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-- Anonymous, September 14, 2001

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-- Anonymous, September 14, 2001
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Y2k? come-on

-- Anonymous, September 14, 2001

Ban ALL carry-on luggage?

Nay, "lets look that over first guys" cause many of our customers like their DVD players and Laptops". Yes we know it is a NOBRAINER on safety, but "what are the chances"? Hell let this "thing" blowover and keep the "right" of our "customers" to bring any damn thing they can carry onto commercial jetliners.

America is in Shock? Hardly...many never missed a beat.

-- Anonymous, September 14, 2001

Go ask this SCUMBAG now trying to take credit for y2k preps saving Wall St. Corps.

http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php? s=ad91889447de13030be35276342e4862&threadid=6740

In addition to the dozens of emails I've received from people all over the world who wanted to express their sympathy and condolences, I've also received numerous emails from people asking "Is this what Y2K was all about?"

Well, obviously, the Y2K computer problem had nothing to do with massive, coordinated terrorist attacks ... except that one of the associated risks that we did worry about during those days was the possibility of just such an attack. Indeed, it seems that we came fairly close to such an event on New Year's Eve, if the authorities had not captured a couple of would-be terrorists crossing the border from Canada.

In any case, it does seem that Y2K preparations may have provided some degree of assistance for the companies located in the WTC; and it may have provided some assistance for the various telco's and ISP's who are madly scrambling to re-route their systems after their switching systems were destroyed in the basement of the WTC.

On a personal level, I've heard from several people who said, "Thank goodness for the preparations, and also for the mindset that I developed during the buildup to Y2K." For anyone living south of 14th Street in Manhattan, all of this has presumably had a real, tangible, immediate payoff. But perhaps equally important, it has provided some degree of reassurance for people everywhere else -- as they realize that they have the physical and mental preparations to help them cope with whatever infrastructure disruptions might occur as a result of this awful tragedy. If nothing else, the term "bug-out bag" has achieved a new level of respect in the community...

One of the many aspects of this crisis that has occurred to me is the "six-degrees-of-separation" concept. I've got a relatively tight circle of immediate family and friends, and thankfully all of them are safe. But at the next, "second-degree" layer consisting of "friends of friends," I've already recorded two casualties -- one of whom was on the American flight that got hijacked out of Boston. As we begin to put the pieces together, I'm sure that all of us are going to be saddened and shocked by the number of 2nd-layer and 3rd-layer casualties. After all, with an estimated 10,000 or 20,000 casualties, it's almost impossible not to end up knowing someone who knew someone who knew a victim of the attack.

Best wishes to everyone. Keep your family close and safe in the days ahead.

Ed



-- Anonymous, September 14, 2001
Something very shitty happened. It had nothing to do with y2k or with Ed Yourdon but it really did happen. We are no longer speculating on doom scenarios. We are reacting to the reality of doom.

If anyone is still a "pollyana", they are totally out of touch. Come to think of it, that is the definition of a pollyana (as opposed to an optimist).

-- Anonymous, September 14, 2001

Lars -- "back then", I don't know how many times I said exactly what you just wrote. That Debunkers weren't "pollies", due to the fact that by definition a pollyanna isn't in touch with reality. But the Doomers saw it as, either you're a Doomer, or you're an out-of-touch Polly. No such thing as an in-touch optimist.

Ed Yourdon saying that Y2k preps have been helping to see the New Yorkers through this thing is such a complete load of (flying) pig manure. We know just a bit about living through disasters around here, and I can tell you straight up that Y2k preps had absolutely *zero* to do with eastern NC getting through Floyd as well as we did.

It had nothing to do with Y2k preps, but everything to do with ingenuity, common sense, pulling together to help your fellow man, intelligence, pooling scarce resources, people with relevant skills stepping up to help where those skills could best be put to good use, a "never-say-quit" attitude, etc. etc.

The same things we're seeing right now in NYC and DC. Nothing to do with Y2k preps whatsoever. It's amazing that those people on that board even think to try and perpetuate that dung-barge they keep pushing, this much later. Sheer insanity.

-- Anonymous, September 14, 2001

"Ban ALL carry-on luggage?"

You know, I will agree that carry-on has gotten out of control, but I think you are making a very unfair blanket statement. As a frequent traveller I have learned through hard experiance to always carry a change of clothes, shaving kit (yes I use Mach 3's to shave, and I am waiting to hear what the airlnes have to say about those), and if I am on assignment, my laptop and camera. Why do I carry these specific items?

Well see how you feel when you are on assignment for a magazine, you land in Huntsville,AL and you have no checked luggage. You have an 7:00 AM call to be at a press confrence and you would have no fresh clothes, no credentials, no camera equipment, no tape recorder, no notebook to write notes and no way to shave. Luckily I had all the above mentioned items in my backpack. If I hadn't? Well gee, guess who would have been fired over the phone.

Rick

-- Anonymous, September 14, 2001

DEAD or the pain of stopping at the Airport Shops for a fresh pair of boxers, gee what a hardship. We are at WAR, remember?

Your reply sounds like what the local Chowderhead TV gal said yesterday about this ATTACK. She said, and I quote exactly.."when events like this happen people organize vigils".

I seriously think short of a nuke erasing say Tucson, many around will never wake-up. Their zombie like state is so deep, so entrenched we "debate" carry-on luggage after what we had last Tuesday as being to inconvenient, to fucking bad, make arrangments.

But at the least give-up your stupid need to just oppose me for crying out loud with any old lame spew which made sense before the world changed.

-- Anonymous, September 16, 2001

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