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EPA Crowdsources Massive Photo Project
coondoggie writes "Challenges from U.S. government agencies are all the rage these days and the Environmental Protection Agency today became the latest group to issue one: Take cool pictures of your surrounding environment to become part of historical record. The EPA's Locations Challenge looks to update a 40-year old agency project known as 'Documerica' which included more than 15,000 photographs of images of American environmental problems and everyday life. In the 1970s the EPA hired freelance photographers to capture images relating to environmental problems for the project."
all the chemical plants and nuclear facilities, and behind government buildings where they leave the garbage. Then there's airports and other public places, they can be environmental hazards too. It could get cold being outdoors so much so I'll grow a beard. And while I'm down town maybe I'll pick up some fertiliser for my garden, or take my copy of the Quran back to the library. What could possibly go wrong?
The worse the pictures, the better. EPA wants reasons to increase its funding and enforcement efforts, but no excess budget to hire people to do it for them.
. . . I call it my "front yard" . . .
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
One agency encourages you to take pictures so another can abuse you for doing so? YAY!
They arrive at between 9-11am, and leave between 2-3pm. At least a third of the offices are vacant or being used for "storage" throughout the day, but at least a third of the offices leave the lights on most of the night. Want to know how to cut the federal budget and improve the economy at the same time? Cut several thousand EPA jobs. Leeching hypocrits.
How much money do I get for each pic I send them? Oh right, it's supposed to be on a volunteering basis, which is a euphemism for "amateurs only".
Don't be fooled into thinking the lack of money will be the big problem. Helping the government find you by submitting images of your natural habitat will only increase the likelihood of being identified.
Lesson 2 in How Not to be Seen is not to choose obvious cover. In Lesson 3, their neighbors ratted them out. Sending them photos of your beloved lands, well that's the equivalent of standing up.
When the foot seeks the place of the head, the line is crossed. Know your place. Keep your place. Be a shoe.
Not a "Project" but a P.R. Campaign
How much money do I get for each pic I send them?
Rofl - you mean how much money is the government going to bill you the taxpayer for, for each picture. I figure $3 million per picture is a fair estimate.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
How about I take pictures of the once-fertile farmland that the EPA turned into a desolated desert and drove 70,000 people out of work and out of the area? Think they would highlight that one?
"Somebody has to do something. It's just incredibly pathetic it has to be us."
--- Jerry Garcia
You are welcome on my lawn.
the smartest, most righteous, safest, most patriotic thing we can all do is not cooperate at any turn. our government has become a police state already. each new stage of this descent into totalitarianism is couched in the innocuous sounding requests for voluntary compliance -- only this time compliance goes further into actively helping them. let's not forget the two stunningly ineffective failed websites from the last couple years -- flag@whitehouse.gov and attackwatch@whitehouse.gov -- both of which urged us all to rat out anyone we might suspect of being "misinformed." each and every institution or profession or social organization that becomes government connected becomes government's surrogate, an extension of its eyes and ears. haven't you noticed how most professional accountants act as if they're working for the IRS and not you. they've also tried to criminalize lawyers but so far haven't succeeded. i read that TSA is going to set up check points on the highways. while EPA attempts to force the removal of insignificant traces of mercury from the coal burning power plants by shutting them down, no one in government seems to have the slightest problem with the far more abundant mercury in the mandated lightbulbs we're all supposed to use, nor do they evince the slightest concern over the death-by-stress that they deal out by constantly being on our backs, in our pockets, listening to our conversations or generally trying to undermine our freedom. they've coming after the internet hard and fast. they want a one world system where you must obey.
What about a whole ass?
Any time you have an agency that both discovers its own problems to solve and then solves the problems it finds will always find more problems that need solving. Just like the TSA, after the TSA was ramped up all of a sudden so many new places that were never subject to TSA searches all of a sudden became "weak points" discovered by the TSA.
This is exactly like a crappy anti-malware program (which I consider malware in and of itself) that tells you about the "critical security threat found: cookie from amazon.com" in order to prove how useful it its poor owner.
IMHO the EPA is the greatest threat to our economy in our lifetime. I can think of several examples in my life where the EPA has caused real financial harm to companies in the guise of protecting the environment, but actually harmed the environment. Here's a good example. My friend works at the Long Beach, CA steam plant. The EPA has dictated that they can only have 2 of their 5 stacks operational at any time. The city however requires power, so they two stacks that they do run must run at an inefficient higher level, causing more "harm" (steam) to the environment than if they ran all five of the stacks at a more efficient lower level. There are at least two other examples in my life of the EPA causing massive problems while not even solving the problem they "discovered" in the first place, so imagine how many other people have evidence of the EPA running amok, causing great harm and no good.
And try telling the EPA their wrong.
Submission fails to note that they want pictures of the same locations as the original project. That does take a lot of fun out of the comments already posted, though, so, please, carry on.
And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good... Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?
We send them pictures of the many ways the EPA fucks our every day life. 5 million pics of high gas prices on the way. I know those EPA terrorists think that the gas prices are too low for their plans. But why the hell should we make it easy on those bastards to wreck our lives?
I thought it was now established that the only ones taking pictures in public were; perverts, hippies obstructing police business and terrorists plotting attacks ?
You take the photos of environmental hazards and tell them where they are. Then they'll bring huge glass domes to contain those environmental problems.
The government has come through again and found a new way to piss away tax dollars.
