Aside from the normal eight ball pollys that have spent their life disrupting and ridiculing people on this forum, now we have person after person crying about how wrong they have been for preparing for possible problems relating to Y2K.

Can any of you get a little more stupid? Every federal, state and local emergency management center was staffed, billions spent, top level government and business concerns worldwide. Do you idiots think it was cut and dry there would be no problems? Regret that you sided with caution? Think its over? Think being cautious was dumb? OUCH! Your collective intelligence says return to grade school and try to get a clue this time.

Why not write to your president, congressman, senators and the heads of all major companies and tell them how stupid they were for worrying about this also.

Give it a rest folks and lets see how things are in a few weeks. Until then get some help

-- BiGG (supersite@acronet.net), December 31, 1999

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Right, BiGG. We're not even to midnight here in the US, and people (probably a lot of them trolls) are moaning and crying about what a nonevent it was. Save it for March, folks.

-- Nabi (nabi7@yahoo.com), December 31, 1999.

Agree with the sentiment, but I think there are a lot of emotional people about so will try to remain diplomatic

-- merville (merville@globalnet.co.uk), December 31, 1999.

We talked to our Son in Naples about an hour after rollover and he reported no problems in Naples. Power and phones working. He is a DGI, but said that they were told that problems could occur through March.

------------------ With Hope for the Future fedworker

-- RIGHT FROM THE LITTLE GUY (w2@F.L), December 31, 1999.

There are just as many stupid doomers as there are stupid pollys. The only difference is that the doomers have not been so aggressive about displaying their stupidity until now, while the pollys have made it obvious all along.

-- Ragnar Danneskold (Howard@Roark.com), December 31, 1999.

Doh!

-- anonymous (anonymous@anonymous.com), December 31, 1999.

Adults make decisions based on the best available information.

Adults prepare for unforseen dangers.

Adults wait until all the evidence is in before they make final assessments.

Adults do not try and blame others if they make the wrong decision.

Adults do not ridicule others who make poor decsions in good faith.

Some of us need to quit acting like children.

-- (cavscout@fix.net), December 31, 1999.

"Aside from the normal eight ball pollys that have spent their life disrupting and ridiculing people on this forum, now we have person after person crying about how wrong they have been for preparing for possible problems relating to Y2K."

What you may have missed, BiGG, is that these two groups are the same two or three people.

-- (TrollPatrol@sheesh.now), December 31, 1999.

Troll Patrol,

Ahyup..I betcha we could name em, too.

I'm not buying this sudden influx of lurkers, who are flinging themselves against the wailing wall.

I was especially amused by the guy who claims his entire life was ruined by buying some tuna. I've made costlier mistakes than that, and I'm reasonably sure my momma still loves me.

-- Bokonon (bok0non@my-Deja.com), December 31, 1999.

I understand we have to wait to see how things pan out, but for many of us, BiGG, electricity was THE really scary thing. Seeing everyone roll over without their power going out is such a relief. Dealing with the rest of Y2K's problems will be that much easier on preppers. Electric power WOO HOO ! ! Course, I still have 35 minutes till WE rollover, but being optimistic feels SO GOOD.

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), December 31, 1999.

Yes, I admit some embarassment for overpreparing a bit, but I am also very relieved that millions if not billions of people aren't going to suffer or perhaps die from immediate catastrophic y2k-related failures. It was indeed wise to prepare for the worst and hope for the best. So far it appears that the 'best' is taking place.

You're right, those of you who have pointed out the fact that y2k has just touched a few eastern Canadian provinces and for the US itself the event hasn't really taken place yet.

Those scientists amongst us, of course, will see the significant data trend in favor for BITR--at least initially--and we can relax somewhat. However, special care was taken in each major celebration site that nothing would go wrong--saving face in front of the world.

The data corruption issue, whether it will have an affect on the world economy or not, has yet to make its presence widely known and its influence widely disseminated.

I had originally believed that the power and other services would stay on in most places, so initialy the result would range from 2 to about 5, then the data corruption and its effects on the economy would start its "death by 10,000 cuts" would bring on possibly a moderate to profound depression (7-9 level event) by March at the earliest and as late as next fall.

I also hope I'm as wrong about that projection as I was the first that some problems would have become obvious by now. Again, if the power goes out within the next few hours, all bets are off.

Otherwise, Happy New Year and I hope and pray it remains happy.

-- One of the Pair (PairoDocs@eworld.com), December 31, 1999.