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

On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:00:54 -0400, Jim wrote:

Ann wrote:

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"?

compatible as in existing together in harmony where harmony
is the science of the structural relationship between the
progression of continuous and connected series of events
whereby a shared information arrangement allows a communication
to be exchanged by the cell phone and many different satellites
comprising what is known today as the [global positioning]
network.

In common usage, "compatible" implies an "add-on". The cell phones are
GPS-enabled; it's built in.

Cell phones either have a GPS chip or they don't.

yep.

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.

define foolish.




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.

actually Caller-ID is not a requirement for being able to connect a
physical street address with a DN.

Well, sure, the telco knows the number of the phone that's calling.
And it's a database that connects the number with the customer's address.

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.

this brings back to the forefront of my memory a certain conversation we
once engaged in concerning a car wreck on an NC highway where the rescue
rangers were unable to locate the car in the pond.

It was I-95 and it was in a ditch.

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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