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Title: Did y'all get dat Presidential Alert test today ?
Post by: tp4tissue on Wed, 03 October 2018, 13:40:05: It's kinda like, hey , we're just checking the Iron Curtain works..

Love and Kisses //the Secret Police, aka NSA..

Hahahaha
Title: Re: Did ya'll get dat Presidential Alert test today ?
Post by: sncbraxsc2 on Wed, 03 October 2018, 13:43:01: already set him to ignore
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Post by: JP on Wed, 03 October 2018, 13:52:30: Was just at a coffee shop and the joint lit up including my phone. I believe we were all reprogrammed instantaneously.
Title: Re: Did ya'll get dat Presidential Alert test today ?
Post by: tp4tissue on Wed, 03 October 2018, 13:54:51: Quote from: JP on Wed, 03 October 2018, 13:52:30
Was just at a coffee shop and the joint lit up including my phone. I believe we were all reprogrammed instantaneously.

(https://i.imgur.com/1uEw5z3.gif)

Don't think anyone doubts 1984 at this point..

Clearly ritalin and other amphet salts.. = mind control drugs.. experimented on millions of young people w/ the promise of reducing parental labor..

But in reality, it creates a race of docile slaves to narcotics..

Like the Jem'hadar under control by the Dominion via Ketracel White

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Title: Re: Did ya'll get dat Presidential Alert test today ?
Post by: JP on Wed, 03 October 2018, 14:10:26: Government sent out an emergency update at 2:18 EST. If you google John 2:18. It's a reference to the last antichrist. Dun dun dun
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+2%3A18&version=KJV
Title: Re: Did ya'll get dat Presidential Alert test today ?
Post by: SBJ on Wed, 03 October 2018, 14:11:31: This thread is going places, maybe. *insert popcorn gif*
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Post by: noisyturtle on Wed, 03 October 2018, 14:12:02: I was asleep.
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Post by: kiwi99 on Wed, 03 October 2018, 14:41:59: I didn't get nothing luckily
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Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Wed, 03 October 2018, 15:00:12: in prep for when they nuke someone and they gonna nuke us back
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Post by: Kavik on Wed, 03 October 2018, 15:06:56: Nope, my flip phone doesn't get any of these alerts. Everyone else's phone blew up at work though.
Title: Re: Did ya'll get dat Presidential Alert test today ?
Post by: sncbraxsc2 on Wed, 03 October 2018, 15:12:04: I was hoping it would become his new way of tweeting.

ALARM SOUNDS

"Despite the negative press covfefe..."
Title: Re: Did ya'll get dat Presidential Alert test today ?
Post by: xtrafrood on Wed, 03 October 2018, 16:20:08: I wonder if that Librem 5 phone has presidential tweets turned off by default..
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Post by: wtoe on Wed, 03 October 2018, 17:24:47: (https://i.imgur.com/ts0X2qq.png)

:))
Title: Re: Did ya'll get dat Presidential Alert test today ?
Post by: ander on Wed, 03 October 2018, 17:38:05: I admit, the timing does make it seem somewhat sinister, considering we have a despotic, antisocial, inhumane, narcissistic, impulsive, pathologically-lying, short-tempered, unstable, untreated mental health patient in the White House.

But the US government has always had systems in place to warn the public about major emergencies. As technology changes, it's only logical to extend it to those platforms.
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Post by: portbaron on Wed, 03 October 2018, 18:55:45: Uh oh what are they planning to do tomorrow?
Title: Re: Did ya'll get dat Presidential Alert test today ?
Post by: tp4tissue on Wed, 03 October 2018, 19:07:22: Quote from: portbaron on Wed, 03 October 2018, 18:55:45
Uh oh what are they planning to do tomorrow?

Hrrrrrmm... didn't think about it that way.

u may be onto something...

// Tp4 checks stock portfolio..
Title: Re: Did ya'll get dat Presidential Alert test today ?
Post by: captain on Wed, 03 October 2018, 19:09:33: Quote from: portbaron on Wed, 03 October 2018, 18:55:45
Uh oh what are they planning to do tomorrow?
Whatever it is, I won't be bothered by it.

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Title: Re: Did ya'll get dat Presidential Alert test today ?
Post by: Carcharocles on Wed, 03 October 2018, 19:18:46: We got two. One just a few minutes after the other.

We only have one cell phone....
Title: Re: Did ya'll get dat Presidential Alert test today ?
Post by: Michael on Wed, 03 October 2018, 21:44:05: Quote from: captain on Wed, 03 October 2018, 19:09:33
Quote from: portbaron on Wed, 03 October 2018, 18:55:45
Uh oh what are they planning to do tomorrow?
Whatever it is, I won't be bothered by it.

