban freeway capacity doesn't solve anything. In the studies I've looked at, commuters don't drive less after capacity is added, they just drive farther. They do this mainly by moving yet farther out from the cities where they work.
As far as I can tell, the people are doing a great job of thinking of themselves already. Which is sort of the problem, isn't it?