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Posted by nostalgia on Fri Jul 1 09:59:22 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by TerrApin Station on Fri Jul 1 08:17:42 2016. He's NOT confused. You're trying to confuse him. Just up to your usual tricks. You can't stand that there are some people who agree with Bus. We call these people free thinkers because they evaluate the information and come to their own conclusions which aren't always the SAME as yours. |
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Posted by JayZeeBMT on Fri Jul 1 10:02:37 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by nostalgia on Fri Jul 1 09:59:22 2016. IAWTP! |
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Posted by R30A on Fri Jul 1 10:32:15 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by nostalgia on Fri Jul 1 09:59:22 2016. If people evaluate the information given to them by BrooklynBus, they end up being mislead because he is illiterate and a pathological liar, which is why it is important to correct his frequent false postings. |
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Posted by R30A on Fri Jul 1 10:51:59 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by nostalgia on Fri Jul 1 01:42:07 2016. The articles very much do prove that he holds little regard for pedestrian lives.His article makes the claim very clear. "Whenever I discuss my opposition to some of the features of Vision Zero, those who disagree make the same argument: that the slower a vehicle travels, the less likely a pedestrian will be killed. That analysis is overly simplistic because other factors need to be considered, such as the need to get people to their destinations in a reasonable amount of time." "Whenever I discuss my opposition to some of the features of the Voting Rights Act, those who disagree make the same argument: without it, black people in the south might be unable to vote. That analysis is overly simplistic because other factors need to be considered, such as the need for states to be able to regulate their own electoral processes." "Whenever I discuss my opposition to some of the features of the Equal Rights Ammendment, those who disagree make the same argument: without it, women might be underpaid relative to men in the workforce. That analysis is overly simplistic because other factors need to be considered, such as the relative value of the work a woman does compared to that done my men." What an argument states matters. If you make a statement along the lines of "I don't mean to be racist, but hispanic people should be regularly stopped on the street just to make sure they are citizens" "I don't mean to be sexist, but women aren't as valuable to the workforce, so they shouldn't get paid as much" "I don't mean to be homophobic, but I wish the gays would stop trying to steal the sanctity of marriage from us god fearing christians" "I don't mean to be anti-semitic, but don't you think it is a problem that the jews control all the money?" "I don't mean to say pedestrian lives don't matter, but I shouldn't have to wait 15 seconds for pedestrians to cross the street while I trying to turn" If you have to say "I am not racist, but..." You are probably being racist. If you have to say "I am not homophobic, but..." You are probably being homophobic. If you are saying "I am not saying pedestrian lives matter, but..." You are probably saying pedestrian lives don't matter. And I fail to see how when three people who are not named Brian point out that your argument is fallacious that someone else completely disconnected from the argument who happens to be named Brian is connected in some way. |
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Posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Fri Jul 1 11:17:19 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by fdtutf on Fri Jul 1 09:23:41 2016. Thing is, where I live right now, our *school zone* speed limit is just five under the new default speed limit for NYC. Yet everyone coexists. I can only assume pedestrians in NYC are stupider, because ours seem to handle fast traffic just fine. We have six lane no-island 45 MPH roads, one of which separates a college campus w/8000 residents from the nearest source of beer. Hundreds of drunken college students cross that road every day, yet no incidents. More likely, I would say NYC has a problem of careless pedestrians.I've actually been hit by vehicles twice while walking: once, I was in a crosswalk at the exit to a shopping center, and a dumbass waiting to make a left turn onto the main road didn't see I had walked in front of his car, and started to go. It was just a tap, but I was royally pissed, and he offered no apology. The drivers behind him gave him an earful. The second time, it was dark out and pouring rain so I had my hood up on my sweater, limiting my peripheral vision and making me harder to see. Crossing at the green, an idiot making a left turn onto the side road didn't see me in the crosswalk and knocked me down. Neither situation would have been helped by any traffic mitigating strategy, as both drivers managed to hit me immediately after starting from a complete stop. |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 1 11:24:37 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by TerrApin Station on Wed Jun 29 23:17:09 2016. I certainly am not peddling bullshit.R30A makes all sorts of innuendos about me without a shred of proof just as you do. And show me where you corrected your "Berliner" mistake above. