Famous Last Words
Paul Milne
Arthur Levitt: "Now there may be isolated, and I emphasize isolated,
problems, but thanks to the tireless efforts of the financial industry, the
disasters that some originally predicted will not get even an honorable
mention in the history books,"
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Top U.S. Brokerages Spent Over $1 Bln On Y2K-SEC
Updated 3:49 PM ET September 17, 1999
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top eight U.S. brokerages have spent more than $1
billion getting their computer systems Y2K ready, Securities and Exchange
Commission Chairman Arthur Levitt said Friday.
As a whole, Wall Street has tested and retested its systems in preparation
for the new year and it appears as if all systems are go, Levitt said,
repeating similar remarks he made recently.
"Now there may be isolated, and I emphasize isolated, problems, but thanks
to the tireless efforts of the financial industry, the disasters that some
originally predicted will not get even an honorable mention in the history
books," Levitt, Wall Street's chief regulator, told a conference sponsored
by the President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion.
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Hope Levitt enjoys drinking dog piss out of a rusty hubcap.
--
Paul Milne
"If you live within 5 miles of a 7-11, you're toast"
TimeWarp
to all the people you berated and needlessly frightened, when I log onto
this newsgroup on Jan 2, 2000.
My suspicion is that you will be long gone or under another name. I doubt if
anyone will see you come eat humble pie for being such an alarmist.
Joseph Scally
--
A mind which has been expanded by a new idea, never returns to its original
dimensions.
Paul Milne <fed...@halifax.com> wrote in message
news:93760981...@helium.cstone.net...
Montgomery Burns
<jos...@scally.com> wrote:
>Being of sound mind , I just wonder if you are going to be here to apologize
>to all the people you berated and needlessly frightened, when I log onto
>this newsgroup on Jan 2, 2000.
>
>My suspicion is that you will be long gone or under another name. I doubt if
>anyone will see you come eat humble pie for being such an alarmist.
>
>Joseph Scally
your suspicion ejaculated prematurely, humble pie won't be served on 2/1/00.
--
MB
Paul Milne
TimeWarp <jos...@scally.com> wrote in message
news:0tCE3.16191$wW2....@news.rdc1.ct.home.com...
> Being of sound mind , I just wonder if you are going to be here to
apologize
> to all the people you berated and needlessly frightened, when I log onto
> this newsgroup on Jan 2, 2000.
>
Then you must be one of those assholes who thinks that the whole world would
come to a sighing heap on the stroke of midnight then, huh.
> My suspicion is that you will be long gone or under another name.
That is what cowards would do. if you are implying that I am a coward, then
I suggest you hie thee to 1209 brush creek road, nathalie, Virginia. Then
you can stand face to face with me and say that again.
I doubt if
> anyone will see you come eat humble pie for being such an alarmist.
>
I do understand that there are so many cowards out there and so few real
men, that you think there are ferw big enough to admit when they are wrong.
i know that you do not see this in yourself so you attribute it to others as
well.
Adittionally, I suppose that you have dedicated your life to going around
and chastising insurance agencies for having talked people into billions and
billions of dollars of automobile insurance, home insurance, health
insurance, that they never needed. And of course, an insurance agent would
never 'scare' anyone into buying insurance now would they?
--
Paul Milne
"If you live within 5 miles of a 7-11, you're toast"
Joseph,
Tom Beckner
>
> Being of sound mind , I just wonder if you are going to be here to apologize
> to all the people you berated and needlessly frightened, when I log onto
> this newsgroup on Jan 2, 2000.
>
> anyone will see you come eat humble pie for being such an alarmist.
>
Joe:
I knew a guy that had a toy poodle that drank Budweiser from a hubcap.
I knew she drank beer, but didn't know she was brand aware. One night,
after cleaning the shop, he came in with Michelle and went in the back
room. I sat down her hubcap and poured in some Black Label. Everyone
laughed at me. She wouldn't touch it. I had to pour it out and put in
Budweiser and I never saw her piss in a hubcap.
