Had to tell him again to buzz off...

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Again I had to tell a co-worker that I simply don't want to discuss millennium madness. They sure don't listen. He's so convinced that y2k will be a non-event, I don't even waste my time. Even though Deutshe's bank had a 10 hour meltdown, he cites that the problem was fixed quickly, therefore y2k will be no problem. It doesn't matter that Japan and France are deploying thousands of police/troops. They are extremists anyways. I told him to pick up a copy of USA Today. He won't do it.

His theory is that even if we do have problems, we will get over it. Life goes on he contends and the world will continue to spin.

Well, that pretty much sums it up doesn't it? Broken code can be fixed quickly, there are crackpots and extremists out there and the the world will continue to spin.

-- GettingWornOut (cobol.programmer@usa.net), December 14, 1999

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Are you trying to say that the world will NOT continue to spin?

-- (earth@to. programmer), December 14, 1999.

Of course not, but that's what pollies do. Any concern at all automatically puts you in the "End of the World" classification.

-- GettingWornOut (cobol.programmer@usa.net), December 14, 1999.

Life will go on but probably not his. Earth can cope with 2 billion and is now beyond 6 billion. What exists between life and death of 4 billion is a fully functioning and compliant global economy. And that global economy at its height is having an increasing difficulty coping with 6 billion homo sapiens.

America can no longer properly educate the domestic overpopulation, it can't cough up enough health care, it can't "make" enough vacation parks, it is operating beyond its resources which are in rapid depeletion, increasingly water resources can't be replenished against consumption, it can't bulldoze enough dairy and farm land for the housing demand, and though the list goes on one must also realize that the nation can't even provide enough antibiotics or iodine in the event of a weapon of mass destruction.

He will die. And earth will spin without him and 4 billion others.

-- Paula (chowbabe@pacbell.net), December 14, 1999.


I'm the only public prepper in my office, and get jibes about "hiding in my bunker" during rollover (I've have made modest preps and that's all I've ever advised my co-workers to do)

But today I watched over a co-worker's shoulder as he browsed an online scanner retailer, and my boss was having a very quiet phone conversation with someone about "battery radios". Hmmm.

It's beginning to dawn on me just how dumb I've been. I've been saying "Do what TPTB are doing, not what they're saying." But one of the things they've been doing (along with prepping) is to say "All is well."

I think it's time to be quiet. Those who are capable of Getting It have done so already. All we can do now is to provoke the rest into joining the supermarket crush just before rollover. :(

-- Servant (public_service@yahoo.com), December 14, 1999.


With all the speculated doom and gloom, maybe dying wouldn't be such a bad thing after all. Why not pass on into something better? No more struggles, pain, fear, hunger, thirst, hassles, etc. I'm worn out too.

-- ~~~~~ (~~~@~~~.xcom), December 14, 1999.


Bah! The earth is not overpopulated. That's just a myth socialists are spouting to support their genocidal programs. It's just that the majority don't have the technology to use natural resources efficiently, and governments are interfering with the release of new technology that could make natural resource use even more efficient.

-- Tim the Y2K nut (tmiley@yakko.cs.wmich.edu), December 14, 1999.

Nobody knows I am prepped, even my close family only heard about y2k once or twice from me in passing conversation. I got nothing from them but that they thought it was a joke. My work is done, if they want to laugh at it then let someone else try to convince them. People who come to my place dont even see the preps. My kerosun heater is covered with a big black bag and all the other stuff is under beds, in closets or boxed up.

If Y2k ends up being nothing nobody will know how much time and money I put into it.

-- hamster (hamster@mycage.com), December 14, 1999.


I don't attempt to discuss y2k seriously anymore. If people want to joke about it, I joke back. It's too late anyway. Their decision has been made.

I'm surrounded by people who think they're smarter than I. Maybe they are; I don't care. But I do know that, while Y2k hasn't happened yet, this part of it is essentially over.

-- sure, it's funny (yuck@yuck.yuck), December 14, 1999.


Well, lessee. I won't have to go to the gas station for a couple weeks.

I will be warm for TWO winters, not just this one.

I'll be able to eat fairly well without needing the Super-K.

I'll be REALLY overjoyed to take a hot shower.

I'll be QUITE happy to start my job search, (time to upgrade the paycheck)

I'll be REALLY HAPPY to have to decide whether to go to Paul's Barbeque and dunk-in or my 25th College re-union.

I could go on but, why bother.

Chuck

-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), December 14, 1999.


RESPONSE:

Sounds like you're trying to convince yourself there buddy!

-- Hokie (nn@va.com), December 14, 1999.



Paula, what a wonderful, warm, noble human being you are! Have you seen a few sci-fi movies in your day? Thank God you'll be around to keep the population up to date and maybe, just maybe, you'll be able to provide the world with new , with-it offspring who know how to survive!!!

And worn-out!!!! LOL! I loved the posting....a ton of laughs. I printed out the entire thread to post on my wall. You knew all along! The genius! The genius!

-- Bad Company (johnny@shootingstar.com), December 14, 1999.


I caught that too. Coffee through the nose I tell you.

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

Bad Company I gotta say I lost you on the response to worn out ...were you being sarcastic?

-- preparing (preparing@home.com), December 14, 1999.

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