mikegideon

Since laws have been written to cheat the natural selection process, I usually don't complain much when one slips thru the cracks. The gene pool is struggling.

Another gun that went off. Guns are sneaky like that

Good!

This isn't the only one. The Donald put up a 70 footer out there at one of his golf courses, against city zoning rules. The city is trying to make him take it down, and the Donald is wagging his johnson at them. I got a kick out of it. Difference Makers - Donald Trump - The Colbert Report - 5/10/11 - Video Clip | Comedy Central

They have to connect to the phone network eventually, but at least in the early days, you had a wired (Bell) and an unwired carrier. The unwired carrier was microvave to the sites. The last disaster I went to, which was S Mississippi after Katrina, most of the cell carriers stayed up. It was overloaded, but it worked. I did have to switch to a local carrier, because Verizon was swamped with relief workers. With that said, the lifeline for the majority of folks was plain old broadcast radio.

Or turn it on for 911 only, which was the default on my older phones

Don't think it's anything but plain old incompetence.

Just noticed this part. The new Obama FCC doesn't seem to recognize broadcast as a viable means to communicate with the public... The FCC’s new emergency-alert “PLAN†is all-wireless, no broadcast radio. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg announced the “Personalized Localized Alerting Network†at an event with executives from AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon and other wireless-industry players. Mayor Bloomberg calls PLAN a “quantum leap forward in using technology to keep people safe.†A poster on the Indiana Board of Radio-Info.com (here) probably speaks for a lot of broadcasters when he says “The administration continues to set an anti-broadcaster tone†and calls it “a slap in the face of broadcasters everywhere, especially in the contexts of current events, when broadcasters were praised during the recent weather disasters in Alabama.†He says “emergency alerts of all kinds need to be given", and Uncle Sam shouldn't ignore broadcasters. You might expect the NAB to vigorously respond to the Chairman Genachowski’s new pet PLAN, and Senior VP Dennis Wharton says “we’re pleased that cellphone carriers plan to live up to their promise to Congress five years ago to implement an emergency alert messaging system.†But he says Alabama proved that “when a cellular network goes down, customers will be unable to access these 90-character warnings.†That’s why he says “there is no communications system that matches the life-saving immediacy of a local broadcast signal.†Of course those stations need to be able to stay on the air themselves - and have a staff that can react.

I understand. Fact is, if the cell carriers get a bunch of customer complaints, they'll choke it down anyway. At least Bloomberg got his press conference.

I doubt that you have to be signed up for messaging to get the alerts. Sounds like this will be similar to EAS and broadcasters. The cell carriers will be able to opt out of alerts by category. For example, we filter the stuff from the National Weather Service, and only relay tornado warnings. Sounds like the cell carriers can opt out of everything except an alert from the president, which has never happened in the past. I'm guessing, if the carriers think it will overload the system, they'll just do minimum requirements. Customer complaints will also drive their filter decisions. Personally, I'm ok with getting tonado warnings out by any means possible. Everything else IMO can get filtered.

The alert thing is text broadcasts. The infomation only flows in one direction. It has nothing to do with the government tracking anybody. Opting out of a cell phone to avoid tornado warnings is crazy.

This has been in the works for awhile. They're revamping the entire alerting system. I'm involved in some of it. Nothing bad about it.

I just joke about this stuff because EVERYBODY is lying their ass off right now. There is a whole lot wrong with Obama (and all the others too), but some of the stuff that comes out is just laughable. The tragedy of it all is that they keep enough folks caught up in the smoke screen that it continues to give them the ability to screw us daily.

I have a 3-9 Rifleman on my Marlin 30/30. It will be fine. The way I look at it, my X Bolt shoots a little over 1 MOA, so I'll run ot of accuracy before I need any scope dope. I have a more expensive scope on it, but it's still a hunting scope. I don't know if I'll go out and shoot any big critters either, but that's what those rifles are designed for. I have a Mil Dot scope with turrets on my accurate rifle, but I won't be kicking through the brush with it. It weighs 14 lbs with the optic.

I have Leupold hunting scopes on all my hunting rifles. They're great for their intended purpose. They're not suitable for precision shooting, but neither are the rifles they live on.

Sure, why not. I can show it to you on a chalk board. Just let me get some of the Lithium out of my system for a couple of days.

The Tennessee line is only 18 miles from the middle of Huntsville. You could always just stay in Tennessee

I haven't had any encounters yet, but I will always notify, even if I'm unarmed. No reason to add that kind of tension to a traffic stop.

Half Kenyan

Thanks! And, you didn't even call me a slut

Dillinger style. I love it

Thanks. The top two lowers came from you guys, one via transfer, and one out of inventory. You saw me carry the second one out.

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That's it! Big eyed alien. They're trying to yell us that Obama is an alien! We have found the answer. Just need to call washington and get them on it.