Re: ID theft ring victimized patrons at unnamed Jersey City restaurants
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The banks are not trying to keep ahead of the hackers. There is no attempt to add security mechanisms to these cards. The cards were copied by scanning them through the same machine used to scan them to make a purchase. This has been possible for decades. It's not like it's an arms race here, the banks just don't care. Anyway anyone mature enough to have a bank account and be making purchases is able to understand the risks of using a debit card habitually. Not to mention the failure to improve your credit score by not showing credit card use when you could have. Actually no one should be learning at this point in the game about skimmers being attached to ATMs, or about waiters copying cards while they carry them away. This has been public knowledge for years and is in the news every few months. I wonder sometimes how people can be so unaware of the world.
Posted on: 2009/8/29 17:25
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Re: ID theft ring victimized patrons at unnamed Jersey City restaurants
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I actually saw someone put a $1-and-change purchase on a credit card the other day. They weren't even embarrassed.
Posted on: 2009/8/29 17:20
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Re: NJ transit to build pedestrian bridge from Hoboken to Newport
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It's to keep people from traveling between Hoboken and JC. On countless occasions, I have decided to stay in JC or go to NY rather than go to Hoboken, because the walk back would be late at night when it's simply not safe. Even doing that walk in the daytime surpasses what some people consider reasonable. It's safe to say that the waterfront walkway would be far safer than waking by Holland Gardens, Discount Liqour And Bar, or one of the crack spots.
Posted on: 2009/8/27 15:59
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Re: Michael Anthony's at Newport Marina
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A typical glass building in Newport kills hundreds of birds a day. It's a bit late to complain about one of the smallest buildings in the neighborhood. 200/day/building: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4134773/ 100 million to 1 billion total / year / all buildings: http://www.awea.org/faq/sagrillo/swbirds.html
Posted on: 2009/8/27 15:49
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Re: Deadly Nightshade-Poisonious to Dog & Children-by City Hall
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Wow, if our city officials are tripping on Jimson Weed, that would explain just aout everything...Did they follow the law when you reported it?
26:2-82.1. Wild, cultivated or hidden growth of stramonium; certification; destruction
a. In order to protect the health, morals and welfare of the State of New Jersey, wherever the prosecutor of any county of the State of New Jersey receives information that wild, cultivated or hidden growth of beds of alleged stramonium are located anywhere within his county, he shall immediately communicate the information to the State Department of Health, and the department, upon receipt of the information, shall immediately dispatch one of its agents to the location who shall make an examination and determination of the alleged stramonium weed so as to determine the existence or nonexistence of stramonium at the location. The department shall immediately communicate by writing its determination to the prosecutor.
b. Upon certification by the department of the existence of stramonium at the location examined by the department, the prosecutor is empowered to dispatch one of his agents to the location so certified and the agent shall destroy the stramonium. The prosecutor or his agent shall not be civilly responsible in any manner whatsoever for destruction of the stramonium.
c. As used in this section, "stramonium" means the plant Datura Stramonium Linne, including Datura Tatula Linne.
L.1981, c. 441, s. 6, eff. Jan. 9, 1982.
Posted on: 2009/8/26 15:21
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Re: Jersey Avenue Repaving Project
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You can thank Steve Fulop and his office for the attention to detail on making sure that the crosswalks downtown are being done. [/quote] Are you saying it's his fault that we have this ugly red fake brick? Great. Maybe the contractors should have paid some attention to detail and removed some of the red concrete residue that makes it even more obvious that they're fake.
Posted on: 2009/8/25 17:33
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Re: Loud Hum in Hamilton Park
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I worked at a place in Manhattan that had a gigantic terrace outside on the 20-somethingth floor. It was so loud due to air conditioning in a couple nearby buildings that you couldn't have a converstaion. The business's plan of using this outside area for working peacefully, meeting clients in an impressive setting, etc, were ruined. This was a good $200,000/year's worth of rent for that portion of the space, completely ruined by the noise of air conditioners from other buildings.
