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Dave H (MI)

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Didn't want to hijack rrlunds post below but, after trying a couple of the sites recommended in it I came to the conclusion that we let too many young, inexperienced people make decisions in our world. Yesterday something went wrong on my computer and a message came up that started out "Oh Snap!..." I have heard my kids use the phrase, only vaguely know what it means, and do not have the slightest idea why it belongs on a computer error message. Those websites below with all the street view images? Gee...sounds like a great idea in concept but I guess we never considered the idea that they would need nearly constant updating. Both sites linked to in the post showed ten year old pictures of my place. Very interesting because I did not own either property at the time and saw things that I had never seen before. Trees vanished...probably ash trees. The one site was very confusing because the aerial was July 2014 and the street view was July 2004. Guess no one thought of the logistics of maintaining a database like that?
 
Dave, I've seen that message too, guess it's a fit all that means they don't know what went wrong, or there are too many possibilities. Either way, it would be meaningless to me if they did spell it out!

The last place I heard that term used was on the TV series, "My Name Is Earl". His charming ex wife, Joy used to say it. It meant the FCC wouldn't let them say what she really meant! LOL

About the websites with the street views... Makes me wonder just who pays for that, has to be outrageously expensive to have people driving around snoop, I mean photographing every street, road, trail... Think big brother could have a hand in that?

I was playing around with it one day, following a very rural, unpaved road. Nothing to see but fences, grass, and cows. As I kept moving along, it was obvious the sun was setting, kept getting darker. Eventually it was total darkness, the pictures went on, just a black field! Don't know how far that went, got bored and left the site.
 
The county assessor likes to use those sites and google earth to check up on any home improvements. Got a post card from assessor's office, they needed to come measure my patio. Funny I thought they have all of that. No I added a 10x20 slab of concrete out back where we set up our pool each summer. The slab had been in 5-6 years. Only way I can figure they knew about it is from google earth. I gladly (grrr) helped him measure and he was on his way. Big brother is watching, and I wonder how many are getting paid just to monitor such sites. And I'm not a conspiracy thinking person. gobble
 
OH SNAP! That must have been annoying! I think I will use "oh snap" in all my posts from now on. Just to show I am keeping up with modern technological terminology. In Bichigan we don't have to allow assessors access, but if you don't they can "estimate" and you will play the devil getting an appeal.
 
I have first hand experience with the assessor and google earth. Had and addition and garage built in 02, asked the contractor who gets the permit, He said he'd do it. Few years later the old woman assessor is walking around in the yard, shows me two aerial views, new roof twice as big as old roof, how do you explain that?
 
What most people don't understand is that big brother has people monitoring the "social sites" on the internet. I know a guy who put rants against the government on social media - and then wonders why the State Dept. won't grant his wife in a foreign country a visa to come to the U.S. even for a visit.

Prospective employers also monitor those sites; they can screen people just by reading what they post on social media. Don't know how the general population got so stupid, but what they post on social media is bottom of the barrel stuff. Intelligence and integrity seems to have been overcome by all the electronic media.
 
The "Oh, Snap" message probably came from marketing, they want the computer to be friendly and non-threatening.

But it does remind me of the old W. C. Fields movies when he would be surprised by something and say "Godfrey Daniel!" to get it past the censors.

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I'm glad you saved me from wracking my brain trying to remember who said that. Trailer trash Joy. It would have taken me a while to remember that.
 
Like I said in my post guys,they don't use Google Earth. There's a passworded program that they use,apparently only available to government officials. Ours showed me a cabin in the woods where the Google car wouldn't have gone. It's on private property way back down a two track behind a locked gate. I can see it when the leaves are off the trees. She was able to tilt down about 45 degrees on it and pan right in.
 
The first time I ever heard that "Oh snap" was from a young man when I was working construction in Las Vegas about 2007.
 
yes ,,. that's the tech that our county just paid 115 k for ,,. as county council member I voted against it on privacy grounds and security issues ,,. a secure government site can still be hacked by techy criminals to find easy theftables kept outside ,.. and worse ,,. by the time the individual is paid for compareing pictures and finding discrepancies in a min-ute percentage,,. the tax collected for those caught would not add up to equal 115 ,000 in this county...we passed it 5 -2,..
 
I needed a building permit 2 years ago, inspector puled up an aerial view of my property much better than google. Could bring up the elevation above sea level. Glad I wasn't out watering the grass that day. joe
 
We might need babies running things to get back on track, I really doubt that my 18 month old grand daughter would make as much a mess of things as all the 60, 70, 80 and 90 year old hacks we have with their snouts still rooted deep in the public trough.
 
Seems a lot of (not all) the current generations want the government to give them things, hence the rise of the socialist who will give it to them in exchange for their vote.
 
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