Waking up… zzz uh?, oh! Just federal bureaucracy with anti blue state sentiment. The usual…
Wait a moment!?!
:dubious:
“To error is human, to really mess things up you need a computer”; finding that the errors could be on purpose? I would not be surprised if “errors” like this one are the reason machines revolt in the future.
Morpheus: *Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony. * - The Matrix
NYC is the national icon in and of itself. Hell it’s the world icon.
Yes, although if it would be possible to carve out Hunt’s Point from the zone of protection, I would be willing to entertain that.
Great.
U.N. Headquarters is not a terrorist target.
:smack:
If there were one thing in this city that deserves to get blown up, it’s that.
Statue of Liberty isn’t a target, because as we all know, it is destined to remain intact until our ape overlords finally take over.
I read about this in Newsday on my way to work, and the first thought that popped into my head was, “Wouldn’t I just LOVE to see the little computer program that assigns the same value to Wall Street as it does to the Obsolete Computer Museum?”
Can’t you just giggle at the notion of a terrorist strike at the Obsolete Computer Museum? INFIDELS KNEEL! ALL YOUR VT-100s ARE BELONG TO US!!!
NYC has so many targets, that it possibly exceeds DC for targets.
The major Subway stations, all the Bridges and Tunnels, the huge water tunnels, Wall Street, The Empire State Building, the UN, The Chrysler Building, the Stadiums, MSG which could also wipe out Penn Station, any of the major Museums. Even Macy’s and the Broadway theaters are good terror targets. I am sure I missed many others. Apparently, Homeland Security is just going to be another way to spread pork.
Jim
As much as I dislike NYC and its inhabitants, I have to say that this development just reinforces my feelings about virtually all Federal programs. Jim nailed it…pork. Ham, bacon, sausage…more pork than you can imagine.
No targets in NYC? I think we know what the government is doing with all those intercepted drugs now, don’t we?
The March 11 bombs in Madrid caught me and several other Spaniards in the US, for a work meeting.
The talk soon turned to 9-11. Many of the Americans were surprised to find out that I was the only one who’d heard of Liberty Bell (my office in Philly was yards away from it); we’ve heard of El Alamo but think it’s the name of a movie (was John Wayne in it?).
American icons listed by the other Spaniards, only one of whom had ever been outside Spain before, let’s see: MacD, the Great Canyon (which doesn’t sound like a particularly bombable target), New York (meaning Manhattan), Las Vegas, Times Square, Niagara Falls, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Hollywood sign, the Empire State Building, Marilyn (not Manson), that-other-pretty-skyscraper-what’s-it-called (the Chrysler Building), the Twin Towers.
Whadayamean, I’ve listed NYC six times? I didn’t even mention that triangular building! (Flatiron, I think it’s called)
As an aside: It seems to me that HS is missing a bet here. Has anybody bothered to do a little discrete polling of non-Americans to identify “American Icons?” Nava raises an interesting point here. What we think is important may not be what other people see as important. Prior to 9/11, I never would have considered the WTC to be an icon, but Al-Qaeda did. It might be wise to figure out just what other people see as a target.
No, you guys just don’t get it. Homeland Security knows that those Muss-lims and Ay-rabs read the papers. So they will see that Louisville is a more important target than New York, and put all their efforts into bombing it. When those terr-ists take out Colonel Sander’s grave with a dirty bomb, you’ll know thatr Home Security was right.
Assuming “MacD” means “McDonald’s”, I’m not surprised at the list, aside from the absence of the White House. But the point you make is quite valid. Most landmarks recognizable as “America” in other countries are in fact in New York City.
Get cynical, people. You don’t think there is some logic? NYC is in the blue zone. The blue zone is for loading and unloading of democrats. To receive funding, please proceed to the red zone.
Q: Who’s burried in Grant’s Tomb?
A: Everyone in Manhattan after the next attack.
Those bastards better not. My Dad’s buried in the same cemetery, not too far away from the Colonel. (Which is only fitting, since Dad and Mom grew up in Corbin, and went to the Colonel’s chicken place many times.)
Yup, Boston got cut too, by a third.
Irish and in the blue zone. Double whammy.
Somebody check out Houston.
While I agree that NYC’s funding should not be cut (and that, say, Omaha doesn’t require a whole lot of funding), I got the impression that this is a “bang for the buck” move. In other words, the benefit of upping Omaha’s budget is (relatively) large when compared to the detriment of decreasing NYC’s budget by the same amount. Put the money where it can do the most good and all.
Again, while I still disagree with the reallocation of funds (and how on earth NYC has no historical landmarks is beyond me), that perspective makes it a little more understandable. Although I actually think political pork is a more likely explanation.
I work with very large models that give results for hundreds of thousands of variables. You check the results. When they look odd, you look into them until you understand why. Once in a hundred times you find you have learned something new and interesting. The rest of the time it turns out you fucked up in some new and subtle way. I suspect these guys haven’t reached that stage.