@lheintzman wrote:
@Psygineer wrote:
>> Did you bother to read what I wrote . . .
Yes I did and I'll let my comments stand. This was an emotional moment and your instructions for turning off the alarm came in the midst of many reports of appalling behaviour across the province. Did not mean to zero in on you quite so specifically. It's possible you didn't intend to be as mean-spirited as it appeared, but your after-the fact justifications come across as somewhat disingenuous. For a few reasons:
A) The technology behind the amber alert system remains a mystery to most people,. It works in some devices and not others for reasons that are not entirely clear. What is clear, as explained in this forum, is that your "instructions" are unlikely to be effectve in any device, whether running IOS or Android.
B) Your boy-calling-wolf concerns are a real head scratcher. If this happened every day, you might have a point. However, in 2018, there were a handful of these alerts throughout the entire country. Where I live, there were exactly three.
We have to trust that the people developing this system know something about their jobs when it comes to policing, search and rescue, etc. I would rather let them decide what is appropriate in terms of geographical deployment, timing and the nature of a particular alarm. They might be refined over time but should certainly not be dictated by the convenience of the population at large.
So should you have refrained from providing these instructions? I dunno. They were kind of useless and sort of unnecessary and possibly beyond your pay grade. But that's your call. Sorry, if you think you were slandered. Since you've anonymized your name, you're pretty much protected.
Hope you're feeling better soon, and I mean that sincerely.
Not going to get into a online battle with you, but again my instructions were on how to turn it on, not off. Sorry that you misread it during the "emotional moment" no harm was meant towards you. You can stand by your comments all you like, I was not asking you to delete them. I was just pointing out you misread the intent. It felt like you read three words then attacked me for no reason. I reread what I wrote and other than missing a closing bracket, I see no where in there where it was mean spirited. Telling someone to check that menu to see if it says on or off was not mean, if anything if that setting did work and it was off, turning it on would be better especially since they wanted it on. Not sure why that was considered mean-spirited. Sorry that you took it that way.
The "Boy-calling-wolf" argument I made I probably wasn't overly clear with. It was late, but I was having trouble sleeping so I figured I would come on here to see if I could help anyone and saw you attack against me for telling people how to tell if they accidentally turned it off.
Here is the example that was in my mind.
Amber Alert #1 goes off at 11 am.
Amber Alert #2 goes off at 3 pm.
Since the "It's over" alarm is the same as the "There is an alert alarm" people might not bother to check it thinking it was just the ending alarm. This kneecaps the effectiveness of the first alert, and even more badly kneecaps the second. Now many people might think the first is over and not even know there was a second one. That is why I dared to suggest they should use two different tones. One to signal there is a problem, and a less harsh normal one to signal the all clear. Again sorry that I offended you.
Not sure what you meant by the beyond your paygrade comment. People helping people is the point of these forums. We were trying to figure out why theirs was not working so I told them were it was located. Later we learned those settings mean nothing so yes useless, but I had taken the settings at face value and tried to help someone.
The geographic restrictions you appear to be not understanding. The Amber was not issued for my region, the initial alert did not go out. Only the ending one did. I questioned why would they issue an ending alert to a larger reigon than the initial alert.
As for annoymous, it's still my username on here. People know me by it (and Spygineer due the typo) and I would appreciate you not trying to tarnishing any reputation I may have with your straw man arguments.
Edit: Since we are derailing this thread, I suggest we stop this discussion. I will no longer be replying to you in this thread.
