IMPLANTING A THOUGHT: A Tentative Spiritual Lesson From Y2K Let's just watch things over the next few months and track as best our feeble energies allow to see whether the degredation of the infrastructure that we THINK we are witnessing already underway, proceeds or accelerates. A lot of us like-minded and determined doomers are pre-posterating that embedded systems glitches are the probable cause for continued declines in the production capacity of U.S. refineries (e.g.: down from 87.1 percent in January, to 84.4 in February, with further shutdowns, outages and reductions in capacity noted daily); for MD-80 mishaps; for 737 mishaps; for 911 systems going down and radio systems shutting off; internet outages; e-mail delays and routing problems; stock market "freezes" like the NASDAQ event last Friday, etc. etc.

We'll certainly know if it things worsen; and we'll certainly have reason to have feel our suspicions, hunches and eddykated guesses were justified if indeed they do continue to suffer longer and wider fractures.

I just want to propose another point to ponder, if'n we do come to witness YEAR TWO THOUSAND as "A YEAR TO SHUT DOWN". If the embedded systems do take us down, who knows how long it may be until a restoration of comparable "social order" is proposed using ANOTHER EMBEDDED SYSTEM ... the "bio-chip implant", or "Number of the Beast". None of us, me included, know "when" such a form of "social order" might be implemented .... BUT, in the event it might happen in our lifetimes or those of our children, it seems to me that it may prove to be an instructive, useful and even salvific OBJECT LESSON to watch what is the ultimate CHAOS OF EMBEDDED SYSTEMS,(Y2K) as it unfolds before our eyes: our perfect technological MACHINE tossed in the crapper because of a simple human oversight. So that, thereby, we have all the deeper understanding of the consequences of yielding our nature (as e.g., Temples of the You Know WHO) over to control by man-made technologies ...... or worse.

As I say: just something to keep in mind, in case.

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-- Squirrel Hunter (nuts@upina.cellrelaytower), February 25, 2000

Preparing for the next meme...

Vindicated Regards,
Andy Ray

-- Andy Ray (andyman633@hotmail.com), June 24, 2000

Answers

Golly Wally, Gee Beeve why don't you get yo lazy butt off the computer and help me fix the Impala, Andy Ray. We got to have it running by Friday so we can go on our trip and visit Doc 'Fanny Bubbles' Paulie.

Angry Regards,
Andy Roy

-- Andy Roy (TrailerTrash611@hotjail.con), June 24, 2000.

Ha! Andy Ray, only two answers in two days. Do you think there's a message there?

-- (nemesis@awol.com), June 26, 2000.