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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rarebird who wrote (6542)	7/14/1999 1:45:00 AM
From: Ken	Respond to of 9818

<<Ken, there seems to be an surging attitude of resignation that there will be some serious problems concerning Y2K; .....Absolutely! Its apathy because there is no resolution...no hope by many...that fate is now in control rather than those who avoided it for years before it became too late... Basically, that ever-increasing group is now just marking time... but, interestingly enough, there is also a growing attitude of let's talk as little about it as possible so we can forestall the fear and panic until the reality sets in. This is IMMORAL! ,,,,IMMORALITY is, of course, the governing philosophy of govt ......Yes. Espically among a lot of politicians that KNOW...also, a lot of programmers in the trenches who are in FEAR of their jobs if they say the wrong thing in-house... A Rep from Zack's Analyst Watch ( on the Internet) called me up yesterday to renew my subscription and he just casually mentioned to me that he already had 3 months supply of canned food and water .....only 3 months? God help him because I believe the odds are that they will be insufficient by months... but he was not going to create any panic. Con Ed: We had a heat wave last July 4 Weekend where the temp hit 100-101 for a couple of days. Guess what: Con Ed's system went down in upper Manhatten and the South Bronx. The City of NY is now suing Con Ed for this. Con Ed has been offering $100 refunds to customers who will sign a statement not holding them liable. Our great Mayor is urging its residents to not sign the statement and let the City get more money from Con Ed. ....In a less than worse case senario, the threats, litigation, grab for monies, and packed courts will be beyond belief! Even with liability 'protection', which is a huge subject in itself. civil jurisprudence system may well disintigrate... BTW, without electricity or teleco, gas, etc., no civil trials can occur....In less than worse-case, where the grid stays up, the expected vast numbers of criminal trials will so overwhelm the system, civil trials will be impossible for some time, such as occured in Long Beach, Ca., after the riots when they suspended civil trials due to the sheer number of criminal trials....there are too few judges, courtrooms,admin people for both when civil unrest occurs.... Imagine all the law suits from Y2K! I'm trying to be optimistic here by hoping for law suits. ....Under any but better-case senarios, as I menioned, forget civil litigation for x period of time....and indefinately, of course, under martial law (civil rights and due process are automatically suspended).... Actually, if you analyze this closely, you can develop a list of MANY possible/probable/potential senarios by which civil litigation cannot/will not occur for days...weeks...indefinately... ...Were you following closely the blackout I mentioned in my last post?

To: Rarebird who wrote (6542)	7/14/1999 5:02:00 AM
From: Ken	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

Rarebird- just remembered your post about gold... As a major shareholder in a gold mining co.(We are doing an IPO-just got SEC okay), I have studied a number of articles and in-depth analysises about gold (including the malicious manipulation of the prices)- would you like me to post links here to some of them? (note: the game plan behind control and manipulation is predicated on the fact that you can control the population by removing, among other things,their physical control/possession of their own monetary assets....take away their gold, and give the masses paper money, and you've enormously reduced their freedom! Next step, take away their paper and replace that with electronic keystrokes, and you have a population with little freedom left as then they have no more real or practical control over their own money, e.g., credit cards>>> the debit card.- that appears to be the primary basis for the degradation of gold as the bellweather/standard of monetary value, not paper money for convenience and ultimate efficiency, per the popular wisdom- note: the above is not 'politcally correct', of course!) When you read these articles about the changes in the economic/political system, and how gold is so integrated in this, tied into political manipulation and greed and corruption, involving the world banks and bankers, its like clouds dissapating, and the sun shining thru as the smokescreen disappears, bringing into view the sunlite of cause and effect of why gold, the most valued asset in the entirity of human existence, is no longer 'valued' by the hidden interests and the masses they have brainwashed. I would personally recommend against gold bullion- under state of national emergency, that will be one of the first things to be confiscatable...but, I think the logistics would perhaps be unsurmountable for them to do widespread search and seizure of the publics' gold bullion (as well as food, guns, etc.). Actually, per the EOs, and PDs, they can seize ALL personal assets of anyone/everyone- I just believe that bullion will be about the first target, notwithstanding the enormous logistics problems under the pandamonium that will be occuring. Remember also, their syystems and assets (with the possible except of their new comm systems) will disrupt also-their reserves will be finite. There have been numerous articles and surveys as to how many Billy Yanks would much prefer to head back home to protect his family than taking assets and threatening to shoot his own countrymen. Still, I would not take a chance on a priority-one confiscatible, hard to hide asset, which metal detectors can easily find.