To: C.K. Houston who wrote (20630 ) 7/15/1998 8:48:00 AM From: C.K. Houston Respond to of 31646
Hey guys, don't muck up this thread by responding to Wexler and his "short" cronies with any emotional, one-liner responses. That's EXACTLY what they want you to do. Show some class please. I sure hated to waste this post with the above message, but as long as I'm here ...REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT CONCERNING THE YEAR 2000 CONVERSION Transcript library.whitehouse.gov "Because the difficulty is as far flung as the billions of microchips that run everything from farm equipment to VCRs, this is not a challenge that is susceptible to a single government program or an easy fix. It is a complex test that requires us all to work together -- every government agency, every university, every hospital, every business, large and small ... It could affect electric power, phone service, air travel, major governmental service ... we're not just talking about computer networks, but billions of embedded chips built into everyday products. There are still gaping holes. Far too many businesses, especially small-and medium-sized firms, will not be ready unless they begin to act. It is important that we act and NOT be in denial. ___________________________________________________________________HIGHLIGHTS FROM BILL WEXLER'S: THE Y2K HOAX Subject 15277 "Now the computer industry has to deal with its own big, ugly hoax - it's called "the year 2000 problem ". Exactly when and how this load of hooey started careening down the information-superhighway is not clear..." "Unfortunately, the scientific evidence does not back up claims of the true believers, but like any religious zealot, they're not interested in gathering empirical evidence to support their hypotheses." "As with any scam , science and reason have been left in a Dumpster. In much the same way that con artists who deal in quack-medicine, perpetual-motion machines, and miracle diet pills use "science-speak" to paint a fa‡ade of credibility and mislead their victims - the Y2K crooks use their own impressive-sounding pseudoscientific lexicon: "find, fix, test", "manual vs. automated conversion", "millions of lines of code per second" and various other phrases which may sound like real computer science to the layman but are actually meaningless gibberish." "Millennial apocalypse hoaxes and panics are nothing new. This one just happens to be a particularly embarrassing." FINAL THOUGHTS FROM BILL WEXLER ... Message 5184096 The Y2K crisis has been embraced by ultra right-wing Chrisitian lunatics from the outset. I have stated many times in the past that the Y2K computer hoax fits in perfectly with millenial apocalypse superstition. CBN is run by the loathsome Pat Robertson. Pat is well known for making predicitons about the dates of Armageddon and Christ's second coming..dates which seem to come and go and, gosh darn, Jesus is late again!! When Pat is not busy begging for money from little old ladies to fund his bizarre and scary political activities, he claims to "heal" people right over the TV. Now he is pushing the Y2K hoax .