As posted in the Humpty forum, GA power has reported to the GA State Police that power will go out on NYE. They do not know for how long, or even if they will be able to bring it back up. The source is one April from GA, who heard this from a friend whose hubby is in the staties. There is no direct link, as the info came from GA power via email to the state police (not public info, yet...).

-- Little Pig (littlepig@brickhouse.com), December 29, 1999

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Little Pig--

I was on a chat last night with a programmer who claimed GA Power has been running in the year 2000 for some time now (weeks? perhaps months?) This is not good news if true. What did they miss I wonder?

-- nothere (nothere@nothere.net), December 29, 1999.

Simple answer, the same thing all the others havent' "forgotten" but flat couldn't do much about, EMBEDDED SYSTEMS!!!!!!!

-- tweedledee (tweedledee@tweedledum.com), December 29, 1999.

As I am not the original source for this, I am not sure. I can only think that there may have been some devices which they cannot set the clock on (embeddeds), which will not successfully transition to 2000. If they are critical (and they would have to be, for this to be true), they would certainly account for something like this.

-- Little Pig (littlepig@brickhouse.com), December 29, 1999.

From what I understand, they said it was very likely that they wouldn't be able to bring it back up once it goes down. I don't know what they missed, but it sounds serious.

-- (BillGA@hurnig.org), December 29, 1999.

Well I was feeling pretty good but after hearing this am shaking in my shoes!

Paging Robert Cook-can we verify this in any way? I am in Lawrenceville, GA and am quite concerned. What is the status of Gwinnett Water and Lawrenceville Gas?

-- (I Believe (Repent @ time is now.com)), December 29, 1999.

"The source is one April from GA, who heard this from a friend whose hubby is in the staties. "

Isn't that cute???!!!??? A friend's hubby whose is in the staties.

What a bunch of freakin' morons!

-- (morons@this.place), December 29, 1999.

Not to worry. FEMA will just dip into its corps of crack programmers and have the problem fixed in 2 or 3 hours.

-- Noone (Noone@none.com), December 29, 1999.

Since this is an unverified rumor, maybe Little Pig should stop posting it under titles such as "Power WILL be out in GA!

Maybe it would simply be wise to seek confirmation......like from the GA State Police or from GA Power.

Just a thought.

-- (4@5.6), December 29, 1999.

Hey moron: So if you don't want to read this stuff...

LEAVE!

How hard is that?

Dolt.

-- Little Pig (littlepig@brickhouse.com), December 29, 1999.

Guilty by omission? Customer Rep office has yet to respond to my e- mail submitted around 9 or so this morning asking about this report. Laugh or cry, either way, they have had ample opportunity to reassure me with the normal party line. Where's my reassurance damnit?! (*wink)

-- Hokie (va@va.com), December 29, 1999.

I've often wondered what a verified fact looks like to you folks.

Now I know.....

Fascinating.

Deano

-- Deano (deano@luvthebeach.com), December 29, 1999.

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thats a pretty bold statement to make with no real backup. i know i'd probably worry if i lived in GA (and wasnt prepared). but geesh ... certainly not much to go on. power going out *anywhere* on NYE is a possibility.

-- lou (lanny1@ix.netcom.com), December 29, 1999.

This post has produced a lot of consternation here on the home front. Have contacted WGST to see if they have any confirmation on this. Am also attempting to verify it from other sources.

-- Jean (jmacmanu@bellsouth.net), December 29, 1999.

Perhaps the customer service rep was too busy laughing? :)

Calm down folks. Yet another unverified rumor, and if you ever looked through the archives here, you saw how many of THOSE were posted. Heck, we were supposed to all be under martial law last month...

-- Steve (none@yourbusiness.com), December 29, 1999.

I hafta jump in here,

All you nannies sounding the alarm about unverified stories need to realize that we're all adults here. This is an internet forum. Maybe you started using the internet last week but that doesnt mean everyone else did. We know what an unsubstantiated report looks like. Nobody is claiming this to be the AP wire. There is so much bias and reporting by press release in the mainstream media..but I digress.

Why do you all feel so compelled to jump in and moderate our communications? You're like the Bill Murray character Frequnet Flyer who runs around the plane telling everyone how to things his way and explaining all the little nuisances.

What is it about you people? There are other communications that take place in a public arena that might need your help. Why dont you go moderate the discussions at your local Starbucks. You could interprete peoples body language, tell them that whales arent fish but mammals, etc.

