What was stopping them walking by a couple of times a day and ‘casing’ the place? how do you know they haven’t done that before? how do you know your house isn’t already a target?

Yet now Google has produced this I bet people will be very quick to blame them for it, it’s sad. People seem so quick to find negative points in what it quite a genius idea.

You are correct. But round these parts, the crime rate is low, strangers are watched at all times. We know who doesn’t live in our town!

What is so genious about GE Street view?……apart from the massive amount of information to be catalogued.
What can it give you that you didn’t have before…that is of “Actual” benefit?
It’s just another tool that has replaced the dying art of asking REAL people a question.

If we go to the shops, it’s on a Saturday. We do not like shopping and have limited the food shop to a 20 minute supermarket hit, then fresh stuff daily from the local places.

Thus, I often tolerate poor service from shops because that’s all I expect. “There but for the grace of …etc.” that I don’t have to work in a shop.
If I have a genuine complaint then I ask for the manager, he or she may have had some schooling.
Counter staff in the average high street shop (On a Saturday) are part-timers, earning some beer money. At the heart of it, they just want to finish the day with no hassle, anybody with a problem is a nuisance. In fact anybody with a question is a pest.

The last 3 times I have asked for refunds or swaps were all dealt with perfectly, I asked for the manager, explained the issue, got what I wanted. That was in Jessops (Swapped a brand new £500 Camera for same model as I suspected a focus issue), PC World (Swapped an Mp3 player)…and 3 weeks later had same problem so I got a credit note, and the local mobile phone shop, swapped a faulty phone.

So, local scum can view how to get access without “Casing” the place.
I’m glad I chose to live in an area as far away from a City as possible, my area will be amongst the last to get Gogled.

Speaking as a new member of the forum ,may I say this just confirms what we women have always known – there isn’t a man alive who can resist a good knob gag .

…and?

Oh, and welcome.
What is your interest in Aviation? Flyer? Builder? Spotter? Seller?

There are certain elements on the MOBO which need fixing with a certain paste. It’s heat-proof stuff.
I will get more info on Thursday (Not in workplace on Wednesday) and post it here.

So, the only way to deport these sorts is to vote for a party that will do such.
Unfortunately, the only such party that “Dare” even say it are the Nazi types, and that would be too far.

I’ve instructed my family to throw me in the compost bin in the yard!!!

Aye, Sharks don’t like rotten meat.

Have you bought it yet?

Anyway, in 2004 I bought the then new Panasonic FZ20. 5mp.
In 2006 I won the Photographer of the year in my Camera club.
The plaudits above re. Panasonic are true. The Image Stabilisation is superb, even on the gimmicky 48 x Zoom (Digital Zoom is always a gimmick) I could literally grab-snap at an aircraft at 35,000 feet and it would be sharp enough to count the windows. (I used the 48 zoom as a telescope only). And don’t forget, it has movie mode.
And now, Panasonic have introduced a DSLR, I bet it’s a stunner.

I now own a Canon 450D, obviously with 12mp and the ability to shoot RAW I am getting superb results but the IS does not match that of Panasonic.

If your budget can only stretch to one camera with no extra money for lenses, I would go Panasonic DSLR “Lookalike”. It can satisfy the holiday snapshot right through to the competition pictures. Obviously, if you enlarge a square inch out of the 35 inch wide picture, your going to find faults but I doubt you need a full prof. camera.