[MA-SOC] New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) (Was: Re: Macy's does manga)

Alain-Christian mynamebackwards at gmail.com
Mon May 18 17:55:06 EDT 2009 

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On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 4:48 PM, TRAN, Si Bang <mstchin at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>
> To:     Anybody, Everybody And Somebody
>
> From:   Maikeru
>
> Date:   2009 May 18 Monday
>
> Subj:   New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA)
>            (Was: Re: [MA-SOC] Macy's does manga)
>
>  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Hello Everyone:
>
>        It is easy to trash the New York City subway system, so
> someone has come to the defense of the New York City subway
> system.  The New York City subway system is a great system, it
> is just an old neglected system, doing things that other subway
> systems do not even attempt.
>
>        The New York City subway system is well over one hundred
> years old, older than the independent city-state of Singapore,
> and is in operation and service twenty-four hours a day, three
> hundred sixty-five days a year.  These two factors are major
> sources of the deficiencies of the New York City subway system.
> As I understand it, Singapore's subway system is little more
> than twenty years old and closes at night.  P'yôngyang's subway
> system is around thirty years old and closes at night.
>
>        The New York City subway system operates and maintains
> the largest fleet of rolling stock (subway cars) of any subway
> system in the World and, if the Second Avenue subway is
> completed, will have the most service and operation laid track
> of any subway system on the Planet.  The local Lexington Avenue
> line, by number of passengers, is the busiest subway line of any
> on Earth, including any subway line in Tokyo, Moscow, Seoul and
> London.
>
>        The New York City subway has four hundred sixty-eight
> stations and twenty-seven subway lines.  Singapore's subway
> system has sixty-six stations and three subway lines.
> P'yôngyang's subway system has one line and eighteen stations.
>
>        The under funding and neglect of infrastructure in New
> York, as well as the rest of the United States, and the general
> high tolerance of vandalism and criminality, coupled with the
> age and continuous use, is what leaves leads to the New York
> City subway system wanting.
>
>                                Sincerely,
>
>                                Maikeru
>
>                                (^_^)
>
>                "As long as people will accept crap,
>                it will be financially profitable to dispense it."
>
>
>
>
> --- On Mon, 5/18/09, Tanusukma, Peggy <Peggy.Tanusukma at us.penguingroup.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > From: Tanusukma, Peggy <Peggy.Tanusukma at us.penguingroup.com>
> > Subject: Re: [MA-SOC] Macy's does manga
> > To: "Metro Anime New York City--social list" <ma-nyc-soc at lists.baka.org>
> > Date: Monday, May 18, 2009, 1:01 PM
> > Better boring than late to
> > work/smelly/attacked by rats anytime.
> >
> > Ah...the distinctive aroma of urine in the underground
> > subway stations in high summer....the memorable sight of
> > swarms of subway rats, like a grey furry flood, cresting
> > over subway trash bags a few feet from oneself.....
> >
> > Nothing more agonizing than having an early meeting at
> > work/having a doctor's appointment/what have you and being
> > trapped in the subway for over half an hour due to: "sick
> > passenger"/"disruptions on another line"/"police
> > activity"/etc etc. Unless you simply don't CARE about being
> > on time/not have to work for a living?
> >
> > Am I a misguided sybaritic hedonist for asking for some
> > peace of mind during my daily transit?
> >
> > Hm....what do you think fellow Metro listers?
> >
> >
> > Peggy Tanusukma
> > - Years in NYC: 12 years
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ma-nyc-soc-bounces+peggy.tanusukma=us.penguingroup.com@
> lists.baka.org
> > [mailto:ma-nyc-soc-bounces+peggy.tanusukma<ma-nyc-soc-bounces%2Bpeggy.tanusukma>
> =us.penguingroup.com at lists.baka.org]
> > On Behalf Of Alain-Christian
> > Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 11:36 AM
> > To: Metro Anime New York City--social list
> > Subject: Re: [MA-SOC] Macy's does manga
> >
> > I've been on boring naked subways before in different
> > states. I wasn't
> > impressed.
> > http://www.mystady.com
>
> >
> >
> > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Tanusukma, Peggy <
> > Peggy.Tanusukma at us.penguingroup.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Completely agrees with Sean- and I've travelled to
> > Hong Kong and lived in
> > > "sterile" Singapore to see similarly beautiful street
> > works.
> > >
> > > Recycling here, to put it mildly, sucks. We started
> > seriously recycling
> > > plastics in Singapore back in 1990- seriously means we
> > have bins for the
> > > different types of plastics (the grade 1, 2, 3, 4,
> > etc). We have the bins in
> > > residential areas AND all subway stations. Even fast
> > food joints have
> > > recycling bins.
> > >
> > > And grafitti-less, CLEAN, ON TIME, NON-SMELLY, RATLESS
> > subways? Don't diss
> > > it till you've lived with it, Alain.
