>>Mind control - Harry Schultz quote

Think about it - we are continually being conditioned by the media. If something is true and is right in front of your nose, we tend not to believe it if it flies in the face of the "media" consensus.

Y2K is no exception. So, the 1000 cuts is and always was the most plausible scenario for the bug. I believe it is playing out. Just watch the price of oil over the next few weeks.

-- Ishkabibble (ishman@home.com), January 11, 2000

Answers Filter/black out; same thing. This board is the best source of news on Y2K related or possibly related items available. We get grassroots reports here that are not available anywhere else. If my only source of news was the media I would have to say that Y2K was virtually nonexistent. Thanks to this board I know better and most of all its not done with yet!

-- Guy Daley (guydaley@bwn.net), January 11, 2000.<<

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[Comment: Yes, I believe it IS playing out. And this forum is like a lantern in the darkness. Without it, it would seem Y2K just poofingly "went away", just as magically as all unremediated code seemed to "fix itself" post hoc, or was "grossly overestimated to begin with". In checking national and international newspapers today, as well as so-called "alternative" ones, they seemed noticeably barren of any mention of Y2K whatsoever. The "consensus" now seems to be that of "no big problem". I've read other postings of people having the sensation that "something is not right", or that "nothing seems to add up". That there's a sense of being "left in the lurk", or perhaps a kind of odd "silence" or "uncertainty" or "quietness" in all of this that does not compute logically. Previously vocal leaders seem to have recoursingly bitten the bullet early according to what doesn't seem to have immediately happened (though they are to be dutifully commended), forcing their Y2K by-default sheep out into the pasture to watch out for themselves. This is all the MORE reason to remain vigilant and sober and not accept the inebriating, hypnotic ebb and flow of primary information for face value without unknowingly turning into a somnambulist. Do not doubt what is "right under your nose" in this forum, through sometimes cunning or nonexistent (disregarded) reports taken, or consequentially unable to be taken, at face value.]

-- Patrick Lastella (Lastella1@aol.com), January 11, 2000

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Thanks, Patrick. Good point. I was also thinking today that I love this place cause we do get NEWS and smart folks discussing it. I hate television or newspaper news cause it's so STUPID!!!

-- Mara (MaraWayne@aol.com), January 11, 2000.

What Mara said.

Mara!

-- (Kurt.Borzel@gems8.gov.bc.ca), January 11, 2000.

Okay, I can't type...

[waving] Hi Mara!

-- (Kurt.Borzel@gems8.gov.bc.ca), January 11, 2000.

Like I said .... most people are like bleary-eyed ungulates sitting in the field chewing on their cud of fodder fed to them by the mass- media.

No matter how many times you hack it up, it's all tastes the same! (I prefer Tabasco on mine!)

-- Ric (ice163@worldnet.att.net), January 12, 2000.

Patrick - very good post, you've hit the nail on the head. I'm quite surprised at the people who have bailed already.

As for Harry Schultz...

">>Mind control - Harry Schultz quote Think about it - we are continually being conditioned by the media. If something is true and is right in front of your nose, we tend not to believe it if it flies in the face of the "media" consensus.

Y2K is no exception. So, the 1000 cuts is and always was the most plausible scenario for the bug. I believe it is playing out. Just watch the price of oil over the next few weeks.

-- Ishkabibble (ishman@home.com), January 11, 2000

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Do you know when he made this statement?

He was predicting oil at $50 by December 31st 1999.

And 50-75% higher in early 2000.

Oil and unleaded gas up significantly today.... Hmmmmmmmmmmm.......

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), January 12, 2000.