Here is a test question for you. How many financial markets / exchanges
have experienced catastrophic system failure in the past six weeks
related to program failures and / or maintenance project problems?
Here are some clues: CBOT, Germany, Hong Kong, China.
From the list just pick out the y2k related cases.
It's like boiling a frog, as the environment slowly changes you don't
feel a thing.
How did the Euro conversion go? Are they still having transfer problems?
Tom Beckner
>
> --
> A mind which has been expanded by a new idea, never returns to its original
> dimensions.
> Paul Milne <fed...@halifax.com> wrote in message
> news:93760981...@helium.cstone.net..
Paul Milne
--
Paul Milne
"If you live within 5 miles of a 7-11, you're toast"
Canadian Y2K <unk...@unknown.com> wrote in message
news:7A7912807B4E728D.1149B57F...@lp.airnews.net...
> On Sat, 18 Sep 1999 02:06:52 GMT, "TimeWarp" <jos...@scally.com>
> wrote:
>
> >Being of sound mind , I just wonder if you are going to be here to
apologize
> >to all the people you berated and needlessly frightened, when I log onto
> >this newsgroup on Jan 2, 2000.
>
> The polly's biggest fear. Being afraid.
>
> --
"You have nothing to fear but the fear of being feared, I fear"
Paul Milne
"If you live within 5 miles of a 7-11, you're toast"
> Steve Baxter
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Canadian Y2K ... 'We're not *all* polite'.
>
> http://www.albertaweb.com/year2000/index.html
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
Bradley K. Sherman
Paul Milne <fed...@halifax.com> wrote:
>
>Then you must be one of those assholes who thinks that the whole world would
>come to a sighing heap on the stroke of midnight then, huh.
Paul, you thought it was going to start January 1999.
Now you're backing off January 2000! Be sure to let
us know when it does start, so we don't miss it.
--bks
Paul Milne
--
Bradley K. Sherman <b...@netcom.com> wrote in message
news:7s0451$h...@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com...
You won't miss it bks. The telltale sign will be when you are shovelling
lime, into the hastily dug and shallow grave of the corpses of your
children.
All because you had such a big brain and refused to prepare.
Paul Milne
"If you live within 5 miles of a 7-11, you're toast"
> --bks
>
joe public
(honey you are sure you are right_ right?)
then i can also imagine brad's wife saying (you son of a
bitch you where fucking wrong we lost our kid's/our
house/our way of life you bastard!!!!!).
then i imagine paul in the same scenario.
paul's wife say's.
(paul i never felt better in my life we have raised our
kid's to respect nature and educated them well at home and
they are well on thier way to a good education)
paul say's-(well no matter what happens we did the right
thing we got the hell away from the masses got back to the
way thing's should be)
our kid's will persevere and make the next generation the
best to rope everything together again.
logic may diswade you but things do not look all that good
we will depend upon the younger folk to carry us into 2000
and beyond.
joe public
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T.S. Monk
wrote:
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>All because you had such a big brain and refused to prepare.
>
>Paul Milne
How can this be so when Bradley has already stated that he is more
prepared than Tim May who, IMO, is fairly well prepared.
I would give him the benefit of the doubt here.
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UNBOLT.M...@hotmail.com
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:
: I said what I said.
:
: "Bob Brock" <bbr...@i-america.net>
: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 13:40:33 -0400
:
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Bob Brock
T.S. Monk wrote in message <37e45c75...@news.binc.net>...
SNIP
>======================================
>UNBOLT.M...@hotmail.com
>======================================
>:
>: I said what I said.
>:
>: "Bob Brock" <bbr...@i-america.net>
>: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 13:40:33 -0400
Damn, I made it to a sig file. Am I famous now or what? Thank you very
much. Now, if I can just make it to the next issue of "Doom" magazine,
perhaps I can retire. <BG>
RonKenyon
>i can imagine brad's wife looking over his shoulder asking
>(honey you are sure you are right_ right?)