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Jul 1 11:33:37 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by R30A on Fri Jul 1 10:51:59 2016. |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 1 11:38:49 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by R30A on Wed Jun 29 23:17:48 2016. It isn't possible to win a conversation with someone like you who constantly backtracks and changes his position when someone is trying to pin him down, so I won't waste my time discussing anything you stated here except for the one point of saving $4 million a day.This is what transpired: I stated that the MTA got their money's worth with me after you accused me of accomplishing nothing in my 25 year career with them. I pointed out that with the help of others I was able to save the MTA $42 million including $4 million that I saved singlehandedly one day in 1993 by spotting an error where the contractor was paid $4 million twice for the same work because of a confusing contract payment schedule. Without any proof whatsoever, you alleged that someone else would have spotted that error if I had not. Then you also stated that I did my job for one day which was also in direct contradiction to your statement that I never accomplished anything. Then you further stated that saving $4 million a day was only part of my job duties. And now you are denying that you ever stated my job was to save the MTA $4 million a day. Well, that's how you spot a liar. It is someone like you who constantly changes his positions regarding what he said because he can't even remember his previous statements. You have proved without a doubt that you have ZERO CREDIBILITY. My statements have all been consistent except for the one time when I mistakenly stated $25 billion instead of $45 billion. |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 1 11:40:43 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by TerrApin Station on Wed Jun 29 23:19:34 2016. Okay I shouldn't have said it was only you. Of course your two conpatriates would agree with you. You three or maybe four do not speak for everyone who reads this board. |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 1 11:41:14 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by Edwards! on Thu Jun 30 02:25:11 2016. Great post. |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 1 11:41:38 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by Edwards! on Thu Jun 30 02:38:16 2016. Great post. |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 1 11:43:30 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by TerrApin Station on Thu Jun 30 18:40:36 2016. Untrue. |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 1 11:46:57 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by R30A on Thu Jun 30 11:49:45 2016. So the person on this board who believes that he is never required to provide any proof because everyone must believe all his inconsistencies and ridiculous accusations calls someone else who actually has an impressive track record of being responsible for asking ten major changes to bus routes in southern Brooklyn in 1978 and who helped the MTA save $42 million an incompetent fool.You are the incompetent fool, sir. |
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Posted by nostalgia on Fri Jul 1 11:53:09 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by R30A on Fri Jul 1 10:32:15 2016. And you and Cryin' Lyin' Brian Whinin' WHineberg throw insults which are supposed to convince the board that Bus is wrong.It's very funny that Bus posts the SAME information on NYCTF and has numerous supporters on NYCTF, more than Cryin' Brian and his compatriots. Cryin' Brian has attention deficit disorder and an inferiority complex. He doesn't start threads, but hijacks them. It shows he has no originality. Here are other opinions. http://www.nyctransitforums.com/forums/topic/5881-subchat-sign-up-question/page-2 |
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Posted by R30A on Fri Jul 1 11:55:59 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 1 11:38:49 2016. "It isn't possible to win a conversation with someone like you who constantly backtracks and changes his position when someone is trying to pin him down, so I won't waste my time discussing anything you stated here except for the one point of saving $4 million a day."You keep claiming you won't respond yet you do. funny how that works. I don't change my position unless new information comes to light. "This is what transpired: I stated that the MTA got their money's worth with me after you accused me of accomplishing nothing in my 25 year career with them. I pointed out that with the help of others I was able to save the MTA $42 million including $4 million that I saved singlehandedly one day in 1993 by spotting an error where the contractor was paid $4 million twice for the same work because of a confusing contract payment schedule." Other than the 4 million, the rest of the claims you make are very much not actually saving money. They are simply doing a task for which anybody they assigned to would have managed to obtain the federal money. "Without any proof whatsoever, you alleged that someone else would have spotted that error if I had not." Yes. That is