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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Ben on October 03, 2018, 09:25:56 AM
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Don't forget to prep for Trump's takeover of FEMA at 1418ET today! :laugh:
I'll be interested to see if I receive it. Depending on thunderstorm activity, I should be in the middle of a day hike up around 11K' today.
It's a new area for me, and reviews have said that there is actually intermittent cell service on a few parts of the trail. Otherwise if it were a real alert, I guess this would be a good example of getting screwed on an early warning. :laugh:
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And the left is going absolutely batshit...
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I'll set my phone on airplane mode today, I don't care to be awakened in the middle of my "night".
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I saw something about that.
Is there any way we can Reply All and ask to be removed from this distribution list? Starting a whole series of messages would be awesome. =)
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So, Trump is activating Skynet? [tinfoil]
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And the left is going absolutely batshit...
Yeah, its been entertaining reading some of the comments. :laugh:
If I understand it right, this is another thing that was actually signed off on during the Obama years.
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If I understand it right, this is another thing that was actually signed off on during the Obama years.
It goes back further than that, it was passed in a bill in 2006, this one really is Bush's fault. ;)
bob
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And the left is going absolutely batshit...
I was going to ask why, but I figured it out. Anything even remotely related to Trump is bad.
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I was going to ask why, but I figured it out. Anything even remotely related to Trump is bad.
I can't watch Jimmy Kimmel anymore (not that I watched him much before) Everything he says in his monologue is a Trump joke, where "Trump" is the punchline and he says that first, then something stupid and insulting to fill it out.
(https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/012/132/thatsthejoke.jpg)
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And the left is going absolutely batshit...
Reply MAGA to unsubscribe.
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And the left is going absolutely batshit...
And they're the ones who call us paranoid.
Amusing.
Terry, 230RN
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-03/u-s-judge-denies-request-to-block-trump-s-presidential-alert
I must have missed the "constitutional protection to be free from government-compelled listening" last time I read the constitution, which amendment is that?
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I’m enjoying all the complaints about people being forced to accept “messages” on their phone from (insert various lefty names for Trump)! Many seem to actually believe Trump himself will be sending them messages on a regular basis or something and are freaking out.
That said, it’s stupid to call it a Presidential Alert. They should just call it an Emergency Broadcast like it is on TV’s and the Radio. It will be the same as the weather alerts and those amber alerts that show up on cellphones.
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So wait, I missed something. Does every cell phone get a Presidential Alert ??
"This is the greatest notification system in the world. MAGA !!! - @realDonaldTrump "
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
I am going to reply all with "MAGA"
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I might just get the alert. Its cracking me up that I have 4g right here.
I am here: 37°34.5810'N 118°58.5950'W http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.57637%2C-118.97659
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I might just get the alert. Its cracking me up that I have 4g right here.
I am here: 37°34.5810'N 118°58.5950'W http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.57637%2C-118.97659
I hope you have your waders on, it looks like you are a bit offshore. ;)
bob
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I might just get the alert. Its cracking me up that I have 4g right here.
I am here: 37°34.5810'N 118°58.5950'W http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.57637%2C-118.97659
Yes, I see you on the Google satellite image.
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I might just get the alert. Its cracking me up that I have 4g right here.
I am here: 37°34.5810'N 118°58.5950'W http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.57637%2C-118.97659
Look up and wave !!!
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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And the left is going absolutely batshit...
Tease. I had to go and look for some stupid. Naturally, I turned to the former newspaper of record, and its comment section:
"With this "Presidential Alert" system Donald J. Trump may issue an order to his followers to take any action that he commands. Preemption of the myriad activities that are ongoing on a computer-phone should never have been approved in general - even had we a more rational President."
I'll have to shut my phone off at night, because Trump, being well known for his early morning tweets, won't be able to resist sending and "emergency" presidential alert.
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I'm standing by to receive my marching orders from Our Fuhrer, Lord and Master !!!
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Still getting signal. I'm ready to obey the master here in the mountains.