>then i can also imagine brad's wife saying (you son of a
>bitch you where fucking wrong we lost our kid's/our
>house/our way of life you bastard!!!!!).
I can imagine Bradley's heads-up mobile/adaptive preparedness being more
effective than Doomer fantasy camp heads-down hunker-in-the-bunker
preparedness.
Against some plausible Y2K scenarios, neither would prove notably effective.
--
RonKenyon
dbo...@spamfree.erols.com
wrote:
> You won't miss it bks. The telltale sign will be when you are shovelling
> lime, into the hastily dug and shallow grave of the corpses of your
> children.
I'll bet he won't! The damn fool hasn't stockpiled any lime either.
Doug Boulter
To reply by e-mail, remove the obvious spam traps from the address
A.Lizard
> joe public way...@yahoo.com wrote:
>
>>i can imagine brad's wife looking over his shoulder asking
>>(honey you are sure you are right_ right?)
>
>>then i can also imagine brad's wife saying (you son of a
>>bitch you where fucking wrong we lost our kid's/our
>>house/our way of life you bastard!!!!!).
>
>I can imagine Bradley's heads-up mobile/adaptive preparedness being more
>effective than Doomer fantasy camp heads-down hunker-in-the-bunker
>preparedness.
If bs has a believable Y2K prep strategy, I've missed it. (other
than RUN FOR THE HILLS if you see Joe McShill coming... but I
think we all agree on that.)
What are you talking about?
>Against some plausible Y2K scenarios, neither would prove notably effective.
Against some plausible Y2K scenarios, the only defense is the
alleged Bill Gates approach... and none of us have that kind of
money.
A.Lizard
>--
>RonKenyon
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Joseph E. McIsaac
joe public wrote:
> i can imagine brad's wife looking over his shoulder asking
> (honey you are sure you are right_ right?)
>
> then i can also imagine brad's wife saying (you son of a
> bitch you where fucking wrong we lost our kid's/our
> house/our way of life you bastard!!!!!).
>
> [cut]
>
>
> joe public
Bradley K. Sherman
Joseph E. McIsaac <mcis...@aol.com> wrote:
>Here's a fine example of doomers, "hoping for the best"...
>
>joe public wrote:
[...profane writing elided...]
There is a real problem brewing with these types.
Note *my* prediction at http://www.ironic.com/y2k for
22 September 1999. It has nothing to do with computers.
--bks
Charles James Hoyenski III
at once, if it takes two weeks to bring coal from kentucy to say texas,
and an other two weeks to use up inventory of say oil and gas, the power
plants would not fail in this way at least, until maybe mid february, on
the other hand some could halt asap or go down for other reasons i.e.
nerc shutdown, embedded chip problem etc., just because the power might
not fail on 1/1/00 does mean that "the fat lady sings".
Bradley K. Sherman wrote:
>
> In article <93766058...@helium.cstone.net>,
> Paul Milne <fed...@halifax.com> wrote:
> >
> >Then you must be one of those assholes who thinks that the whole world would
> >come to a sighing heap on the stroke of midnight then, huh.
>
> Paul, you thought it was going to start January 1999.
> Now you're backing off January 2000! Be sure to let
> us know when it does start, so we don't miss it.
>
T.S. Monk
wrote:
-----< deleted for brevity >-----
>Note *my* prediction at http://www.ironic.com/y2k for
>22 September 1999. It has nothing to do with computers.
>
> --bks
Nor "Y2k?"
Paul Milne
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Paul Milne
"If you live within 5 miles of a 7-11, you're toast"
T.S. Monk <UNBOLT.M...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:37e45c75...@news.binc.net...
> On Sat, 18 Sep 1999 13:16:05 -0400, "Paul Milne" <fed...@halifax.com>
> wrote:
>
> -----< deleted for brevity >-----
>
> >All because you had such a big brain and refused to prepare.
> >
> >Paul Milne
>
> How can this be so when Bradley has already stated that he is more
> prepared than Tim May who, IMO, is fairly well prepared.
