Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 02, 2015

On Google maps street view of our street, there was our neighbor throwing out the garbage.

Let’s hear it for Google Earth. Great program.

Imagine if one day all the people of the world went outside, looked up, raised one hand… and gave Google the finger.

Well, you can always move to North Korea. Google Earth cannot find you there

Yep, they caught my cousin out in her robe. First time I googled her address and went to street view, there she was.

if i get caught on camera so be it….but i don’t want to go blind..

Camera shots can be deceptive, could be just resting his finger on his nose, in a thinking pose?

Forget Google Earth, worry more about Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. We share so much, and often it seems we don’t even stop to think about what we share before we share it.

My gosh! Google Earth can even see into Comic Earth? Is there no place to hide???

Somebody has already laid out a big sign near Boise, visible only from satellite, that says “Jesus loves you”. I’m sure there are people who have looked into doing something similar with other sentiments.

“the horror, the horror…” Makes me want to curl up in fetal position with my eyes tight shut and my hands over my ears.

I hope Toon Boy picked a winner.

I always wondered what the vans with all the antennae and electronics on top were, until I discovered google earth. I wonder why they are unmarked with signage.. I knew engineers in my company that never went out in the field to do measurements for jobs, they measured off of G Earth. That was accurate enough, but they didn’t figure on any changes that occurred in the area since the image was updated. ( No, we didn’t use the “live” feed.)

Our rural areas are notoriously inaccurate on G Earth. Street view puts you in the middle of the road with nothing to see but trees and farmland.

Google earth shows a little koi pond in my backyard too. Even though I filled it in about 4 years ago.

No, not Google Earth but rather the Koi with tiny cameras and frickin’ lasers strapped their backs. Think about that Cartoon Boy!

Well, it is just a single, static shot (in satellite view,) or a series of static shots in street view. And they blur your face. I should know- they blurred mine in two separate locations where the street view car caught me. It’s not like it’s a live camera feed.

Don’t worry about the Russians, or the Chinese, or even Daesh. Google will establish the first universal dictatorship….Say it isn’t so! You can’t get on the web without encountering Google somewhere, somehow, gathering meta-data and your personal data….

When I Googled the I lied in 2011-2012 , I got beautiful shot of the sound wall along the major thoroughfare that ran along the side of the property never get a good view of the house

I’d be more worried about spying drones over my back yard than google earth, google at least blurs out a few things.

As for privacy, stay offline and you don’t give up that much. Go online and you give up a lot more. I only go online at work, at home I don’t even have internet…gocomics is one of like 3 accounts I have and I really doubt anyone could steal my identity with it.

Now all I need to invent is a personal EMP gun with a narrow directional aim to take down those pesky drones and not knock who the whole neighborhood or harm anything but the drone.

Google Earth chops and changes street views as time goes by. “Drive” down our street and my garage door in open, go by the house and it’s closed and when you get past, turn around, it’s open again. Funny.

My money says that Rat has a new drone with high-resolution cameras.

No need to be coy about your pond.

The problem with Google Earth, is that they just don’t show enough detail…just think of how many hits they’d get, if you could watch the topless sunbathers at the beach, lol

I used to have Google Earth on my old laptop and it was fascinating.

I’m a private person as I don’t share a lot of my personal info online.

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on the one of mine you can see me mooning google earth. No…I didn’t learn of when they would take a picture of my area…I just mooned the sky that day

Rat somehow has a military account if he can get that kind of detail.

Street view in front of my house has my neighbor who died 2 years ago, walking his dogs. Spooky.

Suddenly, Stephan is getting coy?

If Google Earth imagery gets any better, pretty soon, we will all be able to laugh at every poor old bald guy with a wispy comb-over or a cheap “rug”, and see everyone scratching their armpits and picking their noses.

Fortunately

Google earth isn’t that invasive