Ho ho ho, ha ha ha, this is a good one! Pure BS ***DESPERATE*** SPIN...

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Dec 13, 1999 - 01:23 AM

White House to Release Reliability Figures to Discourage Y2K Panic

By Ted Bridis

Associated Press Writer [Rothschild media-controlled HACK par excellence - not! ha hah ha]

WASHINGTON (AP) - Concerned that any technical failure in the earliest hours of Jan. 1 will be blamed on the Year 2000 computer problem, the White House is releasing figures showing how often some systems typically break down. It is not a pretty picture. Lights go out. Computers crash. Flights are delayed, baggage is lost. ATMs run out of cash, cellular calls won't go through and cable TV is showing static.

In the increasingly complex world of technology, those disasters can occur individually all in a day's work - whether or not that day is the upcoming New Year's. [Bwaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahaha]

The White House is releasing the information as a precaution, to avert public panic at the first sign of a disruption in electricity or another essential service that may coincide with the date rollover but was not caused by the computer glitch.

Some failures may take weeks of study before Y2K can be blamed or dismissed as the cause.

"Every day things go wrong, and nobody pays much attention to them, nobody thinks twice about it," said John Koskinen, President's Clinton's top Y2K adviser. "But any of those things that happen on January 1st will immediately be presumed to be the indication of a Y2K problem."

[Moron]

Even though the nation's electrical utilities are more than 99 percent reliable, winter storms can darken neighborhoods and entire regions. Koskinen puts odds at 50-50 a major ice storm or blizzard will strike America during that critical New Year's weekend.

[Yup, he'll be watching the lights go out from his scheduled Jet Airliner - not!]

In 1989, for example, a failed switch shut down electricity on New Year's Eve for 90,000 citizens in Maine.

[Deary me]

The Washington-based Edison Electric Institute said in a report for the White House that any power failure over the Jan. 1 weekend "is almost certain to have occurred because of one of the usual reasons" rather than the Y2K bug.

[For freak's sake!!!]

"We have interruptions in the power grid all the time," said Sen. Robert Bennett, chairman of the Senate's Year 2000 Committee. "We have interruptions in the flow of oil around the world all the time. We have all kinds of accidents that take place in computer-land, and those that happen on January 1st, people will say were caused by Y2K."

[Bennet foes a De Jaeger!!!]

Computers and their programming code are at the heart of the Year 2000 problem, when devices that aren't sufficiently tested or repaired could misinterpret the year "00" as 1900. That could corrupt important electronic records, miscalculate utility bills and interest rates or cause a variety of havoc with automated systems.

But software already is so enormously complex that computers sometimes fail. Microsoft Corp., whose Windows software runs most of the world's personal computers, fields roughly 29,000 phone calls daily from customers using more than 4,000 programs, who complain their PCs aren't working right.

[Another Moron]

AP-ES-12-13-99 0114EST

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THIS IS THE BIGGEST CROCK OF SHIT I'VE READ IN A LONG TIME - THEY'RE GETTING DESPERATE!!!

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), December 13, 1999

Answers

Oops, dollar short and a day late as usual. Oh well.

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), December 13, 1999.

In a 'perverse' way, it's actually fun to watch (the spin, that is).

-- Me (me@me.me), December 13, 1999.

To the spinsters: How often is our power, telephone, water, gas supply interrupted due to normal circumstances? From my experience, approximately:

electricity - 1 day per year, but for 2 hours maximum water - every 10 years (usu. due to a pipe rupture) telephone - 1 day per 5 years, but for only a few minutes gas - never

Under the worst case conditions of even once per year for electricity the rate of failure is 1/3 of 1% on any given day! If I experience any service failure within a few days after 1/1/00, it's Y2K related as I am concerned!!!

-- J W (jw530@yahoo.com), December 13, 1999.


Remember kiddies- if the power, gas, water, electric and food supplies stop on 00/00/0000....it's not Y2K, it's just a 'normal order of things'. Just go with the nice men in black with the guns.

Pipes sticking out of the walls connected to running trucks? Nooo....those are HEATERS. To keep you warm and fuzzie! Just the normal order of things! Really.

Now move along peasant.

-- Eyes Wired Closed (Don'tBreatheThe@ir.com), December 13, 1999.


Agree that this is a crock of shit!!! Koskinen needs a good wig. Too much heat is being lost through that bald brainless head.

-- (Polly@troll.com), December 13, 1999.


Like it will really matter why the power or other service goes out. If it is disrupted for any reason, it is still winter.

A better .gov report would be how long they expect these non-Y2K interuptions to last on 01/01/00.

-- Bill P (porterwn@one.net), December 13, 1999.


Yep. Saw this reported on FOX news last night. The fact that they have resorted to using the lame, "shit happens all the time" Polly tactic isn't what's pathetic here. What's REALLY pitiful is the massive number of sheeple who will find comfort in this desperate attempt to calm the herd.

Glad to see you back, Andy. You didn't go camping without me, did you?

:)

-- Will continue (farming@home.com), December 13, 1999.


Gawd, I can see it now!! It's January 1, 2000 and...

LIGHTS OUT? Merely that 3.2897% probability that a squirrel has eaten a transformer kicking in. PHONE DEAD? Merely that 2.0129% probability that a squirrel ate a telephone pole kicking in. SEWAGE BUBBLING UP? Merely that 1.402% probability that too many squirrels got drunk at New Years parties last night and barfed into the sewers.

Huh? Probability that all these events would happen AT THE SAME TIME?? Go away, kid, you bother me....

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.cum), December 13, 1999.

No but I have a double sleeping bag!

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), December 13, 1999.

Hi Andy, great to see you back. The gov.org has to have some kind of explanation for those tens of thousands of NON critical systems they didn't bother to remediate.

-- Nikoli Krushev (doomsday@y2000.com), December 13, 1999.


I heard this report on NPR at around 4pm CST.

I heard Koskinen say "around 10% of credit card transactions don't go through under "normal" situations"

10%!!!!!

Where did that statistic come from?

-- plonk! (realaddress@hotmail.com), December 13, 1999.


I'm sorry guys.

This is beyond the fucking pale.

I spent 6 years working for VISA, the last two-3 years programming/operations/worldwide 24 hrs. coverage.

What that bastard koskinene has done is twist the statistics of "DECLINES" - worldwide - on a given transaction.

These declines are quite normal, depending on various RISK factoes.

All accounts are weighted.

What koskinen has done (small caps for a small gimme the money dick) is twist normality....

If you have a regular credit line, or even a regular checking account debit card, you WILL NOT BE DECLINED - it is virtuallu 100% foolproof...

It is a good system considering how it developed since circa 1960- 65...

LIES LIES LIES

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), December 14, 1999.


Where's the figures?

They said they were going to release all of these phony figures on Monday, where are they? I suppose they are going to tell us there are usually about 3000 power failures on January 1, and 20,000 computer crashes. Yeah sure, this happens EVERY day. And if you believe that then you probably also believe all of the phony economic numbers that Greedspin has been feeding us.

-- Hawk (flyin@high.again), December 14, 1999.


Just reading down the names of the responders and I thought I jumped to last yr.

Kind of late for any rebuttals. Top dogs say it, media pours it, and JQP laps it up.

I think it's gonna be a long cold winter folks.

-- R. Wright (blaklodg@hotmail.com), December 14, 1999.


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