The Revolution Will Be Mapped | GIS mapping technology is helping underprivileged communities get better services — from education and transportation to health care and law enforcement — by showing exactly what discrimination looks like.
The Revolution Will Be Mapped | GIS mapping technology is helping underprivileged communities get better services — from education and transportation to health care and law enforcement — by showing exactly what discrimination looks like. miller mccune
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wow. this would provide great document/reference for all kinds of legal cases, arguments and project programming. can't wait to see california map completed.
we need a freedom of gis data act! thanks Javier!
Have you lot not figured out yet that equal rights means that the middle classes are being dragged down, rather than the disadvantaged standard of living improved?
Equal rights = everyone poor.
Wake up, the rug is being pulled from under you!
zoo. there is no rationale that "equal" means everyone dragged down, and not that we find some happy middle. in any case i don't think too many on these boards are advocating that we "equalize" everything.
"equal rights" more means that each of us has equal access to justice and opportunity, something that does not exist right now. historic, ongoing, and systemic racial, gender, and class discrimination ensures inequality, injustice. why isn't this clear?
here's another map, from today:
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/29/a-localized-breakdown-of-joblessness-in-new-york/?hp
Very interesting article. treekiller you're right that the info needs to be available.
What they should do is map where the high incomes and low incomes are then redistribute accordingly. I mean its not fair, and now that I have a map I can prove it!!
Have we lost ALL common sense people? No crap the bronx are poorer than Manhatten, thats why they are the Bronx and Manhatten is Manhatten, you really dont need a GIS survey to tell you that - or maybe you do. After all I know a guy who cant shit without his iPhone.
net dude, stop hanging out in men's rooms and jerk on your knees.
how many people you proved communist, muslim or less intelligent than yourself TODAY?
net dude, I think you probably didn't actually read the article. The types of info they are mapping are not so simplistic as "rich here, poor there".
It seems to me that the only equality we can logically expect is equality before the law. In that event, no person would be subsidized at the expense of another. There could be no subsidies - for if every person were equal before the law, then the law could not take from some in order to give to others. If we were all equal before the law, there would automatically be a free market wherein no person could use the law to force upon ant other person his concepts of wages, prices, or anything else.
Equality before the law means that no person may steal from another person, defame him, defraud him, injure him, or coerce him in any way. Equality before the law cannot exist until the law recognizes the right of every person to the possessions he has honestly acquired in a free society. There is no equality as long as the law takes from one person against his will to give to another person who has not earned it.
But that's not what the GIS maps are about, net dude. Read the article, dear.
You mean re-read the article. I think the city's know where the pipes go. Believe it or not they have maps too ones with pipes AND property tax assessments per parcel.
So answer me this, net dude: when you were born, did your parents pay a "sewer tax" to ensure you would get lifetime sewer service?
You know what, net dude, don't even answer. I don't feel like continuing this conversation. If you refuse to believe that unequal access to opportunity usually results in inequality, I don't want to spend any energy to try to teach you.
superinteresting,
You can take about 'rationale' all you want, just look out your window and see what is happening.
The West is being reduced to a third world country.
Equal rights for all.
You do-gooders happy now?
Derek
By your logic zoo, what we need to do is re-institute slavery
ownership of other human beings = no civil rights = everyone is rich!
Anytime you want to do all my work for me zoo without any form of compensation to improve everyone's profitability (but obviously mine first) then I will reassess my opinion of your ludicrous assertion that by somehow extending equal rights to everyone makes us all poorer.
Otherwise, I might come to the conclusion that this whole "unequality"="riches" is only okay if you're the one doing the exploiting and that you are such a rotten businessman that the only way that you can see to make money is to exploit other people for your own personal gain.
I look out my window and see that the people "reducing the west to a third world country" are not the oppressed and downtrodden but rather those who exploit and oppress the poor and downtrodden.
Crowbert,
Im my book we are all the oppressed and downtrodden, living for the nexts months salary.
The elites control us as much as people in the 'third world' and what they are doing at the moment is reducing our standard of living. Yet with this happening, i still hear the do-gooders calling out for the elite to reduce our standards even more. The do-gooding middle class are asking for their own chains.
Derek
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