How are you preparing for the millenium / apocalypse?

Lets build a new Eden; We could live as nebula, but would it be any better than the range of physical/emotional/spiritual sensation we've created here?

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz - It's going to be a boring commercial piece of crap!

27) bleh

I'd like to have checked more than one option.

I think the worst that will happen is rioting.

I fit in a bunch of these categories. Multiple answer PLEASE!

I predict a stock market crash in late October in anticipation of a stock market crash in early December in anticipation of bank failures in January. So I will be converting most of my investments to cash in early October and buying back in in early November. But I don't think there will be any bank failures.

Thank you jody & eris, i can't find a modify, delete, or complete option, if anyone can help & it's been 22 hours awake, so I'll have to get back on this in a few hours. Any modification suggestions are welcome. Seperate questions? A vote, instead of a belief. bill answered with a number, glad to meet you. God, what took so long for your response? You kept me waiting! , & left me contemplating.

I prepare for the apocalypse.org... I recently upgraded the system to dual 450MHz PII's, half a gigabyte of RAM and 20GB of disk. I prepare for dealing with it by trying to laugh at the pair of users who forget their passwords every month.

Drdt: nothing will happen except that, as has been pointed out before, a lot of cobal programmers will be looking for work.

I'm waiting for the down elevator.

I ticked other because I am concerned that the creator of this survey didn't give an option, 'I am concerned, that it is possible that even the most thorough preparation has overlooked something'. My concern aside I believe that Russia and to a lessor extent China will experience difficulties and that the West should somehow use these difficulties to demonstrate yet again that capitalism is a better way. Not the best way, but certainly better than their way, whatever their way is seen to be.

Hi Kristal Rose, (love how you spell your first name), how old are you? I'm 59. 'Lets build a new Eden', I'm with you. How? Just give me the outline don't worry about the detail....................michael

I'll sleep through it.

I disagree Miykal. Capitalism is not the better solution for China right now. A little bit of it goes a long way in their economy, but in no way ought their entire system change to accommodate a completely foreign concept.

Delirious joy sweat. 6 yrs waiting......
Ram: greenroom later. Adolesence of P2 coming your way.
my: thats creation. i've worked w/ Russkie progr's, they have little to worry about. JPII "even capitalism checks & balances." re: Iron turf. The pearl in their down-troddeness is of less value than our yuppie ecstasy. Capitalist resources depletion caused it. All yin tragedy is yang opportunity to reconcile. Better Q:, 'roundtable, matrix, or hierarchy?'
twisty: since your viewing things upside-down, you'll find the ride a pleasant surprise.

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my: Kristal Rose Phoenix McKinstry (and too many to name) (12-66k)(28).. 36, curtsey,blush.
Peut-etre: Gardener's school utilizing ArcOfCovenant/Grail/TreeLife/BenBenStone/AlladinLamp collaborative fractalling creation of an 'always was' using VR nano concepts. I=semc2, utilize our best contributers, recycle the rest. New colors/elements/psyches beyond fire/earth/air/water/electricity/vibe/presence?

But why? Have we exhausted our creativity, on present course, every StarTrek will happen by 2040. Newly recombinant states, flavors of joy & evil, besides Eden never left us.

whoa, Philip K Dick, dude!

I concur. KristalRose you are a breath of fresh air/water/hallucinogenics.

"don't confuse obscurity with meaning"

rkey:every bit; intergalactic electric scanner transmigration!
drdt: tanks, no h needed, just don't sleep.
bleh: ok, next survey in a few, till then a flip mirror, maybe you can read in it.

pink laser beams at work?

bleh: yes golden-eye, I can do some pretty hairy things with them.

I want some of whatever she's on *points at the Kristal Rose*

Nothing will happen where I live that will effect me much.

Bill & "Twisty" - lol

Kristal_Rose's posts remind me of the labels on Doc Bronner's soap bottles.

It is so strange; half the time she sounds like RACTER; but then she says something which clearly demonstrates comprehension of subtleties. If she were a computer with that capability she would find subtleties where none exist.