I am here: 37°33.7600'N 118°57.8410'W http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.56267%2C-118.96402
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I’m enjoying all the complaints about people being forced to accept “messages” on their phone from (insert various lefty names for Trump)! Many seem to actually believe Trump himself will be sending them messages on a regular basis or something and are freaking out.
That said, it’s stupid to call it a Presidential Alert. They should just call it an Emergency Broadcast like it is on TV’s and the Radio. It will be the same as the weather alerts and those amber alerts that show up on cellphones.
Gawd! (Or should I say "Mein Gott!") I'm old enough to remember what every Saturday at Noon there was a test of the emergency broadcast network. My father was in charge of coordinating attack alerts for our county, by virtue of his working for the telephone company and having been a Signal Corps officer in WW2. At Noon on Saturdays, EVERY radio station cut loose with a screeching tone best suited for a low-budget science fiction film, followed by an announcement that said something like, 'This has been a test of the national emergency broadcast system. If this had been an actual emergency, you would have received instructions to tune to a different frequency."
Simultaneous with the radio tones, every firehouse in the county (actually, in the country) cut loose with their sirens or horns or whistles, or whatever each fire department used to announce that they were going to be launching fire trucks imminently. All this cacophony went on unabated for one full, excruciating minute.
And now people are upset because they might get a message on their cell hones?
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Its going off NoW! Prepare for mass triggering!!!!
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Its going off NoW! Prepare for mass triggering!!!!
I'm disappointed. The President didn't even have a personal message for me.
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I have been summoned !!!
I'm here Master !!! Send Me !!!!
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I just leaped from my seat, grabbed an improvised cudgel and ran into the hallway yelling "It's WAR!"
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I just got the call. I was commanded to display the It's OK To Be White handsign to everyone I meet for the next 24 hours.
The Revolution is happening!!
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Just got it and I yelled "OMG We are all going to die." People are not happy with me.
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I was just instructed to vote to confirm Kavanaugh!
And I did!
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Gawd! (Or should I say "Mein Gott!") I'm old enough to remember what every Saturday at Noon there was a test of the emergency broadcast network. My father was in charge of coordinating attack alerts for our county, by virtue of his working for the telephone company and having been a Signal Corps officer in WW2. At Noon on Saturdays, EVERY radio station cut loose with a screeching tone best suited for a low-budget science fiction film, followed by an announcement that said something like, 'This has been a test of the national emergency broadcast system. If this had been an actual emergency, you would have received instructions to tune to a different frequency."
Simultaneous with the radio tones, every firehouse in the county (actually, in the country) cut loose with their sirens or horns or whistles, or whatever each fire department used to announce that they were going to be launching fire trucks imminently. All this cacophony went on unabated for one full, excruciating minute.
And now people are upset because they might get a message on their cell hones?
Around here it was (and still is) at 10am on Tuesday both sirens and TV/radio. Although the Chicago FD sounded all their sirens back in 1959 when the Sox clinched the AL Pennant and scared the hell out of everyone.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/chi-chicagodays-whitesox1959-story-story.html
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I did the same as for the disaster drills at work: run up and down the halls shrieking 'I don't want to die a virgin!'. I get more action that way.
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Damn living rent free in their heads and right to their personal devices. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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So your phones didn't say "Execute Jade Helm plan 66"?
Huh, must have been just DOD phones. Gotta run....
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Trump ordered me to start an avalanche.
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Trump ordered me to start an avalanche.
? ? ?
(https://i.imgur.com/bZQoiq7.png)
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? ? ?
(https://i.imgur.com/bZQoiq7.png)
I know he seems to be a Toyota guy now.
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Huh, my company supplied iPhone 5s didn't get the alert. Everyone else around me did. I am disappoint.
