There was a solution offered in the sixties to solve the problem and the gov't rejected it. We have been set up for 40 years. We are blamed for taking our money out of the bank and protecting our homes and families. Wall Street doesn't like uncertainty that is why they blame the public for the falling stock value when we go into the second half of the year. I dont believe that the world will end but there will be a severe recession (worse than the Gulf War). I don't plan to be in the urban areas that is where the riots will occur. You can read the January issue of Vanity Fair magazine. The ruling class will definitely establish the New World Order when they ration they food and money. Then the fulfillment of prophecy will be upon us!!

-- Computer Science Major (Adelphi University) (rayelee@yahoo.com), June 08, 1999

Answers

It is OK.

BJ Clinton feels our pain.

The Dow is over 10,000.

-- Anonymous99 (Anonymous99@Anonymous99.xxx), June 08, 1999.

I've never seen a run-on non sequitur before.

-- Vic (Rdrunner@internetwork.net), June 08, 1999.

I read about the solution the gov't rejected though I can't recall the specifics. Wasn't it a rejection to creating a 4 digit standard for the year in all programs?

Shortsightedness. Compounded arrogance. Compounded ignorance.

I'm really in a bad mood today.

Mike ===================================================================

-- Michael Taylor (mtdesign3@aol.com), June 08, 1999.

No conspiracy. Plain old human stupidity and greed.

-- a (a@a.a), June 08, 1999.

ALTERNATIVE 3

-- Graham hyslop (Bob@ghoward-oxley.demon.co.uk), June 08, 1999.

BLAKES 7

-- kitten kong (yousee@alternative3_is_fiction_my_friend.com), June 08, 1999.

I will make sure you get your fair share of the fruitcake.

-- Paul Davis (davisp1953@yahoo.com), June 08, 1999.

Don't do it Paul..........this guy sounds like he's already 99% fruitcake.......any more would put him over the top!

-- Craig (craig@ccinet.ab.ca), June 08, 1999.

Our .gov at work. DOD trashed the 4 digit year, and IBM, wanting the business, designed their then new OS/360 to use 2 digits. Just about 40 years ago. The rest is history. <:)=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), June 08, 1999.

I saw a 1 digit year code in about 1968 that was due to fail in 1970. I suggested that we fix it...and also change all dates to 4 digit years. It was rejected by my supervisor. Why would the government be any smarter?

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), June 09, 1999.

MM in '68 I was 6, all they had to do was ask, Ida todem whaddado!

-- MidwestMike_ (midwestmike_@hotmail.com), June 09, 1999.

THE CONSPIRACY!

The idea that America (or any country) values individuality as the highest ideal is a myth. Perhaps in simpler times it was true, but no modern industrial society can really afford a population of unpredictables. This is not surprising - the long history of our cult's persecution by the Conspiracy goes back for generations untold, and indeed there are signs of their hoary repression of prehuman SubGenii dating from before "man's" appearance on Earth. All of civilization's painful and misguided climb up from the primeval slime, and its subsequent loss of Slack and of any class at all, has been indelibly marked, nay, entirely motivated, by the aeons-bridging conflict between the Conspiracy's mindlessly chickenshit Witless Principals and the Jehovah-spawned, grandiose depravity of the superior yet ethnically all-encompassing race of latent SubGeniuses. (You should know this - you were/will be there in the Beforelife!) The fact that only in recent years has "our kind" begun to recognize our own sovereignty demonstrates both how vicious have been Their efforts at further denying us Slack and yet how near is our race to TRIUMPH. All this is ULTIMATE PROOF that Jehovah 1 has not only promoted the SubGenius as His Special Tool, but has simultaneously pulled the strings which make Them endarken Themselves with their hereditary ignorancy and us with their cubistic witch-hunt superstitions. His "reason" for this two-faced obedience-school programming, this fissioning of history into binary "war equations," unfortunately, or, perhaps, thankfully, remains a total mystery. But Jehovah 1 is not alone in His cosmic meddling, for Earth has been periodically visited for thousands of years by BENEVOLENT ALIENS of such technical and psychic superiority that their powers,while no match for Jehovah's, are nonetheless nothing short of " no slopeheads alone could build, the miracles of the Old Testament, all these and more are events so inextricably interwoven with the invisible background war between Jehovah and the Xists that all the "Ancient Astronaut" fossils in the world furnish only the barest of clues. (The movie rights ALONE to these gut-splitting tales of reincarnancient history are worth millions!) Yea, it has even been suggested that the Carpenter of Nazareth himself, God Jr., Jesus 'What, Me Worry?' Christ, was in actuality a 'space detective' of the Xists, walking the Earth in human form with the mission of extricating us from the Monster God's grip. The black shadow of the Conspiracy, unfortunately, has seen to it that even His teachings were diluted and distorted until human attempts to follow them were fully as misguided as the carving of the heads of Easter Island or the 'runways' of Nazca. And so the true destiny of the SubGenius has been kept secret from Man. For Jehovah 1 is to the Xists and Us what a hungry fisherman is to a prize fish and his favorite pet worm - the last in the can. How many million other races were used before us in these ghastly galactic water-sports? JEHOVAH 1 MANIPULATES US FOR HIS OWN SINISTER ENDS.

-- ! (!@!.!), June 10, 1999.

!!!! OK BOB!...Subgenii slacker.

-- Feller (feller@wanna.help), June 10, 1999.