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  1. Re:Times Square by Powercntrl · · Score: 5, Interesting · on NYPD Deploying Drone for First Time To Secure New Year's Party (bloomberg.com)

    Times Square on New Year's Eve has always been a shitshow made for ignorant tourists.

    I honestly had no idea, but yeah, after reading this, it's definitely off my bucket list. Quote from the local NY ABC news:

    Officers will also install over 200 cement blocks in addition to more permanent metal bollards in and around Times Square.

    More than 50 canine teams will survey the crowds on alert for explosive material.

    These teams will include the newly added German Shepherds and Malinoises.

    For the first time, the NYPD will deploy its new fleet of drones to keep watch over the festivities.

    Those attending the festivities will face multiple screening points. Certain items are prohibited, including backpacks, large bags, umbrellas, and alcohol.

    Property may not be left checkpoints. At approximately 11 a.m., attendees will be directed by police officers to gather in separate viewing pens. As the pens get populated, the entertainment from 43rd Street between Sixth and Eighth Avenues will continue to move north up to Central Park, due to the ball drop from the southern end. Please note, attendees who leave before the ball drops will not be able to regain entry to their original viewing area.

    Dear God, that is some serious dystopian shit right there. You'll be sniffed by dogs, herded into holding pens, and watched by drones. You can't even celebrate the new year with a glass of champagne. Damn it New York, the movie Demolition Man wasn't supposed to be a how-to guide.

  2. Re:stupid by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on 'My Airbnb Guests Threw a New Year's Party For 300 People' (theguardian.com)

    Not to mention the second link (to abc7ny.com) starts out with a big "GRAND VIEW-ON-HUDSON, Rockland County (WABC)"

  3. Re:stupid by tempo36 · · Score: 1 · on 'My Airbnb Guests Threw a New Year's Party For 300 People' (theguardian.com)

    Really? Took me less than 30 seconds on Google. Try harder.

    https://www.lohud.com/story/ne...

    https://abc7ny.com/realestate/...

    http://www.news12.com/story/37...

  4. Re:A study shows ... by Swave+An+deBwoner · · Score: 1 · on New York City Just Voted To Cap Uber and Lyft Vehicles and Require Drivers To Be Paid a Minimum Wage (cnbc.com)

    How can a camera cause an accident? Perhaps you mean that stop lights "cause" (air quotes) accidents because assholes speed up on yellow instead of slowing down? That's not the light causing the accident, it's the assholes.

    As for "getting up to speed" in NYC, here are just a few within the last year or so:

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/18/times-square-speeding-vehicle-strikes-pedestrians-new-york
    https://abc7ny.com/traffic/19-year-old-dies-after-speeding-mercedes-strikes-her-uber-/3520238/
    https://www.wsj.com/articles/thousands-of-serial-traffic-violators-in-new-york-city-go-unpunished-1521036000

    In my neighborhood in the Bronx there's someone who regularly drives a Porsche at high speed (I estimate about 50 MPH) on the residential streets at night. A speed camera might make him think twice.

    A different Porsche was thankfully eliminated from the "car pool" in that same area:

    http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/drunken-driver-loses-control-porsche-lands-playground-article-1.3727865

  5. NYPOST is fake-news central! by NewtonsLaw · · Score: 0 · on Civilian Drone Crashes Into a US Army Helicopter (nypost.com)

    Why on earth link to the NYPOST version of this story with all it's misinformation?

    From that story: "In what is believed to be the first incident of its kind, a drone slammed into a packed British Airways jetliner in April 2016 as it was landing at London’s Heathrow Airport. The plane landed safely"

    Bullshit! That was later deemed to almost certainly have been a plastic shopping bag, not a drone.

    Facts seem to be of little interest to some "news" publishers and the NYPOST is (at least in this case) right up there at the front of the "fake news" purveyors.

    ABC EyeWitness carried a much better report on this story and it even includes pictures of the damage.

  6. Re:Living language by Coren22 · · Score: 1 · on Facebook Begins Marking 'Fake News' As 'Disputed' (wdrb.com)

    http://abc7ny.com/politics/kel...

    That is the story I believe being alluded to.

  7. Re:Censor all white-nationalist hate speech now by bongey · · Score: 1 · on Reddit Bans Far-Right Groups Altright and Alternativeright (theguardian.com)

    Reality:Many times more DANGEROUS and SCARY to be OUTED as a TRUMP SUPPORTED, than ANY MINORITY GROUPS right now. Here are just a few examples in the last few months alone.
    1) White handicapped man beaten for MAYBE being a Trump supporter. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017...
    1a) abcnews deleted the story. http://web.archive.org/web/201...
    2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Woman wants a Trump supporter to move from his seat because she doesn't like Trump
    3)Trump supporter chocked and beaten for hat . http://abc7ny.com/politics/man...
    4) Homeless woman beaten for Trump support. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    5) Black woman Trump supporter harassed in NYC https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  8. Re:saving the world by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting · on DoNotPay Bot Has Beaten 160,000 Traffic Tickets -- and Counting (venturebeat.com)

    NYC meter maids would never, ever, EVER write bogus tickets. The only reason the NYPD started using the handheld ticket machine was to try to cut down on the number of tickets that were thrown out because they were questionable or obviously bogus. It was an attempt to keep them honest (so the city would get more money). When I moved to NYC my truck was ticketed so often for being a "commercial" vehicle (despite not meeting any of the requirements) that I ended up selling it because fighting every single ticket wasn't worth the hassle. Most of the city employees are good, hard working people but there are enough corrupt ones to screw with a lot of people.

  9. Next time please track the NYC "private carters" by Swave+An+deBwoner · · Score: 2 · on Where Does America's E-Waste End Up? GPS Tracker Tells All (pbs.org)
    New York City requires that e-waste be properly recycled, both via public "Department of Sanitation" workers and by "private carters". The law is that DoS picks up "residential waste" and private carters pick up the commercial waste. DoS does a pretty good job and many of their workers on the trucks are scrupulous about how they leave a pickup site. The employees of the private carters on the other hand are generally paid poorly, exposed to dangerous working conditions, and given impossible schedules to maintain. The result is that everything that they pick up goes into the single mouth of their truck; food waste, paper waste, plastic waste, and e-waste. And often they leave a trail of drippings as they pull away. Enforcement does not exist for the private carters who speed through red lights and drive the wrong way down the streets at night.

    So all that effort that businesses put into properly separating recyclables from other solid waste ... well, it all goes into the same dump at the same time.

    Some background:

    The DSNY collects 10,500 tons of garbage and 1760 tons of recyclables from residential, government, and nonprofit agency buildings every day, whereas private carters collect 13,000 tons of garbage from businesses.

    http://abc7ny.com/home/who-really-takes-out-the-garbage-where-does-it-go/1275453/

    And an interesting article on the commercial carting industry in NYC:

    http://citylimits.org/2015/05/19/city-weighs-reining-in-private-garbage-collectors/