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

To: S.C. Barnard who wrote (9654)	1/2/2000 12:55:00 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Was this sort of crap really called for? Heck no!!! But you wouldn't believe the amount of crap I took from the wackos like "Ken" (a former SI member), as well as some non-wackos who just couldn't perceive that having the National Guard on standby was a "positive" thing, and not the prelude to martial law and a New World Order. Good lessons to take from all of this is that people feed on fear to satisfy their own self-doubt. Some try to instill panic merely to get recognition for themselves as a doom and gloomer, but most just are looking for someone to acknowledge and believe in their far-flung doomsday scenarios as well as panic with them. Misery loves company. And it takes much more energetic thought to objectively weigh the risks versus the benefits. 2nd lesson is that it is a far more difficult thing than most perceive, to execute a state of complete martial law.. Things like that just can't be kept secret long enough to be properly carried out in this country. So long as we have a "free press" (liberal though most may be), they are the primary enemy of authoritarianism. 3rd lesson... It is nice to be prepared, but to also now one's limits to what is prudent or necessary. Storms can happen, floods can occur... tornadoes can twist... hurricane force winds can knock out the power to 2.5 million homes as it did in France, or we might be unfortunate enough to suffer a "minor" meteor strike that creates havoc. Anything can happen. It's nice to be generally prepared to provide yourselves minimum survival capability until you can gather your bearings or until relief arrives. But that doesn't mean we should cower and live our lives in fear of what will happen tomorrow or act like each day we wake up is doomsday. (but statistically speaking one of these days it will be doomsday. I just hope I'm dead by then.. :0) The best of 2000 wishes to one and all. Y2K ain't quite over yet to the degree that will satisfy me. I'll give it a couple of weeks to see how bad the disruption is to manufacturing and transportation. But the key thing is that the power is on, the water runneth forth, and our sewage plants still function. Anything else is a MINOR inconvenience compared to disruption in those utilities. Regards, Ron