I never thought I'd be preppin for TEOTWAWKI. I also never thought society would still be functioning on December 9, 1999. Sooooo, maybe, just maybe, I will have never thought that Y2K won't be that bad after all? EXCEPT, and this is the big exception, when the rollover his, every single freeking embedded system will start wondering what the hell is going on (date sensitive systems anyway), and THAT has not happened yet....

So I'm still a 9.9

-- timemachine (con@tin.uum), December 09, 1999

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And after Jan 1st. you will say "Its unbelievable!, the world ended as we knew it, and the new world looks and operates exactly as the old world! Incredible! I didn't even feel a bump! There must have been a government cover up of the world coming to and end! Don't listen to pollies who are saying I told you so. They are just buying into to the goverment spin that the world didn't come to an end!"

-- for real (for@real.com), December 09, 1999.

Timemachine:

Y2K is only one of the "problems" we're beset with currently:

-solar flares and CMEs -cyberwarfare on critical infrastructure -terrorism -political instability around the world -threat of war in the very near future -y2k

Keep prepping friend.

-- (Kurt.Borzel@gems8.gov.bc.ca), December 09, 1999.

Timemachine;

Other than a measurement to gauge the amount of preparation one needed to make for the rollover, continuing speculating on the 0-10 impact at this late date doesn't seem to serve any purpose. GI's, except for the Johnny-come-latelies, are done with preps or just finishing up....and, the DGI's don't care. For us, we are mostly done, but probably will find a few more things to purchase up until the end of the month (a little like the last minute Christmas shoppers).

We have made a few choices in purchases that may not be necessary, but we don't mind...better safe than sorry. The only thing that I would resent in all of this if it turned out to be a bump (not likely from my perspective !) is the vast amount of time I've spent researching and speculating. The amount of time and money we've spent on shopping means saved time next year, if Y2K is nothing. And, we moved from the city to the country and are much closer to family, which has been a most welcomed change.

-- Kenin Marble (kenin17@yahoo.com), December 09, 1999.

timemachine; I think what we all have to worry about is the "hackers out there who want to see their "virus" working to make everything alittle worse off than it might be. But these guys also have to have supplies stored up but for how many months ? It's like the pilots of the planes that are spraying us ,the chemtrails stuff, they have families too, right ???

-- Furie (furieart@dnet.net), December 09, 1999.