REPOST "Lock Time" by Infomagic - his latest

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I have watched with amusement as the pollies rattled their cages and "jumped the gun", claiming the Y2K rollover is a non-event. As usual, I decline to respond to their insults and choose to speak, instead, directly to those who have chosen the side of caution and preparation in this debate. Perhaps you need a word of encouragement, right now, and a caution not to undo your wise preparations. In fact, increase them if you can. First remember that this is a _Year_ Two Thousand problem, not just a New Year's Evil, stroke of midnight computer annoyance, as some would have you believe. There are a number of problems, all timed for the year 2000, with which we will have to deal throughout the entire year, and for many years to come (that has been the essential point of all my writings).

I have _always_ said that Y2K is only the trigger, and the real target is "the economy, stupid". The bullseye is bubble.com and the sights have been aligned for and by the God of Ages. Last Friday, at midnight, the trigger was squeezed, but we will have to wait some time before the bullet leaves the barrel, before it strikes the bullseye, and before the target falls down dead.

In ballistic science, this process is called the "lock time" of the weapon and the flight time of the projectile. In the case of my own, personally accurized pistol, with a Colt 1911 "single action" design, the process is as follows:

Starting with a loaded chamber, one either pushes down on the safety (if already cocked), or pulls back the hammer to cock it, or, one racks the slide to both load the chamber and cock the hammer at the same time. Either way, all of these events produce a noticeable sound, especially in the middle of a "social" conversation. This was the preparation event the pollys reacted to in terror and disbelief.

After aligning the sights over the correct target (something done by someone far greater than I) one gradually increases pressure on the trigger until it releases (unexpectedly, if you do it right).

Depending on the weapon, and a certain willingness to place one's ear close to the weapon's action, one can hear the release of the trigger sear, which releases the mainspring, to push against the hammer. In a cheap weapon it sounds like grains of sand, grinding against parts of delicate machinery. In my pistol, with a sear hand-honed to a three and a half pound letoff, all you hear is a very sharp click. In a weapon forged and honed by God I would expect an even sharper, clearer release.

This was the sound the pollys reacted to on new year's eve, when they quite literally "jumped the gun" and assumed nothing had happened. It really hadn't. The gun had not yet gone off. But it will.

After the mainspring is released, there is no audible sound, it just takes time, a relatively long time, for the hammer to strike the firing pin and force it into the primer. This is the longest part of the "lock time" and it's duration is dependent on the mass (inertia) of the hammer and of the firing pin. One can shorten the time by reducing the inertia of the hammer (by cutting parts of it out) or of the firing pin (by using lighter titanium instead of steel). But, as I have found in my experiments, these also reduce the force of the blow passed to the primer. In effect, the reliability of detonation of the primer is reduced. I don't think the One who has planned all this would go for it, especially since His aim is so perfect and He doesn't need to reduce the lock time for accuracy purposes.

In any case we must still wait for the primer to silently detonate and ignite the powder, for the gas pressure to build and push the massive bullet out of the case, and for the bullet to accelerate and twist down the barrel until it finally exits, followed by a visible flash. This part can be accelerated by using faster primers, more powder and/or lighter bullets. Unfortunately, all of these tend to produce greater variations in muzzle velocity and accuracy, reducing the reliability of hitting the target, even with His perfect aim. I don't think the One would go for it.

After this, we must still wait for the bullet's flight to strike the target. And, again, this time can be reduced by using more powder and lighter bullets for greater velocity but, again, the reliability of the shot is reduced (less accuracy and less energy delivered to the target). Again I don't believe the One would go for it.

At roughly this point, we would finally hear the sound waves, recognize the flash and realize the gun has actually been fired, even though the target is not yet dead or even seriously damaged.

I don't believe this point will be reached until about the middle of March. And even then we must wait a whole lot longer to watch the target fall down dead. After all, after the shot of 1929, it took several _years_ for most people to realize they were really living in a "depression".

But we have another problem to keep us from realizing what is happening. Somebody, other than the One, has put a silencer on the gun, just to confuse us. Remember the lies? Remember certain Grabit agencies and Biztwits telling us all their "mission critical" systems were done and even lying about that? Do you really think they've stopped?

On New Year's Evil, right at midnight, a US spy satellite system failed in it's ground component. For a couple of hours, no data was available and, even now, the emergency backup system is still compromised and producing only limited data. As the Commander-in-Chief-in-Name-Only, Komissar Klinton was immediately informed of this (as we know from independent reports). Nevertheless, the next morning he continued to lie his skumbag heart out and insist there had been _no_, _zero_ failures!

This should not surprise us since, by definition. all pollyticians are liars -- whether thay are elected by the sheeple or erected through the Peter principle in "independent" business.

The history of Y2K remediation and early failures has been nothing but one lie after another. Not one single organization has ever told the truth, either about the state of their remediation or the facts of their actual failures. It has taken _months_ for serious failures to become generally known, and that process will inevitably continue. And, as the paid recipients of advertising revenue, the mainstream mediots will be only too happy to go along with the big lie (for the sake of the "children" of course).

