drfarren

Fun fact for you (if you didn't know it already), but cell towers put 911 call at highest priority. So if a tower is experiencing high traffic, it will actually dump another call and give the 911 call top priority to try and ensure the most stable connection.

If I recall correctly, in times of national emergency, the towers also have the capacity to shut down all calls and accept only 911 and emergency numbers. Need a cell tower tech to check me on that one though, I'm only 70% sure of that one.

Edit: So many tower techs and engineers popping in! Yay! Keep the info coming, i love learning new things!

Found the Texan

Mr. Cross,

If you're still answering questions, I would like to ask for a more clear explanation on your qualifications.

You say you've studies politics your whole life, but what offices have you held? What is your experience in law writing? Do you have any experience with budgets (if so, what)? Have you traveled abroad to meet with any representatives of our major allies or to develop connections in countries which we have rocky relations? How do you intend to simplify our taxes when many of those loop holes will fought over tooth and nail by the many thousands of ultra wealthy companies and multitudinous millionaires and billionaires (and their power to lobby the congress who actually will be writing and passing these laws). How do you intend on compelling congress to work together?

How do you intend on addressing education in the united states beyond NCLB? What about our crumbling infrastructure? You say you're anti abortion, but you've clearly said it is okay in certain situations, are you saying people just should stop having sex unless they want to have children? Followup to that question: is it the federal government's (or by extension, the president's) perrogative to tell the people whether or not they should be allowed to have sex, much less how or how often? Continuing on sex, what is your policy on how sex education is taught in schools? This issue affects many thousands of school-age children and college students as there are many schools that have shoddy or borderline non-existant sex education programs.

You have listed that you want term limits on congress, what term limits? can you give us specific numbers? In the realm of foreign policy, how do you intend on handling North Korea and their inevitable development of a long range nuclear missile? What do you plan on doing about China's constant violation of US copyrights and their regular cyber attacks aimed at stealing information on american patents? How do you intend on conducting relations with russia? You plainly have implied a distaste for having the US involved in so many international issues, does this mean that you will shut down the DHS and split its functions among the already existing departments (CIA, FBI, NSA, etc)? How do you intend on addressing the Defense budget?

Concerning infrastructure in more detail, do you believe the federal government should make money available to some of the oldest functioning nuclear reactors for repairs, updates, and renovations? What is your opinion on the solar highway project? Should the FCC have it's enforcement powers strengthened, weakened, or left as is? Many of the large internet/cable/telecommunication providers slice up large patches of land among themselves to create "non compete zones" is this legal? How would you choose to address this issue?

In the US there are companies that operate as what you may call legalized loan-sharking. These companies make a living off of desperate people with little income and charge them outrageous sums of money to borrow even small sums (The Cash Store and America Cash Advance to name two). These companies specifically target some of this nation's poorest people to make a profit. Should this be curtailed through federal laws? States such as Texas have been bought off by this industry's lobby and now no longer has an interest in protecting its poorest resident from these predatory practices.

Please list three completely new laws you wish to enact and three current (specific) laws you wish to strike.

edit: the gift of gold is humbling. If this hits top comment and I still have no response from him, that's all the answer you need on how serious he takes his candidacy.

HOLY SHIT! I JUST SAW A GUY GET EVISCERATED BY AN ALIEN! BRING THE KIDS!

HOLY SHIT A NIPPLE!! OH LARDY HIDE THE KIDS!! WON'T SOME ONE PLEEEEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!?!?!

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