Show Image
(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20181004/9b6ed54746a1e86500c08eddaeb8c59b.jpg)

Mine were set to 'off' as well, and I still got it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Title: Re: Did ya'll get dat Presidential Alert test today ?
Post by: rowdy on Wed, 03 October 2018, 21:56:32: Is he trying to pontificate to everyone not following him on twitter?
Title: Re: Did ya'll get dat Presidential Alert test today ?
Post by: Carcharocles on Wed, 03 October 2018, 22:56:22: Quote from: rowdy on Wed, 03 October 2018, 21:56:32
Is he trying to pontificate to everyone not following him on twitter?

You would think, but no. These tests were planned during Obama's tenure in office. The point is basically to make sure that everyone gets an emergency alert on the national level on the off chance something like a nuclear exchange would occur.

And you can't block these tests, or the alerts themselves. The federal government considers the stakes too high if such an alert would be needed.
Title: Re: Did ya'll get dat Presidential Alert test today ?
Post by: captain on Wed, 03 October 2018, 23:28:06: Quote from: Carcharocles on Wed, 03 October 2018, 22:56:22

And you can't block these tests, or the alerts themselves. The federal government considers the stakes too high if such an alert would be needed.

Well! That's some epic bull****. If there were a nuclear exchange, I don't want to know about it. It's not like I could do anything about it, other than run the other direction from all the headless chickens panicking. Now, a tornado alert is another thing. That's why I HAD emergency alerts turned on. I guess I'll turn them back on if I can't block Trump D Dumpty. sigh
Title: Re: Did ya'll get dat Presidential Alert test today ?
Post by: captain on Wed, 03 October 2018, 23:30:24: Quote from: tp4tissue on Wed, 03 October 2018, 13:40:05
It's kinda like, hey , we're just checking the Iron Curtain works..

Love and Kisses //the Secret Police, aka NSA..

Hahahaha

You misspelled y'all. It's a contraction of you & all, not ya & will. ;-)
Title: Re: Did y'all get dat Presidential Alert test today ?
Post by: tp4tissue on Wed, 03 October 2018, 23:55:23: Quote from: captain on Wed, 03 October 2018, 23:30:24

You misspelled y'all. It's a contraction of you & all, not ya & will. ;-)

/Fixed
Title: Re: Did y'all get dat Presidential Alert test today ?
Post by: Blaise170 on Thu, 04 October 2018, 10:08:50: I don't get why everyone has such an issue with the presidential alerts. They've been active for at least the last decade, but I'm not sure when phones first got presidential capabilities. They can be used for any emergency that threatens the US, because the next major war will not be fought with nukes (at least, it's highly improbable).
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Post by: shadowrealmwarez on Thu, 04 October 2018, 10:13:29: Got it on personal and work phone. Can't wait to vote for him again in 2020.
Title: Re: Did y'all get dat Presidential Alert test today ?
Post by: tp4tissue on Thu, 04 October 2018, 10:17:28: Quote from: shadowrealmwarez on Thu, 04 October 2018, 10:13:29
Got it on personal and work phone. Can't wait to vote for him again in 2020.

Making Great America the Greatest. !!
Title: Re: Did y'all get dat Presidential Alert test today ?
Post by: xtrafrood on Thu, 04 October 2018, 10:25:08: Hehe, if one person could take down the camera system in Washington I think a team of people can disable presidential alerts.

Not saying I would condone such a thing (I wouldn't), I'm only saying that with the speed of information these days--is it really necessary?

And if the populace deems it necessary, (they probably don't care) could each presidential tweet start with, "My fellow Americans..."?
Title: Re: Did y'all get dat Presidential Alert test today ?
Post by: sncbraxsc2 on Thu, 04 October 2018, 12:06:36: Quote from: Blaise170 on Thu, 04 October 2018, 10:08:50
I don't get why everyone has such an issue with the presidential alerts. They've been active for at least the last decade, but I'm not sure when phones first got presidential capabilities. They can be used for any emergency that threatens the US, because the next major war will not be fought with nukes (at least, it's highly improbable).

Like you said, the EAS has been in use constantly over the years on a more local scale, especially for dangerous weather like tornadoes, wildfires and hurricanes. The ability to warn any necessary locale has already been in place.

But ever since America got great again, we can send out bigger, better and far more presidential (lol) alerts than ever before because we're prepared for EVERYTHING. My real concern is what the Pres constitutes as a National Emergency, if this is indicative of a rising threat, and how selectively the tool will be used. He's declared "National Emergencies" in response to possible meddling in elections :p, global rights abuses and corruption, and also the opioid epidemic. Are these the types of things we will be receiving alerts on? Or is it solely for some kindof nationwide attack - technological or otherwise - like an internet shutdown/blackout?

Relevant article:
https://www.businessinsider.com/nsa-hacker-what-would-happen-if-americas-internet-went-down-2018-6 (https://www.businessinsider.com/nsa-hacker-what-would-happen-if-americas-internet-went-down-2018-6)
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Post by: rowdy on Thu, 04 October 2018, 21:50:18: We've got something like that (http://www.emergencyalert.gov.au/), but I can only recall it having been used once.