Seriously (or sadly), you act like children showing off at their first T-Ball game. And if you do it to just annoy us  you are very small indeed.

Shoo! Scat!

-- gary (a@a.com), December 29, 1999.

Actually Gary, you bring up a good point. Public internet.

Should a group of people be stanging on the sidewalk talking about the Power going out in Georgia loud enough for people passing by to hear, you're damn right they are going to mock you and tell you how stupid you are for believing unsubstantiated rumors.

What part of FREE SOCIETY don't you understand?

-- (troll@begone.com), December 29, 1999.

Well, the call to WGST might as well not have been made. The guy on the other end said "Well, we'll just have to wait and see what happens" Called WSB and they are looking into it.

The IT people that I know who are working for Southern Company have given no indication that this alarm is true, - they have indicated that they are ready. Has something changed?

-- Jean (jmacmanu@bellsouth.net), December 29, 1999.

... and Gary, what makes you think the AP wire will be accurate?

This from the AJC that claimed that jury summons instructing members to report January 3, 1900 WAS NOT a City of Atlanta y2k error?

-- Robert A Cook, PE (Marietta, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), December 29, 1999.

It's called politics, gary. Deal with it.

-- (garyis@moron.too), December 29, 1999.

Troll,

"Actually Gary, you bring up a good point." Thank You

I didn't say you should be stopped from mocking or teasing us on a sidewalk. I was demonstrating what a pathetic existence you lead. You aren't just passing by people on the sidewalk incidentally overhearing people talking too loud. You have sought out this forum and continually reading the various threads. If you were indeed carrying about as you suggested, you must be returning from the paleontology forum after just lambasting them for believing that the universe is more than 4,000 years old.

"What part of FREE SOCIETY don't you understand?"

Then you run to a worn out rant about free societies. Well I would like to suggest your understanding of a free society is a bit off. I attacked peoples (probably you) behavior and ideas - not their freedoms  about running around this forum as self appointed nannies. Coincidentally, that is one of my freedoms. As such I was trying to shame into leaving by demonstrating the absurdity of your presence and the shallowness of your motivations. But you must be without shame.

Im here to gather information on my own. I would rather not have to page through your pathetic, juvenile and ill-conceived rants because you feel ordained by the founding fathers to filter or otherwise comment on each issue raised.

There, my little bag of troll food is empty. My selfish desire for satisfaction will probably lead to your procreation.

-- gary (a@a.com), December 29, 1999.

Robert,

I was trying to make a point by contrast. At the sametime I was not depictng AP as infalible.

I knew someone would comment on that. But my point was made.

-- gary (a@a.com), December 29, 1999.

gary, if you want to talk about nannies, talk to the "sysops"...they're your nannies

-- (poor@little.gary), December 29, 1999.

It's called politics, gary. Deal with it.

-- (garyis@moron.too), December 29, 1999.

I am dealing with it. I'm taking a momment to jump back in your face showing you and all how really pathetic your presence is running around as the idea nannies. Its not fun when your prey turns on you. Now you are the hunted.

I see the blisters on your heals. You deal with it.

-- gary (a@a.com), December 29, 1999.

Dear trollish one:

You vulgar little maggot. Don't you know that you are pathetic? You worthless bag of filth. As we say in Texas, I'll bet you couldn't pour piss out of a boot with the instructions on the heel. You are a canker. A sore that won't go away. I would rather kiss a lawyer on the lips than be seen with you.

You are a fiend and a sniveling, back-boneless coward, and you have bad breath. You are degenerate, noxious and depraved. I feel debased just for knowing you exist. I despise everything about you. You are a bloody nardless newbie twit protohominid chromosomally aberrant caricature of a coprophagic cloacal parasitic pond scum. And I wish you would go away.

You're a putrescent mass, a walking vomit. You are a spineless little worm deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt. You are a jerk, a cad, a weasel. Your life is a monument to stupidity. You are a stench, a revulsion, a putrefaction, a big suck on a sour lemon with a lime twist.

You are a bleating foal, a curdled staggering mutant dwarf smeared richly with the effluvia and offal accompanying your alleged birth into this world. An insensate, blinking calf, meaningful to nobody, abandoned by the puke-drooling, giggling beasts who sired you and then killed themselves in regret for what they had done.

I will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same species as you. You are a monster, an ogre, a malformation. I barf at the very thought of you. You have all the appeal of a paper cut. Lepers avoid you. You are vile, worthless, less than nothing. You are a weed, a fungus, a ferment, the dregs of this earth. And did I mention you smell?