Yeah, I was ready to dismiss her as babbling nonsense, but I do get some of what she says. She's clearly bright (perhaps very). I get the impression that she's just trying to cram big concepts into very terse language, and we're all left in the dust. I wonder what she's like in person... (Jordan from Real Genius?)

Isn't it rude of us to talk about her in the third person like this?

j'on_a_than: Anything like Michael Brunner?
drdt: Mirror of self-delusion, it happens. Which is my risk w/ 'RACTER', it's not Gaelic. Reactor? Our Actor? Red Car? Re:TC&R? Ra_C_Tera? Who says a computer can't find subtleties? I should send you a transcript of what my computer dialogues with me.
bill: I'll check it out, were the lasers pink?
'bill': Nothing doesn't delight me. Accept a direct apology; I was testing someone's elses wordless connection (not that mine doesn't need work).

KR: RAConTEuR, an early eighties language-generating computer whose conversational style is reminiscent of yours. Er, flip that. I think Our Actor was intended as well. I have fiddled with AI, computers programmed to find subtle meanings in what people say would often find hidden meanings not intended by the speaker. Are you defending the possibility you are a computer? I am curious of the dialogues, send to here if you dare.

Oh, dear, my habit of adopting the accents of those I speak to is showing.

Dared. Nailed me.

KR: pink lasers are Phillip K. Dick's lucid insanity exegesis and the like. Horselover Fat always sounded like an anagram to me, but never did I solve it.
drdt: I dig, I'm shooting for KR consciousness...

bill: "Phillip" means (roughly) "Horselover" in Greek. "Fat" in some way means "Dick" in German.

then my quest is over (thanks)... What of the "K." ?

Ahhhh, the "K". What of the K? If memory serves me correctly, the "K" is very important...look a bird!

Surreal Central?

K is Kallisti, of course

Flockhart?

Mmmm....donuts.....

1 Krispy Kreme donut is equal to 30 bran muffins.

my: Guess you were right.
Thank you significant others (everyone)

nobody has mentioned the fact that the millenium doesn't start until
Dec.31 2001...not to mention the fact that the dating system is based
on the birth of jesus christ......what about all the hindis and
buddists out there.....are they going to riot on the 2000th birthday
of jesus?

Very good, obviously i forgot myself when using the term millenium, but I think rioting referred to the y2k'ers , But hey, I suppose a lot of disappointed christians might riot too, on the chance they were still hanging around here on the first of either year.
When did god ever give a final curtain date? I dont remember that part.

I was referring to the religious fanatics that are predicting the
apocolypse that is supposed to happen at the new millenium.

Bugmaster, when I said there would be riots, I was referring to several different groups... One: The religious people who have themselves so worked up over the Y2K-stocking up on canned goods, building bomb shelters, buying generators. Two: People that see it as a good opportunity to loot, and cause trouble. Three: People who figure it's the end, so why not go nuts?

For the Rapture believers, the apocalypse already occurred

For the Raptor believers too.

Rapture...cool song :)

Velociraptors...cool dinosaurs

7,eris,t,sb: true

they: setting aside a couple weeks canned goods in foresight of an emotional reaction & a few computer glitches, is a vote of good faith in some continuity.

They: since when are religious people stocking up on canned goods? People who fear the collapse of civilisation stock up on canned goods. Religious people don't have to worry about it because when Armageddon comes (not until 2036 anyhow) they won't be here for it.

Not to say religious people won't fear the collapse of civilisation, but I think most of them agree that God will provide in that instance.

drdt: I beg to differ, I have a religious person living in my front yard who is at this moment stocking up on canned goods.

I think the religious people who are stocking up are the ones that ultimately, for all their rhetoric to the contrary, fear their god and are afraid they've not been "good" enough and will be left behind when the rapture happens.

