So why not fly around in a plane over the area? You don't need a drone. This is another dumb example of how a cheap toy ( $1000) device is being warranted as a savior. Nope, sorry this is malfeasance on the part of local officials.

Who said police work was easy? I don't have to help them do anything.

Yeah that's how I caught the local assessment district, in the corner there was a faint (c) google with the year. They were violating state law, which didn't sit well with the arbitration board. Lazy civil servants.

Wow, I can understand about earthquakes but still out of the $2mil in revenue they supposedly could get back I'm wondering out of what base? Like $200mil? 1%? Everybody lauds the new technology as catching scofflaws but in reality I'll bet people mostly go along with it and pay them no matter what.

Sales taxes were impressed upon the building materials or were taxed against the business profits of the developer. You're paying for those hidden costs in the price you pay. When I close on a house I have to pay the taxes for assessed property valuation. It's not a sales tax, it's a property tax. I also live in a special "improvement district" with taxes for shit that I don't even use. When you sell your house, unless you reinvest in another property and have a property you then have capital gains to consider. You're caught coming or going, it doesn't matter. The best plan is to live under a bridge in a tent.

And I pay taxes on that, taxes to change a fence or a fees for a sprinkler system. I pay sewer tax, I pay for schools and I pay for drainage and infrastructure.
I pay a commission tax on my Internet, one on my electricity, my gas and water. I also pay Federal and Local taxes for roads etc. Every single solitary thing I do in life is basically taxed. I'll also compare how much I give the fucking feds compared to you any day. My point was that if I put an "improvement" onto a property, that I payed tax on the laborers were taxed on the pay they received, what gives the government the right to then assess, annually, a value added tax on that? I'll tell you, they have no fucking right. Why? Because if I sell my house for more than I paid for it and don't reinvest it I'm supposed to pay a capital gains tax. You can't win, you're taxed to death in the US. SO, dumbass, Yes I do pay taxes on everything and its getting worse every stinking year and the last fucking thing I need is some more taxation or some fucking bureaucrat snooping around looking for some other fucking reason to extract more money out of my wallet.

Exactly it's not like the government gave away weapons to criminals and then they started shooting people. Oh wait. Never Mind.

Yeah, here for our protection.

Fuck off, I don't give you permission to download my phone contents nor do I give you permission ICE agents to copy my laptop contents. The information on my devices belongs to me and not to you. If you have a suspicion of a crime and need my data, get a warrant fucksticks!

camo netting. Where's the nearest Army Surplus again?

In the case of Argentina it sounds like they're flat out lazy. How can you not see a house built on a lot that was supposedly vacant? You have to plat the lot, take out permits presumably and then have inspections. Maybe in Argentina they don't have building codes? I doubt that but somebody isn't doing their job. In the US my google satellite view of my house shows a car I sold 7 years ago. Time to buy camo tenting and drape it over every square inch of my exposed yard area, or at least where I'd park a car. Lazy is when now during re-appraisals (which we go through annually here) means that they have to have an up to date photo of the property to assess "condition" We caught them last year using a 6 year old Google Street View image. That's lazy and I already pay well enough for these morons to just drive around and get up to date information, it's in the tax law for my state and we caught them not doing their job. Lazy fucks. These are the same retards who valued a $15million dollar estate (which was being sold for almost three times that) for $6million on the books. Fair? No. Lazy, yes.

I don't know about you but any drones flying overhead become skeet practice. There's no need for any government to use this shit on their citizens. The root cause here is taxation and I get that but governments around the world need to get out of peoples' collective pockets. Property taxes are the worst kind of regressive tax because it taxes you on something that you paid taxes on to obtain. Sure, if a lot is being developed that the government doesn't know about, that's a bigger issue at least here in the US. Building codes etc. may be violated and it could be unsafe. If that's happening in Argentina then its very poor and lazy government workers who didn't catch that in the first place. Building a pool or a deck with money I'm taxed already when earning, then turning around and taxing me for the added valuation for that improvement amounts to theft. Because of that kind of mentality when my neighbor builds a $70,000 pool, deck, outdoor kitchen etc. The dumbshit taxing authorities say that improvement is only worth $20,000 (real case here) and tax him only based on that amount not what he spent. When the guy goes and sells his house goes for $100+K more than mine because of the improvement. That then causes the retarded taxing authority to say now that my house is worth $100K more too and will tax me on that valuation. That's called tax creep where the government raises your taxes based on what your neighbors do. How fair is that? Not at all.

Its stale. I've got news for you Google Street View and Satellite images can be years old. If I were relying on it for up to date information then I'd be mistaken. My house on street view was taken in 2010. A lot has changed since then.

You haven't taken anything but you have deprived the powers that be of being able to tax you for something which you purchased with taxed funds. Property taxes to me are one of the evil problems we have. Considering the construction crews who built it payed income tax as well as the materials probably all had taxes on those including sales taxes. Governments these days aren't happy unless they squeeze every last penny out of you.

Google Street View, Google Satellite View are all now being used by lazy local governments.

that's Xen and Xen != VMWare but it works for about 99% of the workloads out there. From what I received it's a cold restart not a simple reboot. Periodically they upgrade hardware/software and once a month we go through a cold restart an all of our AWS instances. It's easy with the right tools.