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11/20/09
How, exactly do they do that if you have decent privacy settings enabled?
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11/19/09
Rosa? Hello Rosa! This is an extreme weather warning.
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Jesus, can't I even play video games in peace? Just when escapism was gettin good these self rightious bastards have to fuck that up now, too.
11/19/09
One of the few things my university did right was allow students to opt-in to alerts after Virginia Tech went down. When a student brought a gun on campus and fired, everyone was immediately notified. Luckily (or unluckily) the student only intended to kill himself, but it was comforting to know that I was finding out about this in real time rather than waiting to hear about it on/through the news.
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"While evacuating, will you be heading north on the 51? Then make sure you remember Exit 265 and try a taste of the new Cajun Chicken at KFC! Take this one last piece of home with you: it'll blow your socks off faster than a 12 on the Beaufort Scale!"
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That was the best part with my DVR. It didn't record the emergency warning. The emergency warning just went over the top so you could rewind and get what you missed.
According to TiVo's site they work the same way.
11/03/09
turn a national tragedy into an excuse for war. #ussnewyork
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11/04/09
Bin Laden claimed responsibility for 9/11 after the U.S. invasion. #ussnewyork
11/03/09
Wouldn't a more fitting tribute have been voting booths, or the steel for a girls' school, or something similar that truly represents what separates us from the terrorists? #ussnewyork
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11/02/09
And anybody that messes with this ship, won't forget either. #ussnewyork
11/03/09
Why the big fuss over a better investigation? Took Chaney 5 hours to declare war, yet it took them over 18 months to even begin an investigation into the whole thing.
Just saying. Uh, how are them Yankees? #ussnewyork
11/02/09
Um.
Wow.
That's a uniquely american way of thinking. I feel very disturbed. #ussnewyork
11/03/09
Why didn't you just post your message in German? Because without 'American Imperialism' your European-minded arse would be well versed in it. #ussnewyork
11/03/09
11/02/09
[en.wikipedia.org] #ussnewyork
11/02/09
Miss Liberty if you prefer.
Not sure why this matters to me, and more than the more obvious political matters at hand, but it does. #ussnewyork
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11/03/09
A french sculptor, brother Frederic Bartholdi designed the thing, while brother Gustave Eiffel built it. It was originally designed for the opening of the Suez Canal in Egypt in 1867.
It was conceived as an effigy of the goddess Isis. After being rejected for the Suez Canal, brother Bartholdi converted it into "The Statue of Liberty". It was originally called "Liberty Enlightening the World".
It had nothing to do with "democratic freedom". It was a tribute to "Isis" if you will. #ussnewyork
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But none of that has anything to do with what it was meant to symbolically represent in the end. When it was completed and sent to the U.S. it was meant to be Liberty, in the French tradition. Both for the U.S. and back in France.
A cynical creation, even, with her torch, watching out for the encroaching forces of tyranny inside nations as much as welcoming in the "poor" and "huddled" masses. #ussnewyork
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Apathy is lethal.
11/02/09
You know what would have been a great tribute and a huge FU to Osama. Rebuilding the towers or building even larger towers. (anti-aircraft missiles included.) #ussnewyork
11/02/09
[en.wikipedia.org] #ussnewyork
11/02/09
But just so your comment doesn't stand without an objection, here you go: "Your comment is hypocritical, factually flawed, and offensive to the hard working people of our city." #ussnewyork
11/02/09
@RyaninCalgary: I like this one: #ussnewyork
11/03/09
But really that's besides the point - the target of my original ire was our civic "leaders" who could not lead a piss-up in a brewery. #ussnewyork
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How could I possibly rebut. #ussnewyork
11/03/09
I'm sorry - do you contend that NY State and City governments run well and efficiently? That despite one of the highest per-pupil spending rates in the US, that the education system performs well? That it is perfectly acceptable to have hundreds of teachers drawing full salaries sitting around doing nothing because union intransigence and managerial incompetence means that they cannot be fired but also cannot be trusted to be in a classroom?
Do you live in an Ivory Tower with Mayor Bloomberg? #ussnewyork
11/03/09
But you're taking multiple institutions and mixing them all together to suit your arguments. Do I think the city has problems? Do I think the rubber rooms are ridiculous? Do I believe there are crooked politicians and judges on the take? Do I think our current mayor is a preening egotist who pretends to care about Jamaica, Queens but really can't see beyond the end of his king bed in Bermuda. Is the city too expensive (and more expensive than it has any right to be)? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
But use some history here. These are not new problems. In any city. In any country. In any era. With large governments and tiny ones and in places with no government at all.
New York City is also one of the most dynamic, welcoming, diverse, safest cities in the world. It's come a long way since the 1970s and since the 1930s and since the 1870s and since the 1830s.
It has literally almost collapsed under its own problems time and again during its history, and yet it's the largest city in the country and continues to grow.
And where should I go instead? What fair municipality lacks problems? Los Angeles? Detroit? Houston? Atlanta? Jackson?
The answer to a problem isn't to say something is "beyond help" and nothing more than a "PC money pit."
It's the easy way out, the critics way out, and, honestly, if you could do it so much better, than it seems to be that the answer would be to step up and try. #ussnewyork
11/02/09
If you disagree or don't share my patriotism, fine. Again, these are just characters on some web page.