Tuesday, August 06, 2013

This is the creepiest thing EVAR.



For Mr S's birthday last month we upgraded cell phones. Which would never have been a post. Until.... you wake up one morning and you've got an Amber Alert on your phone. Of course, this has never happened before. I've own a cell phone for probably a decade. Apparently though, on my new phone - I had to figure out how to turn off the "GOVERNMENT ALERTS".

Self I said - I didn't know President Money Bags has the equivalent of a red phone straight to me. So he can alert me that some child is missing or whatever tickles his fancy. But what is even more effing creepy is that the "presidential alert" button is non clickable. YOU CAN NOT TURN IT OFF. The other two types of alerts aren't sufficient for PMB. I hope he doesn't go all Hugo Chavez and start to give long droning speeches. I'm pretty pissed about this actually. I shouldn't be forced to listen to anything the President says. FOR ANY REASON! Get that Samsung? It positively like mother Russia!



6 comments:

  1. I really hope that isn't standard on all of the new phones, or even on all of the new Samsungs.

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  2. I'd check for your State. Mr S. said he read this was a new law. Hopefully it's one of those things that makes only California special. Because absolutely no one knew about this. It is so creepy it can override silent mode. But if it saves just ONE child it's worth it. Oh wait - they didn't find that kid? Whatever.

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  3. I remember this book I read once where everybody has a two-way TV in their rooms, and there was no way to ever turn it off. Hmm...what WAS the name of that book? Something like, uh..."1984?"

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  4. I have never read the book. Now I'm going to have to rent the movie to get all caught up.

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  5. Between "1984" and "Fahrenheit 451" the future is terrifying.

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  6. OMG! I watched 1984 for the first time this weekend. What bothered me most wasn't being surveilled, it was the way they rewrote history with unwords. If you ever scour the headlines you will see two headlines with exactly the opposite information on the same topic.

    Now I'm gonna have to watch the other one. I haven't seen it either.

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