Why would I want to help them rolling out their globalist affilated agenda 21, destroying my life, at the local city level.
Fukushima hot particles in the USA vs No Burn Day (One is proudly on TV the other is silence) those aren't journalists! they won't tell you your home's air filter probably is a hot object, they won't tell you the daily readings, just the agenda 21 crap SMOG, Polin, Spare the Air Day, No Burn Day. What difference does it make if you have no job, no money, but you have firewood, and now you can't burn it? Oh that's right, you still have a job, you are supporting the WAR.
Global Warming (uh) Cooling (Uh) Climate Change (uh) Global Starvation vs Aerial Spraying with no public oversight + Many Haarp Technology type stations heating the ionisphere and using it as a play toy. The sites are there, we have coordinates. It's not conspiracy.
Now why would I want to chuck the US Constitution, have my oath breaking treasonous officials sign a UN Climate treaty, then destroy me at the local level under Agenda 21 and all the other bs they passed lately, while forcing me to pay the psychopathic globalist banksters a motherfucking Carbon Tax?
Yeah no right to remain silent, no right to redress government.
You'll see what comes next.
Go ahead nerds, help the EPA destroy you locally.
Don't worry about hot particles, or hexacloride or MTBE's or floride in the water, don't worry about GMO's which rot in your stomach like poison, don't worry about HFCS in your coke, or being denied free access (without hormones and beaurcracy) to your own garden, cows. Go buy a slurpee, get a couple big macs, life is short live it up! Yeah the Health Bill was wonderful too, now you can't get health suppliments, and the old DEA is finally figured out to attack the medical cannabis people by changing the local zoning laws and threating land seizure and IRS audit. Yeah, NDAA wisk away, stripped of your citizenship, and a propane torch and pliers bitch. You can't afford a doctor, you finally found cannabis for pain, but now we are going to force you to pay for a doctor under some other fucking system anyway, oh yeah and we'll(the IRS) point the guns at you when you turn in your Taxes to the IRS, "Where's my money" they say . Yeah you fuckers thats right. "WHERES MY MONEY?" All you fscking nerds know ASM and C and GTK and Kernel and bla bla bla, not one of you can audit the fucking fed, or your local bank, or your city's garbage man, or your city, state, how come you don't even know what CAFR is, and why isn't it ever on the TV when they talk about their planned budgets which raise tax, and spend more. CAFR isn't even mentioned.
If you were really smart, you would work on these problems instead. PIPA POPA COTA NDAA Patriot act DHS TSA they all need to be de-activated, reversed, put under the damn constitution. Your business's which don't support the war are dying, your banks are mafia until then. But go ahead help the EPA enslave you.
How about a charge of TREASON for all the people who did the NDAA?
fuck this bullshit
What's the License? (I looked but I couldn't see the terms.)
Do the individuals get to be lucky enough to retain copyright and "license" them to the government? Want to bet that a whole ton of them will get batch-sold to companies for other uses without your permission?
Could this be the chance to show them how dangerous copyright is? Ooh! I figured it out! It's the perfect Anti-SOPA weapon! "Hi Megacorp. You posted a copyrighted picture. Awww, too bad, your website comes down now." -- In theory anyway.
But then, that requires laws to actually be applied to anyone/entity with money to burn above the law.
My first Journal Entry ever, in 8 years! http://slashdot.org/journal/365947/aphelion-scifi-fantasy-horror-poetry-webzine
Isn't the EPA one of the make waste AGENCIES designed to support the GLOBAL GOVERNMENT?
Isn't EPA the congressional Agency RESPONSIBLE to block AMERICAN PRODUCTIVE ENTERPRISE from competing against the Global Corporate .1% SENMACE? Doesn't the EPA prohibit manufacturing and production of domestic anything.
Except for the EPA, domestic manufacturing and mineral production would challenge and compete in global markets. Domestic competition would deny the global enterprises their worldwide, military supported, global monopoly on making money and owning commercial enterprise? The EPA supports the global commercial enterprise.
I think pictures should be made public, not forwarded to EPA, showing "the status of the "so-called" SUPER FUNDS SITES [EPA wasted areas] where EPA directs millions of tax payer bucks, in the name of clean up, mainly to prevent Entrepreneurial domestic American earnings from ever again competing against the global commercial interests. [Go to the epa site, dot gov, then slash superfund].
The damage to the American economy, Environmental laws accounts-for, far exceeds human benefit unless of course one believes chasing productive American businesses into a foreign country, transporting American earnings to far-a-way foreign place, exchanging US dollars for foreign currency and replacing America workers with foreign workers is progress? These domestic economic negatives imposed by EPA are global benefits enjoyed by "global too big to fails".
More and more of them want people to work for them for free. Fire the crew, and open it to the public to fill the void. Got pictures? Send them in! CNN did this. Although they wont admit to it. They fired/laid off and it looks like their ireporters are doing their jobs for nothing. Collecting environmental pictures is fine but I wonder how insurance companies will deal with the risk takers going after pictures in hazard areas? Who exactly will reimburse the ones getting the risky pictures if something bad happens?
No One will because they will claim that you acted on your own. Woe you. But a smart move by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Are you kidding? Photographers want to be identified with their work.
They'll proudly point to it and say "That's my photo!"
http://failblog.org/2011/08/07/epic-fail-photos-environmental-protection-fail/