The proof of this is in the _lack_ of reports of major failures since the rollover. The reported failure rate is not just lower than I and other "doomers" have predicted, it is lower than even the technically competent _pollys_ have predicted! This defies all logic and any rational technical explanation! The technical debate between doomers and pollys has never been about _whether_ there would be failures, but only about the number and magnitude of the failures and whether or not they could be fixed without entering a chain reaction. To say there have been _no_ significant failures is clearly a lie and the victims are the pollys, not the doomers.

In any case, the rollover failures we have seen so far apply only to a very limited sample of systems and hardly at all to the business systems that Cory Hamasaki, I, and others have always identified as the key to this problem. Except for embedded systems failures causing permanent damage to the physical plant they control, most rapidly detected, obvious failures will also be rapidly repaired, yes, even in a couple of hours (for example the year 19100 failures on Internet web pages). The real problem is the deeply embedded "quiet" failures which don't show themselves for weeks or months and in the meantime continue to generate invalid data which cannot be corrected later, even after the problem has been identified. These are the ones which will break Charlotte's web.

Contrary to Cory's belief, these are not just "enterprise" system failures. They can also apply to small scale users. I spent the New Year at the party of a federal biologist who has been a friend for many years. At home, he has a Packard Bell which I made SURE was compliant by reinstalling the software and personally checking the BIOS time stamp after the rollover. Nevertheless, at work, he uses an early Pentium running under DOS and, sometimes, Windows 3.1. On this machine he stores massive amounts of research data stored with a non-compliant version of dBase for DOS. Like most Grabit employees he has received zero help from any IT support specialists. Say no more. He's part of the 0.01% of the Grabit which Komissar Klinton admits has not been fixed and which I say is really 90% of Grabit computing. But at least his kids will be still able to play the games we gave them for Xmas!

My advice is to wait. Wait for the remaining 90% of business systems to be started on Monday, or Tuesday, or Wednesday, whenever "they" think they have escaped the problem. Then wait a few months more for the truth to come out and the effect of the real failures to be felt. In the meantime ignore the lies, the spin, and hang on to your supplies and preparations.

===================================== y 2 0 0 0 @ i n f o m a g i c . c o m =====================================

. . . one thousand nine hundred ninety nine, . . . two thousand ! . . . Ready or not, I'm c.o.m.i.n.g !!!



-- Why Me (Doom@gloom.com), January 04, 2000

Answers

Honky,

Such a trenchant, well thought out response.

Get a life!

-- LM (latemarch@usa.net), January 04, 2000.


H.Lips.... My, My...what an erudite reply! (Look it up).

-- Birdlady (Birdlady@nest.home), January 04, 2000.

This post is basically just a long, overworked analogy. Give us content please. Or, shall we call you .....

>>>>>>> INFOMYSTIC <<<<<<<

-- Me (me@me.me), January 04, 2000.


Pollies, remember everything is local. Look to the failures in the states agencies. These are the things the affect the people. If these fail, confidence in every aspect of most teck tumble. That is just the way it is.

-- ET (bneville@zebra.net), January 04, 2000.

"The real problem is the deeply embedded "quiet" failures which don't show themselves for weeks or months and in the meantime continue to generate invalid data which cannot be corrected later, even after the problem has been identified."

I'm just a clerk, but interested in why embedded systems seem (so far) to be no problem. Dr. Mark Frautschi seemed to believe they would be a problem for utilities, but no one else now believes that. Was he wrong?

Could you comment on delayed problems with embedded chips, and also elaborate at all on the sentence quoted above?

I'd like to direct these questions to Infomagic (I'd never read anything by him before), but I'm to new to this that I don't know whether Why Me is the same person, or rather an Infomagic supporter...

Thanks.

-- Jim Young (jyoung@famvid.com), January 04, 2000.



Honky,

Profanity is what people resort to when they either can't or don't want to think. It is apparent you can think as well as write....so do so or remain silent.

I hang here because I don't have a life.

What's your excuse.

-- LM (latemarch@usa.net), January 04, 2000.


I'm an Infomagic supporter. Infomagic's e-mail is authentic I do believe, but don't count on a response. Carrying on conversation with Infomagic is like picking up the phone and talking to Billie Boy anytime you want to. ( You aren't Monica Lewinsky are you? ) I reposted Infomagic's latest as "Public Service" to spread the message of doom.

-- Why Me (Doom@gloom.com), January 04, 2000.

Liar Liar, duplicities my name, doubling up my disquises to play my little game. Outing the truth? what a horror that would be. Stripping me of my disquises for all of you to see. Liar Liar, duplicities my name all bundled up in INFO(true)MAGIC(false)to play my little game.

-- the One indeed (pbeg1@prodigy.net), January 04, 2000.

Thanks, Why Me, for the reply...it's a good post, interesting. And a good message you're spreading. I'm still in such a newly impoverished state of disbelief and shock that a good Doom story is music to my ears. Now I'll be trashed here for sure...speaking of which, I gotta scoop the litter and take the trash out. I just know there's some compliant sh*t in there, under all these ponies.

-- Jim Young (jyoung@famvid.com), January 04, 2000.

