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To: IngotWeTrust who wrote (45386)	11/29/1999 11:13:00 AM
From: John Hunt	Respond to of 116762

Cory Hamasaki's DC Y2K Weather Report << This WRP is a little different and is one of the more important of the WRP series. This report includes three separate reports on the November WDC Y2K meeting. This meeting was about "contingency planning" and for this, it was reassuring. It was also sobering in that the speakers were frank in their concerns and fears. This is in stark contrast to the happy talkers and pollies. These people did not predict civil unrest, shortages, and problems but that is what they are preparing for. To do less is to be negligent in their duties. Consider the measures that Marriott, New York City Emergency Management, and the U.S. Air Force are taking. We all hope that all will be well, that the economy will continue to boom and that everyone will have a healthy and prosperous new year. It is wrong to bet everything on that outcome. I know someone who will not see January 1, 2000, a friend of my inner circle. They are in the terminal stages of cancer. You do the best you can with the hand that life deals you. As you read the following reports, compare the efforts made by these organizations, the extent of their preparation and your own preparations. Who is the pollyanna and who is getting ready for Y2K? >> ... full report at ... kiyoinc.com ***** Hi Young 49r, Yep, the Y2K news is getting grim. However, what is really disturbing to me is the 'disconnect' between the news and the public's reaction. What keeps rattling around in my old head is 'And the band played on' as in the movie of the same name about CDC and the Aids epidemic or the band that went down on the Titanic playing. Take care. John

To: IngotWeTrust who wrote (45386)	11/29/1999 1:03:00 PM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116762

IN THIS EXCLUSIVE EXTRACT FROM THE NEW EDITION OF THE END OF TIME: FAITH AND FEAR IN THE SHADOW OF THE MILLENNIUM (VINTAGE 1999), DAMIAN THOMPSON INVESTIGATES A NEW BREED OF MILLENNIALIST - THE COMPUTER PROGRAMMER Amidst the sagebrush and cacti of the Southern California desert, an apocalyptic believer called Scott Olmsted is preparing for the collapse of civilization on the stroke of midnight, - December 31, 1999. He has put up a chain-link fence round his mobile home; he has laid."I'm still not 100 per cent sure that the world's coming to an end," he says. "But the idea that I might want to get out of town for a while is not such a long shot." Olmsted's comments make him sound rather like one of the legendary terror-struck peasants of the year 1000, or perhaps a survivalist in the Randy Weaver mould, ear pressed to the ground to catch the rumblings of the federal Antichrist. In fact, he is a computer programmer who has been infected by a new strain of millenarianism. His prophecies have no supernatural component whatsoever. His imagined apocalypse is limited to the failure of computer technology - which is to say that it is not limited at all, but worldwide, unpredictable and devastating. As Wired magazine puts it, "veteran software programmers are blazing the millennial trail. The geeks have read the future, not in the Book of Revelation, but in a few million lines of computer code".(cont) forteantimes.com

To: IngotWeTrust who wrote (45386)	11/29/1999 1:09:00 PM
From: Rarebird	Respond to of 116762

OT Bell Atlantic has just informed us that they are having a "System Wide Problem" in certain areas of NYC. Certain phone calls can be made and others cannot. A representative informed us that they " hope to have the problem resolved by tommorrow night. The problem is definitely coming from the Main Office", she said. Ha! Ha! We are fully prepared!