Given the numbers of us who miss the scores of independent bookshops which have closed their doors over the past half-century, your note on Corey Kilgannon’s article about the Strand Bookstore with its reference to the “fragile book business” could well have been presented without the snarky parenthetical comment: “Really, is there any other kind of book business?”
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Police drones are a gross affront to our dignity as free citizens and a fundamental violation of the principles the United States is founded upon.
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Whatever it is that the cops need to do to police the City and keep it safe, if it's legal, do it. Keep up with technology.
Cops are not our enemies. Thank you NYPD!
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OK, now all the hippies and potheads are going to run back to California, instead of digging that weird hair brained tunnel system under & around NYC (See article below about Future subway funding through taxation of pot)that was slated to replace the burdensome one that exists now, by First legalizing marijuana (the L word), and then funding the project through taxation cannabis sales
it’s definitely a fear and loathing paranoia, running through their pop addled minds, That will cause them to protest any surveillance from these proposed drones… That’s why big brother - big government is their enemy
(See article below about subway
In Police parlance to spy is to help...There, that was easy.
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I find the prospect of police misusing drones far less scary than the implications of Nimesh Patel being cut off in the middle of his comedy routine.
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If you're not a criminal, you have nothing to fear, I say bring on the drones!
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As usual here, you will probably hear the police are always right and we should let them do whatever they want because they know best or the opposite end, ie don't give the police anything since they will abuse it.
The extremes or squeaky wheels will always get the oil.
The bottom line is the police should be able to use these devices if they make sense subject to careful oversight.
Period.
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You had me at Kanye and Cher. (Hmm, that has a nice ring.)
“The Ye of Love” - Tune of “The Way of Love” (showstopper from “The Cher Show”)
When you see a show
That you love a lot
You fall for the songs
And adore the plot.
If you need to tweet
Let fans know you’re here.
Though that’s really sweet
Do it later, dear.
On the Great White Way
We are saying" Whoa!"
Folks are not okay
With your cell phone’s glow.
But what can you do -
You’re in ecstasy!
When the act is through,
Do a tweeting spree.
Great White Way of love
Ye, spread your love!
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@Freddie
Ye, your cell phone aglow
As well as your politics, "no."
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The last thing we need is “police drones.” This would be a major step to becoming a police state. The technology will surely be abused. What ever happened to the presumption of innocence and right to privacy? As Plato rightly asked, who will guard the guardians?
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Bring in the drones.
When you have little girls being shot and killed through their homes' siding, then there are worse things to worry about than so-called "spying."
Let the drones tell us who is hanging out and where. We have more criminals in the city than cops.
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@B. You may not feel that way when they are flying over your house, or following your car.
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Are you kidding? I have police helicopters flying over my house in Flatbush all the time.
They're looking for our local talent. You know, the guys who just sucker-punched a pregnant woman, who just held up at gunpoint a mother and kid getting out of their car, the guys who beat up some other guy, the rival drug dealer who shot a guy sitting in his black BMW, and another similar incident four months later, or the guy who accidentally shot a little girl on the street . . . .
The neighbors all keep asking Why are the helicopters hovering all evening? Really? They're asking why?
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