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Re: Loud Hum in Hamilton Park
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If you think that hum is interesting, walk in the back of the Holland Motor Lodge and listen to the strange high-pitched noise as you walk under the power lines. Some kind of power line disaster waiting to happen? Never heard this sound in my life.
Posted on: 2009/8/24 19:07
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Re: Jersey girl writing for Westport News: "Practically in Manhattan, I tell them."
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It's rare that a person is judged solely based on where they live. But it's certainly one of the dozen or so things that go towards a first impression. And face it. If you tell the truth about living in Jersey City, you either need to emphasize other attributes of yourself, engage in deception, or possibly outright lies. Quote:
Really? Explain how this works. A refugee in Gaza decides to be happy, and then he is. I think you're on to something here. I guess we could start by seeing who said that Jersey City is relevant to their happiness. Quote:
Jersey city's an interesting place in that regard. Because it is so easy to get to so many good places from here, it makes sense to live here and completely hate it. If you love Manhattan, it makes more sense to live in Jersey City than Manhattan, because you are closer to the good parts of Manhattan. Obviously this leads to every kind of pathology present here. I used to appreciate the charm. But as they replaced the interesting-looking urban decay downtown with the most ugly new constructin I've ever seen, I started to lose faith. Still, it didn't matter, as I can revert back to the "I don't live here, I sleep here" attitude that I had when I first moved here. As things get steadily worse, as the government treats its constituents worse, as the people here are worse to each other, I'm going to get more certain. I hate Jersey City. I live here because I love lower Manhattan. It's easier for me to get to lower Manhattan than it is for most of the entirety of New York City. And yes, I realize that it is a sign of a generally pathological situation if urban decay, run-down burnt-out buildings, and piles of debris are more aesthetically pleasing than new construction. Perhaps some old pictures need to get posted to drive this tragic point home. It seems most people on jclist live in downtown JC. If you love JC so much, why not live an area more accessible to the rest of JC, instead of an area that has accessibility to NY as a primary virtue?
Posted on: 2009/8/21 0:25
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Re: Jersey girl writing for Westport News: "Practically in Manhattan, I tell them."
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Who never lies about being in Jersey City? Either you have to lie, or you have to include a 5 minute explanation, either about how your neighborhood isn't that bad, or about where it is.
If you've lived in Jersey City any length of time, you've certainly encountered shock from people, and countered it with an explanation that Manhattan is real close.
Posted on: 2009/8/20 0:15
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Re: For Graffiti Artists in Jersey City -- Texting Replaces Tagging
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If your storefront is such an eyesore that spraypaint can turn it into art, you're damaging the entire community to a much greater extent than the "artist".
Posted on: 2009/8/18 21:28
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Re: ShopRite - the place where you feel safe!
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It's probably the best sushi around. After all, it's a grocery store, they should have no problem keeping fresh fish in stock. I will say that I haven't had any problem with the canned food or boxed dry food like cereal at Shop Rite. This puts it ahead of C-Town, which has a woefully inadequate sushi selection.
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Re: SLY PATH COP CANS WOLFPACK OF 'MUGGERS' - Port Authority cop corralled a crew of gang-bangers
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You have no right to defend yourself in New Jersey, so what does being awake matter? You have a "duty to flee". In fact our victim here could end up in trouble for demanding his cigarettes back.
Posted on: 2009/8/9 22:42
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Re: Bergen Lafayette: Tale of 17yo escaping sex attack leads to Detroit Fried Chicken manager's arrest
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She went over to the home of a prospective employer? And brought her 4-year old brother?
There's a lot more wrong with this than confusion over the boundary between neighborhoods.
Posted on: 2009/8/6 16:53
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Re: What Happened to the Trash Cans?
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Exactly. Even more shameful if it's true that our one good Councilman is behind it.
