Google Earth Street View

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Since Google enhanced Street View (and by 'enhanced', I mean butt-fucked in the mouth) to the point of being barely usable, I switched back to GE 5.2. I just like the way Street View works in 5.2 compared the piece of shit it became in 6.0.

I was almost happy. I was happy enough.

Shoulda just killed myself then.

About an hour and a half ago, I wanted to see the view from the street of a place I know. To the Google! Find my place, click to open the side panel. Click Street View......WTF?

Where is my Street View layer? Don't give me that 'Pegman will appear on the right side of the screen when you're zoomed in close enough' crap. I got rid of the then current version to get rid of that shit altogether. I'm talking previous, stable, version 5.2 here.

The option to choose the Street View layer is gone. Simply disappeared. Been there almost two years. Gone, like it was never there to begin with. And Pegman ain't coming.

Ok, fukkit. Re-install. I even have a stand alone install file, none of that 'download a downloader to download the file that never gets stored on my computer'.

I'm patting myself on the back for thinking to keep that file, while its installing.

Re-install finishes. Start my brand spanking, splinter-fired new, still shiny GE version 5.2.

No Street View. Pegman don't show up, (why would he? He don't exist yet.) I even expanded every single little '+' sign on my side panel to see if it decided to become sentient and it was walking around GE 5.2, and maybe it just wasn't home when I came calling.

It ain't there. And it don't look like it's coming back.

Oh, I tried to search around, see if someone else was having the same problem. Talk about going around in circles, next time you have a day or two to kill give that a shot. All the posts in the forums and bb's concerning StreetView are either talking about GE 6, or they're dated two or three years ago, and are irrelevant (shut up spellcheck, i know how to spell irrelevant, I thought) anyway.

And, yes. I checked in places I knew for a fact had Street View imagery.

Anybody know wtf is up with this? Maybe GE is not letting older versions access the database on which the Street View images are stored? Maybe they arbitrarily decided to adopt the opinion of 'Use this version.' 'But this version smells like Afghan goat ass.' 'Fuck you, use it.'

I'm starting to get the impression that Google just might suck donkey balls.

It's kinda like the internet version of "Goddamn the Pusher". They give us all this wonderful shit, for free, cause, you know, who's your buddy? Then they do the equivalent of taking it away, they fuck it up. And we're supposed to come runnning to Google for our fix, willing to do anything, arm out, tied-up, vein ready for that Googledermic needle that we all love.

It's ok, though, man. I don't have a problem. I can quit anytime I want to.

If I could just get these godDAMNED BUGS OUTTA MY SKIN!!!!!