If you aren't an idiot, you made a world-class effort at simulating one. Try to edit your writing of unnecessary material before attempting to impress us with your insight. The evidence that you are a nincompoop will still be available to readers, but they will be able to access it more rapidly.

You snail-skulled little twit. Would that a hawk pick you up, drive its beak into your brain, and upon finding it rancid set you loose to fly briefly before spattering the ocean rocks with the frothy pink shame of your ignoble blood. May you choke on the queasy, convulsing nausea of your own trite, foolish beliefs.

You are weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. You are grimy, squalid, nasty and profane. You are foul and disgusting. You're a fool, an ignoramus. Monkeys look down on you. Even sheep won't have sex with you. Your hand even refuses autoerotism. You are unreservedly pathetic, starved for attention, and lost in a land that reality forgot.

And what meaning do you expect your delusional self-important statements of unknowing, inexperienced opinion to have with us? What fantasy do you hold that you would believe that your tiny-fisted tantrums would have more weight than that of a leprous desert rat, spinning rabidly in a circle, waiting for the bite of the snake?

You are a waste of flesh. You have no rhythm. You are ridiculous and obnoxious. You are the moral equivalent of a leech. You are a living emptiness, a meaningless void. You are sour and senile. You are a disease, you puerile one-handed slack-jawed drooling meat slapper.

On a good day you're a half-wit. You remind me of drool. You are deficient in all that lends character. You have the personality of wallpaper. You are dank and filthy. You are asinine and benighted. You are the source of all unpleasantness. You spread misery and sorrow wherever you go.

I cannot believe how incredibly stupid you are. I mean rock-hard stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid. Stupid so stupid that it goes way beyond the stupid we know into a whole different dimension of stupid. You are trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid. Stupid collapsed on itself so far that even the neutrons have collapsed. Stupid gotten so dense that no intellect can escape. Singularity stupid. Blazing hot mid-day sun on the warm side of Mercury stupid. You emit more stupid in one second than our entire galaxy emits in a year. Quasar stupid. Your writing has to be a troll. Nothing in our universe can really be this stupid.

Perhaps this is some primordial fragment from the original big bang of stupid. Some pure essence of a stupid so uncontaminated by anything else as to be beyond the laws of physics that we know. I'm sorry. I can't go on. This is an epiphany of stupid for me. After this, you may not hear from me again for a while. I don't have enough strength left to deride your ignorant questions and half baked comments about unimportant trivia, or any of the rest of your drivel.

The only thing worse than your logic is your manners. I have snipped away most of what you wrote, because, well... it didn't really say anything. Your attempt at constructing a creative flame was pitiful. I mean, really, stringing together a bunch of insults among a load of babbling was hardly effective... Maybe later in life, after you have learned to read, write, spell, and count, you will have more success. True, these are rudimentary skills that many of us "normal" people take for granted that everyone has an easy time of mastering. But we sometimes forget that there are "challenged" persons in this world who find these things more difficult. If I had known, that this was your case then I would have never read your post. It just wouldn't have been "right". Sort of like parking in a handicapped space. I wish you the best of luck in the emotional, and social struggles that seem to be placing such a demand on you (like passing gas, for instance).

In short, if I traded you for shit, I would lose the container I brought you in. Otherwise, have a good day.

-- Ol' Scratch (Satan@hell.gov), December 29, 1999.

Hmmm...sounds like INVAR. Anyway, which troll (your word) were you referring to there gary? There's more than one on this thread.

500 or so words which say nothing except "I hate you". I don't hate you, I just think you're an idiot.

-- (not@this.time), December 29, 1999.

And what, pray tell, did that accomplish?

Your handle (Scratch/Satan) may serve its purpose, or indicate your tolerance (of either side of the discussion) - but at least contribute something there for those of us who do wish to learn.

-- Robert A Cook, PE (Marietta, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), December 29, 1999.

ol'Scratch

It would seem you are in need of some serious professional help. Please seek some PRONTO!!

YIKES!!

Deano

-- Deano (deano@luvthebeach.com), December 29, 1999.

Well, sometimes I just have a hard time finding the right words.

-- Ol' Scratch (Satan@hell.gov), December 29, 1999.

Ol' Scratch,

Aside from a few misspellings, not bad...not bad at all...

-- Ludi (ludi@rollin.com), December 29, 1999.

Well, sometimes I just have a hard time finding the right words.

Perhaps that's why you stole them from here.

Nice try, though.

-- (duh@duh.duh), December 29, 1999.