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*heh*
Our comm center has about a dozen iPhones for disaster failover for our phone system. Combined with the 10 or so personal cell phones, it was a helluva racket in here..... :D
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No alert...but an amber alert two states away at 3am? Haven’t missed one yet
The “Alertus” app that our work uses for sever weather/emergencies alert didn’t trigger either
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I'm still blown away that I got it. I was on my way to a summit and still surrounded by peaks. I don't know where the hell the signal came from. Once I topped the summit and went no more than 100 yards down the other side, the signal was gone. Woulda missed my Trump-reich orders if I had started hiking 20min earlier. :laugh:
That language was almost identical to what I used to get at fed.gov when we had continuity of operations drills (minus the presidential). I just got back to my condo so haven't looked up any lefty crazy talk yet. They have to be pretty disappointed at the innocuous language. I'm still betting that I'll easily find lots of "off the deep end" comments. :laugh:
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I got it. Phone didn't screech as loud or obnoxiously as it does for Amber alerts (which I immediately turned off after the first one because it was for hundreds of miles away) I was hoping this one to include some generic Trumpism, like bigly or covfefe, without being silly or partisan.
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I'm still blown away that I got it. I was on my way to a summit and still surrounded by peaks. I don't know where the hell the signal came from.
According to this: http://www.city-data.com/towers/cell-Mammoth-Lakes-California.html there are 7 cell phone towers in that area.
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I’m enjoying all the complaints about people being forced to accept “messages” on their phone from (insert various lefty names for Trump)! Many seem to actually believe Trump himself will be sending them messages on a regular basis or something and are freaking out.
That said, it’s stupid to call it a Presidential Alert. They should just call it an Emergency Broadcast like it is on TV’s and the Radio. It will be the same as the weather alerts and those amber alerts that show up on cellphones.
I think having it called the Presidential Alert is having the desired effect. :angel:
Didn't get any Presidential Alert, but I did get an earthquake soon alert around 2am; never felt it though as the center was much farther away. That will really wake you up though.
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Phones are interesting in a cia in your pocket sorta way. I carry a Moto G4 with no service to use as a tool and wifi device. It gets the alerts. I now also occasionally use Google maps on it and I had assumed the phones were triangulating cell towers for the map. Well, I downloaded a map and headed off on a shortcut home. The damn thing was giving me very accurate turn by turn directions in Green Bank, WV where I assure you no cell tower reaches. GPS, pretty scary for a not activated Walmart phone.
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I have my previous phone as a dedicated bathroom phone (Wi-Fi only). It was, apparently, sounding off for hours, until I acknowledged the alert (and took a loyalty oath).
Anyone know if tablets and readers are getting the alerts, too?
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(https://i.imgur.com/0yloIni.jpg)
:-*
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According to this: http://www.city-data.com/towers/cell-Mammoth-Lakes-California.html there are 7 cell phone towers in that area.
From what I can tell, they're all around 8000' or lower. There was a 10000' mountain between me and them. I must have gotten the signal after I broke 10K on the other end.
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I did the same as for the disaster drills at work: run up and down the halls shrieking 'I don't want to die a virgin!'. I get more action that way.
A video of my bestest buddy with his band back a few decades. That'd be him on the geetar. Quite a conservative, and takes a shitton of crap from the lefties in the Columbus music scene. Perhaps you can shriek to the music next time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omZpjxTzXg8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omZpjxTzXg8) =D
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I finally got around to reading TDS posts related to this. Wow - way more off the rail than when word of this first got out. Some people were actually sane and said, "I hate Trump but..." then explained the background and that it would happen no matter who was in office right now. Then there would be 100 replies attacking them and going further off the rails with schemes and talk about how Trump has his "agents" planted in FEMA and the military.
I guess on the bright side, all the TDS people that said they will block the alerts will be the first to go in a disaster. More supplies for the rest of us. :laugh:
Also I think I figured out how I got the alert in the wild: Trump activated the special comms systems on his armada of invisible drones to ensure all his acolytes received their trigger message.
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I am tired of you people talking about stupid Lefty rage-fits, but failing to show the evidence. It's all Trump's fault. :mad:
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I am tired of you people talking about stupid Lefty rage-fits, but failing to show the evidence. It's all Trump's fault. :mad:
I see what you did there...
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I am tired of you people talking about stupid Lefty rage-fits, but failing to show the evidence. It's all Trump's fault. :mad:
I got the most entertaining results by googling "how to keep presidential alerts off your phone" then reading the comments to the supposedly tech articles. You would think people who deal in IT would be more rational than average, but it appears to be the opposite.
