@mimi Tulsi Gabbard: one of the ones who would probably be decent if she could. Glad she came through on this one.

lots of people were for minutes in panic. Tulsi Gabbard, thank you. I just commented on that to edg in Big Al's diary "Clear and Present Danger".

It's seldom that I am vulgar, but what edg said just now blew me up.

Fucktards. All of them.

(edited users name, my response was to edg)

@Strife Delivery
courtesy of fucktards. The technology bites itself in the tail and thinks it's funny.

This is why I live in cold Minnesota.

While besides being born here and not moving. I'm in the middle where they don't care.

Of course this only applies to actual missile threats you know. Not "false alarms". How do you get a false alarm with today's tech?

@hecate
the official EMA tweet that it was false alarm went out 8:19 local time, if I understand the images of the nbc report correctly. That makes 12 minutes.

May be the whole thing was a test from the EMA to see if their newly upgraded alert system "works" and then immediately sent a "de-warning" out. They don't seem to care how they scare folks. So, the frigging technology has to be tested that it does what it is supposed to do. Be prepared to get sent into the shelters by more "threat alarm tests" with follow-up false alarm explanations.

Or can you explain to me what exactly happened and who is responsible for the "nuclear missile incoming threat alert"?

Aren't you the experts here?

have been around for a while; they're pretty easy to use; even chimps and cats can competently work a phone. Not so The Hairball, and his fellow deep dolts. Earlier this week these nimrods were unable even to complete a conference call:

It took the White House 22 minutes to figure out how to enable the "listening only" feature on a conference call on Thursday in which senior administration officials announced that President Trump would continue to waive nuclear program-related sanctions, keeping the deal intact.

"This White House can't even run a fucking conference call," a reporter on an unmuted phone line angrily exclaimed to the entire call. "They don't know how to mute their line."

This is a regular thing with these folks:

The White House has struggled with facilitating background briefings on conference calls before.

In July 2017, during another background call on the administration's Iran policy, a participant on the call announced that his "inflatable doll is a lesbian."

Last May, Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney hosted a call that quickly devolved into a scene out of an episode of the HBO series Veep, in which crying babies, hacking coughs, and the tune of "Yankee Doodle Dandy" were heard on the line.

Today, so goes the early word, the Hairballs were amidst a drill, when someone "pushed the wrong buttons."

You know, the buttons, these days, they're pretty important. I do not want people in the government who cannot competently work the buttons.

Though the fumblebums managed to get to the Twitler within 15 minutes to say they were just kidding about the nuke-rain, "it took emergency management officials nearly 40 minutes to send out a 'false alarm' alert to cell phones—using the same mechanism that sent out the emergency warning in the first place."

As it has been proved conclusively that these idjits cannot safely and sanely grapple with the phones, I think they should all be unplugged. They can go back to the telegraph, or carrier pigeons, or something.

@hecate @hecate

In July 2017, during another background call on the administration's Iran policy, a participant on the call announced that his "inflatable doll is a lesbian."

True story. I was on a conference call at work when suddenly there's a clattering from one of the phones and one of our architects says, "I'll be right back. There's a llama in my kitchen." Honestly, that was a line I never expected to hear in any context much less a high level infosec conference call LOL.

The guy in question had some lamas and... well... they are both smart and nimble. Doorknobs are apparently not much of a hindrance to them.

have been around for a while; they're pretty easy to use; even chimps and cats can competently work a phone. Not so The Hairball, and his fellow deep dolts. Earlier this week these nimrods were unable even to complete a conference call:

It took the White House 22 minutes to figure out how to enable the "listening only" feature on a conference call on Thursday in which senior administration officials announced that President Trump would continue to waive nuclear program-related sanctions, keeping the deal intact.

"This White House can't even run a fucking conference call," a reporter on an unmuted phone line angrily exclaimed to the entire call. "They don't know how to mute their line."

This is a regular thing with these folks:

The White House has struggled with facilitating background briefings on conference calls before.

In July 2017, during another background call on the administration's Iran policy, a participant on the call announced that his "inflatable doll is a lesbian."

Last May, Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney hosted a call that quickly devolved into a scene out of an episode of the HBO series Veep, in which crying babies, hacking coughs, and the tune of "Yankee Doodle Dandy" were heard on the line.

Today, so goes the early word, the Hairballs were amidst a drill, when someone "pushed the wrong buttons."

You know, the buttons, these days, they're pretty important. I do not want people in the government who cannot competently work the buttons.

Though the fumblebums managed to get to the Twitler within 15 minutes to say they were just kidding about the nuke-rain, "it took emergency management officials nearly 40 minutes to send out a 'false alarm' alert to cell phones—using the same mechanism that sent out the emergency warning in the first place."

As it has been proved conclusively that these idjits cannot safely and sanely grapple with the phones, I think they should all be unplugged. They can go back to the telegraph, or carrier pigeons, or something.

@JtC Unless it's the ugliest form of trial balloon or psych. manipulation. Not by EMA, I wouldn't think. By some assholes elsewhere (not Russia).

humankind determined to prove itself an evolutionary mistake.

Whomever triggered that alert needs to be dealt with ASAP.

Add stoopit incompetence as one more sword hanging over the "Crown of Creation".

@JtC
It happens every month. The technician hit the wrong button and sent it out live.

Let he/she who has never written a witty response to a group email, usually making fun of the boss, intended for one recipient and hit "reply to all" cast the first stone.

humankind determined to prove itself an evolutionary mistake.

Whomever triggered that alert needs to be dealt with ASAP.

Add stoopit incompetence as one more sword hanging over the "Crown of Creation".

@orlbucfan at all times. It goes something like this: The shit-holers all hate our freedom, and will stop at nothing to destroy you at any given moment. These people live solely to stop you from eating Big Macs, and must be utterly destroyed, before they destroy us and our shopping malls, or something.

Was it a hacker getting a big cyber laff or what? Was it some moron like Betsy DeVos who hit the wrong 'on' button? Idiotic incompetence scares me much more than some yahoo crazed by warlust! Rec'd!!

@hecate There is nowhere to go, unless you're one of the elites. They probably already have bunkers, bug-out locations, set up. Otherwise, forget it.

were having a Day After rehearsal.

People flocked to shelters, crowding highways in scenes of terror and helplessness.

“I was running through all the scenarios in my head, but there was nowhere to go, nowhere to pull over to,” said Mike Staskow, a retired military captain.

At Konawaena High School on the Island of Hawaii, where a high school wrestling championship was taking place, school officials moved people to the center of the gym as they tried to figure out how to shelter someone from a nuclear missile.

Matt LoPresti, a state representative, told CNN that he and his family headed for a bathroom. “I was sitting in the bathtub with my children, saying our prayers,” he said.

Around the Ko’a Kea Hotel at Poipu Beach on the island of Kauai, guests made their way to the main lobby, where they were invited by hotel staff to shelter in the basement parking garage among the vehicles.

The Hairball was lumbering his blubber around the golf course at the time; he sent a spokesmouth out to decree the thing had nothing to do with him, as it "was purely a state exercise.” He suggested the Boner occurred because Hawaii "has too many losers from the shithole countries." The Hairball eventually retired to the bunker, where, according to a guest, he commenced "chasing me around his hotel room in his tighty-whities."