Re: "Amendment would allow the CAFOs closer to some homes"

On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 19:55:06 -0400, Jim wrote:

Ann wrote:

Jim wrote:
Ann wrote:
Jim wrote:
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city people seem to enjoy living crammed jammed next to one
another or maybe it's just all they have ever known. maybe
city people would be terrified or aghast with an extreme
uneasiness by the possibility of a contingency arising and
then there being no one around to rescue them if they lived
in a rural environment.

They do the same thing rural people do ... call 9-1-1.

have you ever listened to those archived 9-1-1 tapes
where the only thing you can clearly make out is the
answering operator saying "please calm down, stop
screaming and crying so you can state the nature of
your emergency in a distinguishable voice."

The only ones I've heard were those broadcast on television. Of course
the advantage of enhanced 0-1-1 is being able to locate the caller via
Caller ID (land lines).

certain city persons I'm acquainted with discovered to
their complete dissatisfaction how their cell phones
were not GPS compatible.

What's "GPS compatible"? Cell phones either have a GPS chip or they
don't. Some carriers decided to incorporate GPS chips into phones and some
decided to modify their towers to meet the Phase II requirements. If one
is using a carrier that uses GPS location, it would be foolish not to have
a GPS-enabled phone.

Since the wireless carriers are only required to locate within 100 meters,
the technology isn't as accurate as land line Caller-ID in high population
density areas. But for someone trapped in a car that's run off the road
or a farmer, hiker, hunter, etc having a heart attack in a rural area, 100
meters is close.

horrified by the prospect of
becoming lost in the back yard of their 1/8 acre estate
and frightened by the aspect of rescue personnel being
unable to locate them in a timely fashion, those afore
mentioned city persons incurred a mentionable expense
in order to upgrade their cell phone to the more recent
design incorporating the GPS locatable beacon. now they
roam carefree all over their backyard.



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