[BC] disaster preparedness

[Rich Wood]

------ At 11:02 AM 11/9/2005, Barry Mishkind wrote: -------

>         The only way to get 100% is to have
>         a law requiring everyone to wear a
>         necklace with an alert receiver, perhaps
>         one that even gives a little shock.

Are you kidding? In a Republican administration us Independents would 
likely get a necklace with a Taser. Cheney would design it. The CIA 
would distribute it. The FBI would monitor our reactions with those 
letters to my Librarian.

>         Short of that, there is no better way
>         to enhance the EAS activity, unless
>         we assign Phil the duty to ride his
>         horse house-to-house to warn everyone.

Why not? It worked once. Not to Phil's house but in my old 
neighborhood near Boston.

I wonder if current phones have the capability to turn the phone on 
via software if the firmware was updated. I know Verizon lets you 
update your phone with a * code. I was forced to change to Cingular 
because of a lack of signal in my area. I don't know if they have a 
similar capability. If software could do it, the phone could turn on, 
ring and deliver a message via its speakerphone.

Of course, with the Partiot Act the microphones would always be 
active. I have a tiny analog radio that's about the width of my 
phone. I think I'll Velcro the radio to the phone and leave it on a 
Talk station so they'll think I'm a superpatriot. I figure I have a 
couple of decades left where the analog radio will work.

Rich


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