Why does Gary North still have a web site?

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I don't see what he is trying to do

-- Lars (lars@indy.net), January 04, 2000

Answers

Then go ask him.

-- TM (mercier7@pdnt.com), January 04, 2000.

Seems right now he's having a love fest. All the gooshy letters coming in thanking him for his hard work.

Gary shot himself in the foot with his extreme doom and now he is trying to find some way to keep up appearances.

-- hamster (hamster@mycage.com), January 04, 2000.


So did Yourdon.

-- (I'm@pol.ly), January 04, 2000.

Because he's a big boy and wants one?

-- Robert A Cook, PE (Marietta, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), January 04, 2000.

Being wrong has never affected the doomsayers. Nobody remembers that they made extreme predictions that proved to be hillarious after the event. Take Gary North, for example. He has predicted doom from overpopulation once already, and a second time from AIDS. How about Eddie Yourdon? He predicted that American Programmers would all be unemployed by now, not to mention this whole Y2K thing. Even after Jan 1, he still couldn't bring himself to say that he was wrong, "mumbling" something about waiting until the first day of business. *I* predict he will still be unable to say he is wrong. Dunno if he will take a conspiracy path, or predict wide scale nuclear destruction, death, famine, disease and anarchy on 2/29. Or both. Paul Erlich (sp?) predicted the end of the world due to overpopulation quite some time ago - yet the media still trot him out as an "expert" (expert at convining others of really stupid things, methinks). As far as I can tell, there will always be people to predict TEOTWAWKI is just around the corner, and there will always be other people who believe them. The key seems to be people that want the world to end, and others who cater to that desire. Anybody wanna go for a ride in the tail of a comet?

-- Smokey Joe (Smokey@null.com), January 04, 2000.


Damn those guys.. Because of them and my paranoid actions all my credit cards are paid off, our pantry and freezer are well stocked, all our home repairs were done and few user-friendly devices added. Plus our heating oil tanks are topped off and our car has been completly tuned-up not to mention I wont have to stop at the gas station for several months. Guess everyone can see why Im so pissed-off.

-- Capt Dennis (capden@hotmail.com), January 04, 2000.

20000104 Tuesday

(Capt Dennis)... LOL...

Same boat, here, also! Everyone else is pissed-off in envy at us! Will they ever get over it?

It's been a rough couple years for our family. Let's hope the next several years aren't "REALLY ROUGH!" If they are, at least our financial worries will be minimal. Time will be our "gravey."

It's pretty tough to pay all those bills for those whose employment evaporates due to "minor Y2K glitches."

It's nice to be able to _humbly_ and "dispassionately" read the posts from employees suffering angst as their employers do the Y2K FoF "jig." Gloating in "we told you so" is of no consolation or value.

With the "low-level" quiet Y2K meltdown under way, it'll be nigh impossible to discern the (dead) body count from the "process." (Opposite from [my] Vietnam experience.) Curious and convenient how that works in the corporate-statist camp/s.

Don't count the Y2K "glitches" before they're hatched!

Regards, Bob Mangus

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-- Robert Mangus (rmangus1@yahoo.com), January 04, 2000.


Gary has a web site because all of his adult life, his main income source has been predicting destruction from some source or another. He's just waiting for the next "calamity du jour"

-- walt (walt@lcs.k12.ne.us), January 04, 2000.

There is a pretty good answer over on the "gary north is a big fat idiot" forum.

http://206.28.81.29/HyperNews/get/gn/1862/4.html

-- hot link challenged (but@still.wanted to post it), January 04, 2000.


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