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How many snafu's must occur to computer operated systems before pollies admit that something is rotten in DC? You Stupid , stupid stupid polly ignoramuses. It is your duty to hold these people accountable for the lies coming from the ministry of truth (MEDIA,GOV). You seem to hate doomers, who caused you no harm, more than lying crooked scumbag politicians that would not flinch at seeing you and your loved ones suffer. Join the only team that will accept you. Even assholes can be washed clean.

-- Lenny (chmielecki@worldnet.att.net), January 06, 2000

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Hey you - the Marines are looking for a few. They'll take you. And you don't have to wash.

-- Larry McMurtry (lmcmurtry@dove.com), January 06, 2000.

In one of the pages that I printed from the internet prior to 1/1/00 I think was it North or Youden,they said that all the y2k problems will be said NOT to be related to y2k. They were right. IS USA A COMMUNIST REGIME???I wonder as foreigner....... News blackout,news censored.

Who knows what else

Alex

-- Alex (alexcapr@yours.com), January 06, 2000.


Do you remember the promise of the "paperless office" in the 1970's? Computers were going to negate the need for hard copy files. But they didn't. Know why? Because computers have always failed periodically. Remember those 1980's Wordperfect programs, how you could spend 2 hours typing in information and lose it all because of one false keystroke? The computer failures of the past were no conspiracy, they were simply the product of an imperfect system.

The system is still imperfect. As long as there is a system on Earth, it will be imperfect. But it's not as bad as it seems. Can you imagine how bad it could have been if we didn't have thousands of programmers working every day of the past three years to help correct the Y2K design flaw?

You should be proud to be part of a race of beings who can pull together in times of neccessity and fix a problem. United we stand, divided we fall. Encourage unity and pride, not hatred and fear.

-- Simpleminded (nope@wont.never), January 06, 2000.


You are 100% correct.

Wanna Shag?

-- Larry McMurtry (lmcmurtry@dove.com), January 06, 2000.


Thank you, no. I prefer trackless Berber carpeting. But I love your books.

-- Simpleminded (nope@wont.never), January 06, 2000.


Funny...I just read the recent post about how the mean, obscene, name- calling pollies were ruining the forum with their vile, personal attacks and insults.

I don't see any suggestion that Y2K problems are are mounting to anything approaching a dangerous level, and I am following the news and forums with considerable effort. As of January 6, we still seem to be living in a world far better than we could have imagined. Power is basically working. Water is basically working. Telcom is basically working. Transport is basically working. Health care is basically working. The streets are calm, the stores are open, and civilization is intact. (If anything, these are gross understatements. But they are impossible to seriously refute.)

Infrastructure has come through the rollover and most of the first work-week, with scarcely a fault. Accounting and so forth has mostly been in fiscal Y2K for months now, so I think it's pretty safe to say most of it is going to keep right on working. (The systems I was involved in remediating all rolled over in October. Zero glitches.)

Problems seen? Sure. But, as far as that goes, I probably suffer "a thousand cuts" every morning, when I shave. The cuts just aren't big enough to bother me.

As an IT professional, a Y2K remediator, and as a long-time student of the Y2K problem, I truly and with full conviction join with Peter de Jager in saying:

"We have finally broken the back of the Y2K problem."

-- Craig Kenneth Bryant (ckbryant@mindspring.com), January 06, 2000.


Insulting Marines is a very unhealthy habit there, shithead...I'd watch myself in the future...

-- A Pissed Off Jarhead (Who'll Rip you a New @ashole in the Middle of Your Friggin.Head), January 06, 2000.

Ooooh noooo! The scary (alleged) Marine is getting tough! Oh the fright! The feeeear!

Who's reading this to you? Tell them to type another scary reply for you. Better yet, come ahead. Right at me, right now. I'm right on your screen. Pick your knuckle off the floor and take your best shot.

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


Servant
Do you always make it a point to insult servicepeople? Are you some form of elitist scumbag? Or a 4F reject who couldn't get in? Probably both. My Bro's and me been watchin how you've been posting lately, and we think you should be sticking to your beaurocratic backstabbing and other petty hobbies. Leave the Joes well enough alone. What give you the right? Tell you what...WE DO! By volunteering to protect the United States AND it's Constitution, we allow you the freedom to say what you want, when you want.
Just keep in mind, insulting those who would defend you, is the surest way to drive us in to helping those who would oppress you.
'Nuff said. Rant off
Support Your Troops.

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

If you clean up your language, you might win more converts. Reason and decorum win where foul language fails.

-- Ynott (Ynott@incorruptible.com), January 06, 2000.


Hey Morons, you people act as if computer glitches are something new. The only reason it seems like a big deal is because all of a sudden every stinking one of them is being reported on this site.

Why? Because a lot of you are feeling stupid right now for buying North's book and 800 lbs. of canned food.

Nobody ever said that there would be absolutely no computer problems after the rollover. We had them before and we will continue to have them.

A lot of you need to grow up, get a life, and get a grip on reality.

-- Lester Applegait (trimmer@coldmail.com), January 06, 2000.


Lester,

"800 lbs. of canned food."

I refinish kitchen cabinets for $$ and most people have way more than that stuck in their cabinets, pantry, Garage. Before Y2K.

Probably the reason many didn't feel pressed to go prepare.

By the by, mostly upper/middle class types with $.

-- Mark Hillyard (foster@inreach.com), January 06, 2000.


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