what people do. They find errors. I doubt many substantial errors I have found would not have been found by others had I not found them. "Then you also stated that I did my job for one day which was also in direct contradiction to your statement that I never accomplished anything." To be perfectly blunt, I don't think you have ever accomplished anything that would not have been done better by somebody else. "Then you further stated that saving $4 million a day was only part of my job duties." I have never implied that you should have saved $4 million a day. To be perfectly blunt again, I doubt you actually saved $4 million. "And now you are denying that you ever stated my job was to save the MTA $4 million a day." Correct. Because I never made such a claim. "Well, that's how you spot a liar. It is someone like you who constantly changes his positions regarding what he said because he can't even remember his previous statements." I never changed my position here. "You have proved without a doubt that you have ZERO CREDIBILITY." Considering your penchant for dishonesty and delusional behavior, I really could not receive a higher compliment. "My statements have all been consistent except for the one time when I mistakenly stated $25 billion instead of $45 billion." You can be consistent all you want- That still does not make you right. I can say the sky is neon green every day- such would be a consistent claim, yet it would be consistently false. I will give you that you are very consistent. The reliability of your statements is such that if you claimed the sky is blue, I'd double check to be sure. If you claimed gravity still exists, I'd drop something on the floor to be sure. |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 1 12:00:49 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by R30A on Thu Jun 30 14:08:38 2016. Here we go again. The person on this board with ZERO CREDIBILITY who makes false and baseless accusations with zero proof and also makes false assumptions has done it again.He now claims my department was shifted from City Planning to the MTA so that they never hired me. THAT IS A COMPLETE FABRICATION. I was hired by the MTA in 1981 because they received $650,000 from the federal government to perform a Brooklyn Transit Service Sufficiency Study. But due to poor project management, they found themselves in a position where they had spent two thirds of the budget and only accomplished one third of the project objectives. Because of my track record at City Planning, having making the major southwest Brooklyn bus changes in 1978, the largest number of changes ever in a single day up to that time, they hired me TO SAVE THE STUDY. Those were the exact words they used. Unfortunately, due to circumstances I previously explained numerous times, I wasn't able to accomplish that. As far as Sheepsheadbites where I wrote without any compensation for five years, we have another false accusation that an opinion column was full of blatant lies. I have since spoken to the person I thought "fired" me and he told me it was not his decision and that I was being missed by his readers. The site was sold a year before to a group operating numerous websites and was no longer independent. My belief is that pressure was applied by the de Blasio administration because of my frequent criticisms of DOT and de Blasio's Vision Zero Program. |
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Posted by R30A on Fri Jul 1 12:01:48 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 1 11:46:57 2016. "So the person on this board who believes that he is never required to provide any proof"If one is not making a declarative statement, how could one provide proof? "because everyone must believe all his inconsistencies" I am very consistent. The fact that you state I am not does not mean that I am not. You repeatedly make unsupported statements and claim that they are proven. "and ridiculous accusations" I have made no ridiculous accusations. "calls someone else who actually has an impressive track record of being responsible for asking ten major changes to bus routes in southern Brooklyn in 1978" Yet again the supposed "head of bus planning" seems to think that 10 changes almost 40 years ago are impressive. I don't have a list of all of them right here, but considering the ridiculous changes you have admitted to being behind, as well as the ridiculous proposals you have made, I still doubt the value of what you did, and the degree to which you were involved in the changes that did happen. "and who helped the MTA save $42 million an incompetent fool." You had no more to do with the MTA saving $42 million than I had to do with the MTA saving $50 million. "You are the incompetent fool, sir." I could receive no greater compliment than to be called a fool by you. |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 1 12:01:48 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by JayZeeBMT on Thu Jun 30 14:41:05 2016. Of course he doesn't, THIS IS COMING FROM THE PETSON WHO CLAIMED HE IS NOT REQUIRED TO PRESENT ANY PROOF. |