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I just came across something in Facebook that was supposedly a Twitter lift of some idiot claiming that the presidential alert was equivalent to cyber rape...
Jesus these people are sick.
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I just came across something in Facebook that was supposedly a Twitter lift of some idiot claiming that the presidential alert was equivalent to cyber rape...
Jesus these people are sick.
Well shoot, he should consider himself lucky that he was raped by Trump. Hillary could have been President.
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(https://i.imgur.com/FEXlF.jpg)
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I got the most entertaining results by googling "how to keep presidential alerts off your phone" then reading the comments to the supposedly tech articles. You would think people who deal in IT would be more rational than average, but it appears to be the opposite.
Ah...
LITERALLY, the first comment I came across by that method.
Ouch, this is rough. I hate the idea of him being able to force a text to my phone, but at the same time, if this were literally any other president, I’d be fully behind it.
She even put "literally" in italics, I guess because that makes her comment more for reals. FOR. REALS. This begs the question, if this were figuratively some other president, would she get behind it?
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Ah...
LITERALLY, the first comment I came across by that method.
She even put "literally" in italics, I guess because that makes her comment more for reals. FOR. REALS. This begs the question, if this were figuratively some other president, would she get behind it?
If this were figuratively some other president, would that person even be President?
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https://i.imgur.com/FEXlF.jpg
(Removed [img] tags in the interests of decency)
Well . . . there goes my appetite.
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Well shoot, he should consider himself lucky that he was raped by Trump. Hillary could have been President.
She.
And, if Hillary and Helen Thomas had a love child, that love child would still be better looking that the pic that was associated with that twitidiot.
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In the spirit of tinfoil-hattery, did anyone else get a system software update after this presidential text?
[tinfoil] [tinfoil] [tinfoil]
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No. But for some reason my ringtone changed to "Hail to the Chief."
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No. But for some reason my ringtone changed to "Hail to the Chief."
Weird, mine became Deutschland über alles... :laugh: :laugh:
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Weird, mine became Deutschland über alles... :laugh: :laugh:
=D
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Weird, mine became Deutschland über alles... :laugh: :laugh:
Don't you mean "Be Glorious, our free Motherland"?
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Weird, mine became Deutschland über alles... :laugh: :laugh:
Didn't affect mine. It's still https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCuR-GUlJzM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCuR-GUlJzM)
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Didn't affect mine. It's still https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCuR-GUlJzM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCuR-GUlJzM)
Is this the new Rick-roll?
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(https://i.imgur.com/ybVL0qO.jpg)
I saw this yesterday. I think there must be some hoping this actually happened. Or maybe you just have to be a Rush fan.
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(https://i.imgur.com/ybVL0qO.jpg)
I saw this yesterday. I think there must be some hoping this actually happened. Or maybe you just have to be a Rush fan.
Reminded me of that ancient TV show, "The Outer Limits."
"We control your horizontal, We control your vertical."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outer_Limits_(1963_TV_series)
Nowadays, I wonder if half the population knows what "horizontal" and "vertical" mean in that context.
Back to the satellite image::
Look up and wave !!!
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
About a month ago I satellited ( ! ) my building and there in the parking lot was my car with this big black thing on the hood. It finally dawned on me if was my garbage bag, and since I take out the trash, park it on the hood of the car, drive over to the dumpster, get rid of the bag and then go run my errands, I must've just got in the car at that moment.
For some reason that bothered me a little. Just a little, but then I found it amusing. Instead of going through my trash for "evidence," they could just read it while it was on my car hood.
Kinda silly, but it was just a bit too personal somehow.
:)
Terry
REF (Control Voice of the Outer Limits):
https://youtu.be/FCcdr4O-3gE (1:08)
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The Outer Limits. Great show.
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https://www.rush.com/songs/2112/
Here are the lyrics to 2112 if any of you don't listen to Rush. =)
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Here are the lyrics to 2112 if any of you don't listen to Rush. =)
Not if I can help it.
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Didn't affect mine. It's still https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCuR-GUlJzM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCuR-GUlJzM)
Doggy Daddy's going to get shot in the head with a crossbow.