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jason1637 on 04 October 2018
Mandalore76 said:
jason1637 said:

Yeah but my birth certificate or social security doesn't have my phone number.

Edit: Just saw irstupid post that says its from a tower and not to my number. But still it's probably a breach of human rights to send texts without giving my consent.

How come the internet doesn't blow up like this when Flood Warning messages get sent to your phone during a heavy rainstorm?  Or when the exact same emergency has been broadcasted on everyone's television sets for decades?  Do you also worry that the government has the serial # of your television set and a secret built in transmitter so that President Trump can personally imbed subliminal messages of compliance into the daily broadcasts sent specifically to your TV?

1) I blocked amber alerts and flood warnings on my phone.

2) I've never seen a warning on TV.



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Mandalore76 on 04 October 2018
jason1637 said:
Mandalore76 said:

How come the internet doesn't blow up like this when Flood Warning messages get sent to your phone during a heavy rainstorm?  Or when the exact same emergency has been broadcasted on everyone's television sets for decades?  Do you also worry that the government has the serial # of your television set and a secret built in transmitter so that President Trump can personally imbed subliminal messages of compliance into the daily broadcasts sent specifically to your TV?

1) I blocked amber alerts and flood warnings on my phone.

2) I've never seen a warning on TV.

That doesn't alter the reality of it having been a thing for decades.  I'm starting to see where the phrase "millennial entitlement" comes from...



Rogerioandrade on 04 October 2018
RolStoppable said:
ironmanDX said:
Wow. Wth is going on in here?

Elaborate anger management therapy session.

I thought exactly the same.



SuaveSocialist on 04 October 2018

There is a long, long, long list of things Beloved Leader deserves criticism for, but this isn’t one of them. This is just an emergency broadcast system designed for the most common of modern communications technology. They had it for television. They had it for radio. And the Ghost of King George didn’t take your guns away or whatever it is you think tyrants do.

If Dear Leader abuses this, go and call him out on it. Add it to the lengthy list of reasons why he is manifestly unfit for any position of authority. But there’s currently no reason why this Alert System should be a partisan issue.