Programmer says surrender or else!

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The Year 2000 Disaster

The End of Civilization (As We Know It)?

Terms of Surrender

The following was posted in various places.

[This message was given to us by a programmer who recently quit a major Y2K compliance project for the government. He wishes to remain anonymous. - J.J.]

Terms of Surrender

ATTENTION Federal Government (and others as well):

Well, well... After months of us being called names from "chicken little" to "doomsday alarmists," William Jefferson Clinton has finally addressed the Y2K problem and the potential damage that could occur on or before New Year's Day, 2000. This means that you (the government) have finally admitted your weakness - your Achilles heel. With that in mind, we think now is the time for all of us to sit down and have a little chat.

http://esotericworldnews.com/endof.htm

-- surrender (faraway@gone.goin), March 28, 1999

Answers

Re Hallyx's remarks...

Who cares about codswallop? I want to know how to recognize a "randy didactic" when I see one on the street....

Ed

-- Ed Yourdon (ed@yourdon.com), March 28, 1999.


Deborah,

Yeah, my understanding of "randy" is probably the same as yours; sounds like we both grew up on the wrong side of the tracks.

As for being funny: if you read the bio on my web site, you will find that I'm a serious, conservative, modest fellow with limited accomplishments and a humble attitude towards life.

Ed

-- Ed Yourdon (ed@yourdon.com), March 28, 1999.


Ahh yes, were it be that there was a valley where all of our talent were hiding to return after the fall....

Atlas Shrugged .... Go for it Darby

-- helium (heliumavid@yahoo.com), March 28, 1999.


Well worth the read! Here is a Hot Link:

Terms of Surrender

Ray

-- Ray (ray@totacc.com), March 28, 1999.


More Ultra-Libertarian, codswallop. It's quite ironic that many people like me might agree with a good portion of your agenda. But as long as you keep bragging about your "bibles, bullets and beans" you give the impression that you can't be trusted to treat compassionately with my family, my planet or my life---no more than I can trust North's Christian Reconstructionists, the WTO, the NWO or the cradle-to-grave Socialists.

Randy didactics and self-absorbed egoists make me uncomfortable, to put it mildly.

Hallyx

"Certitude is the enemy." --- Molly Ivins

-- Hallyx (Hallyx@aol.com), March 28, 1999.



Judging by the resounding lack of demand for remediators, I guess the 'or else' is that these nutballs can spend all the time they want writing playpen polemics. If people like this are *not* remediating code, I'm that much more comfortable.

-- Flint (flintc@mindspring.com), March 28, 1999.

Hallyx,

"More Ultra-Libertarian, codswallop." What is so radical about liberty (Didn't Klinton say something to the affect that our constitution was too radical? Had to do with "too much liberty")and what is wrong with someone reading a bible. What do you read? The Aquarian Conspiracy? by Marilyn Ferguson "And many are ready, veterans of earlier, partially successful movements to humanize the schools." pg 281 Guess it's ok for these people to remove our ways and replace it with their ways!

What is codswallop?

-- surrender (faraway@gone.goin), March 28, 1999.


Ed,

a "randy didactic"

Websters

randy...a scolding or dissolute woman

didactic...making moral observations

When you see or hear a mean woman telling you what to do you have recognized the situation!

Duck and cover!!!

-- surrender (faraway@gone.goin), March 28, 1999.


 Just to put this in in perspective, This article was posted last summer on CSY2K. Just a little dated.

I would say the progammers in this article are all prepared by now.

DN

- Terms Of Surrender
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No, I did *not* write this.  Wish I did, though.

 
This message was given to us by a programmer who recently quit a major
Y2K compliance project for the government. He wishes to remain
anonymous. - J.J.
 
Terms of Surrender

-- Brian (imager@ampsc.com), March 28, 1999.


Hmmm, I always though randy meant somthing else....

Ed,

I never knew you were funny! ROTFL

-- Deborah (infowars@yahoo.com), March 28, 1999.



If'n you ain't reads the bio yet and believe what he just said, In got a bridge I want to sell you the toll rights to.....

another working def'n of codswallop, Ed??

chuck, who is REALLY glad everybody brought their sense of humor with them today !!!

-- Chuck, a night driver (reinzoo@en.com), March 28, 1999.


Yeah, yeah. I know you all got the allusion to Ayn Rand. I particularly appreciate "playpen polemics." Good'n, Flint.

Randy, as an adjective, means lustful, lecherous or horny--attributes that, having read Atlas Shrugged, could not fairly be ascribed to dear Ayn.

Hallyx

"Ducking for apples --- change one letter and it's the story of my life." --- Dorothy Parker

-- Hallyx (Hallyx@aol.com), March 28, 1999.


For a more direct solution, check out book "Unintended Consequences" by John Ross. See http://www.loompanics.com or http://www.amazon.com for reviews and/or to order.

-- a (A@AisA.com), March 28, 1999.

codswallop...how about horse hockey?...high quality manure?

-- jocelyne slough (jonslough@tln.net), March 29, 1999.

Ed, you said:

"As for being funny: if you read the bio on my web site, you will find that I'm a serious, conservative, modest fellow with limited accomplishments and a humble attitude towards life."

Oh, puhleeze. How can you type that with a straight face? Come to think of it, I don't suppose you have to, do you? (BTW, how are the MIB these days?)

-- Paul Neuhardt (neuhardt@ultranet.com), March 30, 1999.



This forum has waaaay too much fun sometimes. "Randy didactics": what a lovely turn of phrase. It aptly describes the majority of freshmen at my college (a high-octane combination of top-quartile NMSQTs and lepine libidos.)

Thanks, friends. I echo the appreciation for the doses of humor which are delivered every so often. Much needed...

-- Mac (sneak@lurk.com), March 30, 1999.


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