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FEMA to test 'Presidential Alert' system next week

President Donald Trump may soon be communicating with you directly on your phone — even if you don't follow him on Twitter.

Next Thursday, the Federal Emergency Management Agency will do its first test of a system that allows the president to send a message to most U.S. cellphones.

More than 100 mobile carriers, including all the major wireless firms, are participating in the roll out, FEMA stated in a message on its website posted Thursday.
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...-system-next-week-n909816?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

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Captain_Swoop said:
FEMA to test 'Presidential Alert' system next week

[quotePresident Donald Trump may soon be communicating with you directly on your phone — even if you don't follow him on Twitter.

Next Thursday, the Federal Emergency Management Agency will do its first test of a system that allows the president to send a message to most U.S. cellphones.

More than 100 mobile carriers, including all the major wireless firms, are participating in the roll out, FEMA stated in a message on its website posted Thursday.
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WTF? :mad:
 
It makes sense to have such a system for national emergencies but could easily be abused and, with this administration, likely will be.
 
There's only one circumstance where I want Trump associated with what is basically an "Amber Alert"... and that ain't it. :D
 
kellyb said:
The word "socialism" has had an elusive, slippery definition since Orwell's time.

http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit
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This is not the first time you've posted what Orwell thinks about politics and though he was a good writer and had some insightful things to say, he certainly isn't and wasn't an expert on politics and philosophy.

Besides, there are many varieties of socialism so if we really want to be honest about discussing these subjects, we should all be using more precise terms, though I know I'm guilty of being vague as well. :blush:
 
The Norseman said:
This is not the first time you've posted what Orwell thinks about politics and though he was a good writer and had some insightful things to say, he certainly isn't and wasn't an expert on politics and philosophy.

Besides, there are many varieties of socialism so if we really want to be honest about discussing these subjects, we should all be using more precise terms, though I know I'm guilty of being vague as well. :blush:
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He was an expert on the linguistics of politics, which...everything he was complaining about then is basically the same now.

I agree that we should all strive to simply be more precise in our use of terms. :)
 
Captain_Swoop said:
FEMA to test 'Presidential Alert' system next week

President Donald Trump may soon be communicating with you directly on your phone — even if you don't follow him on Twitter.
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<RING>
Me: Uh, hello?
Auto-Trump: This is an automated call from the Emergency Presidential Alert. A category 3 hurricane is heading your way.
Me: Oh, that's nice. A commun--
Auto-Trump: It's tremendously big and tremendously wet.
Me: ...what?
Auto-Trump: We're ready, even though no one understands it, we understand. It's going to be an A+ performance. Don't trust what you see and hear. They'll inflate the death toll to make me look bad. Fake news, sad. Don't die of old age until the end of the storm, just to be sure. Huge win over Hillary. No one thought we could do it. Biggest inauguration crowd ever. Big league. #MAGA.
Me: <Hangs up>
 
C_Felix said:
I'm in Clayton and I turned off coverage about 9 am yesterday. The same crapola over and over and over and over again.
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I switch back to WRAL to get Greg Fishel's most recent updates every few hours or so.

He's the only meteorologist I have much faith in around here, and the only one who manages to do his reports without hitting the panic button all the time.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
FEMA to test 'Presidential Alert' system next week

President Donald Trump may soon be communicating with you directly on your phone — even if you don't follow him on Twitter.

Next Thursday, the Federal Emergency Management Agency will do its first test of a system that allows the president to send a message to most U.S. cellphones.

More than 100 mobile carriers, including all the major wireless firms, are participating in the roll out, FEMA stated in a message on its website posted Thursday.
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...-system-next-week-n909816?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

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The "Block this number" feature will come in handy.
 
