Kid,
Scared, no. Angry, no. Concerned, yes.
Concerned because the "other side" is being misrepresented. People will be caught unprepared or underprepared because of this misrepresentation.
Actually, both sides are being misrepresented. The happy-face side by politicians, lawyers, and CEOs (there's a veracious group for you), the doom side by survivalists, Revelationists, and general fear-mongers (more wonderful company).
We need the truth, we need it unvarnished, we need it consistently, and we need it readily available for anyone with enough sense to go looking for it.
And, yes, you missed it. The Mills article points out the lie and attempts to reveal the truth. Potential Y2k outages are being spun as plants responding by "going off grid", i.e., Balkanization, so that the populace would "feel good about Y2k", the reasoning being that if their local plant is OK, then everything (for them) will be alright. Mills shows that Balkanization isn't likely to be successful. Therefore, localized outages: low probability. However, regionalized outages: a near certainty.
Kid, you can certainly post all that you want, whenever you want. Be prepared to debate it. That's pretty much the modus operandi on ALL SI threads. If you don't wish to logically work through what is written and/or discussed, then just say so. But then, since that stance is unusual for this forum, you can expect unusual reactions from the other posters. |