Posted on: 2009/8/4 13:17
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Re: An Open Letter to You, My PATH Nemesis
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There's some pretty reasonable evidence for this. Did you do any research before coming to this conclusion? Regardless of the health risks, deodorant is pretty unnatural if you think about it. But the population of JC that smells the worst is the rapidly growing set of Indians on work visas. Showering regularly is not part of the culture there, and it's not like they are given a handbook on local hygiene at the border. Even Indians who have been here a while still don't use toilet paper. Really. When I worked at an office that had a lot of H1Bs, we regularly had to have new employees informed of our culture of showering daily. We'd always have an Indian who had been here do the dirty work, but I think there isn't much of a stigma towards smelling bad in India, so you can tell someone that they smell bad without creating much offense. I don't think they were ever asked to use deodorant, just to shower daily (or even every other day). You can still smell someone who showers daily but doesn't use deodorant, but only if they're right next to you, and it's just unpleasant. I once walked into a conference room to interview a candidate, and didn't make it all the way to the table before turning around, running out, and throwing up in the bathroom. They got the job anyway.
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Re: Not only the building is ugly. So is the company. Goldman Sachs.
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"The market" that economics classes teach you about is right by definition. It's an observation about human behavior.
Posted on: 2009/7/31 0:42
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Re: Crazy Crack head on the Path
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And what exactly do you think should have been done about this? Do you have an idea for a general solution to keep crazy people off of public transportation? Is it better that they be driving?
Posted on: 2009/7/31 0:40
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Re: Jersey City Cops Injured; Shoot Culprit
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This is the threshold now? "mentally ill woman in a locked room with a knife"? Since a large (double-digit) percentage of people suffer from mental illness, everyone owns knives and at a least cooks sometimes, this seems like an overly broad criteria.
Posted on: 2009/7/28 16:07
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That's an interesting law. Anyone can just call for an ambulance, state that someone has mental issues and hasn't taken their medication, and EMTs are required by law to evaluate them? I'd love to read the actual law. That's pretty surprising.
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Re: Woman beaten unconscious, in critical condition
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This looks like a really minor fight to me. I think you make a good point and have explained people's shocked reaction, which was confusing me. It's not just this city, it's the whole region. I went to public high school in what would be considered an affluent (New York) suburb by a lot of people in JC. I witnessed a fight a day, I was in a couple fights a month, as a non-fighter. The school did not allow self-defense, including blocking a punch, so once you were in a heated argument, your conduct does not change the amount of trouble you're in. People from other regions of the country say they witnessed nowhere near the level of fighting in school that I have. And by all accounts I went to a relatively peaceful school.
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Re: N.J. to focus on supermarkets in poorer communities
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Exactly the sentiment that leaves us in this position. People sleep in Jersey City to live in New York because there are nice things there, and nothing nice here. A&P? It's disgusting. The staff is not nearly as rude as Shop Rite, but, for example, they do not bag the groceries for you. At least places that don't bag everything usually will do some for you when they're done ringing stuff up, but nope. When groceries are bagged for me at any store around here, I have to ask that Draino and bread not be put in the same bag. I shouldn't even have to ask for that. And while I enjoy the chance to work on my Spanish to make such a request, it shouldn't be a necessity. Why are people hired in customer service roles that can not speak the local language? What's going on at the Exxon station at 12th and Jersey, not only do I find staff there that speak neither English nor Spanish, they don't even know how to attempt to communicate with someone they don't share a language with. Morton Williams looked nice at first until I tried to actually shop there. They don't have a reasonable selection of anything, they're overpriced to the level of Garden Of Eden, without the good experience and quality. Visit any normal decent supermarket in any normal decent suburb, and you'll be reminded that what we have to deal with here is unreasonable. Somewhere on some map of the country where all of JC is lumped together into one demographic, A&P and Shop Rite in Jersey City have been marked as "ghetto" and the store gets no attention. After the renovation of A&P it's not any better, just like the Newport Mall. They just did some painting and rearranging. The irony is that Pathmark is the best in many ways. It's 24 hours, its produce beats A&P and Shop Rite, and you can easily and safely get a gypsy cab and have it