We Ed... were you there at the time coz it sure doesn't sound like it. We had the prophets of doom predicting a world-wide collapse of society. We had thousands of people predicting chaos and disaster. People filled up their tubs with water expecting the water companies to fail. Spam (canned meat) had its biggest sales in history as people expected the food distribution system to fail. Batteries and torches and candles were the order of the day as people expected to be living without major services. No-one wanted to fly over midnight in case the planes crashed.
As IT professionals, we knew better, but did that stop the panic? Nope. It was absurd and embarrassingly ridiculous to hear some of the expectations about the End of the World as we knew it. Y2K sounded a LOT like Global Warming. Same premise (end of the World), same logic (none) and identical result (panic). If I were a conspiracy theorist (and I am most definitely not - quite the contrary) I would say that Y2K was the practice run for Global Warming. But seriously, how can anyone genuinely support GW whole-heartedly when its single major premise (global warming) isn't occurring and temperatures are dropping? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Leafe Sent: Friday, 21 November 2008 7:43 AM To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: [OT] A**hole Gore and his junk "science" whore On Nov 20, 2008, at 2:48 PM, Geoff Flight wrote: > I remember Y2K... this feels familiar. Yeah - I remember Y2K too. What happened was that a problem was identified, and steps were taken to fix it before it caused horrible problems. Sounds like a good way to deal with things. -- Ed Leafe [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
