CNN is finally admitting on the air that "experts expect more problems to surface starting Monday" when the regular work week begins. It also touched on Japan's radiation detection problem, but said that 'officials' retracted verification of any problems with the aviation weather system as discussed earlier. (So the problems 'never happened?") Officials are now also denying that 3 nk pplants had 'glitches'. Doesn't this all sound very familiar to anyone???

-- Dave (m2@m2comm.com), January 01, 2000

Answers

Thank you. Now can we all say "DUHHHHHHH"...
Of course this stuff never happened, Dave. We must have been drinking too mush tonight. Y2what??

-- Jess (alisaunde@aol.com), January 01, 2000.

CNN's ad sales staff needs some encouragement for Monday morning. Thank G-d the power, water & power, oil (& wine) are on and flowing....

-- INever (inevercheckmy@onebox.com), January 01, 2000.

I believe they will leak it to us gently, like the daily dosage of terrorist news stories played out almost in script fashion over past two weeks

-- (snowleopard6@webtv.net), January 01, 2000.

Folks, go home, go to bed.

Y2K is licked.

Beano says so.

"Lifes' a bitch at the beach!" (tm.)

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), January 01, 2000.

I find the relative attention paid on this board to the Japanese plant and the three American plants bemusing. Exactly how many functional nuclear power plants are there worldwide, and how many are, at any one time, affected with a glitch, breakdown, or warning? Furthermore, how many initial diagnoses of such problems, or general power problems, are revised? There is a distressing lack of context both in the mass media and on this board -- for all we know, this is less than the norm in terms of such problems. I'm not saying it *is*, mind you, but does anyone in fact know the answer?

-- Ned Raggett (ned@kuci.org), January 01, 2000.

I have to believe that this has been thought out well in advance. I agree that glitches have been scripted and will be gently leaked to the public.

-- Ruth Edwards (REath29646@aol.com), January 01, 2000.

Leaked to the public... a few RAD's at a time..

-- djf (djf@foxinternet.net), January 01, 2000.

They had to give us the warm fuzzies first from all over the world. Everyone everywhere seemed to be happy. Even the dudes in Afgan. got a 10-hour lead....Yah, right. Geez, we don't believe the total :-) stuff anyway, so they'll eventually get back to the death & destruction that's normally in the news.... This was our 24-hour non- reality day...

-- Rick (carder@msn.com), January 01, 2000.

I am really shocked there was not a major terrorist event either.

-- Moore dinty Moore (dac@ccrtc.com), January 01, 2000.

Dinty,

If I were a terrorist I would wait untill today when all the cops who were on last night are asleep.

Just a thought.

-- LM (latemarch@usa.net), January 01, 2000.

Personally, I think watching 3000 Aflac duck commercials was _way_ too high a price for trying to stay informed.

Back to lurking...

-- jwegs (jwegs@yahoo.com), January 01, 2000.

I think last count was 8 powerplants with problems,darn squirrels.

-- harry huges (daddyo57@hotmail.com), January 01, 2000.

Yes the Aflak commercial was funny the first dozen times but it was on every commercial break.

Thats a good way to get people to hate your company.

-- hamster (hamster@mycage.com), January 01, 2000.