The Pentagon has just finished it's biggest Y2K test, including most non mission critical systems. And with only minor glitches the test was a raving success. I guess you cultists will have to find yourself a new TEOTWAWKI scenario. I heard it on the local AM news radio this morning so I don't have a link but I'm sure you'll be having your faces rubbed in it soon enough.

Hey Milne, you got any comments on this? Or is it just a big scary y2k conspiracy?

bwaaaahahahahahahah!!

-- (just@lurking.here), July 14, 1999

Answers

just,

There's already a thread about the tests you're referring to. The thread is at:

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=0015EE

"DoD Gonna make it."

-- Linkmeister (link@librarian.edu), July 14, 1999.

Also see this article from the July 1999 issue of Air Force Magazine:

http://www.afa.org/magazine/0799midnight.html

"Midnight Crossing"

-- Linkmeister (link@librarian.edu), July 14, 1999.

Hey, "just lurking", how does it feel

1. to be too stoopid to figure out that there's already a thread about this topic?

2. to not know that the DOD test only involved 4% of their mission critical logistics systems?

3. to believe everything you hear on AM radio?

4. to eat humble pie?

Maybe you should go back to "just lurking here"...

-- you're a hoot! (tootoo@funny.areyou), July 14, 1999.

My 2 cent's. SO WHAT!!

Our military is just a drop in the worldwide ocean of y2k. When will polly's get at least that part?

-- CygnusXI (noburnt@toast.net), July 14, 1999.

Just Lurking = Y2K Pro,

Don't quit your day job.

-- SgtSchultz (SgtHansSchultz@stalag13.com), July 14, 1999.

Hello,

I know this will appear to be twisted reasoning, but think about it for a second.

I predicted over a year ago, that no matter what, the Department of Defense would have nothing but glowing reports from any and all tests they run.

In this case, national security really IS at risk. If you're a foreign power, and your most hated enemy states that their military is hosed, what would you do come January?

So, I say - IGNORE any and all reports from the DOD - whether they're compliant or not, they will say they are. They cannot say anything else.

This reasoning, however, cannot be extended to many (if any) other government agencies nor to the private sector. They don't come under the same paranoid "national security" auspices as the DOD does. I suspose you could argue that the Nuclear power industry, and perhaps chemical plants could come under that umbrella as well.

Jolly was in the military.

-- Jollyprez (jolly@prez.com), July 14, 1999.

"Our military is just a drop in the worldwide ocean of y2k."

So is the power grid. and the supply chain. etc. etc. etc.

But as each one becomes ready for y2k the "ocean" is more and more compliant.

-- How does (crow@taste.?), July 14, 1999.

How Does,

Yes....and....your point (proof) is....

Or do you not care about India,Russia,Brazil,Mexico,China,Japan,Saudia Arabia,...Oh what's the point. Sleep tight, back to wonderland(might wanna sleep in your scuba gear though)

-- CygnusXI (noburnt@toast.net), July 14, 1999.

LOL 44 systems out of 1000 tested. And that was just their FREAKIN LOGISTICS systems!!!!!!!!!!

News flash for pollies: Logistics ain't what puts lead on the target. That would be FireControl and C4I.

This is the funniest headline since the "DOD Y2K Test Goes Swimmingly; 2 pilots left swimming in the ocean after their F-15's crash"

LOL Eat crow my ass!

-- (@ .), July 14, 1999.

The pollies are getting desperate. From here on out they will latch on to any little tidbit of good news, however poorly spun or insignificant it is...

-- Poor Poor Polly (@ .), July 14, 1999.

i eat crow mornin'noon and night'-yu's all goin to hell to burn with dean martin=!#i knows alot of thing,s=JESUS will make sure i get,s my million'i gots it comin you know'them mafia peoples can,t push al around anymore=i should,nt of been gamblin in them house,s of sin in the first place

-- croweater,. (dogs@zianet.com), July 14, 1999.

al-d, they have medications and professionals which will help you with this Jesus/illiteracy syndrome you have going. Either get help, get quiet or get off the net. Your choice.

-- please get help (tired of al-d@goaway.com), July 14, 1999.

Just lurking,

I'm just curious how you can be so SMUG about a situation that so many intelligent people honestly admit they have no clue how serious the outcome will be?

Secondly- do you honestly----now think about this one---- do you honestly think that it would be in the DoDs best interest to run a test and have it fail miserably and then to have that failure reported in the main stream press. Don't you think that you would damn well make sure that the test that you ran had the maximum opportunity to look perfect?

I can see it now---"DoD to run big test on y2k on July 14"

New flash: DoDs y2k test fails miserably-- yea right!!!!

-- David Butts (dciinc@aol.com), July 14, 1999.

Lurking, The more I think about your response about the DoDs test the more I realize that you embody the word-IGNORANT!

One of the prerequisites of Defending a Country is to NOT Show any WEAKNESS whatsoever to anyone, be it your fellow country men or individual countrys or terrorists.

For you to SWALLOW hook line and sinker a Premeditated,planned,partial, SUCCESSFUL TEST of The DoDs computer system and then use this information to RUB in the face of intelligent "CULTISTS" is an outrage. God your nieve

-- David Butts (dciinc@aol.com), July 14, 1999.

Just Lurking, Good to see that you are storing up some crow, you'll probably need to put away some'dat cornbread to go with it though. Army Girl

-- Army Girl (aGirl@ag.com), July 14, 1999.

just@lurking.here,

Were you paying attention when the GAO caught the DoD lying on their monthly Y2k status reports at the end of last year?

>biggest Y2K test, including most non mission critical systems

Oh? Are you _sure_ that radio report said that the test included most non-mission-critical systems? And, if so, are you _sure_ the report was accurate in that respect?

-- No Spam Please (nos_pam_please@hotmail.com), July 14, 1999.

It is absolutely hilarious to watch you people fumble all over yourselves trying to prove that good news is in fact just more spin and that it doesn't really mean anything. Man, just go back to sleep, all of you! And here is some salt for that crow.

-- (just@lurking.com), July 14, 1999.

What passes for intelligent discussion amazes and depresses. DoD previously indicated it had 2100 critical systems (probably more). They ran a test of 44 of these. They were logistical supply ordering etc. This represents approx. 2% of the critical and is hyped as massive and ultimate! The power elite apparently still consider the public all a bunch of dunces.

-- Rancherdick (angusdude@yahoo.com), July 14, 1999.

Rancher,

They must have met justlurking!

-- Dian (bdp@accessunited.com), July 14, 1999.

Crows are preparing for a big dish of polly trolls, how will that feel. They are, after all, carrion birds.

-- RB (R@AR.ST), July 14, 1999.

I'll be happy to eat crow, stork, finch or anything else tasty besides just rice and beans when TSHTF. I just love these great Happy Face announcements. More time for me to prep. More denial heads to just die quietly in the first mass of chemical spills. A true doomer with no scruples would talk like a polly to keep him or herself ahead of the herd as long as possible.

-- R (riversoma@aol.com), July 14, 1999.

Darn. I thought this was going to be a thread about family-size recipies for crow. It may just be something we literally will be eating come next year.

"Would you like fries with that crow?"

-- winter wondering (don'temailme@posthere.com), July 15, 1999.

It was either Tsun Tzu or one of his contemporaries that said, " When strong, feign weakness. If when weak, feign strength."

For recent graduates of public high schools feign = pretending with intent to deceive.

-- Ken Seger (kenseger@earthlink.net), July 15, 1999.