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I don't know whether or not this will be deleted, but I wanted to make sure it was posted here anyway... It's a good thread.

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One of the stooges of the apocalypse, Steve "Always Wrong" Heller, made some egregious predictions earlier this year connected with his fantasy death watch. When confronted with this nonsense, he claimed that "If I'm wrong, then I'm wrong, and I'll admit it." How many think that poor Stevie won't be around this forum in January to admit anything?

Yea, me too

Here's Stooge Steve in his own words:

On January first, there'll be a spike of errors in process control systems that will cause widespread power outages, communication outage s, and other immediate effects. However, some power companies will manage to keep the power on in many places, and many people will breathe a sigh of relief.

Unfortunately, this relief will turn out to be premature. Over the next several weeks, breaks in the supply chains to the power companies, primarily fuel supplies, will result in a gradual degradation of the infrastructure. Water treatment plants will run out of supplies, hospitals will stop functioning properly due to lack of drugs and other supplies, and this will be repeated in every industry. The economy will grind to a halt.

But the most serious problem, in the north at least, will be frozen pipes. If the power's off for more than a few days in the middle of winter in Detroit, Chicago, New York City, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and other northern tier cities, they'll be devastated by frozen water pipes and sewer line backups. Plague will follow shortly. Most of the inhabitants of the northern cities will die within a matter of a few weeks, from cold, disease, fires started in an attempt to keep warm, or random violence.

Steve Heller - July 1999

-- Y2K Pro (y2kpro1@hotmail.com), December 17, 1999

Answers Pro: I don't know if he will 'apologise' or just say he was wrong. If he is right, will you be around the forum to say he is a genius? Somehow i doubt it.

-- Noone (Noone@none.com), December 17, 1999.

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You must not have any kind insurance you do? If you did you would be too busy feeling stupid for being wrong.

-- Larry (cobol.programmer@usa.net), December 17, 1999.

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I thought that Y2K Pro (short for "problem"?) was a "delete-on-sight" poster?

-- Dave (aaa@aaa.com), December 17, 1999.

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I'll spend a thousand dollars a year for car insurance, but not eighty thousand for "y2k insurance". Does that clear things up Larry?

And if nothing else you got to admire Y2K Pro's tenacity and thick skin to keep doing what he does in such a consitent manner. Well, I admire him anyway.

-- (and@there.you have it), December 17, 1999.

-- (friend@of. Y2KPro), December 17, 1999

Answers

One of the stooges of the apocalypse, Steve "Always Wrong" Heller, made some egregious predictions earlier this year connected with his fantasy death watch.

Have you noticed that the listed predictions haven't proven to be wrong so far, as IT ISN'T JANUARY YET? No, I didn't think so. However, anyone with a shred of intelligence can figure that out, so if you want to call me "Always Wrong", you'll have to come up with some predictions I've made that HAVE BEEN PROVEN WRONG. If you can't do that, then I suggest you shut up.

-- Steve Heller (stheller@koyote.com), December 18, 1999.

oh oh looks like stevie-baby is scared! ha ha ha ha!

The reason, heller, you pompous over-inflated gasbag, that your predictions can be de-bunked before the event is that THE SO CALLED LOGIC YOU USE IS DEAD WRONG. So far wrong you aren't even funny. And when you say stupid-ass shit like

''The good news? You (and all the other pollyannas who have your head stuck in the sand) will stop consuming valuable resources, like air.'' - Steve Heller

He's a real idiot and a menace to society. My only regret about his imminent awakening to reality is that I won't be able to see his face when he realizes that he was "dead wrong". -- Steve Heller (stheller@koyote.com), December 15, 1999.

You deserve an online lashing.... and exposing.

You see heller, you fool of fools, you AREN'T IMPORTANT ENOUGH to be noticed by normal people....but because of the size of your ASS-HOLE-INESS you have made some enemies. I think you were a waste of a good fuck. You and all the other LOSER fucking doomidiots that salivate thinking about the deaths of human beings. You are one sick motherfucker, and a class 'a' #1 shithead.

-- Scared little stevie NOwonder (Fu q heller@go.2hell), December 20, 1999.

Don't hold back there, son... tell us how you REALLY feel!

-- What (is@the.point?), December 20, 1999.

"I detest him and everyone else like him, and wish him the very worst of luck.

-- Steve Heller (stheller@koyote.com), January 28, 2000"

Heller's non-apology thread

-- (heller@has.no.integrity), April 12, 2000.

BTW steve, YOU WERE WRONG.

WRONGWRONGWRONGWRONGWRONGWRONGWRONGWRONGWRONGWRONGWRONGWRONGWRONGWRONG WRONGWRONGWRONGWRONGWRONGWRONGWRONGWRONGWRONGWRONGWRONGWRONGWRONGWRONG WRONGWRONGWRONGWRONGWRONGWRONGWRONGWRONGWRONGWRONGWRONGWRONGWRONGWRONG WRONGWRONGWRONGWRONGWRONGWRONGWRONGWRONGWRONGWRONGWRONG

GI yet?

-- (heller@has.no.integrity), April 12, 2000.