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

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (7644)	8/3/1999 2:34:00 PM
From: bearcub	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 9818

my my, having a little temper tantrum this morning, ron? my parents and my wife's parents are all dead. so there goes that piece of sarcasm. my children are just fine, thank you for asking. a stellar piece of work, each one of them. and same for Janelle's 4 children which i've also helped raise. secondly, what is with the name calling? aren't you the original standard bearer for civility? all i did was reply to your stupidity post and inform you i already had a pair of solar stills. furthermore, i offered you the name of the black g.e. silicon caulk you should use to build yours. and for this you pitch a hissy? as far as where you go when TSHTF, YOUR made it 'our business' when you alerted all of us that you were going to be hoofing it across the united states without food or water with your dear little wife in tow. just how do you expect to get there without mooching off of all us others, who are better prepared than you for those 2100 miles or so? (by the way, how MANY miles can you walk a day? and the wife?) regarding Janelle's and my response for you to foward to your buddies on the hill, we decided to save our effort when we read just a few posts after our response to the snotty kholt, that the vaunted GAO right there in your own backyard has ALREADY made serious recommendations about informing and preparations for the american people that are not being implemented. frankly, i've been an admirer of the GAO and their efforts on many fronts, having a second cousin by marriage once removed as a career GAO man right there in your beloved DC. you remember that little branch of governmental bureaucracy, don't you? it is the one agency clinton loved quoting the most when he tried to get his tax cut proposals and balanced budget proposals and his health care proposals, oh, I GET IT NOW. he only listens to them when he wants something from them. otherwise, GAO doesn't know squat, right? sorry, it took me so long to understand how smoothly and non-chaotically government works for us now. a thousand pardons, sonny. DC will be one of the first to "go postal." of course, dc will be in chaos! all the elected as well as lobbyist rats will have deserted and gone to their home districts, and the president will be hiding in some fortified mountain with a phalanx of guards, scared to death to peek out THAT rathole. with communications being toast and folks on foot like you clogging the roads like some bad re-run of the flight of the bosnians and serbs, just how do you expect the president to communicate? congress in recess to legislate? the off season judiciary to ajudicate? dc to operate? by tom-tom and AA batteries??</> so, if you really want to make some headway back there, in the most adversarial, lawyer-clogged, beltway in the world, i suggest you and your buddies dig out the GAO recommendations regarding appropriate y2k preparations for the american people mentioned a few hundred posts back, and look at what has already been uttered as sound and appropriate panic averting responses to y2k by our government. as far as clinton being the most powerful man in the world? ha! he could have chosen to lead by example, instead of burying his 'head' in the oval office rug! he's already demostrated he's ignoring y2k and thwarting the GAO recommendations when it doesn't suit him. so, sonny, when you complete your research into the GAO recommendations, please come back and tell us how many shoes you and the mrs have squirrelled away for your trek across country to daddy's? p.s. i still need to know your shoe size. you know, that 'ronprint thingy?' any chance of an answer?