> > >
> > >
> > > Peggy Tanusukma
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From:
> > ma-nyc-soc-bounces+peggy.tanusukma=us.penguingroup.com@
> > > lists.baka.org
> > [mailto:ma-nyc-soc-bounces+peggy.tanusukma<ma-nyc-soc-bounces%2Bpeggy.tanusukma>
> <ma-nyc-soc-bounces%2Bpeggy.tanusukma>
> > > =us.penguingroup.com at lists.baka.org]
> > On Behalf Of Sean Su
> > > Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2009 3:57 PM
> > > To: Metro Anime New York City--social list
> > > Subject: Re: [MA-SOC] Macy's does manga
> > >
> > > Alain, we have far far far better average street
> > graffiti in Taipei than
> > > NYC, even Brooklyn. I'm into the whole graffiti
> > movement, have thousands of
> > > graffiti photos, and the technical skill here is
> > killer. It's largely
> > > because A) No one tags, they prefer big masterpieces,
> > B) Spray paint and
> > > other art materials are super cheap here so its easy
> > to experiment with
> > > little damage, C) It's completely acceptable to paint
> > power boxes or walls
> > > around "Youth areas" like Ximending thus don't need to
> > fear cops by
> > > sloppily
> > > fast-tagging, D) there is a lot of traffic on the
> > aforementioned areas so
> > > you wanna show your best, E) only awesome work is
> > respected perhaps related
> > > to the fact that there is extreme emphasis on
> > beautiful character writing
> > > that translates to everything else.
> > >
> > > I haven't actually had the chance to upload to a new
> > flickr account
> > > otherwise the usage of 3D and other higher tier work
> > is pretty impressive.
> > > So in the end thats why although Key and Rate is fun
> > in NYC, and I like
> > > them
> > > very much, a lot of their work makes them look like
> > skill-less douchebags
> > > if
> > > you really think about it since anyone can do it.
> > >
> > > Hrm, packaging in Taiwan is completely modelled after
> > the Japanese and thus
> > > the emphasis is on elegance or usability. The
> > magazines are plastic wrapped
> > > to prevent you from reading it all and then putting it
> > back. I would
> > > speculate that some magazines might be laminated to
> > prevent damage but I
> > > haven't seen that. I haven't seen pens plastic-wrapped
> > by themselves in
> > > ages, although I admit many other things are
> > wastefully packaged like
> > > Japan.
> > > However Taiwan has a far more effective and
> > complicated recycling system
> > > than even NYC so I don't really see the issue. Have
> > you experienced the
> > > "Chase the garbage truck (that plays Ice Cream music
> > so as to sorely
> > > dissapoint Americans) and then dump your bio
> > degradeables into one bin,
> > > plastic into another, paper into another, non
> > biodegradeable other
> > > packaging
> > > into another, etc etc" have you?
> > >
> > >  ▲
> > > ▲ ▲
> > > 蘇襄
> > > Sean Su
> > > Entrepreneur, God of the living room
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Alain-Christian
> > > <mynamebackwards at gmail.com>wrote:
> > >
> > > > You can take your ugly graffiti-less subways and
> > shove it! Sometimes I
> > > just
> > > > ride the train to Brooklyn to marvel at all the
> > awesome street passing by
> > > > the windows. It's beautiful.
> > > >
> > > > Speaking of packaging when I went to Taiwan
> > EVERYTHING was laminated!
> > > Even
> > > > the magazines were laminated! They sold pens and
> > pencils wrapped in
> > > > plastic!
> > > > So much wasteful plastic, I don't understand. I
> > rather not have
> > > everything
> > > > so laminated. Ugh.
> > > >
> > > > http://www.mystady.com
>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Sean Su <sean.su at sean.su>
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > There is only one solution...
> > > > >
> > > > > Unleash Godzilla!
> > > > >
> > > > > Oh no, the Americans have got Bad-Remake
> > Matthew-Broderick! ABORT!
> > > ABORT!
> > > > >
> > > > > Wait why are the sounds coming out of my
> > mouth out-of-sync with my
> > > lips?
> > > > Oh
> > > > > god, it's Rosie O'Donald! It's horribl...
> > *gargle*...
> > > > >
> > > > > [End Transmission]
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Yeah f'n Americans. How come you have so
> > many unruly people that kill
> > > the
> > > > > fun for all of us? I mean I remember the
> > time they had a whole walkway
> > > > > dressed up to look like Pirates of the
> > Carribbean with cardboard
> > > treasure
> > > > > chests, nets, and all sorts of other props,
> > if in America, it'd get
> > > torn
> > > > > apart or stolen.
> > > > >
> > > > > This is also why the packaging here in Asia
> > rules. Unlike the
> > > > > "armor-wrapped" products in the USA,
> > everything here unwraps without
> > > the
> > > > > use
> > > > > of blades, hacksaws, and axes.
