Ron: I apologize if my relevant remarks to you seemed to be other than what they were intended; either in the spirit of debate or otherwise, in a sense of playful 'sparing'. I must admit, having a somewhat sarcastic, dry, even a sardonic sense of humor, that others have also misinterpreted some of my remarks, until they know me well enough to know that about me.
Regarding my-what you called "animal post"-
I am very much an animal lover, and I have a great concern for their welfare in general, but even more so with the disasters (which word, of course you will object to). And, I wished to share advice for their care, invite others to ask me if they wanted more information, but most of all, bring others' awareness and preparation up to speed
for them, as they are almost totally dependent on us for their safety and welfare.
Several people that truly care about their pets sent me a thank you PM and asked for more information. They were appreciative; since you are not an animal lover, to the contrary, you found negative in my post.
It is a very, very sad state of affairs when anyone even has to explain or justify posting information to help animals better survive. For far too many, a real connection with nature, including animals, has been severly devaluated, in relation to a greater valuation of a higher 'god' of technology!
Regarding your statement about my "going overboard....not having evidence, etc.". Ron, this is the unbridgeable gap between denialists and us extremeists.
I will bet I study many more articles, analysises, reports, etc.,etc., per day than you do, and thus have far more 'evidence'
(whatever our definition is of evidence) than you do, to support all that I state! In fact, being retired, that is what I do, full-time!
I am on auto email of many different sites and y2k analysts and experts. I have about 100 sites bookmarked. I study intelligence reports.
But, I have a rare bonus that very, very few tech types have, because of my entreprenurial background--- i.e., I understand how the entire division of labor will impact, and be impacted by y2k.
As a programmer, you of course, understand the technical nature of the software better than me, whereas, it is quite the reverse for the division of labor, and total interconnectedness/interdependence of all infrastructure.
Programmers inherently focus on a 'system'; us entrepreneurs can far more easily understand 'systemic'----and often, never the 'twain shall meet'.
If you understood the full interelationship of the global depressionary financial sitution and the full complexity and fragility of the division of labor as well as I do, and their interelationship with Y2K, I believe you would be an extremeist like I am.
Your response would be that if I understood software like you do that I would be calm about everyhing.
Perhaps the main divergence in our understanding is that I do NOT see Y2K as an independent event/s in itself, but only one of 5 interrelated events/factors, ALL 5 of which increasingly 'evidence' very, very serious problems to come, and BEFORE 2000, and all of which will negatively/disasterously impinge on the other 4.
Well, didnt mean to spend time on this, as obviously your y2k philosophy won't change regardless of what I or any other extremist would say or produce by others. So I will thus end it here.
And, by Sept 1, we will all known quite well which camp will be vindicated!
Ken |