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Posted by R30A on Fri Jul 1 12:01:49 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 1 11:46:57 2016. "So the person on this board who believes that he is never required to provide any proof"If one is not making a declarative statement, how could one provide proof? "because everyone must believe all his inconsistencies" I am very consistent. The fact that you state I am not does not mean that I am not. You repeatedly make unsupported statements and claim that they are proven. "and ridiculous accusations" I have made no ridiculous accusations. "calls someone else who actually has an impressive track record of being responsible for asking ten major changes to bus routes in southern Brooklyn in 1978" Yet again the supposed "head of bus planning" seems to think that 10 changes almost 40 years ago are impressive. I don't have a list of all of them right here, but considering the ridiculous changes you have admitted to being behind, as well as the ridiculous proposals you have made, I still doubt the value of what you did, and the degree to which you were involved in the changes that did happen. "and who helped the MTA save $42 million an incompetent fool." You had no more to do with the MTA saving $42 million than I had to do with the MTA saving $50 million. "You are the incompetent fool, sir." I could receive no greater compliment than to be called a fool by you. |
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Posted by R30A on Fri Jul 1 12:02:55 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 1 12:01:48 2016. I have never claimed such. |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 1 12:03:38 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by R30A on Thu Jun 30 15:13:56 2016. Totally untrue.I was the one who found the errors in the article you referred to and had it corrected as soon as I realized the inaccuracies which was the responsible thing to do. |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 1 12:06:49 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by R30A on Thu Jun 30 15:23:17 2016. Another incorrect statement.That was not at all what the article stated but was yours and others inaccurate interpretation of it. The article merely asked if we were exaggerating the dangers of getting hurt or killed while crossing the street and therefore were devoting too much resources toward that effort. IT NEVER STATED OR IMPLIED PEDESTRIAN DEATHS DONT MATTER. That is a total lie. Anyone can read the article themselves and decide. |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 1 12:08:30 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by nostalgia on Thu Jun 30 16:14:34 2016. Thank you. I was too lazy to look for the articles.YOU HAVE JUST SUBSTANTIATED THAT R30A HAS ZERO CREDIBIKITY. |
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Posted by nostalgia on Fri Jul 1 12:09:30 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Thu Jun 30 21:35:35 2016. We're still waiting for the article. |
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Posted by R30A on Fri Jul 1 12:10:59 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 1 12:06:49 2016. Yes it is heavily implied. That is the whole purpose of the article. The only thing it does is state that you do not care about the lives of pedestrians. |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 1 12:11:19 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Thu Jun 30 21:35:35 2016. I never stated that either. I stated everyone's time needs to be treated equally and that the needs of drivers should not be ignored with the belief that only a bus riders' time matters.That is quite different from what you just stated. |
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Posted by nostalgia on Fri Jul 1 12:12:13 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 1 12:08:30 2016. That wasn't difficult. I'm waiting for RIPTA42HopeTunnel to produce the article you wrote that pedestrian deaths don't matter. How long do you think it take to find it? LOL |
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Posted by R30A on Fri Jul 1 12:12:25 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 1 12:03:38 2016. No. The commenters were the ones who found the errors and made you look like an idiot. The editors had to apologize for you. |
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Posted by nostalgia on Fri Jul 1 12:13:52 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by R30A on Fri Jul 1 12:10:59 2016. There are none so blind as those who refuse to see. I hope you don't drive.I already quoted Bus' articles where he wrote pedestrian's lives DO MATTER! |
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Posted by R30A on Fri Jul 1 12:14:22 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by nostalgia on Fri Jul 1 11:53:09 2016. Most people do not seem to agree with him in most of his postings there either. |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 1 12:20:36 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by R30A on Thu Jun 30 16:38:51 2016. What that paragraph is saying is when you set policy, you must consider all the ramifications not only a single one. By considering the possibility no matter how remote, of a pedestrian fatality and saying that is more important than anything else, you can make some unwise decisions. You can spend all your resources on trying to prevent them at any cost while neglecting other priorities that are just as important. You could post all your traffic agents at intersections to help pedestrians cross the street instead of them giving out parking tickets depriving the city if needed revenue.Of course that would never happen. But let us suppose de Blasio decided to do just that. If I stated it was an over reaction and the city could not afford to lose that revenue, would you then argue I was valuing revenue over pedestrians' lives and he should be allowed to do that? |
