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With the never ending theme:
I hope that you will be held accountable for every drop of blood that is shed because someone listened to you and did not prepare for the sake of their families.
THEN THERE WAS **PIG FARMER MILNE*** Y2K WORLD AFFAIRS ANALYST:
Now go out and dissuade some more people from making substantial preparations. Tell them how you can not even name a handful of Fortune 500 companies that have been remediated, or two or three Airports but that the majority WILL be ready anyway.
I hope that you will be held accountable for every drop of blood that is shed because someone listened to you and did not prepare for the sake of their families.
PAUL MILNE
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Subject:Ireland: "Completely Out Of Touch" With y2K Date:1999/06/01 Author:fedinfo <<mailto:fedinfo@halifax.com>fedinfo@halifax.com>
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BUSINESSES ARE OUT OF TOUCH AS Y2K NEARS: A Dáil committee has been urged by the director of the first Irish documentary on the Y2K problem to introduce "emergency measures" to cope with the failure of Small & Medium Size Enterprises (SMEs) to tackle the Millenium Bug. The results of a recent Enterprise Ireland survey on the level of preparedness for Y2K by SMEs was described by Esperanza producer/director, Ronan Tynan, as a "devastating indictment" of the software industry at a special hearing on Y2K held by the Dáil Committee on Enterprise and Employment last week.
The survey's conclusions found that SMEs were completely out of touch, "firmly believing the computer industry will sort the problem out".
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Here it is. The never ending list of countries that are floundering.
All the Pollyannas intone that things are going 'so' well. Bullshit.
Yesterday we heard that even Canada, widly touted as being in the vanguard, is predictably slipping its milestones. Now we hear that Ireland is completely out of touch.
Its really very funny, you know. All the ASSHOLE Pollyannas proclaiming 'success' becuase Ed Yourdon wishes to depart the public scene. And report after report showing the devastatingly BAD state of global affairs. Last week, it was revealed that the source of 17% of our OIL is toast, Venezuela. Yesterday we hear about Iran needing over a billion dollars and they have not yet begun. Italy has only just begun. Russia has done nothing. China is kaput. Japan, shrimp toast.
As a matter of fact there is NOT ONE contry on the face of the earth that is even in the BALLPARK of compliance, and yet, Lo and Behold, the pollyannas proclaim that things will be OK.It is a testimony to the stupidity of Pollyannas that they can even rear their ugly heads and post here.
No evidence will sway an asshole like brock. No facts will change the opinion of a world class moron like pee Wee Sherman. And, the daily and incessant FLOOD of reports showing country after country that is woefully underprepared will not induce the likes of an egan or echristi or dechert to modify their opinion.
And then there is the newly elevated super Ass mcisaac. He thinks that proclaiming one industry close to compliant that that has ANYTHING at all to do with holding the economy afloat on the global Titanic..
It's really very simple. There is not one Fortune 500 company that is done. Not one Oil Co. Not one Major Airport or Airline, Not one electric Utility. Not one major hospital.
They should have been popping up like mushrooms after a spring rain on the bell curve of compliance. Yet, not one is ready.
They ALL said they would be ready six months ago leaving a full year for testing. And NONE of them are there. NONE.
And now Ireland.
C'mon pollyannas. I'll give you your chance. I'm sure that it stands to reason that before an industry can be complinat, that at least PART of it must be compliant. So name five major airports that are remdiated, tested and back in production. C'mon you blathering morons. Laguardia? Kennedy? LAX? Logan? EWR? O'hare? Atlanta? C'mon morons. Name ONE.
You are pitiful and pitiable beyond belief.
How about Oil Co's. Chevron? Texaco? Mobil? Exxon? None How about Auto Mfr's? Ford? GM? Chyrsler? None.
Morons.
Move right along to any other industry if you please. None.
C'mon paper merchants, featherweights. Six months to go and NO statistically significant number of companies ready on the face of the earth in ANY industry.
C'mon buttheads. I know you would dearly love to see me go. And I will.
Name ten Fortune 500 companies that have remdiated tested and put their systmes back into production. C'mon buttheads. That is only what?.....2% of the Fortune 500. Can you name only TWO STINKING PERCENT that have finished with six months to go?
No, you can't, because you are a pack of assholes.
And NOT being able to name a lousy stinking 2% you think that the majority of them will magically be ready in the next six months. In total defiance of thirty years of IT track records.
Hey, Morons.....Isn't testing the most significant portion of the job? It is isn't it? Tell me how an industry like telecoms or electric utilities that CANNOT test themselves industry-wide will make a good showing? huh?
Now go out and dissuade some more people from making substantial preparations. Tell them how you can not even name a handful of Fortune 500 companies that have been remediated, or two or three Airports but that the majority WILL be ready anyway.
I hope that you will be held accountable for every drop of blood that is shed because someone listened to you and did not prepare for the sake of their families.
<http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/computimes/1999/0531/cmp5.htm>http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/computimes/1999/0531/cmp5.htm -- Paul Milne If you live within five miles of a 7-11, you're toast.
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Well said Paul. The Pollys won't and can't comprehend how thier neat little worlds can get very ugly very fast. When TSHTF we won,t hear from them anymore. Like the cowardly bully who just lost a fight. They make a vain atempt at an argument that is based on rhetoric and persuasion tactics than on hard evidience and intuitive reasoning. These are "nice" people during times of ease and in a land of plenty. When things turn dark, thier true dimensions will appear, and others won't like what they see.
They are blame shifters and cannot stare a situation in the face head on, for a lack of inner strenght and courage.
They do not fear y2k, since they either do not comprehend it or choose not too.
Where there is no fear, there can be no courage.
Bob P
-- Bob P (<mailto:Rpilc99206@aol.com>Rpilc99206@aol.com), June 04, 1999.
---------- ASKED MY LOCAL COUNCIL OFFICE IF THEY HAD ANY PLANS TO RUN A COMMUNITY AWARENESS SCHEME FOR Y2K. ANSWER NO PLANS IN THE PIPE LINE. WHEN WILL YOU POLLYS REALISE THIS IS A F***ING SET UP
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