If you can stay calm, while all around you is chaos...

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then you probably haven't completely understood the seriousness of the situation.

-- zoobie (zoobiezoob@yahoo.com), November 22, 1999

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what if you feel the nigglings of terror, when all around you is contented stuporic calm ... ;^)

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), November 22, 1999.

Zoob, you got that right...

watchin' the idiots scramble....

The Dog

-- Dog (Desert Dog@-sand.com), November 22, 1999.


Have to disagree with you. There is no reason whatsoever to panic -- if you are prepared and ready for what is coming.

-- Brooklyn (MSIS@cyberdude.com), November 22, 1999.

A & L,

A short while back I did a spiritualist reading for myself. I was shown when this time frame of a few amongst many felt nigglins of terror had happened before->Right Before The Civil War. I saw a female slowly and calmly going over her stockpile, seeing clearly what was going to be coming down ahead, and getting her household ready for those shortages.

It gave me a start yesteray to then bump into the internet Civil War cookbook.

You know there had to be a lot of naysayers A & L. Only a few prepared. The politics churned, rocked, and swirled and I would bet 1- 3% were the only ones quietly stocking up those jugs of molasses, needles, bug out bags, and such. And so discreet there's no trace to them. Just names no one can recall.

-- Paula (chowbabe@pacbell.net), November 22, 1999.


Just don't forget to breathe-----------real deep!

-- db (dciinc@aol.com), November 22, 1999.


If your prepared there's nothing to fear, however, if the bullet's start flying my way, that's a different scenario.

-- bardou (bardou@baloney.com), November 22, 1999.

If your prepared there's nothing to fear, however, if the bullet's start flying my way, that's a different scenario...

-- bardou (bardou@baloney.com), November 22, 1999.

Paula, we pray *that* episode from history does not repeat in the near future ...

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), November 22, 1999.

I'm scared as Hell and won't take it anymore!

-- (soiled@my.shorts), November 22, 1999.

I am reminded of the CIA definition: Paranoia is an adult response to reality.

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), November 22, 1999.


...then you know the true value of the principle that says, "...when you have enough problems, they start to solve each other..."

-- hunter (way@up.north), November 22, 1999.

Tonight I felt the first urge to panic. I walked into my neighborhood Super Safeway at 5:45 pm. The lines were literally out the door. I realize Thanksgiving is a couple of days away BUT I have been shopping here for Ten Years, and have never, ever seen it so jam packed. A lady collecting x-mas $ out front, said "It's been like this all day, I have even seen some people come in and out twice with full loads both times." I turned around and heading for the door told my three year old, "lets get out of here sweetie." Knowing I really didn't "need" anything washed the nervousness away. It was truly BIZARRE. I mean, this is usually the after-work crowd grabbing a few things for dinner, tonight every cart was packed to the gunnels. WILD. I could only wonder driving home if the Herd was beginning to moo!

-- ;-) (karlacalif@aol.com), November 22, 1999.

If you can stay calm, while all around you is chaos... You are called a Leader.

-- The only thing we have to fear (is@fear.itself), November 22, 1999.

An oldie brought to mind (back in the good ol' days when deJager was a doomer):

href="http://www.year2000.com/archive/laws.html">Laws of Y2K

1.The more you look, the more you find.

2.The more you find, the more it costs.

3.When management truly understands the problem, they make it their only priority.

4.Create understanding, and funding is a non-issue.

5.You will divert funds from critical projects to an even more critical project.

6.You cannot solve Y2K, you can only minimize the impact.

7.You cannot know what you do not know.

8.There is a cycle of "Awareness, Understanding and Action." Many people are AWARE, a lot UNDERSTAND, and most have taken ACTION. But only those who have acted realise the cycle is iterative.

9.Murphy's Y2K law - That which "can not fail," will.

10.Murphy's other Y2K law - That which is "compliant," isn't.

11.You can't really test this stuff until Jan 1st 2000.

12.The biggest risk? We don't know all the risks.

13.There is a finite speed at which one can spend money effectively.

14.Two digits are good --- four digits are better.

15.Only the Lone Ranger risks his client's safety on silver bullets.

16.Dates on the calendar are closer than they appear.

17.Testing is the only insurance worth buying.

18.Three things are certain in life, Death, Taxes and Y2K. Y2K will pass.

19.If you rest easy at night, you don't understand the problem.

20.Windowing is a temporary solution.

21.The closer the date, the higher the cost.

22.Don't fix everything, fix everything that matters.

23.May the source be with you.

24.A system of a thousand programs fails in a single line.

25.Planning for failure is better than failing to plan.

26.Delivering Year 2000 late is equivalent to never starting.

27.Denial is never a long term survival strategy.

28.Projects are never late by intention.

29.The more ingenious the fix, the higher the potential rate of errors.

30.Maintenance ain't "cool," it's just necessary.

31.Being pushed to the wall gives you the momentum to get over it.

32.Oops!

33.Fixing lines of code is simple, fixing integrated systems is not.

34.Fear of consequences is a great motivator.

35.The weakest link in the supply chain is in your supplier's system.

36.Chicken Little was an optimist.

37.Triage is a business decision, not a technical one.

38.You'll give your right arm not to do triage.

39.Your mission critical applications define your business.

40.The devil is in the details.

41.Two digit dates are always ambiguous.

42.Compliancy means never having to say you're sorry.

43.Process it any way you like, but accept and send only 4 digits.

44.It'll all happen again in 2100.

45.Pope Gregory wasn't a programmer.

46.COBOL was never dead, it was only resting.

47.If it ain't critical, it's trivial.

48.If you think you have tested sufficiently, think again

49.The Year 2000 Program is the ultimate scope creep project.

50.The only technology immune to the Year 2000 Problem is unconnected to a power source.

51.Maintenance is not a strategic activity. Y2K is!!

-- Linda (lwmb@psln.com), November 22, 1999.


Ah, that makes sense. Now I understand your negative demeanor and ANTI-GOD stance, Paula. You prefer the occult. Well, I hope your authorities from the nether world take care of you during Y2K. Typically this king destroys his soldiers once he has used them for his purposes. Possibly you should consider the LIGHT. He loves His own and Protects them.

-- tt (nobody@nowhere.com), November 23, 1999.


tt,

If Paula has her own faith, I'm sure it's just as valid for her as yours is for you. Please leave her be.

-- eve (123@4567.com), November 23, 1999.


paula... internet Civil War Cookbook????

Link please?

-- Linda (lwmb@psln.com), November 23, 1999.


Eve, what a classic bit of New Age relativism. The Mantra of the age? "Whatever." If you're a Satan worshiper, and that does it for you, then cool, dudes. Except it's NOT cool, because (as some of us still realize) Satan is EVIL, and wants to KILL mankind. God is GOOD, and wants to LOVE mankind. Your choice, my choice, everyone's choice.

-- Spidey (in@jam.mom), November 23, 1999.

Spidey,

For your information, I happen to be Jewish. How in the world could you infer those things you said about me from my post?

I would have defended tt in the same way if the tables were turned.

But in any case, I would never knowingly defend a religion that I thought was hurtful to people.

-- eve (123@4567.com), November 23, 1999.


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