-Caveat Lector- Sent: Saturday, June 19, 1999 6:18 PM Subject: Fw: [lsry2k] Hamasaki's June 14 report > Cory Hamasaki is a 20 year programmer,. Cobol expert and Y2K Remediator. > flw > > http://www.kiyoinc.com/WRP122.HTM > > cory hamasaki's DC Y2K Weather Report > > > > June 14, 1999 - 200 days to go. WRP122 > > Corporate management should face up to it. The > > remediation has failed. > > > > The June 15th Horn report tries to put on a positive > > front but this is June. They didn't make March 31, > > 1999. > > > > Remember last year when Al Gore clenched his fist, > > shook it to show how excited he was, and promised that > > the government would be ready in March? The government > > didn't make March 1999, won't make June 1999, or > > December 31, 1999 at midnight when the fundamental > > laws of the universe change. When for the first time > > ever, in millions of computers around the world, the > > rule that yesterday comes before tomorrow is not true. > > > > > > The rule that you are paid at the end of the month, > > the rule that if you don't pay your bills by the 15th, > > you are late, the rule that a day falls in a month, > > all these rules may not be true, or they might be. In > > a sense, one plus one might not always equal two. > > > > > > For most of us, there will not be a good outcome to > > this. A few, the lucky, those in the right place with > > the right attitude and skills may do well but there is > > no guarentee. Most of us will suffer in this. > > > > > > Here's the problem. The prosperity of the last 20 > > years was driven by automation, software, laser > > communications, technology. Everyone likes to think > > that their own specialty is responsible for the > > success. While all helped, it was software and micro > > electronics that drove the prosperity. In 200 days, a > > killing event will strike at the technology. The event > > will undo some percentage of the efficiency that gives > > us prosperity. It can't be stopped, you cannot > > negotiate with it. It will happen and we will all > > experience the consequences. > > > > > > > > It's like kicking at an ant hill, knocking down a > > beehive. Something will happen, don't be in the way, > > don't be far from home. Know where your loved ones > > are. Keep them close, have a plan. You have less than > > 200 days to erect contingencies. > > > > > > > > This killing event could have been an irritant, a rash > > on the corporate butt, but they ignored it for too > > long, it festered and spread, acquired a resistance > > much like a staph aureus, and now we'll have whole > > wards down, spiking 105, and we're out of Amikacin. > > The gree-gree don't work no more. > > > > > > > > Go on, have your happy-talk meetings. Send out your > > Kosky, I have a big brain, brochures and posters. It's > > too late to fix the problem. There will be a crash > > landing; brace for impact. > > > > > > > > This doesn't mean that we die. There are precautions > > that we can take. There are preparations that can be > > made. > > > > > > > > One of the more shocking items I've learned from the > > WDC Y2K meetings is that large corporations are taking > > Y2K very seriously. A year ago, the Y2K VP of a > > multi-national corporation told me that they were > > hardening their facilities, stockpiling diesel for > > their generators, getting ready to "Un-wind" from > > troubled countries. > > > > > > > > Over the last year, other VPs have whispered that > > their corporations are making contingency plans, > > stockpiling, pre-arranging evacuations, storing cash, > > getting ready in ways that seem extreme. > > > > > > > > The best prepared, the most knowledgeable of the > > corporations are scared. I don't have their level of > > preparation. I have some food, some water storage > > containers, a 10 watt solar panel, and enough wood to > > keep from freezing for one mild winter. If an eskimo > > hunter can live on the ice, I can survive in a house > > with a fireplace. > > > > > > > > I also have fall back plans. The sites are prepared. > > Not to the level they should be. Every week, I do > > something to get ready. > > > > > > > > While it's fun to pick on Kosky's big brain, this > > isn't about him. He's a throw-away. When things go > > bad, Bill and Al will have someone to shake their > > finger at. "He never told us that Y2K was a problem, > > John Ko-Skin-em!" > > > > > > > > Even then, that's not where the problem is. The > > problem is in the mid to large corporations, the ones > > that are slipping their schedules, sending happy-talk > > reports up the chain, where the CIO's are looking out > > the window, babbling like Dilbert's boss (Dilbert is > > rerunning the Y2K episode next week.) The problem > > isn't small business, it's not the 50 person shop. > > It's the enterprises that are at 20 million/year and > > up or perform critical services like a much larger > > enterprise using a powerful computing infrastructure. > > > > > > > > An example might be a small firm that collects medical > > claims and aggregates them for other organizations. > > They represent a single point of failure for others. > > > > > > > > I've gotten reports of unusual sales and shortages of > > pellet stoves, lamp oil, and wicks. One of my pals has > > been monitoring her local stores and the shelves are > > empty. This is in the Exurbs of Northern Virginia. > > > > > > > > Just today (June 17) a report came in of a Y2K test in > > Van Nuys that spilled 4 million gallons of raw sewage > > into a park. Pee-yew-ie. I knew a guy who worked at > > Bollling AFB, he used to drive by the Naval Orange > > Research Lab, one day, he said, cory, I don't know > > what the Navy is doing but it must be a poison gas > > experiment, the smell, I got dizzy driving by the lab. > > (The DeeCee Blue Plains Water Treatment Plant is next > > to the highway. You can see them pushing brown hills > > with bulldozers.) > > > > > > > > How many water treatment plants have run tests? Three, > > eight, a hundred? What about plants that make halogen > > gas, acids, pesticides, explosives, stuff that will > > take chrome off bumpers? What about boilers, > > pressurized steam, foundries, molten metal, uh-oh. > > Whoa-OH! > > > > > > > > I have received two more reports of predators. One was > > a gas station conversation, what does Y2K mean? > > Answer, Time to Loot. > > > > > > > > We don't have solid numbers or an understanding of > > whether this is just some boyz talking jive or a > > serious risk. I know that Timberwolf doesn't kid > > around but I also believe that he will come down on > > the side of good. He has been making his preparations. > > His home is actually near my Site-B, he has a Site-C > > that is farther out than paul milne, about 9 hours > > from DeeCee in North Carolina. > > > > > > > > 200 days and counting. Get ready. . > > > > (c) 1998, 1999 Cory Hamasaki - I grant permission to > > distribute and reproduce this newsletter as long as > > this entire document is reproduced in its entirety. > > You may optionally quote an individual article but you > > should include this header down to the tearline or > > provide a link to the header. I do not grant > > permission to a commercial publisher to reprint this > > in print media. 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