Subject:	Re: Washington DC: Up In Smoke
Date:	1999/09/30
Author:	cory hamasaki <kiyoinc@ibm.XOUT.net>
	Posting History

On Thu, 30 Sep 1999 06:16:14, "david moore" <davidrmoore01@email.msn.com> wrote:   > paul, you are in rare form tonight! > > Paul Milne <fedinfo@halifax.com> wrote in message > news:938649403.803568@helium.cstone.net... > : > : (My comments in Parenthesis) > : > : Cash-strapped D.C.races for Y2K finish line   Thanks for the laughs,   You're right.  There's no way to apply an additional 50% funding effectively.  They're kidding themselves.  They've lost track of millions of dollars but know precisely that a complex web of systems will meet in happy-land on December 31, 1999.   And it gets better.  DeeCee *is* the capital of the world.  Right down the street are organizations with names like, The World Bank, the Inter-American Bank, The Peace Corps, the Pentagon (the policeman to the world.), the National Institutes of Health, NASA, and that frequently overlooked uniform service, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (You can't get more global than the seas and air.)   NOAA, they're everywhere, U-2 spyplanes, satellites, ships, supercomputers, robots sniffing and tasting the wind and water.   All that and more are in DeeCee, use services controlled by DeeCee, duck bullets fired by goons and thugs from DeeCee, drink water flavored by cryptosporidia from DeeCee's Dalecardia reservoir.   Update: The useless piece of protoplasmic trash who killed the three young Starbucks workers has been nabbed.  He's now sucking down more financial resources as his case inches its way through the DeeCee legal system.   But there's more, there may be 2 serial killers loose in the area and multiple serial rapists.  All this because there is an under-world, a born to lose, sense in DeeCee.  I blame 25 years of a corrupt city government that took away any hope of success, a decent life.   It took 25 years to get here, to create a brittle, failure prone, unmaintainable system.   In 92 days, this sorry collection of disfunctional systems will slam into the wall named Y2K.   It would be different if DeeCee were a vibrant, living city that worked. DeeCee now is a third world country.  DeeCee now is a place on the edge of disaster.   Built on this disaster are national and international organizations. When DeeCee fails, everything fails.   DeeCee systems reach out to the world, Internet Root Server Zero, the supercomputers of the National Security Agency, Vint Cerf's MCI-Worldcom-Internet are all within 30 miles of DeeCee.  These are  closer than Site-B and much closer to DeeCee than DragonRanch.   When DeeCee fails, the flames from the burn-off will be visible in Santa Cruz, have some Kodachrome on hand to record these memories.   cory hamasaki http://www.kiyoinc.com/current.html 92 days. 2,224 hours. 

-- a (a@a.a), September 30, 1999

Answers

This guy is such an optimist.

-- K. Stevens (kstevens@ It's ALL going away in January.com), September 30, 1999.

Don't forget AOL is in Va. too...

-- Ann Y Body (annybody@no.where.disorg), October 01, 1999.

It is *criminal* that the capital of the world's richest nation has been allowed to fall into so much decay.

-- a programmer (a@programmer.com), October 01, 1999.

But -- But -- Will the cherry trees survive?

-- let's get our (priorities@straightened.out), October 01, 1999.

I hadn't heard about the nabbing of the Starbucks murderer. Does anyone have the details? That was one of the long line of FOB deaths - former intern.

-- Linda (lwmb@psln.com), October 01, 1999.

What a bunch of BS. Cory can't even get the local place names right.

How'd you get so bitter Cory? Got left behind in the IT revolution, didn't you?

Jerk.

-- Buddy (buddydc@go.com), October 01, 1999.

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--Buddy (buddydc@go.com) said:

"What a bunch of..."

Hey Guy. Get with the program. If you don't understand the serious nature of this problem and the very real threat of failures and potential for disasters, then it would be beneficial for you to look into it a little further.

The meter is running.

And you are running out of time.

I pity you and especially I pity anyone who depends upon you for support. Do you have any children? Do you have any parents? Do you have a brother or sister? If so, lay in some supplies for them. Think about the welfare of someone else.

Lay down your ego long enough to at least help someone else, if not yourself.

end of sermonette/

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-- no talking please (breadlines@soupkitchen.gov), October 01, 1999.

I don't need your pity.

I've forgotten more about Y2K then you ever knew.

You're just a doomer-troll.

-- Buddy (buddydc@go.com), October 01, 1999.

For a very good movie on the current state of affairs in the District of Criminals, see "Slam". Kind of a ghetto "Being There", complete with the appropriate allegories and symbolism.

-- Ann Y Body (annybody@no.where.disorg), October 01, 1999.

Buddy, you're just a bit touchy, aren't you? Time for more Prozac.

-- Touchy (noone@nowhere.com), October 01, 1999.