Death by a Thousand Cuts is Absolutely Correct

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If you read the posts of those still predicting doomsday scenarios for Y2K, you'll see how slowly their conviction they are right is dying. At the rate of one "cut" a day each day the world does not collapse, the last doomer hope in Y2K doom should die around the end of 2002... Perhaps by then some other truly disastrous thing will have happened to the world to bring back hope and joy to the doomers, and let them have the final gloat--Better to be prepared for the wrong reason than to be unprepared; I won't argue with that. I will be the first one begging for food and shelter, and I'm not kidding.

-- Jim Thompson (jimthompsonmd@attglobal.net), January 06, 2000

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During CNN's reporting on the FAA event at approx 10:25 EST, a banner headline scrolls across the bottom of the screen, saying "This is NOT a Y2K problem. This is NOT a Y2K problem. This is NOT ..."

-- Ed Yourdon (ed@yourdon.com), January 06, 2000.

There is always room in my bunker for one more.

-- Janice Silverberg (jsilverberg@erols.com), January 06, 2000.

Jim, I hope you weren't planning on taking a flight from the east coast this morning... -- Computer Glitch Grounds Departing Flights All outgoing flights from Dulles International and Ronald Reagan National Airports have been grounded since 8:30 this morning, due to unexplained computer trouble at the Washington Air Route Traffic Control Center in Leesburg, Va.

A spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration says there are also major delays on departures from the three New York area airports, JFK, La Guardia and Newark, and from Philadelphia for flights headed south and southwest.

There is no word from officials if the computer problem is in any way related to Y2K.

The problem is only affecting departing flights. Incoming flights are being permitted to land at the major airports in the northeast.

Stay tuned to WTOP for the very latest on this breaking story. [END]

-- Scott Johnson (scojo@yahoo.com), January 06, 2000.


Gee - I really wonder if this is in fact Y2K related. I mean, this kinda stuff NEVER happened before...

What did the refer to them last year...Y1999 related or what?

-- Gary Clark (garyc@mdc.com), January 06, 2000.


I can't help thinking of Officer Barbrady from "South Park", who, when the black helicopters fly right over his head, says, "That was just a pigeon." Or HAL: "The only possible answer is *human error*."

-- Scott Johnson (scojo@yahoo.com), January 06, 2000.


CNBC just said Joe Whitte (the weatherman) just had a problem with his computer and jokingly said, "Heehee, could we call it a computer glitch, hee hee?" Well, maybe the FAA's weather system is screwed up too. Anyway, Jim, get ready to eat your words. The planes have been shut down for more than 2 HOURS on the East Coast -- the media can't spin this baby because word of mouth will get it out everywhere anyway, which is probably the only reason they decided to "report" (this isn't a y2k problem) it. The truth will prevail, a phenomenon the Clinton Administration thought it had annhilated.

-- d (dd@sover.net), January 06, 2000.

"This is NOT a Y2K problem...NOT..."

Nothing is confirmed until it has been officially denied

-- (RUOK@yesiam.com), January 06, 2000.


BFD. Please give up on the death of a thousand cuts. It doesn't become a good doomer. Why can't anyone explain why we are still communicating via the www? Is it a "Klinton" conspiracy to allow us to think things are going well? No, they are going fairly well with intermittant problems in many different areas.

-- Slickaroo (not@no.com), January 06, 2000.

It's confirmed. It was a Y2K error.

-- (markre@westerlake.net), January 06, 2000.

Hey ROUK.....Just had an idea. How about marketing a cap and tee shirts with the phrase. Not a Y2k Problems.....! It should sell as well as the Y2k Bug dolls...

-- kevin (innxxs@yahoo.com), January 06, 2000.


Better yet, a T-Shirt that sez "Not a YK2 Problem."...

-- Billy Boy (Rakkasan101st@Aol.com), January 06, 2000.

WAS Y2K? Is it over now? Did anyone die? Was there any knock on effect? Did it start a cascade?

Come on, if you're going to report the start of a problem, then have the integrity to report the end of it as well.

-- Servant (public_service@yahoo.com), January 06, 2000.


if (government = !Y2K) {

worry = TRUE;

} else {

worry = FALSE;

}

-- Michael Erskine (Osiris@urbanna.net), January 06, 2000.


oooppppssss coding error. == (!Y2K)

My goodness that is an easy mistake to make. :)

-- Michael Erskine (Osiris@urbanna.net), January 06, 2000.


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