> > > > >
> > > > > This is also why America doesn't have nice
> > things like a fast,
> > > relatively
> > > > > quiet, efficient, graffiti-less subway
> > system that is actually cheap
> > > and
> > > > > not
> > > > > taxed to death by the gum-clean-up-crew or
> > trash because in many places
> > > > in
> > > > > Asia people have the decency to throw trash
> > in actual trash
> > > receptacles.
> > > > >
> > > > > It is also why we have clubs that for
> > $20-$30 USD one gets unlimited
> > > > > un-watered down alcohol; and yet despite all
> > this there is no massive
> > > > > amount
> > > > > of vomit-puke all over the place because
> > even drunks here have the
> > > > decency
> > > > > here to puke in one of our nice municipal
> > bathrooms that include
> > > > > electronically warmed seat stalls and
> > amazingly NEVER MISS. Yah you go
> > > > > ahead
> > > > > and diss our physique, guess what, McDonalds
> > changed all that. There
> > > are
> > > > > now
> > > > > massive amounts of nice cow-hormoned
> > uber-tall men and leggy-ladies
> > > here
> > > > > that put my 5'10" height to shame. They call
> > me "Le Midget" (emphasis
> > > on
> > > > > the
> > > > > R).
> > > > >
> > > > > Yeah so what if the club culture is
> > euro-centric where the scantily
> > > clad
> > > > > women dance in the center and the men dance
> > afar, ogling desperately
> > > with
> > > > > each other in a sad and awkward fashion? We
> > can like it like you like
> > > it
> > > > > sometimes!
> > > > >
> > > > > Anyway I'm already a little drunk,
> > begrudging about flying back to the
> > > > > presence of you evil gaijin bastards. We
> > only need you because your
> > > > > Kissinger-esque foreign policy funds our
> > beloved Asian genocides.
> > > *sighs*
> > > > >
> > > > > My heart is already spread wide and
> > seductively for you lovely
> > > Americans,
> > > > > Sean-chan.
> > > > >
> > > > > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:18 PM, B Smith
> > <ifuritaoni at yahoo.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > No....because american fans WILL find a
> > way to steal it or american
> > > > thugs
> > > > > > will vandalize/destory it simply
> > because they have to prove how tough
> > > > > they
> > > > > > are they can take on a book and win.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Leaving ANYTHING outside is never
> > usually a good idea in NY unless
> > > it's
> > > > > so
> > > > > > heavy and useless that the average
> > moron can't be bothered.  But even
> > > > > then.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > After all...at the Sakura Matsuri - for
> > those who were there - anyone
> > > > saw
> > > > > > the "J-lounge"? with the
> > airchairs?  Guess what? By end of saturday
> > > two
> > > > > were
> > > > > > mysteriously blown and cops actually
> > caught some schmuck trying to
> > > get
> > > > > one
> > > > > > (intact & inflated) through a side
> > entrance.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Another WTF.  At the manga library
> > - for those who saw/attended in
> > > > > previous
> > > > > > years - usually we bring more than
> > 1,300 books of all kinds and most
> > > > > tastes
> > > > > > (obviously no hentai or yaoi) for
> > people to enjoy.  Last year someone
> > > > > took
> > > > > > offense (not sure if it was adult
> > seeing manga or seeing what their
> > > kid
> > > > > was
> > > > > > reading, but whatever) and BITTERLY
> > complained to the Botanic Gardens
> > > > > about
> > > > > > it (that wtf the Gardens was doing
> > handing out materials completely
> > > > > > unsuitable for kids or such), who in
> > turned bitched to AnimeNext
> > > about
> > > > it
> > > > > so
> > > > > > this year all titles were scanned for
> > ANY depictions of violence,
> > > > nudity,
> > > > > > profanity, sexuality, and questionable
> > immorality.  The result: the
> > > > > library
> > > > > > was reduced to 220 books.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I dunno about Japan but seems to me one
> > can't have nothing in america
> > > > > > someone else doesn't find a way to
> > #$@$# up somehow.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > B Smith, bitter cynic
> > > > > >
> > > > > > --- On Mon, 5/11/09, Sean Su <sean.su at sean.su>
> > wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > From: Sean Su <sean.su at sean.su>
> > > > > > > Subject: Re: [MA-SOC] Macy's does manga
> > > > > > > To: "Metro Anime New York City--social list" <
> ma-nyc-soc at lists.baka.org>
> > > > > > > Date: Monday, May 11, 2009, 12:46 AM
> > > > > > > I'm currently in Taiwan, and 20th
> > > > > > > Century Boys movie is coming out. To
> > > > > > > promote it they have the first couple of manga chained to
> > > > > > > stands so everyone
> > > > > > > can read it.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I wonder if such interesting marketing methods will ever reach
> the
> > > > USA.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
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