If he is smart he won't do Section 8. The agencies which approve houses for Section 8 housing have ridiculous requirements which basically mean that people who get housing paid for the government are entitled to better housing than people who pay their own way. Also, Section 8 renters can skip out on the lease with no punishment from the Section 8 agency. They also will not assist you in collecting rent or collecting balances due. They refuse to be responsible for the damage their clients cause or for unpaid rents, utilities, etc. Their clients are also more likely to leave with no notice than other renters. If their client leaves without giving proper notice according to the terms of the lease, Section 8 stops paying at the same time, even though the lease indicates 30 days (or more) notice. They will even assist their clients in finding a new place to live prior to the end date of the lease, in violation of the lease. They also take several weeks to schedule an appointment to inspect the house, during which time you are losing money by not having the house rented.

How about back where it came from?

And on their dime too.

I guess I didn't know they had replaced the system. That is a good thing that they send out on the cellular network now. I'm not sure why my phone has never done one of the required periodic tests. Nor has it ever given me an emergency alert at any other time. It has given me countless Amber Alerts, the average distance from me being about 100 miles, and most of them have turned out to be either runaways or child custody issues, which they are not supposed to issue Amber Alerts for.

All FM stations are required to be part of the Emergency Broadcast System. If you were in an emergency, it wouldn't matter which one you listened to. I am no t sure how you could have missed this information, since this is even taught in grade schools that you should watch local news or listen to local radio in an emergency.

If you were not listening to it, I don't see how there would be much additional battery drain. It kind of depends on whether they have disabled it at the hardware or at the software level. If it is at the software level, then it is already draining your battery. However, if you look at it in perspective of FM versus streaming radio, then you are talking a SAVINGS of battery by orders of magnitude.

Of course you do. Anybody who can think clearly would want this. You have already paid for it. It is available on the phone, you should be able to listen to it. FM radio offers local entertainment, sports, weather, traffic and news. The FM receiver will give you alerts from the Emergency Broadcast System. The FM receiver uses a tiny fraction of the battery that a full time data connection requires, and of course, the one that makes the carriers disable it, FM doesn't require you to pay huge sums of money to the carrier for a data plan.

Life saving information is already put out over FM in emergencies. Your smartphone probably has an FM receiver. It is disabled because your carrier is money grubbing scum. The possibility of you receiving life saving information over your cell phones FM radio is currently 0. The possibility of you receiving life saving information over your cell phones FM radio if the carrier did not block it is greater than zero. You already have bought and paid for the equipment and your carrier won't let you use it.
I can't understand what all of this defense of the carrier is about. They are stealing from us by not allowing us to use our equipment that we bought and yes, endangering our lives, even if they are doing so by only 1 chance in a billion, they are still endangering our lives by not allowing us access to what we have bought and paid for.

I am not aware of any stations in my area that use recorder or remote disc jockeys. The local personalities are definitely local. You can go see them at grocery stores, car lots and what have you if you feel like it.
There are syndicated shows, but if there is a weather or other emergency the local people break in. Some of the stations carry the audio from the local TV when there is a weather emergency.
All of them have to support the Emergency Broadcast System, as do the TV stations. Cell phones don't have to support the Emergency Broadcast System. If the system was more reliable or useful for emergency communications, then they probably would be forced to support it.

Excellent point. Well, lets look at how many lives have been saved by having Data on their phones. And let's looked at how many have been killed because they had data on their phone. Well, looks like we need to disable data too.

In multiple emergencies, I have seen electricity go out, cell service go out (or get overloaded), cable TV go out, but I have never seen FM or local Television go out.

Yes, Republicans lie. They tell great stories of what they will do, but in the end, they don't do it.
Democrats, on the other hand, tell the truth. They tell horrifying stories of what they will do, and they do it.

Of course the IRS provides you with a convenient way to pay estimated taxes midyear if you think you are underpaying, but they don't provide you with any way of retrieving back money if you are overpaying. Companies that pay a lot of bonuses usually take out the maximum percentage of taxes for the bonus. If you get a large portion of your pay as bonus, you often don't get use of that money until 16 months later when it is worth 5% less according to the government and probably 20% less in real terms.

The IRS wouldn't get much out of me. My expenses are much higher than my income. Especially this year since I don't have a job. However, despite having no income, and despite having several thousand dollars in withholding already given to the IRS for 2015, I still owed over a thousand dollars this year.

Google: The IE 6 of Internet search.

Maybe Mozilla could make a search engine and re-light the competition fire and user focus in this space. (Bing just seems to be a clone of the stagnating leader.)