Dahood wrote:
I didn't feel humiliated when I was stopped and my bag was checked in a subway station. This happened twice. I understand there is a real risk of terrorism in NYC and all citizens should willingly cooperate. Likewise in a high crime area, there is nothing wrong if people are stopped and frisked. It's for their own safety. It might save their own child some day, who otherwise might have become a victim of the gun that was confiscated while frisking a person.

Dahood wrote:
How about stop and frisk? It has certainly brought down the crime rate in the city.

jsqfunk wrote:
I disagree that "stop and frisk" is a bad idea.
Proactive policing means stopping people and asking what they are up to. Some percentage of people stopped will be frisked.

BeatrixKiddo wrote:
Dude..... Wtf GP.. This has nothing to do with JC.... Are you effing insane?... I just shit myself over this thinking people were dying in the Hudson Right Now and getting ready to go help.. Ugh asshole.....you #OOPS#ing suck.... Jerk off



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GrovePath wrote:
At least 5 killed at Reno air show, authorities say

September 16, 2011 | 6:24 pm

At least 5 people were killed after a plane crashed into the VIP stands at an air show in Reno late Friday afternoon.

The plane crashed near the bleachers at the National Championship Air Races, said Michelle Anderson, a spokeswoman for the Reno Fire Department. The pilot was reported dead, as were four others.

Mike Houghton, president and chief executive of the Reno Air Racing Assn., said at a news conference that 40 to 50 people were injured in the crash. He identified the pilot as Jimmy Leeward, a real estate developer from Ocala, Fla., who has been racing in Reno since 1975.


The full scope of the disaster was unclear. Officials described a scene of chaos as they tried to assess the damage.

"We have five bodies out there, but they transported a whole load to hospitals," Lt. Mac Venzon of the Washoe County Sheriff's Department told The Times. "We're just trying to establish a scene and get everybody cleared out of here, and then we'll know more," he said.

JC_DowntownRegular wrote:
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How come nobody ever talks about suburban thugs or rural thugs?

Well duh - because suburbia has white trash and the rural areas have rednecks and hicks.

HudsonCity wrote:
This excellent news concerns the #10 on The Boulevard and #99S on Central Avenue in The Heights.

Next week, trips to New York will have a fare of only $2. From June 14 to July 9, #10 fare will be only 50 cents to the City Line and $1 to Bayonne.

Also A.M. rush hour service on Central Avenue is being improved between 5:37am and 9:06am.

Full Details: http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/index ... 27571912941400.xml&coll=3

Slacky wrote:
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SLyng wrote:

An average is a number. A number can fall between two other numbers (whether those numbers are averages, medians, modes or whatever). Whether you like the fact that he's using an average and relating it to a range is another issue, it doesn't make was he's saying illegitimate.

No, it does make it illegitimate. He's not relating the average to a range, if so where is the average? An average is a single number, it's not a matter of me liking or disliking it, expressing a single number as a range is incorrect and misleading.

If Elmo has 3 firemen, and he pays Big Bird one bean, Cookie Monster two beans and Oscar three beans then, the average wage is two beans not one to three beans.


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Here's an example for you (sorry, no elmo pictures to make this easy) -- 5 salaries that I just made up:
120k
125k
128k
135k
156k
.... The AVERAGE is 132.8k, which is between the range of 120-156...(you know, like exactly what Fulup says in his quote)

Whoa! Revolutionary math!

It certainly is revolutionary math to express a very precise number as a range.
Now we're going to use our imaginations. Imagine Elmo writing a letter to the Sesame Journal complaining that Mr Hooper is charging an astronomical price for a box of Monsterberry Crunch. Imagine the price was $5 but Elmo decides to express that very precise number as between $1 and $10, now try to imagine why he would do that.


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As for your correction of semantics - good for you.

It's not semantics, it's math and I resent the fact that you're implying I'm playing with words to make my numbers fit. If we're talking salary then those are the numbers we are dealing with, we do not include the two beans Big Bird got as a bonus for saving Bert and Ernie from a house fire or the half a banana Oscar found in the bottom of his garbage can.

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You state: "Fulop clearly states 'an average salary between $120,000 and $156,000'."

Unfortunately, that's not what Fulup said. This is what he said:
"...an astronomical one-third of the Fire Department are supervisors with an average salary between $120,000 and $156,000 for each person."

Nowhere in that quote does he say that 120 & 156 are averages -- he says the average falls between those numbers. See my example above for how that math might work...

I'd suggest before you try to rip someone for not understanding the math and/or misquoting you - maybe you want to make sure you're actually quoting things correctly and understand the math. Now, how about we discuss the merits of what each is saying rather than try to hijack the thread with a math lesson.

You do not know what a misquote is, neither are you capable of understanding a quote in relation to an argument. I quoted Fulop correctly and in relation to the fact that he was talking about Salary, not bonuses or overtime. I don't see what your wider quote proves in that or any respect other than to give you an opportunity to once again state, for the third time in a single post, that one number falls between two other numbers.
Please try to be more concise.

This post was brought to you by the letter F - M and the number 120,000 - 156,000.

tommyc_37 wrote:
Unfortunately, I can't open any of the PDFs that have been posted in this thread, and I'm not sure why. I'm completely unfamiliar with these types of air races. So the race will literally just be between Ellis Island and LSP?

Will the waterways be shut down? I.e, can one watch from a personal watercraft out in the Upper NY Bay?

fronti wrote:
The IRL is going to Baltimore.

http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/racing/indycar/news/story?id=5165185

This is on city streets downtown, and nowhere near the prestige of F1

petey8 wrote:
Oh. And that raceway track is not "mostly on industrial land." Have you been to LSP? I don't object to your visiting my park anytime. It is open early and late.

sinik wrote:
It's not just race day, there are endless lap tests by all the drivers to determine the grid position on the days leading up to the event.

Vigilante wrote:
People are dying in Haiti and Chile!! How can we make it about us?! Ugh.

GrovePath wrote:
I never knew what getting 'throttled' meant -- maybe I still don't!

JerseyCityPower wrote:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB5/


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara

I_heart_JC wrote:
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Coming soon, according to Mr. Noriega-Ortiz: a purple carpet to the sidewalk, bearing the Trump family crest in gold; white drapes in the reception area with purple liners; and the lighting of the top of the building to produce a purple-tinted glow.

uh..."Trump family crest"?

erstrecs wrote:
is this ever actually opening?

JerseyCityFrankie wrote:
I just learned that the official residence for the Governor of New Jersey is named Drumthwacket. To me this sounds like the place Tweety Bird would go to get percussion lessons.

DirtMcGirt wrote:
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JerseyCityPower wrote:
THE ABOVE POSTER WROTE:
"If Che had it his way, he would have *NUKED* New York City during the Cuban Missile Crisis."

Well, Che Guevara...didn't do that.

Only because he couldn't. So keep defending someone who wanted to kill innocent people.

Vigilante wrote:
How is a lawyer qualified to determine if someone is insane or not? You better hope she doesn't read your statement and start a libel/defamation suit.

JCLAW wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collyer_brothers

This is trademark mental illness.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsive_hoarding

Sweden wrote:
Am I losing my mind or did anyone else hear a series of high pitched whistling sounds this morning around 8:45am??

Okay, these particular guys sound stupid BUT marijuana? If they didn't have a gun all the police would have gotten for a dangerous chase that could have killed pedestrians and themselves was a bag of OMG marijuana. Meanwhile folk were jumping off bridges and beating thier wives and shooting folk in the leg and.........