>
If it is the case that bks is better prepared than Tim May, the bks is the
world's biggest liar and hypocrite.
But, we already knew that.
Paul Milne
"If you live within 5 miles of a 7-11, you're toast"
> I would give him the benefit of the doubt here.
> ======================================
> UNBOLT.M...@hotmail.com
> ======================================
> :
> : I said what I said.
> :
> : "Bob Brock" <bbr...@i-america.net>
> : Sat, 18 Sep 1999 13:40:33 -0400
> :
> ======================================
Paul Milne
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Paul Milne
"If you live within 5 miles of a 7-11, you're toast"
Bob Brock <bbr...@i-america.net> wrote in message
news:37e45...@news4.his.com...
>
> T.S. Monk wrote in message <37e45c75...@news.binc.net>...
> >On Sat, 18 Sep 1999 13:16:05 -0400, "Paul Milne" <fed...@halifax.com>
> >wrote:
>
>
> SNIP
>
> >======================================
> >UNBOLT.M...@hotmail.com
> >======================================
> >:
> >: I said what I said.
> >:
> >: "Bob Brock" <bbr...@i-america.net>
> >: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 13:40:33 -0400
>
>
> Damn, I made it to a sig file. Am I famous now or what? Thank you very
> much. Now, if I can just make it to the next issue of "Doom" magazine,
> perhaps I can retire. <BG>
>
No, you would be in the Premier Issue of Pollyanna Pukes.
Bob Brock
Paul Milne wrote in message <93775267...@helium.cstone.net>...
No, you would be the poster child for that. Anytime someone is doing a Y2k
newspiece and the editor says to go find a nutcase, look where they go.
You really need to quit with this obsession you know.
walkin...@my-deja.com
"TimeWarp" <jos...@scally.com> wrote:
> Being of sound mind , I just wonder if you are going to be here to
apologize
> to all the people you berated and needlessly frightened, when I log
onto
> this newsgroup on Jan 2, 2000.
Joseph, Paul's ranting and raving and chewing at the scenery disturbs
you?
A whole bunch of years ago I was doing ~145 mph southbound down a
twisty 2-lane in central Nevada in the middle of a moonless night, when
the fuse for the headlight circuit popped. (Helping a buddy pick up and
bring home a deTomaso Pantera).
Years later, not that long ago, I was bopping up I5 in western
Washington on a winter morning, came up to the crest of a rise, tipped
over onto north slope. The folks in front of me started playing
involuntary bumpercars, taking down trees, like that.
The overnight mist had frozen, and it was greased glass. I was doing
80+ mph on street tires. The north downhill curved, had an overpass
with lotsa upright concrete at the bottom.
Both cases, I had a bigtime visceral shock, then did the right thing.
(Case 1, grabbed the short-term memory image of the road before the
lights went out, jumped on the binders, steered by the image. Also
punched off the dash lights, hit the window switches so I could hear
the tires. Case 2, went into NASCAR mode (driving 80 on glare ice is
roughly equivalent to driving 240 on dry road), feathered throttle to
just slight drag (RWD car)found the middle (no-crown)lane, rode it down
to ~25 mph, kept going. Pulled into a rest area down the road, tried to
get out of the car and couldn't stand up. Car was slowly but surely
sliding downgrade in the parking lot.)
Discovering the Y2k problem early last year was the same kind of
visceral shock, in slow-motion. Emotional freakout, followed by doing
the right thing. We're usually at 2-to-4 weeks supplies of normal
consumables. By late September last year we were at 3 months, with all
requirements covered (heat, lights, comms, younameit). We've been there
ever since, plus filling gaps and holes in the equipment list,
preparing to back up others in the extended family.
Now, to address the "needlessly frightened" statement. It's all still
out in front of us. Whether preparations are needless remains to be
seen. At best, we're stocked a little ahead (and our camping kit is
upgraded: next summer will be fun), at worst we're alive, well, self-
sufficient, able to look after ourselves, help (and help
protect/defend) our neighbors.