I hope i'm in your front yard. I've been programming for 20 years and even a year ago I almost wrote an internet airline reservation that wasn't y2k compliant. If even 2% of computers fail there will be a slight daisy chain effect. It's even likely for social services, but not for banks, i've seen their stuff. But twistys very realistic in her last view.
The morning I joined SC & submitted this survey I had awoken from a dream in which I had to counsel a armageddon believer who had gone into shock on the first of the year because nothing happened. Heavan exists now on Earth, concern yourself with that first.

I wonder if SC is Y2K compliant... ah, who cares!

The biggest fallacy is that computer/electronic "failure", when it occurs, will occur on Dec. 31st, 1999. Non-Y2K-compliant things will fail at all kinds of times depending on their exact coding.

sure, all the projected data. That early warning system alone will alleviate the blow.

bill: re Jordan & Real Genius - It was a struggle to make it through that movie. There have to be 40 movies in that genre with deeper plot, philosophies, characters (which I found almost despicable), technology, etc. I'd hate to have ever been in an environment like that, as well. I must admit that I looked and sounded a lot like Jordan when I was 9. Seems to say more, that anyone would find the movie memorable. Back then, besides all the religions he taught me about, my step-father was showing me how to build Jacobs ladders, Tesla coils, Van de Graff generators, etc. I was busy hooking the entire apartment building to my telephone in those days.

Again, when I was 9, I saw a science film in which hamsters were breathing underwater, reminds me of the scuba gear Jordan had.

I read somewhere that the date 9-9-99 is a problem also with the really old systems.

ah, all the computers will just explode because of Y2K bugs - just like Star Trek

KR, I'll admit that Real Genius was mostly juvenile, but I give it a lot of credit for creating and propagating a "playful scientist" stereotype. I've been close to "nerds" (intelligent hacker types) in my life (perhaps I am one as well), and that movie captured many of their/our good traits (while few other movies have).

they: What is their stated reason for stocking up on canned goods? Do they feel it will help them after the apocalypse or do they think the apocalypse is not happening so the canned goods will help them after the collapse of civilisation? Or is there a third option I haven't thought of?

I think it is mostly fear of collapse of civilisation...

I would love to know where the 9-9-99 urban myth came from and why it keeps getting propagated, as it is SO OBVIOUSLY B*S*!

Kristal_Rose - ah, to be young and hyperkinetic! I loved that movie. Was the girl who played Jordan ever in anything else?

actually it was printed in either Time or People. it said that it would only affect older systems. 9999 is supposedly a erase code on ancient computers.

Ah, but if 9-9-99 were represented as 9999, about 3/4 of all the days in any given year would be unrepresentable, which strikes me as seriously dysfunctional software design - and I feel sure people would have quit using it by now LOL

I just read in Time magazine at the dentist yesterday that some monk, dennis the short, blew his calculations, and the 2000th anniversary of the birth of Christ actually occurred back in 1997.

Of course, GPS runs out on 8/21/1999 - see End Of Week rollover issues...

When i was a DBA tech for United Way of the Bay Area, our system (still in use, i'm sure) used 9999 for cancels, but eris was right, dates wouldn't be represented like that. I can't seem to reach your GPS reference at the moment.
Jody- I don't know, I only watched it because bill recommended it. You still sound hyperkinetic to me.

**eris: The most significant effect is that older receivers completely lose their locks and must relock from scratch. In other words, they won't function for 10-15 minutes, exactly the same effect as if they were turned off for a long time.

Jasmine - flattery will get you nowhere ;).....

GPS really impressed me i found it used tri-lateration, not tri-angulation. I guess those sat's were powered with old TI-30's, unless they're trying to increase marker frequency, by employing a smaller date stamp. My favorite 'sat' story was about one of the space probes. As it visited another planet, beyond it's life expectancy, it's positioning capabilities were enhanced by beaming in new instructions to utilize the tape deck as a gyro-stabilizer.

I'm not that worried. There may be a few inconveniences, but over all I think that we're OK.

I don't know if you think it's crazy but I don't care in the least.