Well, I am pretty sure that anything that makes you perform beyond your norm is likely to lead to burnout at some point. As some have mentioned, some people use this to get by on only a few hours sleep, but it doesn't replace sleep, so there is bound to be a crash at some point. Not to mention, short term memory loss.
Of course, to your point, enhanced productivity for a quarter or two followed by the employee dropping dead is just fine with the Job Creators.

Then the scarcity of new bitcoins will cause the price to rise relative to other currencies until it becomes feasible to mine again.

I bet we would win back more civil rights if even half of these cases that went to the supreme court were ones where they guy whose rights were violated was not ACTUALLY GUILTY of a FELONY.
I mean I've got a lot more sympathy for a guy who was pulled over, run through the dog test for an hour and not found to have any drugs, then a guy who actually did have drugs.

Why can't these be locked down to a single IMEI or Sim or whatever? Anything else tries to connect just gets shunted on to the real tower. The court order should allow only one phone to be monitored, not anybody that happens to be in the neighborhood.

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.