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-- Anonymous, October 05, 2001

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A little sample to whet your appetites.

Chapter 11: Choosing a time-frame for prepping. Based on Chapter 1 of Time Bomb 2000, updated and revised. Basing one's plan on the possibility of a disruption lasting for a few days, a few months, a few years.

Chapter 12: Top-down versus bottom-up planning. Basing one's prepping plans on "top-down" advice, guidelines, recommendations, and regulations from federal, state, or local government agencies -- versus plans based on "bottom-up," grass-roots "emergent" networks of family members, neighbors, and networks of like-minded individuals.

Chapter 13: Building resilience into the prepping plan. The risks of a "brittle" life-style, based on the assumption that things will always work the way they're supposed to (you always get a dial tone when you pick up the phone, FedEx can always be trusted when you absolutely, positively have to get a package somewhere overnight, etc). A contrasting model: the Internet, which is always slightly "broken," andwhich is designed to "work around" local failures. Practical plans and strategies for achieving a greater degree of flexibility and resilience in one's everyday life.

Chapter 14: Safe havens. Suppose that you and your family members were in different parts of the city -- at school, at work, at home, shopping at the local mall, etc. And suppose that a crisis like the World Trade Center attack occurred, and that your family members were unreachable by cell phone or other conventional means. Suppose the crisis was so immediate, and so severe, that neither you nor your family members could go home to regroup and hunker down. Where would you go? How would you get there? If the "primary" location was unavailable or unreachable, where would you go next? How would the rest of your family members know when, where, how, and under what conditions they should drop whatever they're doing, and head for the pre-determined safe haven? These are the topics to be discussed in this chapter.

-- Anonymous, October 05, 2001

What a marooooooooooon!

ROFLMAO!!!

-- Anonymous, October 06, 2001

Not really, he smells a big market just like Gary Duct Tape convinced him that there was a big market for StenchBomb2k. After the initial marketing down legitimate channels for Prentice, they took the survivalist, kook, fringe route. The rest is history.

Now he must think he can do it again. Considering that his "professional reputation" was self destructed, he probably has lots of time on his hands and of course, a nice Word Processor to copy StenchBomb for StinkThreats_2002.

After a month of some attempt at decency, you will see the rest of them come out from under their rocks, Hyatt, Duct Tape (who has started) and McElvaney.

The difference this time is everyone will peg them and Your-Taos- Toast-ED for what they are : FRINGERS.

-- Anonymous, October 06, 2001

All you are talking (ranting?) about is a matter of degree. Most folks I know have a "rainy day" fund set aside. Most people have a spare tire in their trunk. Some people even belong to that well know "doomer" group, AAA. Lots of otherwise sane people have life insurance. My God, pay for something that is only worth a crap when I die!?!?!? Talk about doomer mentality!

-- Anonymous, October 07, 2001

Toasty-ED is not selling "insurance" or any normal forms of redundancy.

Instead, he and the rest of the "survivalists" peddle what is best described as "Comet Insurance" or preps for the worst case of the worst possible case. The problem with that mentality is the failure to recognize that "we are all in this together" which in turn leads to those lovely statements that the moronic make about "I will defend my preps and I have 20,000 rounds to do it with".

Then you have the most idiotic form of "preps" preached by Beach Ball Bruce and Gary Duct Tape, the "get out of the cities now before its too late".

After every major disaster such as a hurricane or major flood, all efforts are concentrated on the largest not the smallest concentration of population.

-- Anonymous, October 07, 2001

You're not keeping up, Charlie. Hyatt actually came on TB2k FIRST [forgot when...maybe a few weeks ago] talking about revising HIS book. THEN Ed came on, talking about revising HIS. They're both soliciting the people there for information to include and queries as to whether they think the book(s) will sell, and they're both receiving expressions of adulation. It's almost too sad to watch AGAIN.

-- Anonymous, October 08, 2001

Well, the funniest thing to me is that Ed Yourdon used to write books about Systems Analysis and now he's nothing but a snake-oil salesman.

-- Anonymous, October 08, 2001

Buddy:

In retrospect, we are all snake-oil sales people [notice the pc there].

Anita:

You're not keeping up, Charlie. Hyatt actually came on TB2k FIRST [forgot when...maybe a few weeks ago] talking about revising HIS book. THEN Ed came on, talking about revising HIS.

As I recall, someone else there is also writing the same kind of book. That would be three. I feel sorry for some of those folks, but it is their money and I am not in the judgement business. Hey, I waste my money on other things. Can't save them all: that is al-d's job. :)

Best Wishes,,,,

Z

-- Anonymous, October 08, 2001