"Todd Allcock" <elecconnec@AnoOspamL.com> wrote in
news:beQ0m.47551$mX2.33092@newsfe05.iad:

> Seems like a cool service, but it's a backpacking trip- they're not
> visiting Indiana Jones' Temple of Doom! Whatever happened to the days
> when an "emergency camping kit" was a bottle of water purification
> tablets, a box of waterproof matches, and a good old-fashioned flare
> gun ?

The flare gun may be one way to turn even more of California into ashes.
Real smart, Todd, real smart.

ONE broken ankle, one pulled tendon, one trip over the side of a cliff
somewhere there's no stupid sellphone signal in the boondocks of the
California mountains and that $99/year looks like a blessing.

I can't believe you value human life so little as to want, like some
goddamned mullah in Iran, to go back into the stone age of a signal fire
when it's just so cheap to provide REAL, dependable emergency
communications to such a device as Spot.

>
> Today, it seems amazing that as a race our ancestors managed to crawl
> out of the oceans onto the shore without a GPS in one flipper and a
> cellphone in the other!
>
>

You need to move to Afghanistan or Somalia. They live like you think we
all should....