I admit my own frustrations over the Mech Turk method, as it seemed to be the key thing that limited being able to download the mosaic.

You could download it into Google Earth -- but for those of us who have trained eyes, it would have been more beneficial, less frustrating, less time consuming, and overall more practical to just release the mosaics for download -- so that they could be used in our own list of wares.

For instance, I could have run various processing techniques on the imagery to locate color anolomies that would have been characteristic of the debris - to attempt to localize potential places to key-in on. That may or may not have produced encouraging results -- but it would have been far more methodical to take different approaches. I could have taken about three different approaches in the search had I had the imagery on my harddrives.

There didn't seem to be a problem with Katrina imagery being published for download, but in this case, things seemed to lock-up in favor of the Turk method, or in GE which as I recall was in a new beta release (which I was and continue to have some performance issues with in relation to overlays).

I don't think the Mech Turk method is all that bad for getting everyone and their mom involved -- that part of it was positive to me. The only thing that I think I'd like to understand, is if there were ANY contractual reasons for not making the mosaics available for download. That would be a key lesson, I think.

Just as there is at present, a disparity among all men and women in this civilized culture, KoS -- there is the disparity in ignorance which attempts to nullify the goodness of the acts which aim to apply to any and all in the future.

KoS, I think you probably worked in the worst analogy you could think of in your not knowing or understanding me and my mind.

My mother was a pioneering school teacher -- one of the first teachers from SEDOL. A learning disabilities teacher. If you think for a second that I don't understand the reality of disparity in this country and in our education system, then you would be hard-pressed to search for sanity in the realm in which you live in your mind.

That is the point -- something which, you seem desperate to conclude -- that the dreams of pioneering and dedication to goodness somehow cause disparity, when it is your kind of thinking that is disparity. The rest of us, we are executing on dreams to make this world a better place for everyone we care about -- which is, basically everyone.

And here's a little sense of disparity for you, KoS.

Sit down with my mother once, and ask her about her days in college, when she executed her Constitutional right to protest -- to ENSURE that public access was provided at all public buildings for those in wheelchairs. Ask her about her days as a teacher (I don't need to ask, I lived through this), and her crossing the picket lines in order to teach children -- not worry about her perceptions with the [corrupted] union, while kids suffered and our own house had to be protected by myself and my brother with baseball bats from her unionized 'colleagues'.

Tell me where in your mind your dedication is to the reality of disparity in this country, and I shall cut you slack. Because remember, it was people in power who didn't want public access to buildings in those days -- policy makers, people given power by the people. People who, for all intensive purposes, that were given trust to make the appropriate decisions for the benefit of this society, who continually centered their attacks due to the course of their ignorance, vanity, and their attachments to special interests.

So if you wish to talk about disparity, brother -- feel free. But you're definitely talking to the wrong person about that topic.

And yeah -- don't get me going on this 'No Child Left Behind' crap that this administration pulled out its hat. They should be ashamed at what they've forced onto this society, and especially in light of the problems associated in their causing more disparity in the education system than one could ever dream.

But this administration doesn't seem to think in terms that actually involve much critical analysis of cause and effect, do they? Because when push comes to shove, they're really no different than the same type of nay-sayers who sat in those chairs when it came time to argue about whether or not people in wheelchairs should have adequate access to buildings.

And KoS?

I'd be willing to point out that it'd be someone with your thinking who would take an arguement like wheelchair ramps, and use that in this day and age as a means for terrorists to have an easy way to roll a bomb up into a public building.

But you know, those are just the patterns that I see coming from this level of thinking -- day in, and day out. And frankly, I'm rather sick of it.

Use your head, man.

How do you start with a concept that aims at such high ambitions in the future, KoS?

You see, in your thinking -- in your skeptic nihlism -- you generate disparity. Whereas, the antithesis to such thinking -- and in our acts of doing -- we generate hope for what can become.

It's a little concept called 'leading by example'. Perhaps you've heard of it?