I don't see a downside to it, Joseph. We haven't spent Nickel One we
wouldn't have spent eventually, we simply time-displaced it. Other than
the eternal Time-Value-Of-Money, cost was 0.
And of course, one of our local volcanoes could pop anytime . . .
Yeah, there's Paul and his chewing-the-scenery, rusty-hubcap style.
Give it time, you'll get used to him. His heart's in the right place.
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cory hamasaki
T.S. Monk
wrote:
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>I am trying for a low cost diet. I am not a vegetarian nor do I have
>heart disease. My meals are 70% vegetarian/Ornish healthy heart and
>30% roast beef and cheddar cheese subs with extra mayonaise, meatloaf
>with extra gravy.
>
>cory hamasaki http://www.kiyoinc.com/current.html
Gawd, throw in at least one daily glass of red phenols for "what fer."
Reminds me of one 80-year-old kendo master I'd heard about. He
neither drank nor smoked. Suddenly he started having one glass of
sake and one cigarette in the evening. When asked why he was doing
this he stated that HIS sensei, now at 105 years, does so. :)
wp
I throw lime in your general direction, all you yankee slime who would
smear the good name of Virginians!
--
Shirley P. Shorter
Year 2000 Contingency Planning Tools
http://www.whistlepig.com/year2000.htm
W. P. Internet, Inc. E-commerce systems
rhol...@wco.com
Those who worked their butts off to prevent any y2k effect will have a
chance to give each DoomBrood fearmonger a swift kick in the ass and a
"What were you thinking?" shout-out.
Afterward, remediators will sit down to delicious KC BBQ and the
DoomBrood will sit down to ... er ... well, they might not be sitting
down for quite a while...
Robert
In article <0tCE3.16191$wW2....@news.rdc1.ct.home.com>,
"TimeWarp" <jos...@scally.com> wrote:
> Being of sound mind , I just wonder if you are going to be here to
apologize
> to all the people you berated and needlessly frightened, when I log
onto
> this newsgroup on Jan 2, 2000.
>
> My suspicion is that you will be long gone or under another name. I
doubt if
> anyone will see you come eat humble pie for being such an alarmist.
>
> Joseph Scally
rhol...@wco.com
> paul's wife says:
"Paul, your worksite called. They want you in by 8am to rewire that
kitchen."
"Paul, the welfare check was enough to cover the Christmas bill, and
I've got some left over. May I buy some fresh food today, please?"
"Paul, you promised that we'd have some help out here today to muck out
this hog pen. What happened to all those y2k pals of yours?"
> Brad's wife says:
"Brad, I've been looking for a way to invest that holiday bonus. I
really like this internet stock--what do you think?"
"Say, Brad, I've noticed since New Year's you've had this glib smile on
your puss. How about sharing some of those glad tidings with me?"
Anyway, both wives will have plenty of non-y2k stuff on their minds
this January.
Robert
Genroberts
>From: rhol...@wco.com
>Come on down to the Kansas Gauntlet in summer 2000!
>Those who worked their butts off to prevent any y2k effect will have a
>chance to give each DoomBrood fearmonger a swift kick in the ass and a
>"What were you thinking?" shout-out.
And those who actively discouraged individual preparation (or, in pc language,
"personal contingency planning") will be subject to the post-y2k tribunal
should any harm befall the country or individuals as a result of the lack of
said contingency planning.
_________
"IT managers of the nation's largest corporations report improved performance
in meeting Year 2000 deadlines (because) only 81 percent are now experiencing
an accelerated incidence of missed deadlines." Cap Gemini, August 1999
steve
->
->>Being of sound mind , I just wonder if you are going to be here to
->>apologize to all the people you berated and needlessly frightened, when I
->>log onto this newsgroup on Jan 2, 2000.
Canadian Y2K was, like, :
->The polly's biggest fear. Being afraid.
If the pollies think everything will be a-ok, then they don't have
*any* fears. Or something.
Did this post remind anyone else of another 'Joseph' known to frequent
these parts?
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