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

To: Jeff Mizer who wrote (9553)	12/28/1999 7:59:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

Jeff, I don't want, or foresee TEOTWAKI. I've never been in that camp. I honestly hope I'm wrong about this embedded systems stuff. [EDIT - After starting to make initial post ... I got a call from my pharmacy.] THIS IS REALLY WEIRD!!! I just got a call from my pharmacy ... who told me that they received my prescription earlier today (I had a neighbor drop it off, to pick up tomorrow.) Here's what they said, "We received your prescription ... but we only have 2 pills left in inventory. If you like, you can come down now an pick up your pill." I asked, "When do you think you can fill the entire prescription?" They said, "We hope after 11AM tomorrow." I immediately called up my neighbor was a V.P. for one of California's largest HMO's until she "retired" last year. She said she's never heard of anything like this. I said, "We'll fortunately I have a couple of extra months of medication because my cousin's a sales rep for one of the pharmaceutical companies." I said, "Well, even if I can't get the prescription filled ... I'm OK." She said, "No. You call the pharmacy ... and as soon as they have those pills in ... get down there and pick up that prescription." My medication is not life threatening. But, it was really strange to hear someone from the pharmacy say ... they "only have 2 pills left". I'm not kidding. That's what she said. I then called up my mom and told her to make sure my sister gets her prescriptions filled. My sister had her thryoid removed ... and needs that thyroid medication. Her husband's a diabetic and also has heart problems. He's in his late 50's ... had a stroke and double by-pass a few year ago. Medication is very expensive. She couldn't afford to do much, and refused help from me. If you, or your family have outstanding prescriptions ... GET THEM FILLED NOW!! Cheryl

To: Jeff Mizer who wrote (9553)	12/28/1999 9:49:00 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 9818

From that article: Instead of 66% over fifty years, I now expect more than 90% of the world population will die within the next ten years. But, again, it could be worse. If a major nuclear exchange cannot be avoided in World War Three, the human race will quite simply cease to exist. ROFLMAO!!!!!!!! Considering that the US has the dominant supply of these megaton citybusters and the fact that most of our major adversaries will count themselves lucky to be even able to turn on their targeting systems, let alone even be able to launch them, I think Americans will likely make up a large part of that "10%"... :0) I certainly don't see any nation suddenly opting to launch a suicide attack against the US that would create an immediate and massive counter-strike. Better to get the US to spend uncounted Billions of dollars providing emergency relief and technological support to these nations in order for them to more quickly emerge out from the technological "8-ball" they are stuck behind. IMO, The guy should stick to programming and stay away from trying to assess international security policy. Regards, Ron

To: Jeff Mizer who wrote (9553)	12/29/1999 2:55:00 AM
From: foobert	Respond to of 9818

He may be wrong, it may be worse (for him) I read that whole article by infomagic, and here is what I think of it. In paragraph 3 he states his belief that he is looking for a complete breakdown of the global monetary system. Why? see below. He then states that in the fall of 1998 he has dropped out of the Y2K remediation scene to persue other activities. One year later he looks through his periscope and describes how in his expert professional opinion, the global prognosis is worse today than it was a year ago. He does not state where and how he got the information for this observation other than a reference to some friend in the army. Is he pessimistic? Is the Pope Catholic?? He describes the futility of even trying to do a remediation project because his estimate for the time required comes to 5 - 8 years of work. Big projects are slow, but this must be humungeous! (or he is estimating the absolute worst case) A little later he gives his opinion that it can't be fixed, not even in thirty years. So now that he has given up all hope, he comes up with a survival plan: since late 1997, he has invested exclusively in precious metals and stored them with relatives offshore. Aha! He has been buying gold north of 300, and now that the price is hovering under 300, he needs to pump it up. His whole posting comes to 25 printed pages, half of which is used to make the case for gold as the only one true currency. Finally at the end of the posting he erases hope for the 10% of us that he expects will survive by forecasting an outbreak of a pestilence of diseases and disasters. Having read this far, I was ready to slit my throat. (the horror, the horror) Thought I was finished, when I read the last few lines. There is a copyright notice so that none of us non-believers will use his writings for profit. How many people copyright their postings to an internet newsgroup?? But wait there's more - if we really want a personal autographed copy, then he wants us to send him several silver coins. Now why would we want to do that? Aren't we all doomed? And besides, who has silver coins lying around to buy his masterpieces? I will grant that there is some small probability that some of the things he looks for will happen. I also buy lottery tickets with the knowledge that there is a small probability that I will win big. In the first case, no one knows the exact probability, and in the second case it is about one chance in 14 million. The worst that can happen for him is that no one will bite at his magnificent offer, or that gold will go down even further than it is now.