Infomagic, great job! I needed that boost; focus; when this article was first released. Good to see it again, to again focus on preps. Yep, I still see that snowball comin down the hill...So the hill was higher than I thought...

-- Hokie (Hokie_@hotmail.com), January 04, 2000.


Infotrinsic...

-- dinosaur (dinosaur@williams-net.com), January 04, 2000.

Obviously Honky Lips isn't prepared enough for "doom" - or she wouldn't have such a hormonal imbalance. I suggest she click on over to preparednessmart.com and spend about 10K on important survival supplies.

-- Why Me (Doom@gloom.com), January 04, 2000.

Thanks Why Me - Infomagic's posts require lots of thought. I'll jump on the polly bandwagon when I see that welfare payments, social security payments, medicare, medicaid, and the plethora of govt. programs state and federal still function and the checks are processed after a few months. Got Mylanta?

-- trafficjam (road@construction.ahead), January 04, 2000.

Yo, InfoMagic!

How's NymphoMagic? Strange, misogynous name for a former loved one(?) coming from a man of God, but I'll let it pass(others probably won't, though).

So, was she as good as her "name" during your "renewed contact?"

This information on his dalliance with "...a lady friend from my misspent youth" gentle readers, comes out of his recent(12/27/1999) missive entitled "I was wrong. . ."

Suffice to say, I read your tome. Which leads me to my main question.

Why are you still here?

As of the 27th, you were still in the good ol' US of A. If you think things are gonna go belly up this year, why not get while the gettin' is good? On page 11 of your missive, you state:

"I've even put my money where my mouth is and, since late 1997, I've invested exclusively in precious metals(physically stored with close relatives outside the US and the UK and beyond the likely threat of confiscation)."

Why not join that which you love and worship, and go to where your worldly treasures are laid up?

Don't be fooled by this one, folks. His God is not the God of Abraham or Moses. His preaching concentrates on fear, material wealth in the form of stockpiled food and tools(including weapons) and laying in liquid assets in the form of gold and precious metals(he makes no secret of doing this himself).

InfoMagic, if this truly is the End of Days, why do you bother with these physical preparations, consorting with whores, and spouting hateful rhetoric toward your supposed enemies? Pray to Him, and ask His forgiveness for your vanity, your arrogance, your pride in thinking you know exactly what His plan will be. Why not lay down your sword, throw away your worthless coin, and place your trust in the Lord, the One True God whom you claim to serve?

I'll tell ya why, folks(if ya haven't figured it out by now). The God InfoMagic serves is the Father of Lies. It's also why he's still here; he is protected by his master, while his master makes him do his bidding. What is that bidding? Gathering more souls for the Fallen One. While he leads you down the path of material acquisitiveness for false salvation through guns, food, and bomb shelters, he leads you away from your true salvation through Jesus Christ.

So, where's the profit in scoring lotsa cool shit if you lose your soul in the process?

The Lord will do quite a bit better job taking care of you now and forever than all the preparations that are suggested by InfoMagic for the coming Tribulation. He is a false prophet, speaking out to you and attempting to win your souls for the Dark One through making you focus on the physical. Give him no more of your attention, no more of your energy; the only power he has is what you give him. Place your trust in the Lord, and let those who have turned away from the Lord like InfoMagic and his followers join Satan in the lowest pit of Hell forever.

Jesus said, "I am the Light, The Truth, and The Way; No Man come unto The Father, but through Me."

I pray for you, InfoMagic; hear this now, before it is too late for you.

A sinner

-- A sinner (Iam@notworthy.com), January 04, 2000.


Meanwhile ... While "sinner" is confessing - the overseas markets are "melting" ....

-- Why Me (Doom@gloom.com), January 04, 2000.


Oy Vay!

-- Itchy (scratch@scratch.yahthere), January 04, 2000.

The overseas markets are melting?

Your point?

"No man shall serve two masters; you cannot serve both God and money."

A sinner

-- A sinner (Iam@notworthy.com), January 04, 2000.


Sinner...of course you can...remember the passage about rendering to Ceasar and to God appropriately?
(Not to get into a biblical discussion here...but there it is).

-- Birdlady (Birdlady@nest.home), January 04, 2000.

You might *pay* 2, 5 or 100.

But your heart must belong to One alone.

-- Me (me@me.me), January 05, 2000.


Oh my. I think I'd better pack up my bags and head to the country because Infomoron knows how a gun works. That analogy has real bearing. Good read!

When are you going to relax and live life to the fullest rather than running around trying to find some way to end the world? You probably idolize Gary North. Has that man ever been right in one of his predictions?

I'll pray for you man, because you really just don't get it.

-- Troll (trustno1@doubt.com), January 13, 2000.


Ha!

You people are so silly! Your spending your whole life worrying. Do you honestly think the end of the world is upon us? Even if it were, why not enjoy the time you have left.

-- Tina (LifeIs@tooshort.com), January 13, 2000.


Sinner:

So, tell me. Which servant has information of merit?

-- Tom Beckner (tbeckner@xout.erols.com), January 13, 2000.


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