' Yeah, I know, Dodd did say "Stockpile". His language is very revealing.
It doesn't undo it by adding, "Oh, I meant stockpile for a couple days."
We know what "stockpile" means and it doesn't mean two cans of tuna.
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999 01:44:03, genroberts@aol.com (Genroberts) wrote:
> Now all of those computer geeks have 'permission' to come forward and tell us
> all how *really* bad it's going to be. Cory Hamasaki is, as of this moment,
> 'politically correct' (sorry Cory, we know it's not your fault). Within 2
> weeks a major news network will seek him out for a prime time interview.
Gen, I am now a "pollyanna". I'm sticking to my position that every
single one of the 50,000 IBM style mainframes will have some kind of
problem and most of them will take outages that last weeks. Pshaw, a
hard down that lasts a week? Easy to cover up. GEICO had a water pipe
break and douse their mainframes in the 1970's, you never heard of that
incident.
A few, like, oh, 5,000 or 10,000 of them will take outages that last for
months. We'll hear about these, but only months later. It'll be like
the missing reports from State Farm. Not a big deal, or is it?
A very few, say, 1,000 or so will never come back. What's that? A
lousy 2 percent of the 50,000 largest corporations or governmententities.
Nah, I've already been on TeeVee and the radio a couple times. Here's
the problem. This is still a technical issue and while this gang
understands it, and a bunch of civilians "get it", the vast majority of
people out there don't understand computers and are still daze, crazed,
and amazed.
Look at the fight that Ed Yourdon had with the Rat-man. Rat-man dares,
DARES to lob a pomposity bomb at Ed. What nerve.
Hit yourdon.com for the latest on Ed Yourdon v. the Rat-man.
You are right, the balance has tilted over. I wouldn't be surprised to
see -bks-, moshe, DS, and the others go doomer. They're not the
problem; the problem has been the pomposity bombers in the popular
press, Gl'assman for example.
Those dim bulbs somehow got the idea that knowing that Y2K is an
unsolvable problem is an extremist position. Those retards came to
believe that they had a clue or were entitled to express an opinion.
We should be doing serious research on softening the landing, building
solutions, prepositioning supplies, getting ready. I don't mean just
food, water, and ammo. I mean back up systems, redundant
communications, manuals, supplies, skilled personnel, organization,
capital, procedures, plan-b, plan-c, and plan-d.
The butt-heads who spread complacency did an almost criminal act. How
arrogant of them. The only thing we have to fear, is the total collapse
of the computer driven infrastructure.
Got less than 10 months now. I got a bunch of shocking geekvine items
for future WRPs.cory hamasaki 305 Days, 7,342 Hours.
kiyoinc.com
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