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Richard MacCutchan wrote: soon
3PM this Sunday for the test.
Hopefully slightly less chance of being woken up at that time! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Nothing beats a nap on a Sunday afternoon. 
Ed
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In the days when I was young enough there certainly was.
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Just watch the accident rates - a siren goes off in your pocket at 80 on the motorway ... 
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That's the reason they did it at 4 - most are in the bed still 
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." ― Gerald Weinberg
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OriginalGriff wrote: at 80 on the motorway
I assume you mean 80kph - you wouldn't want to be seen encouraging illegal behaviour, after all. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I've disabled emergency notifications
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I can only disable the sound. So this was done.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Thanks for the reminder, I think one phone going off per household is more than enough.
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reminds me of the emergency drills they had in the USSR. probably they had some in the USA, too. just the US was not obsessed with the drills like the USSR.
in the past 3 years the west has got a lot traits of the Warsaw Pact countries. sadly...
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Has The boy who cried "wolf" been redacted?
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Typical government behavior.And there probably won't even be an apology, let alone anyone getting disciplined or fired.
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Greg Utas wrote: let alone anyone getting disciplined or fired
Like all of us here got disciplined or fired for every mistake in our code (that undoubtedly made it to production)? 
Luckily, the world doesn't work like that.
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We have that here in Sydney. Australia, and missing person alerts.
Graeme
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Better than the Hawaii alert about a launched ICBM.
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Oh dear. It's bad enough when a weather alert for an area of the state hundreds of miles away comes through.
I have nearly all alerts turned off on my phone. I can look out the window for myself.
When we were in L.A. last week someone "thought she smelled smoke" and pulled the hotel fire alarm at 04:00 one morning. 
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: It's bad enough when a weather alert for an area of the state hundreds of miles away comes through.
I have nearly all alerts turned off on my phone. I can look out the window for myself.
Around here, people complain if the weather forecast isn't on target three days ahead.
The forecast reaches eight days ahead, but we all know that the further ahead, the less reliable. Usually, we get the wind, rain and cold in the (approximate) order forecast, but it often is delayed or comes earlier than suggested in the long-time forecasts.
The view from my window isn't great, but I don't know of anyone with a view where they can see the weather three days ahead, and certainly not eight days.
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Three story building was evacuated one time until fire department showed up to clear it because someone failed to follow the instructions on the microwave popcorn that says to watch it.
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They broadcast this in the entire state?!? I think we have them only in the specific area/county of the emergency.
Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.
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I believe they can do it for an area, or for the entire state. This test was for the entire state.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
modified 20-Apr-23 9:56am.
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Can't disable it? I can turn off all of these with the exception of 'Presidential Alerts', like I wanna see those  .
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I can only disable the sound and have done so now!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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yep, we have those in the midwest as well. got a test one many years ago at 2am on a sunday. People were NOT happy.
We(I) can turn off most of the notices. But still herself likes to get them. So I get to listen to hers get notices about the weather/amber/etc....
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