Will Y2K be a killer?????????????

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I don't know about millions dead, but don't y'all think it's REASONABLE to believe that:

- Somewhere in the world there will be a MAJOR chemical plant accident?

- Somewhere in the world there will be a major nuclear incident?

- Somewhere in the world people will freeze to death because power production has gone down?

- Somewhere in the world there will be a fatal traffic accident caused by malfunctioning traffic lights?

- Somewhere in the world there will be death caused by poorly / mis / or non-treated water?

- Somewhere in the world there will be a riot in which people will be killed?

- Somewhere in the world an opportunistic terrorist will cause death and destruction within days, if not upon, rollover?

- Somewhere in the world, medical equipment will malfunction, causing the death of a patient?

- Somewhere in the world a home invasion will occur by people trying to get all the cash someone has stored, and they will be killed for it?

- Somewhere in the world (U.S.), the 911 system will breakdown, and someone will die waiting for an ambulance that never comes?

- Somewhere in the world.........

How many more can you think of?

As I said, I don't know if it will amount to millions, but how can we not view Y2K as a least a potential killer???

-- Duke 1983 (Duke1983@AOL.com), November 16, 1999

Answers

Somewhere in the world, shit will happen

-- (get@over.it), November 16, 1999.

- Somewhere in the world a polyanna will finally "Get It" when his local McDonalds closes...

-- Pollys Prevent Their Own Starvation Daily (by.eating@their.local.McDonalds), November 16, 1999.

Duke,

Thanks for your thoughts. I expect one of our well known pollies will be logging in on this thread. He once posted that, while there may be y2k-related deaths, a certain number would be acceptable and not qualify as a y2k disaster. He said that the entire population of Southern Calif. could die and we would be better off. Therefore, no TEOTWAWKI. Strange thinking, huh?

-- (RUOK@yesiam.com), November 16, 1999.


Hi, get

And that's fine as long as "somewhere" isn't anywhere near you, right? I must remember to ask you how you feel about that in three months or so.

-- Colin MacDonald (roborogerborg@yahoo.com), November 16, 1999.


Duke: yes all this and more can/will happen. That's what makes it such a tragedy.

-- mar (derigueur2@aol.com), November 16, 1999.


Haven't all those things happened at least once in the last year or so??

Deano

-- Deano (deano@luvthebeach.com), November 16, 1999.


Europe feeds itself and exports a small surplus. Ditto for Australia and Argentina.China is just barely self sufficient. North America feeds itself and exports a huge surplus.Petroleum based fertilizers grow it and a petroleum powered transport and shipping industry moves it. If the oil industry encounters significant long term stoppages, then billions in the second and third worlds face starvation! Even first world Japan, with 125 million people crammed into an area the size of California, will struggle to survive.

-- Ralph Kramden (and@at AwayWeGo.com), November 16, 1999.

I don't know about millions dead, but don't y'all think it's REASONABLE to believe that:

- Somewhere in the world there will be a MAJOR chemical plant accident? Same number as this week.

- Somewhere in the world there will be a major nuclear incident? No

- Somewhere in the world people will freeze to death because power production has gone down? No

- Somewhere in the world there will be a fatal traffic accident caused by malfunctioning traffic lights? Would that be fewer or more fatalities than the daily quota of alcohol-related fatalities?

- Somewhere in the world there will be death caused by poorly / mis / or non-treated water? The was today. There will be tomorrow.

- Somewhere in the world there will be a riot in which people will be killed? There was today.

- Somewhere in the world an opportunistic terrorist will cause death and destruction within days, if not upon, rollover? Who can tell about nuts?

- Somewhere in the world, medical equipment will malfunction, causing the death of a patient? Did today.

- Somewhere in the world a home invasion will occur by people trying to get all the cash someone has stored, and they will be killed for it? Same number as today.

- Somewhere in the world (U.S.), the 911 system will breakdown, and someone will die waiting for an ambulance that never comes? Same number as today.

If these are your criteria, Y2K has been here a LONG time already.

-- walt (walt@lcs.k12.ne.us), November 16, 1999.


Okay. We have this friend and he said when he is at a restaurant and the waitress says, "Would you like some 'extra salsa'?" the words 'extra salsa' make him want to strangle somebody. It just flips his switch.

When I hear the word "glitch" . . . .

Tell me if this is what we are saying here -

"A bump in the road ain't bad - unless YOU are the roadkill."

I tried that one on some friends at our local AP office and they never did find it interesting. I like to envision one of them on the highway with their guts squeezed out and cars going kathunk, kathunk over them and the kids in the car going Eeeeeeww!

Did I really write that? Can I be arrested for that?

-- Becky (rmbolte@wvadventures.net), November 16, 1999.


Do you know the old joke -
Q: What is a philosopher?
A: Somebody who doesn't get upset no matter what happens to you.
We can re-use the punchline for Polly's...

-- Count Vronsky (vronsky@anna.lit), November 16, 1999.


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