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Jimmi T said:
You guys notice Giroux said today his mandate is to investigate criminality in the mayor's office. Makes it seem like he's after more than just issues in the mayor's personal life.
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You mean like influence peddling conducted by casino owners and airline operators?
 
Johnny Au said:
blackballed, please e-mail me the Excel file at the start of every month (with data ending at the end of the previous month). This way, we can keep a record of changes. Why so? This way, you only need to send me the file 12 times a year (and there is no use to doing it more often).
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You can do this yourself if you really want, just record the post number at the start of each month as he has done. Set a repeating calendar alert or something.

I question the value of this data to begin with but that's how I would do it. You can also get more granular data by writing a simple script to download the entire thread and tabulate each post date and time. Record the post author and you could even see who is most active in this thread. Get really fancy and figure out who is most often quoted, or which domain is linked to the most (bets on Star, anyone?).
 
blackballed said:
MetroMan,

What is Lisi's motivation to work with TPS? It's not difficult to imagine the Fords offering to make it worth his while to keep quiet.
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John_Dee said:
Indeed. I was going to say as much myself. Lisi knows the Fords, and likely knows they are not people you easily cross. 'Betraying' them would involve some very real danger, methinks.
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pattycakes said:
Witness protection? I wouldn't want to be Lisi, in a jail, or out on the mean streets of Etobicoke, if I crossed the Ford family.
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Just like Ford was born with no shame, Lisi seems to have no sense of fear. This is the guy who walked into the snakes nest at Dixon right into the middle of a bunch of guys with guns and threatened the shit out of them about the video and Rob's cell phone. He's not afraid of Dixon City Bloods and he's not afraid of Rob Ford.

What he doesn't like is to do time. Despite his lifelong career of crime, I can't find any inication that he's done any significant time behind bars. He has taken a plea deal or gotten off suspiciously easy each time. He didn't get the "rat" nickname for nothing.
 
Crazy said:
I'm surprised that nothing like this (with respect to a Star reporter) has come to light before now. You have to assume if you cross the Fords, you'd better start worrying about your teeth, legs, or even life.
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They mentioned it when they had the journos from TS, G&M and The Nat at a speaker's panel in Nov.
 
MetroMan said:
Just like Ford was born with no shame, Lisi seems to have no sense of fear. This is the guy who walked into the snakes nest at Dixon right into the middle of a bunch of guys with guns and threatened the shit out of them about the video and Rob's cell phone. He's not afraid of Dixon City Bloods and he's not afraid of Rob Ford.
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Do we know that Lisi wasn't packing himself, or that he doesn't have enforcers? In these situations you don't gain respect just by demanding it, he must have some reason to not be afraid.
 
euler said:
You've completely missed my point. You had to go to a 4th order polynomial to get a regression with a decent fit. Look at your own graph, the curve constantly changes (gasp - 3 times! polynomial 101!). Try getting rid of that third upswing in the data and then calculating a 3rd order regression on the truncated data set, then projecting the future using the regression. You'll see that your model has no predictive qualities, you'll be off by a million miles. Now think what adding one more 'point' is going to change? Absolutely nothing.

Linear regression works well, do a quadratic if the data looks exponential, but once you start getting into 3rd and 4th order regressions without knowing exactly what the hell you are doing and why, it's just stupid. Learn to math, friend!

edit: I don't mean to be rude, after having this stuff drilled into my head for years it pains me to see bad math. And using higher-order polynomials just so your model fits past data better with the benefits of hindsight is just bad math. The cumulative data looks exponential, use a quadratic and call it a day if you want to be genuine. But it will still be a bad model because Rob Ford and the news cycle isn't predictable.
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Well that's a lot of fancy words, it's certainly going to be embarrassing for you when there are 35,779,422,129,633,810 posts by the end of Ford's second term just like the model predicts.
 
Is anyone going to Frod Fest? This is to celebrate all things Mayor Frod satirizes, I am guessing. :)


"Just a REMINDER about FrodFest 3: 3-8pm Sat Feb 8 Bettys On King UPSTAIRS. Check #FrodFest for updates."

I know some people pronounce the O in Frod like snow. But I choose to pronounce like the O in frog:.....or like Fraud. Mayor Fraud.
 
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DTGeek said:
Well that's a lot of fancy words, it's certainly going to be embarrassing for you when there are 35,779,422,129,633,810 posts by the end of Ford's second term just like the model predicts.
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Oddly enough, this is exactly how much taxpayer's money Ford will have saved by then.
 
Johnny Au said:
I will scrap the regression model then.

blackballed, please e-mail me the Excel file at the start of every month (with data ending at the end of the previous month). This way, we can keep a record of changes. Why so? This way, you only need to send me the file 12 times a year (and there is no use to doing it more often).
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Wow
 
sno man said:
I was going to say something earlier, but I'm newish, and he's been here a while but holy shit that is an example of some world class entitlement issues.
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