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The incident in Dallas shows that they just can’t flip a switch and fix it instantly like you’re implying.
originally posted by: ChaoticOrder
a reply to: Chadwickus
The incident in Dallas shows that they just can’t flip a switch and fix it instantly like you’re implying.
And yet apparently the process can be set in motion by some guy who accidentally flips a switch, seemingly without any sort of authorization from anyone above him.
This, by contrast, was President Trump’s first tweet after the incorrect alert went out.
So much Fake News is being reported. They don’t even try to get it right, or correct it when they are wrong. They promote the Fake Book of a mentally deranged author, who knowingly writes false information. The Mainstream Media is crazed that WE won the election!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 13, 2018
It was sent more than three hours after the alert went out. As you can see, it has nothing to do with the alert. Those who follow Trump on Twitter — 46.6 million of them — haven’t been given any information about what happened on Saturday at all.
“The President has been briefed on the state of Hawaii’s emergency management exercise,” it read. “This was purely a state exercise.”
One of the problems was that the alert system did not allow for a correction to be sent quickly to mobiles.
State officials said a "cancellation template" would be created to address the problem, the New York Times reported.
Two people are also now required to sign off the issuing of an alert, it said.
State lawmakers are going to hold a hearing next Friday.
originally posted by: face23785
a reply to: jadedANDcynical
It took them 37(38?) minutes to put out the official retraction. Can you imagine how much longer it would've taken if the President got involved in the middle of it too? Just going on TV or sending out a tweet doesn't fix it.
originally posted by: dianajune
originally posted by: face23785
a reply to: jadedANDcynical
It took them 37(38?) minutes to put out the official retraction. Can you imagine how much longer it would've taken if the President got involved in the middle of it too? Just going on TV or sending out a tweet doesn't fix it.
I'd hate to see the Potus get involved because he'd probably tweet something else stupid, leading to WW3.
That may sound political, but as much as I don't like it, politics is involved here.
That false alarm may have started with the State of Hawaii, but it would be appropriate, imho, for Potus to put out some kind of statement himself, rather than hide behind the White House statement which read that he'd been 'briefed.'
originally posted by: jadedANDcynical
a reply to: face23785
If this was accidental in nature, then this serves to highlight problems in the system that, to me, should have been anticipated.
originally posted by: face23785
originally posted by: dianajune
originally posted by: face23785
a reply to: jadedANDcynical
It took them 37(38?) minutes to put out the official retraction. Can you imagine how much longer it would've taken if the President got involved in the middle of it too? Just going on TV or sending out a tweet doesn't fix it.
I'd hate to see the Potus get involved because he'd probably tweet something else stupid, leading to WW3.
That may sound political, but as much as I don't like it, politics is involved here.
That false alarm may have started with the State of Hawaii, but it would be appropriate, imho, for Potus to put out some kind of statement himself, rather than hide behind the White House statement which read that he'd been 'briefed.'
It didn't sound that political, just dumb. WW3 isn't gonna start with a tweet, the DNC has you brainwashed.
originally posted by: VariableConstant
Pushed the wrong button, no way.
As it happened, Meisenzahl said, university officials have been getting inquiries for the past few months about a possible North Korean nuclear threat. So they wanted to send a message that would be responsive.
“If I were to do it all over again, the one thing I would have done is put ‘unlikely’ in the subject line,” Meisenzahl said. He then added that he also might have put into all caps: “NO REASON FOR ALARM” and other language to the effect of, “Don’t take this the wrong way.”
“The subject line could use some work,” he concluded.
He quipped that he’d been dealing for several hours with “the fallout from a nuclear email.” He would much prefer if the world took note of the university for its high-level oceanography, astronomy and other academic programs.
originally posted by: penfold
I couldn’t help thinking that this could have been an experiment to see how the population would react in a real life doomsday scenario, This information would be invaluable to governments when formulating plans for evacuation and damage limitation.