+1

in second grade i almost killed a kid with a chair....
after i was expelled i was sent to catholic school.... the desks and chairs were bolted to the floors :)
(this was... 1982 or so, otherwise you'd have no doubt seen it on all the news channels and O'Reilly would be ranting and Beck would be singing my praises no doubt.... i would've liked to have met larry king :/
alas, born in the wrong era...

amen

yup, nearly 200 miles away.... *shakin in my boots*

yup, i'm a ham and was a member of my local civil defense for years, doesn't mean i need my cell phone to be going off at 2am with an EAS test like the TV does.....

nope, don't have any of that shit where i live....

jealous yet?

right, how many emergencies is this thing actually going to be used for, versus how many annoying fucking tests are they going to do every month like the cable company does?

besides, i don't live in a tornado prone area, i'm not a moron living in a trailer park in the middle of buttfucck oklahoma...

no EF3 tornadoes here in MA, no earthquakes either... we get the occasional weak hurricane and nor'easter... but neither of those are likely to destroy everything you own and kill you....

right, because warning people is part of your job.... good for you, what if i don't want the hassle?

Canada has touch tone dialing? wow...

great, now all we need to do is get GSM nationwide and make everyone get GSM phones....

have they gotten rid of those stupid assed morse code reqs yet? i want to get my general some time before i die, but i can't be bothered to learn something i'll never use....

wait, you live in an area prone to large, violent, dangerous tornadoes, and you haven't left and moved somewhere safer?

uh yah.... so when the officer directs you that the road is blocked, if he can't be bothered with an explanation, call the station and ask... surely they know WHY they sent him out there....

and of course the carriers will bitch about how much it'll cost to implement the service and roll it out to each tower and how their techs will have to walk up hill, both ways, in 10' of snow, barefoot, to get to the towers... so they'll raise their rates to pay for it....
the only thing the emergency warning system does is fuck up my DVR and annoy the hell out of me when i'm trying to watch tv....
get off my lawn and leave my damned media devices alone..... assholes....