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Comcast and its motherfucking "required weekly" EAS tests; I'm sick of them! by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 09/09/2012, 9:31am PDT
Comcast likes to run a "weekly required" test of the Emergency Alert System, the successor to the Emergency Broadcast System, but it seems like their "weekly" EAS test occurs every other goddam day! And the worst thing about it they don't either tailor the event to a reasonable time so as not to interrupt normal programming, or perhaps use a warning or knowledge of a commercial break to cut in with the test. Oh no, it's got to be in the middle of the fucking program!

At least when TV stations ran an EBS test, they did it between programs, they didn't simply break the program, insert an EBS test, then go back to the program having blacked out two minutes of the show!

Plus it's like the claim from the 1960s The Outer Limits:
There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear.
Maybe it's only two minutes, but when Comcast runs an EAS test, it probably feels like it's an hour; the test consists of a blank screen and nothing else, the only reason you know it's an EAS test and not that the cable has gone into some sync lock or some failure is that if you look at the cable box you can see the channel number is "EAS". Plus, since it's an emergency system you can't change channels, which wouldn't matter anyway because when EAS is activated, it replaces everything on every channel on the cable system and you can't change the channel until they let you go.

Plus this interferes with recognition of serious non-test events when they want to tell you something, because the EAS tests are so commonplace and so irritating that they're liable not to get noticed. About ten minutes after the EAS test they did a day or two they ran a second EAS transmission not as a test (but still with no audio), in which an EAS announcement was ordered by WTOP-FM radio, the local news station, to announce a tornado watch or warning for Prince George's County, MD. Now, that, I could understand, that's a serious and important announcement, but because all it consisted of was a text screen - Comcast never runs the alert tone - I suspect it's likely to be ignored, which, when it's not a test like that one, that is the absolute worse thing that could happen.


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Maybe it's the best thing
For you
But it's the worst that could happen
To me
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Comcast and its motherfucking "required weekly" EAS tests; I'm sick of them! by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 09/09/2012, 9:31am PDT NEW
    why not go on a hunger strike NT by Mysterio 09/09/2012, 11:17am PDT NEW
        I think I'd have more effect with a diarrhea shit storm at Comcast HQ. NT by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 09/11/2012, 1:12pm PDT NEW
    Go fuck yourself NT by David Carradine 09/10/2012, 5:51am PDT NEW
        You first. Film yourself fucking yoursel on YouPorn so we can see how! NT by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 09/11/2012, 1:10pm PDT NEW
    Your posts are the Caltrops equivalent of motherfucking EAS tests. NT by We're sick of them! (go fuck yourse 09/10/2012, 1:26pm PDT NEW
        Don't pour creamy bullshit on my plate and tell me it's chocolate pudding! by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 09/11/2012, 1:07pm PDT NEW
            Don't shit on this forum and call it posting. NT by Worm 09/11/2012, 3:55pm PDT NEW
                Don't eat a delicious Kobe beef steak and tell me it's shit. NT by Unless it was poorly prepared 09/11/2012, 4:05pm PDT NEW
                    Why would I want a steak named for an alleged rapist? NT by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 09/11/2012, 8:12pm PDT NEW
                Show me one microgram of shit here & I'll quit forever. Looks more like words. NT by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 09/11/2012, 8:13pm PDT NEW
                    NOW HE INTERPRETING THINGS LITERALLY LOL NT by Shit Finder Zulu 09/11/2012, 10:28pm PDT NEW
                    Another example. NT by Mysterio 09/12/2012, 7:23am PDT NEW
            IT'S NEVER OKAY TO LIE ABOUT CHOCOLATE PUDDING. NT by Go F. Yourself (GFYRSELF) 09/12/2012, 7:15am PDT NEW
            I... guess I'll have to explain? by We're sick of them! (go fuck yourse 09/12/2012, 7:49am PDT NEW
                Well, I have a solution by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 09/17/2012, 2:48pm PDT NEW
                    Re: Well, I have a solution by Mysterio 09/17/2012, 8:06pm PDT NEW
                    Why don't YOU ignore my replies to your insane posts? -------------------------> NT by Because asperger's. You're insane. 09/17/2012, 9:59pm PDT NEW
    Widdleplop Farm ITT NT by Vested Id 09/11/2012, 4:15pm PDT NEW
 
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