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Posted by R30A on Fri Jul 1 12:20:37 2016, in response to Proof supplied but ignored, posted by nostalgia on Fri Jul 1 12:13:52 2016. The entirety of the article is making the argument that they should be ignored. There is no other statement being made whatsoever.Again: When people try to overturn the VRA, they always state that they are fighting racism. That doesn't mean that they are. |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 1 12:21:17 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by TerrApin Station on Fri Jul 1 08:14:52 2016. He did. |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 1 12:34:18 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by R30A on Fri Jul 1 10:51:59 2016. You are trying to make it appear that all three quotes were mine.Show me where I made the second and third quotes which who claim are comparable. They certainly are not. In quote 2, why is there a need for states to regulate their own electoral processes? The federal government often makes laws that supersede states' powers. Your third quote is similarly fallacious. If the value of a job performed by a woman is less than the value if it were performed by a man, she should be paid less. The amount she sound be paid should be determined by the value of the work not by the fact she is a woman. There is absolutely no comparison between your statements regarding Jews and gays with my statement regarding pedestrians. You are comparing apples and oranges. You make it appear that every time a driver saves 15 seconds, a pedestrian is killed. That is what would have to be true to make all three statements comparable. |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 1 12:40:26 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by R30A on Fri Jul 1 01:20:26 2016. You don't believe a couple of minutes everyday adds up? Of course it does.While there may be more deaths from speeding cars than from inattentive pedestrians we have to look at how those cars are speeding. Are most of them speeding at 27 mph or are they speeding at 40, 50, and 60 mph. I strongly believe it is the latter in which case lowering the speed limit from 30 mph to 25 mph would have no effect which is my primary objection to lowering the default speed limit which needs to be suitable for the particulR street. Streets deserving 10 mph or 20 mph speed limits shoukd have those limits who,e those deserving 30 or 35 mph speed limits deserve those limits and in rare instances even 40 mph such as highway service roads without parked cars. A lowest common denominator speed limit just doesn't work. |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 1 12:46:16 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by fdtutf on Fri Jul 1 09:23:41 2016. Yes a great deal of motorists are careless and unsafe. HOWEVER IT IS STILL A SMALL MINORITY. Most drivers drive safely and responsibly in this city. If that were not the case there wouldn't be under 200 pedestrian fatalities each year. It would number in the thousands or tens of thousands if the majority of drivers were careless and uncaring about human life as you keep alluding.And how we dare inconvenience pedestrians. That would be a no-no. All the diagonal pedestrian crossings on Queens Blvd should be reengineered so they are done at right angles to shorten pedestrian crossing times and improving traffic flow. But heaven forbid if pedestrians are required to walk an extra fifty feet to accomplish that. |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 1 12:49:33 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by fdtutf on Thu Jun 30 11:05:00 2016. I present evidence all the time. I did so in every Sheepshead bites article I wrote. If my opinion were not backed up by facts and logical arguments, they never would have allowed me to write for them weekly for five years.Why don't you ask R30 for some evidence instead of meaningless accusations which is all he seems capable of. He even stated that he is not required to present any proof. |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 1 13:02:18 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by R30A on Fri Jul 1 11:55:59 2016. Again you are making ridiculous assumptions that if I wouldn't have done something, someone else would have. You make it seem like anyone could have assembled 10,000 pages of documentation to convince a consortium of insurance companies to just hand over $30 million.That is far from the truth. It was a difficult job which you make it appear that most anyone else could have done a better job and it wasn't difficult at all. I never stated or implied that I was the only one capable of doing it but I am sure someone else may not have done a good a job as I did resulting in a lower payment. All you are doing is making baseless accusations with zero proof. Give me some time and I will provide the link to the posts where you first stated that saving $4 million a day was my job with your quote, "So you actually did your job for one day." And you later said that wasn't my entire job responsibility meaning saving $4 