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Officials Use Google Earth To Find Unlicensed Pools
Officials in Riverhead, New York are using Google Earth to root out the owners of unlicensed pools. So far they've found 250 illegal pools and collected $75,000 in fines and fees. Of course not everyone thinks that a city should be spending time looking at aerial pictures of backyards. from the article: "Lillie Coney, associate director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, DC, said Google Earth was promoted as an aid to curious travelers but has become a tool for cash-hungry local governments. 'The technology is going so far ahead of what people think is possible, and there is too little discussion about community norms,' she said."
Liberals don't generally think about return on investment...
Press releases: the newest method for rich people to whine.
Flamebait! Awesome!!!! Look, I dragged a libtard mod out of the closet!
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
In a sane world, if your kids drowned in my pool, on my property without my permission, you, as their parent, would be held responsible for trespassing, and that would be the end of my involvement in it, other than cleaning them out of my filter. Additionally, if your kids are too fucking stupid / incompetent to survive a swim, then perhaps its best if they die anyway... a neutering might be a good punishment for you as well, seeing that as a parent, you're a complete and utter failure.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
It's threads like this that are the cancer that is killing slashdot. Fuck each and every one of you who has made this story into a total fucking waste of my time with your stupid fucking left / right talking points bullshit. Each of you have totally ignored what the article was about and instead have engaged in masturbation of your own ego's. I hate all of you and hope you die of the AIDS from swimming in these pools. Above ground or not...
Hackernews is looking better all the time...