Belz... said:
Actually, no. Because what you might find to have merit is a judgment call that others might not share. In other words, what you find just or unjust is not necessarily something you can convince anyone else of. But regardless, the process of ignoring the law for ideological reasons is the same no matter who does it. If you can ignore the law when you see it as unjust, others can ignore it even if you see that law as just. I didn't think that would be controversial.
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Because some laws have been objectively unjust even inside the moral frameworks they were created in, and there are other substantive, objective differences in impact between laws. Slavery was one.

I didn't take you for a moral relativist.

The point is that you had better be damn sure a law really is unjust before 'ignoring' it and be ready to take the punishment. I don't even know what you're talking about with 'can'. Any law 'can' be ignored. And I can stop a bullet. Once.
 
The Norseman said:
So, we've got Yellow Alert and Red Alert

as well as Amber Alert

and now

Orange Alert.
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I'd call it the Turd Alert.

Make preparations for a lying piece of **** heading your way. Be safe. Have clean water, disinfecting cleaners and plenty of toilet paper.
 
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FEMA to test 'Presidential Alert' system next week



https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...-system-next-week-n909816?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma
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Under headline;

Experts expressed little concern that the wireless emergency alerts could be used for political purposes.
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Followed by;

The wireless emergency alerts (WEA) system was authorized by Congress in 2015 under a law that states the "system shall not be used to transmit a message that does not relate to a natural disaster, act of terrorism, or other man-made disaster or threat to public safety."

Experts didn't appear to be too concerned that Trump, known to use his smartphone to blast opponents, berate subordinates and take shots at the news media on Twitter, could abuse WEA.
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Stacyhs said:
The "Block this number" feature will come in handy.
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Also;

Under the Warning, Alert, and Response Network (WARN) Act of 2006, cellphone users cannot opt out of the presidential alerts.
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How about we start up a pool on how long it takes Trump to use this "for political purposes"?

A direct feed to nearly every cellphone in the country, and it can't be refused?

No way Trump is going to be able to resist that.

He'll say anything he feels like, and just claim it wasn't for political purposes, and his toadys, sycophants, and GOP Cult Of Trump followers will just nod their heads sagely and agree.

I give it one month ... max, but I suspect it will be much quicker.

Sept. 20 wouldn't surprise me a lot.
 
Belz... said:
I'm sure those who defended them didn't think so.



So do I, but the way to fight unjust laws is to get them changed.



Don't we usually call that vigilantism?
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There is a difference, at least to me, between what is normally considered 'civil disobedience, and what is generally considered 'vigilantism'.


Sitting in the wrong place and getting arrested is civil disobedience. Lynching people who do it is vigilantism.
 
Slings and Arrows said:
I kind of doubt it, but I suppose it's possible Trump wrote the op-ed and punked The New York Times. Outsmarted by the evil genius.
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It is quite impossible that Trump wrote it. He isn't literate enough to have written a document like that.

It is possible that someone wrote it for him, and had the idea in the first place.

Not sure how likely. I'm not much of a fan of the "N" dimensional chess theory of Trump's success. And I suspect that even his hangers on are smart enough to realize that sooner or later it would be exposed.
 
I just came across a couple screen shot of quotes that quite amused me and have some relevance to the Trump Presidency.

"When the apocalypse starts, I would like it noted that I voted for the cool black guy and the chick who made Putin piss himself." - David Yankovich

"I'm no HR professional but it's prob a bad sign when an employee writes an anonymous letter calling you a brain-dead ******* and you can't even narrow it down to 100 people" - Jess Dweck @TheDweck
 
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kellyb said:
What I think is based on the polls.

http://theweek.com/speedreads/790039/socialism-more-popular-than-capitalism-among-democrats

https://www.nationalreview.com/2017...te-george-barna-tradition-liberty-capitalism/


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...oung-socialism-capitalism-20180520-story.html
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Thanks for the links, however I don't see how to infer from that what the perceptions about Democratic handing of the "Socialism" attacks are among independent or softly aligned voters, or whether such attack messaging from the Republicans is landing any blows.
 
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