million a day was not enough of a job responsibility for me. |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 1 13:05:39 2016, in response to Re: Proof supplied but ignored, posted by R30A on Fri Jul 1 12:20:37 2016. You obviously have a severe reading comprehension problem or are so blind to see what you want to see that you are not capable of reading what is actually printed. The articles as Nostalgia already pointed out CLEARLY STATE that pedestrian deaths is an important issue and do matter. But you can interpret that statement as saying the exact opposite just because you want to. |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 1 13:06:47 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by R30A on Fri Jul 1 12:10:59 2016. Heavily implied in your mind. The articles clearly state the exact opposite as Nostalgia already pointed out several times that PEDESTRIAN DEATHS DO MATTER. |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 1 13:09:54 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by R30A on Fri Jul 1 12:12:25 2016. While the commenters did point out the error, I WAS THE ONE WHO WROTE THE RETRACTION ON MY OWN WITHOUT ANY ADVICE OR INSTRUCTION FROM THE EDITOR, because that is what a responsible journalist does.If you have any evidence to the contrary, you need to present it right now or REFRAIN FROM MAKING FALSE AND BASELESS ACCUSATIONS. |
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Posted by fdtutf on Fri Jul 1 13:29:06 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 1 12:46:16 2016. Yes a great deal of motorists are careless and unsafe. HOWEVER IT IS STILL A SMALL MINORITY. Most drivers drive safely and responsibly in this city.Proff? Because that certainly is not what I see. If that were not the case there wouldn't be under 200 pedestrian fatalities each year. It would number in the thousands or tens of thousands if the majority of drivers were careless and uncaring about human life as you keep alluding. (1) There's no reason to believe that driver carelessness would result in that many pedestrian fatalities every year. (2) I've never said they were uncaring about human life. And how we dare inconvenience pedestrians. That would be a no-no. We inconvenience pedestrians all over the place, everywhere, for the benefit of motorists... All the diagonal pedestrian crossings on Queens Blvd should be reengineered so they are done at right angles to shorten pedestrian crossing times and improving traffic flow. But heaven forbid if pedestrians are required to walk an extra fifty feet to accomplish that. ...and the occasional counterexample doesn't change that. |
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Posted by fdtutf on Fri Jul 1 13:31:37 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 1 12:40:26 2016. You don't believe a couple of minutes everyday adds up? Of course it does.Pedestrians often lose 1-2 minutes at a single intersection for the convenience of motorists. Talk about adding up. |
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Posted by fdtutf on Fri Jul 1 13:32:42 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 1 11:38:49 2016. It isn't possible to win a conversation with someone like you who constantly backtracks and changes his position when someone is trying to pin him down,My God, you finally shelled out for a mirror! |
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Posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Fri Jul 1 13:32:46 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by JayZeeBMT on Thu Jun 30 14:41:05 2016. Is there any proof that Bus was fired because "too many articles of his were filled with blatant lies"? Do you have access to their internal communications?No, but everyone has access to one of his last columns which is disclaimed by the editor as "significantly changed due to factual errors." |
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Posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Fri Jul 1 13:33:49 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 1 12:40:26 2016. You don't believe a couple of minutes everyday adds up?Read the rest of his sentence. He doesn't believe that most pedestrian deaths are the pedestrian's fault. |
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Posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Fri Jul 1 13:37:48 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 1 12:00:49 2016. My belief is that pressure was applied by the de Blasio administration because of my frequent criticisms of DOT and de Blasio's Vision Zero Program.Which is consistent with your belief in aliens and the Dorothy Kilgallen assassination. |
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Posted by TerrApin Station on Fri Jul 1 13:40:50 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 1 12:21:17 2016. So what? My statement stands. |
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Posted by TerrApin Station on Fri Jul 1 13:41:49 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by nostalgia on Fri Jul 1 09:03:02 2016. I support it but I didn't make it. So it has nothing to do with me, like I said. |
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Posted by TerrApin Station on Fri Jul 1 13:42:15 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by fdtutf on Fri Jul 1 08:41:53 2016. :) |
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