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On the otherhand wake up and smell the coffee. Your roads arent up to scratch probably because your country's government are after spending more on war than any other presidency except for Lyndon Johnson, and wasn't that because he was over the Vietnam war? What do you think the CIA and the FBI spend their days doing? |
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03-15-2004, 10:25 AM
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03-15-2004, 10:36 AM
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Yep, there were reposts of a truck bomb on the mall. Eventually, it turned out to be nothing, so the news guys just moved on without saying anything (TOO much going on) I've talked with the "old timers" here - it was the most confused day they ever saw. Couple that with the fact that all the major NYC based networks lost their AP wire feed when the first building came down, it caused some crazyness. APs NYC office was in 1 World Financial Center if I remember right, but anyway, either in WTC or across the street in one of the buildings that got pretty well trashed, and ALL the phone lines in that area went through the WTC basement One of those "funny in the aftermath" stories. The 1st building comes down, and about 5 minutes later, we get a phone call from the news room "The AP NYC feed is down, and we're on DC backup - You have to fix the feed" We just told the caller "APs NY datalines went through the WTC - that feed isn't coming back anytime soon" The caller KNEW that, but had not even stopped to THINK about it |
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03-15-2004, 11:14 AM
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03-15-2004, 12:04 PM
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Where's the black box?
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03-15-2004, 02:09 PM
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Both black boxes from the hijacked aircraft which crashed into the Pentagon have also been recovered and turned over to the Federal Aviation Administration. |
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03-15-2004, 02:15 PM
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03-15-2004, 02:24 PM
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dar512 is now Pete Zicato
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03-15-2004, 02:27 PM
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dar512 is now Pete Zicato
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Then I thought what a true curse it would be if you were bothered by stupid people wanting help all day. Then I thought, "Dang. That actually describes some people's jobs." |
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03-16-2004, 09:59 AM
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03-16-2004, 10:13 AM
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03-16-2004, 11:33 AM
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03-16-2004, 12:00 PM
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Yep, parts were blocked off for sure.
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03-16-2004, 01:18 PM
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03-16-2004, 01:46 PM
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I _HATE_ when people forget that NYC is actually made up of 5 counties, and is QUITE large There is NY County - aka Manhattan + some small islands, and a couple of blocks on the mainland (a canal was moved - don't ask) Bronx County - "the Bronx" - the only part of NYC on the mainland - all others are on islands (except for those few blocks) Richmond County - aka Staten Island - NYCs most rural county Kings County - aka Brooklyn - This is actually on "Long Island". Queens County - aka Queens - again, on Long Island When folks say "NYC", they are usually thinking "Manhattan", which is actually the smallest part of NYC by FAR (smallest county in the USA at 22 square miles) If your in Manhattan, and someone says, they are going to "Long Island" - they usually mean Nassau or Suffolk, which are the 2 NON NYC counties on LI If your on Long Island, and your going to Manhattan, your going to "the City" - Brooklyn and Queens are "forgotten" NYC Government is VERY Manhattan centric - One of the past Mayors coined the term "Outer Boroughs" for the other 4 Boroughs of NYC, nad he would say it with distain BTW A GREAT web site for NYC stuff Forgotten NY |
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