They do. It's called congress. They talk about what they're going to do about those goddamned uppity plebes.

This is largely how he got into power in the first place, thanks to Lord Carrington and Maggie Thatcher.

Of his principal opponents, Joshua Nkomo was the foremost, though he might not have been much better an option (except that he had the grace to die sooner). Bishop Muzorewa never really gained the traction he needed, because he didn't use artillery.

It's because the cellphone companies don't want to admit they know where all the phones are all the time through the magic of DtoA, so they just act like they have no idea where you are when they send out alerts and whatnot. It's also easier on the ol' PR than claiming you can get it right and then getting dinged for the few people you miss if you just use the scattergun approach.

I need you to ask the question in the body, not the subject line. Or at dire need, both.

What more we need is an alert that arrives before the vehicle.

Right, but setting it up as an opt-out system and then failing so very badly at it just makes people angry and distrustful of all such efforts. Unless that was the goal, the Amber alert system is a failure on every level.

PowerPC cores are incredibly more ubiquitous than you probably believe. They show up all over the place. Hell, Motorola Cellphones had old tired PPC cores in them for some time, since as a contributor Moto had a license to make embedded PPC chips. And of course, it's well-known that there's a tri-core PPC in the Xbox 360. There's also a castrated little PPC core in the front of the PS3's processor, where there was a MIPS core in the PS2's. And there's a ton of little MIPS-based portable computers out there, but in recent times their sales have been cannibalized by ARM. There's no reason to believe that there couldn't be a ton of little PPC-based portables out there, if PPC were licensed like ARM. Now, allegedly, it will be. Probably too little too late, though.

The maching has no front-facing ports, so there's no reason not to put it into a cabinet with a five dollar exhaust fan added. That'll eliminate the noise no matter what the computer looks like. You're going to want to put the machine behind a door anyway if you have upgraded it to an actual pro level through the necessary gigantic stack of external crap, as each of those items will have its own fan, the HDD noise won't be muffled as much by an external case as it would be by an actual PC case, et cetera.

It's a fact that Apple's new Mac Pro is a fucking gimmick that loses features from the prior version. Thunderbolt is no replacement for some proper PCIE slots.

True, and complete bullshit, in order. There are any number of things we can do to reduce violence. We could reduce economic inequity, for example, or address the many failings in our public education system. Hell, we could prevent the government from telling lies that lead people to eat the wrong foods — diet is extremely relevant to health which is relevant to learning which is relevant to violence.

We don't need to do anything special to reduce gun violence, because it is falling even though gun ownership is rising in America. We "only" need to reduce inequity and improve education, which will reduce all kinds of violence.

There are lots of valid objections in this thread, but all of yours are stupid. Most people are familiar with typical automobiles, especially ubiquitous econoboxes like the Versa. And when alerted to the fact that a child has been kidnapped, many people care enough about other humans to look at some license plates.

By the time most of them got the message, the car could have been in their location. THAT is the biggest problem here; if they can't deliver the message in a timely fashion, then it is utterly useless.

That's not really true.

Because he is a dirty, dirty liar. It's entirely technically possible, but they've put no effort into making it happen and probably would fail if they tried. Look at how incompetent the mobile carriers are already!

Don't deliver the alerts 1) too late to do any good, 2) to people who don't need them, or 3) in the middle of the night when people are fucking asleep. ALL OF WHICH were the case here.

Ha ha, only serious. But more seriously, California has an absolute fuckload of cities in it. That's not surprising for the most populous state. Half the time I have no idea where a random California city is located whatsoever, and I've lived here nearly all my life. Most of those towns are so bad that by the time you're an adult you're wishing someone would kidnap you just to get you out of them. I mean, if you were trapped in Firebaugh, you'd be waiting for a murderer or anyone to come through your door.

On one hand, I think these alerts are stupid and the way they were handled is stupid. On the other hand, if a sudden and unfamiliar noise from your cellphone makes you drive unsafely, then you should get off the fucking road and let the competent people drive.

My phone is so old that it runs gingerbread, so I don't even have that setting, you insensitive clod!

I can only disable "push messages", WTFever those are. It's disabled already. Does that include Amber alerts?

The Amber alert is so-named because that's who it's for finding, little white girls who could be named Amber.

Where in holy hell do you go to get a list of Amber alerts anyway? You sure can't go to Amberalert.gov, they don't have any useful information there. You can get press releases there, but not amber alerts. Your tax dollars at rest! Oh wait, on the site index, I found a link to missingkids.com. Wait, that's just another informational page on amber alerts! If this program's goal were to find missing kids then the whole front page of amberalert.gov would be [the] current amber alert[s]. It isn't. It's to give the appearance of giving a shit. (Holy shit, the front page of missingkids.com has no missing kids on it, either.)

Amber alerts are bullshit from bullshit people.

Is that actually true? What are the stats on people who commit grisly murders? Are they likely to stop at one?