What exactly are you supposed to do differently in a day with a severe rating?

I hope not. It's bad enough listening to "The current National Threat Level is..." whenever I happen to be at the airport.

I can't imagine they'll choose a more meaningful replacement.

1) Not in a million years.

2) Last I heard, it was duct tape yourself inside your house.  Seriously.  Now if a person wants to do that, I wholeheartedly support his or her right to do so.  I also support anyone's right to curl up into a little ball underneath a school desk in the event of a nuclear blast.  Have fun.

I liked seeing those OLD OLD films about how they told kids to go underneath their desk or fall to the ground while out side in a Nuclear war..

that's as bad as putting a warning on Child's cough medicine.

“Do not drive a car or operate Machinery after taking this Medication.”

(We could do a lot to reduce the rate of accidents if we could just get Those 5-year-olds with head colds out from behind the wheel...)

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DisturbedComputer

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April 8, 2011 3:34:42 PM from WinCustomize Forums


Quoting DaveRI,
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I also support anyone's right to curl up into a little ball underneath a school desk in the event of a nuclear blast. Have fun.




I liked seeing those OLD OLD films about how they told kids to go underneath their desk or fall to the ground while out side in a Nuclear war..

that's as bad as putting a warning on Child's cough medicine.

“Do not drive a car or operate Machinery after taking this Medication.”

(We could do a lot to reduce the rate of accidents if we could just get Those 5-year-olds with head colds out from behind the wheel...)



not so funny, I WAS one of those kids.....

As was I.... but, what DaveRI was referring to was the absurdity of thinking one wouls be protected in any degree by hiding under the desk... how absurd that picture and the absurdity of DHS telling you "stay at home and seal your windows and doors as hermetically as you can".

Why not, "Wrap yourself in a white sheet and walk calmly towards the nearest cemetary. When there, remove all sharp objects from your shirt pocket and bend over and kiss your ass good bye."? 

Exactly.

Yes as a wee lad I spent my share of time in a ball under my desk too.   Can't say that I've ever duct taped myself in though.  Like I said though, if it makes a person feel better, go for it.

Bizarre, but true. Nikola Tessla also patented an earthquake machine:

and so did The Acme Co. :  

But perhaps the best known one is the one we have in WC Oz branch:

Yep.... "Old Faithful" himself, starkers. 

I really don't understand this reliance on social websites like twitter or facebook for something so serious as threat warnings. Not that they've been all that helpful in the past...but to rely on giving people warnings through places like this just tells me what kind of idiots are running things these days. And what about people that don't have computers?

Exactly to WG, VAX and Uvah. Exactly. 

It would most likely be a way to manipulate fear/obedience since these social sites are fluff. Really, how could anyone take such a warning seriously coming from such a site?

Personally, I think they should go back to the old Brit idea of a bell and the town crier: "Oh yea, oh yea, oh yea, all hear this, all hear this. The French are coming, the French are coming... hide under your beds, hide under your beds."

Though with all the traffic noise these days, he's gonna need a much bigger friggin' bell.

Seriously, the DHA must have rocks in its head if it thinks Facebook and Twitter is the way to convey emergency alerts.  I mean, there has to be a few million people like me who think both are a total waste of time and don't have accounts to either.

Yep, McCarthyism and "Reds under the Bed" come to mind.  See, it's much easier to control the populace if its living in fear... and Big Brother is there to protect it.

And what a waste of time, energy and resources the Cold War was!  Neither side was going to attack or invade the other, not with the threat of nuclear extinction hanging over their heads.  More to the point, when you have paranoid leaders, you have a paranoid people, and they can be manipulated to do just about anything... like go to wars that are NONE of their business, etc.  Sure it kept a lot of people gainfully employed making bombs and war machines, but surely they could have been gainfully employed making peace time machines.... harvesters and farm equipment, etc. 

War, it's a politicians game.... and like my dad used to say, there'd be no wars if the politicians had to actually fight them.

as was I

I remember asking my dad about that... he said it was since we sat at the same desk every day it would be easier to identify my little pile of ashes

What a terrible thing to hear as a child.