loaded with your groceries (for a dollar by the kids there). You can't take a cab from A&P or Shop Rite in the summer if you have perishables, because you can't count on them being honest about their time of arrival, arriving at all, or taking the customer that called them and not some random other person. And in the winter, who wants to risk suffering in the cold while they wait for a cab that may never come. (After several experiences waiting over 1 hour for a cab from A&P (repeated contact with the cab company of course), I gave up on this tactic, although I was lucky for a while I assume because Travel's office is so close. It should be obvious when someone calls from a supermarket how to handle it, but no cab company is even polite enough to let me give instructions like "please come a couple minutes early, wait for me if necessary and I'll pay for any wait, and don't let someone else take the car, I have perishables". I just want a normal nice supermarket. Publix is the -perfect- example (well, perhaps they vary as well, but every one I've seen has been nice). Yes I love a place like Garden Of Eden, it's a pleasure to shop there. But I shouldn't have to go to a high-end gourmet store in order to get reasonable products and service. And A&P and Shop Rite both have nice stores in nice towns. They just looked at a map and decided that we get a bad one. C-Town holds the honor of the only place that's ever given me cereal and canned food that were bad, despite being more than a year before their expiration date. The treatment at Home Depot where they want to detain you to check your receipt on the way out is beyond offensive (and they're coming very close to committing some serious crimes when they do this). At first, since they were polite and I had used the self-check-out, I cooperated. I ignore them now, after an outrageously rude incident. They had a line of people having receipts checked. I'm carrying a very heavy item that would not fit in a cart. I paid at the cashier closest to the security person. The security person wanted me to stand with this box waiting in line for them to check my receipt. Nowhere to set it besides on the floor, which would have been a huge pain to pick it up from. No recognition that they're asking for something insane, no attempt to help with the situation. No realization that the cashier could easily tell the security person that I paid. I just kept walking. They lost a lot of good will there.
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I have seen worse conditions in third world countries, but it's pretty bad here. You can get to St Vincent's by taking the PATH to 9th st and walking up Greenwich. If it's serious enough to go to the hospital, it's serious enough to go to a halfway decent one.
Posted on: 2009/7/22 17:04
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Yes, this is the kind of reaction to expect in JC when people speak out against corruption and lies.
Posted on: 2009/7/22 16:58
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Re: More Gunplay: Suspected crooks open fire at JC cops -- July 21st
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Crime statistics are down because at every step victims are encouraged to not make a report. Sometimes this encouragement can be quite vigorous.
Posted on: 2009/7/22 15:57
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If their story is true, yes, they possibly could have tried to negotiate first. And the problem is that I don't BELIEVE the story. We have no reason to believe it - the JCPD is not at all credible. Given the behavior from the JCPD, especially in recent days, it's perfectly reasonable to conclude that the woman with the knife was not the only one acting mentally unbalanced. And while the officer that died probably did not do anything to deserve it, he's not a saint now that he has died. Every corrupt act he engaged in or overlooked during his career erases the badge of "innocent".
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Regardless of the parking-to-close issue (which should be considered blocking the intersection and result in a towing, not a ticketing), driving down certain streets is a hazard.
For example, try taking Erie up from Newark Ave to Hamilton Park at night. You have to treat every intersection as a 4 way stop because you can't see if you have a stop sign, you can't see if the cross street has a stop sign, and you know the driver on the cross street can't see his sign. (this is in addition to the general disrespect for the signs). The signs are inconsistent, for example often a do not enter on the back of a stop sign so that you can't recognize a stop sign on a cross-street. Sometimes the road is painted STOP, not other times.
Posted on: 2009/7/22 15:40
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I've been here 10 years.
The garbage cans are not replaced when they get hit by cars. Sometimes this throws the can a few feet and people use the (now destroyed) can in its new location, but the JCIA only empties it if it's in the old location. Funny, eh. Some destroyed garbage cans have laid on their side for months before being removed (9th and Marin several years ago). I've seen at least 5 garbage cans go because of obvious traffic incidents, and several more go due to bizarre reasons. This is just on blocks I walk regularly. The city needs a policy of tracking where the garbage cans are and replacing them if they are destroyed. Fulop might be able to help. Contacting him is a good idea.
Posted on: 2009/7/22 15:30
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We're supposed to believe this?
Posted on: 2009/7/22 4:23
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