New book on Y2K Doom

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Enjoy...

http://www.y2kculture.com/reviews/19991025.debunking.html

-- You Knowwho (debunk@doomeridiots.com), October 26, 1999

Answers

Opinion - Pure and simple.

My opinion of you is very low in that all you try to do is knock

preparations of concerned citizens.

At the end of this mess, you better hope you are right,

because you are "betting the ranch" (your life included) on being

right. I pity you and your starving relatives and children if it comes

to that. Don't say you weren't warned.

Act now before it is too late.

-- no talking please (breadlines@soupkitchen.gov), October 26, 1999.


Your attempts to mislead others brings you the following:

you are a reprehensible reprobate worthy of only condemnation...

-- no talking please (breadlines@soupkitchen.gov), October 26, 1999.


All Pollies please register here:

Your Preferences if you would be so kind?:

Burial or Cremation?

Catholic/Protestant/Baptist/Other? Funeral Rights?:

(The Management Reserves the Right to Toss your Corpse in a Cesspool with the others who Just Didn't Get It! Our Apologies for any Inconveinence...)

-- Billy Boy (Rakkasan@Yahoo.com), October 26, 1999.


You Knowjack,

Without getting involved in a stupid debate about a book neither of us has read (unless you claim to have read it?), please explain your point with this thread? For instance, if I post a link to a negative review of this book, does that mean Y2K will be TEOTWAWKI? Sheesh. (By the way, Youknowjack, didn't the sysops delete your threads yesterday due to obscenities?)

-- (RUOK@yesiam.com), October 26, 1999.


Oh, that's rich, Billy Boy. And you think you're going to become "The Management" huh? Get a life.

-- -- (amazed@some.attitudes), October 26, 1999.


Please delete this polly drivel.

-- (delete@delete.delete), October 26, 1999.

Good link You Know Who. Like you, I believe everything I am told. Things will be good because we are told that they will be. Who needs original thinking? You and I don't, do we? The government can do our thinking for us.

-- Dr. PollyDork (DrPollyDork@moron.com), October 26, 1999.

Interesting...

The reviewer applauds Mr. Wilcox's "take" on Y2K Alarmists, as do the few reviews for it on Amazon. However, the book (published in July) isn't selling worth a darn (Amazon rank: 617,812) and is being outsold by almost every other Y2K book available (even the stunningly boring Senate Report on Y2K). Plenty of other "balanced" books out there, so I suspect that Mr. Wilcox's effort has been and will continue to get lost in the mix.

Annoyingly, the link to Mr. Wilcox' company provided at the bottom of the review was wrong - it was for "dcindustries" (possinly confusing it with DCI Publications); Mr. Wilcox's company is "dcwindustries". How hard is it to check and correct a link once you've posted it? Sloppy.

One note: folks who profess a more conservative or libertarian worldview might enjoy one of the other areas on Mr. Wilcox' site: Conservative Oasis

-- Mac (sneak@lurk.hid), October 26, 1999.


"possinly" should read "possibly". See, at least I check to see what I might have fat-fingered! 8-}

-- Mac (sneak@lurk.hid), October 26, 1999.

But how can we possibly believe anything said in the referenced book?? After all, the author is (GASP) MAKING MONEY ON IT!!! (HORRORS).

Isn't that the mantra about Ed Yourdon's books? And about any IV&V folks who come back with anything less than "Everything is A-0K, Hunky-dory, No Sweat, and don't pull any money out of the bank."?

(That second paragraph was added for all of the pollies, who would otherwise probably not get the point of this answer).

-- just another (another@engineer.com), October 26, 1999.



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