Ah, drats, Ron! This time you've given me so very little to carve up!
A couple of more similiar exchanges, and you'll be too overwhelmed to be posting anything other than 1-liners! And, after that....only the stuttering responses that has already become your calling card!
Ok, Ron, you've succeeded in again provoking me to shread your attempts at logic, even tho I have refrained from doing so after a number of your last attempts.
I love yanking your chain.... It's a powerful feeling ... <VBG>
....."Yanking your chain"....is it not possible to describe yourself without metaphores and cliches? Please respond again with a specific statement that describes what exactly you really think you are doing and what effect you think that is having on me (I will not help you with a hint, such as providing me with amusement at reading your failing peudo-intellectual and (un)learned attempts at proper debating, much less successful verbal sparring).
Correct, but what is your specific point here, in relation to my posts you are attempting to discredit?
Attempt to discredit?? I don't have to attempt. You do a fine job discrediting yourself all by you lonesome self... The only one who doesn't realize it is YOU.
......But, you have been attempting to all this time, Ron! Very, very hard, but eqeually unskillfully and unsuccessfully...You must go to bed panting at nite after each occasion, having tapped into your last reservior of mental energeies in your attempts!
You have so completely convinced yourself that civilization is going to end due to Y2K, you really make me wonder why you would want to exist in the kind of world you claim is coming down upon us 9 months from now.
.....Please do both of us a favor Ron, to assist in, at least MY attempt to have adult-level intelligent discourse with you, and carefully, slowly, and while wearing your glasses (bifocals) read my statements, so you will cease your blundering, bumbling retorts in which you are attributing statemens to me that I do not say, of which the above is simply another in a long litany of such...Please try this---breath slowly while reading and while answering my posts.
The absolutism of your generalizations here is a logical disaster in itself..Are you saying 'all staffs' will be prepped and ready?.........
Listen Ken...
....An interesting expression for an obvious visual method of communication!
my point
....Ah! You have a point, finally? Wonderful! Now, I am getting very attentive and interested!
is merely that Y2K is too obvious (borrowed from the Y2K manager for Texaco in his "Wired" interview).
.....What exactly here did you borrow, and why do you need to borrow someone else's words? Did you borrow the term y2k? the term too obvious? that it is "merely" too obvious? the whole phrase? What,Ron, did you borrow from someone else to help you make this long-awaited point?
It is something that I have felt
.....'felt'? Ah...an emotional response rather than a logical, reasoned one! No wonder we have an 'inability to communicate'!
but was previously unable to verbalize so well.
.....As Steve McQueen's famous one-liner went, "What we have here is a failure to communicate!"
Almost everyone involved in systems's engineering here in the US
......another one of your calling-card meaningless generalities---'almost everyone'! For the purpose of logical discussion, please state how many and what percentage that is...well, at least you narrowed down the 'almost everyone' to the US!
is aware of Y2K
.....But, to what degree, Ron? Be specific. Please don't force me to have to try to quantify all of your generality statements, so I can logically repond!
and thus alerted to look for potential faults in their systems due date related problems.
.....'Alerted'..? How are they altered, exactly? Defcom 2? 1?
Alarm clock set to go off each hour? Fido barking when the lights go off? What?
They also know they should make contingency plans
....Wonderful, Ron....like, the hundreds of thousands that drink while driving knowing 'they should' ...not? This fluff nothing statement floors me! This is fascinating 'knowing something' you find so important, but you, in your fervor to accept any pollyanna condition, you disregard any concrete representations of what 'they' (who the hell is 'they', anyway?) have put into place, with budgets, manpower, logistics, planning....
. And for the most part
....please quantify 'most', to make it at least appear to be a meaninful, important statement....
, these people are not being permitted to completely ignore Y2K because their much larger customers
......ha-ha!!! I had a visual picture as I read your typical generality word 'larger' (customers) seeing a lot of fat guys holding a gun to their heads, saying "Eh...fix it or else!"
are POUNDING the topic into their head and forcing compliancy by June 30th, 1999.
......"pounding"....hey, not much different from my above statement!
pounding their heads-- with their gun butts!! My how your grade-school level cliches and metaphores so prevalent in all your posts are so amusing however uninspiring, much less intelligent!
"Forcing compliancy"? Now, really, Ron!!! State exactly how they will force compliancy!...the gun senario? Griffiti on their companies' walls? Unlawful breaches of contracts? Hit men? Cursing them?
Spitting at them until they comply? The silent treatment ?
Calling their local congressman? How, exactly, Ron?
Technological disasters occur when people are caught completely unaware by an unexpected failure
.....What about only partially unaware, Ron? Can they occur then?
Think this one thru before giving a stupid answer, Ron?
. They don't have the time to preconfigure work arounds and contingency plans to prevent absolute shutdown of their operations.
......What point exactly are you attempting to make here, Ron?
Now K.. k.. k... Ken, (sorry, I've had a bit of a stutter since I first saw "fish called Wanda")
.......Doesn't take much, does it Ron? You are admitting that you are highly suseptible...but, to what, I can't figure!!! Interesting how your stutter carries over to your manual skills!!!
it is quite clear that much of the US infrastructure existed and operated quite happily
......"happily"???,,,,,,"happily"??? Good God, Ron!!! You have really lost it!!! Now, you are imparting life to inanimate objects!!!
before embedded systems and high-speed computers came into being. And in fact, computerization/automation was added SUBSEQUENT to the creation of the particular infrastructure in order to replace manpower with computer power.
.......This one is so heavy, I am going to send this quote to my expert tech contacts, so we can all debate the ramifications of this complex concept!!! he-he.
There is no reason that manpower cannot once again replace computer power, if need be in a pinch.
........The ridiculousness of this one was unfortunately answered by several followups before I had a chance to see, laugh, and then shread it to pieces!
<YOU ASK EVERYONE BUT YOURSELF FOR EVIDENCE>...
In terms of logical debate, where exactly does that one fit in, Ron?
Until you answer that, you'll never understand why people discount your opinion. But I'll give you a hint. Until you can provide the hard data that supports your "doomsday" scenario,
.......I have asked you scores of questions in numerous prior posts to give you a chance to punch holes in my statements which you have..er, ah, to be nice.....' conveniently' 'forgot' to answer all this time!
you're no better than the rest of us who wonder exactly what the disruptions will be or how long they will last.
......a typical Ron disjunctive statement showing disassociative reasoning : ...."no better than the.." ....."how long...".
Please re-formulate that to an intelligent statement, then I will respond.
I, for one,
....what would be an alternative to there being one of you??
esp. as genetic cloning of humans is not arrived yet....
am willing to entertain all possibilities provided enough conclusive evidence presents itself.
......"...presents itself".....he-he! Here is the visual picture this babble statement portrays....Ron, sitting at his trusty computer...impatiently, sweating, with fixed attention, eyes bugging out...hungrily awaiting reports and analysises to magically originate and then appear on his screen!!!
p.s. I am being easy on you here Ron, by not pasting here many other points you tried to make in other posts to me, then using my broadsword on them, also...
Gee thanks... K..k..k..ken!!!
.......due to that insincere retort...no more such kindness from me,Ron!!!
But, at least have the decency to quit stuttering on my and all the other viewers' screens, Ron! That is the computer equivalent of physically sneezing in everyones' faces! Ugh...Ron...makes me want to delete your keystroke stutters and wipe my face at the same time!!!
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