Does anyone know where I can read or obtain Paul Milne's Doomsday Scenario? Any info would be most appreciated,thanks.

-- CareyWilliamWong (CareyWWong@hotmail.com), December 25, 1999

Answers

Go to dejanews.com & do a search for "Paul Milne" going back a few months.

Prepare to skim. There's way too much info to read in the next 6 days.

-- why bother (its@almost.over), December 25, 1999.

Can go into the archives here and start looking. It's been repeated over and over here, it's all in the archives. Six more days, it's too late anyway for scenarios--it's everything goes now, and take your pick of which one you want to believe....read on people, read on...the countdown has begun.

-- countdown 2000 (coundown2000@countdown2000.xcom), December 25, 1999.

Reading Paul Milne on Y2K makes about as much sense as reading Homer Simpson on nuclear power............

They both sorta know something about it, but also are equally as clued out about the realistic and technical side of things...........

Homer Simpson, however, is civil at times and occasionally says something intelligent..........

-- Craig (craig@ccinet.ab.ca), December 25, 1999.

My guess is Carey is looking for slapstick humor. He'll certainly find it.

-- Flint (flintc@mindspring.com), December 25, 1999.

Of course craig and flint can't resist being morons. I just ignore their calculated stup[idity at this late date.

But, to Carey, I never wrote any doomsday scenario. Much of what I have written has been taken wildly out of context, not by well meaning people, accidentally, but by pernicious misanthropes, like flint.

At this point suffice it to say, that my best guess is that there will be significant embedded system problems initially compounded, down the road by a slow and painful degradation of system capabilities. I think that this will result in economic chaos. Y2k is happening in an economic context, and a very fragile one at that built upon a mountain of unrepayable debt of fiat money. In fact, it is not 'money' at all. Something that I am afraid a lot of people are going to find out very soon.

What occurs will not be peaceful. I think it is inevitable that wars will break out and that there will be far more than mere 'civil' unrest in many countries, including our own.

Will it all fall apart in the first week of January? Of course not. There could be some extremely serious consequences in the first week, but we will not grind to a halt intitially. I believe we will, though, over time.

Paul Milne

Clinton: "I did not have sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky"

bks: "It was not overt lying. It was overgeneralization for rhetorical purposes."

-- Paul milne (fedinfo@halifax.com), December 25, 1999.

Amazingly, Milne's expectations match my own. I agree there will be significant embedded problems. I agree y2k (like everything else) happens in an economic context. I agree someday there will be wars somewhere, and economic chaos somewhere. I agree nothing much will happen for a long time and happen slowly. I'm only surprised Milne didn't predict that the sun will rise tomorrow.

*This* is what Milne has backpedaled to? Why, these predictions don't require any preparations at all!

-- Flint (flintc@mindspring.com), December 25, 1999.

Thank God for courageous, generous minds like Mr. Milne.

Such writing spurred me 18 months ago to prepare completely. I now relax and observe the next event. Thank you!!!

-- Joseph Almond (s200@webtv.net), December 26, 1999.