Comparing Y2K to 2012, page 1
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Topic started on 3-1-2010 @ 09:17 PM by hautmess
One thing i find annoying other then the users themselves are the skeptics about 2012 and its non-significance, Most are so quick so compare this to the year 2000 when i never herd anything about the end of the world when it came to y2k. The only thing i herd was that computers wouldn't be able to translate the switch from the 19 to the 20.. nothing to do with the end of the world.. Not only was Y2K about a computer glitch and not the end of the world the Y2K theory never had any evidence that the number switch would actually cause banks to go down and computers to crash.. It was over hyped on the media and again the media never mentioned anything about the end of the world when they talked about Y2K.. so how can you compare such a stupid thing to 2012..

It feels like this whole swine flu thing.. Over hype about a non existent flu just to get people to do a bunch of stupid # and spend money...

I'm starting to think Y2K & Swine Flu both were strategically mentioned to numb peoples thoughts even further, so when something actually significant comes up people wouldn't even think twice, and again compare...

There is a # load of evidence pointing towards 2012 and that it is significant, not in a end the world type of deal but a significance that .. i just dont understand how these people are so stupid to relate these events... its like people who say britney spears is the new madonna,, hello look what happens,, they all ate their words.

vent done.


reply posted on 3-1-2010 @ 09:23 PM by Sean48
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Brittany Spears is the new Madonna ??

2012 remindsme of a scene in a old Monty Python movie when they show

Moses coming off the mountain with 3 tablets.

He proclaims , "with these 15 (drops a tablet ) , With these 10

Commandments "

Its just a calendar date ending, Time to get a new Calender

Crisis Over


reply posted on 3-1-2010 @ 09:25 PM by hautmess
Originally posted by Sean48
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Brittany Spears is the new Madonna ??


Yes you herd it everywhere in the media, and again the media was wrong.



reply posted on 3-1-2010 @ 09:29 PM by jackflap
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THE NATION; The Year 2000 Problem. The Millennium Bug. Y2K. By any name, the looming crisis in computers has everyone wondering how bad things will be. Here's what the experts say. But today, a growing majority of the public rejects Y2K disaster scenarios as just too doomsday to be treated quite that seriously, according to a new USA TODAY/National Science Foundation Poll. "Complacency is wrong," says John Koskinen, the federal Y2K czar, assigned by the White House to oversee government's response to the computer bug. "This is a problem that doesn't solve itself." Dec 31, 1998


link

The United States government spent $8.8 billion dollars on Y2K fixes. Private U.S. businesses shelled out an estimated $100 billion dollars to prepare for the bug. Worldwide, Koskinen said that a half-trillion dollars had been spent to ward off Y2K computer problems. January 2, 2000


archives.cnn.com...

Worldwide a half-trillion dollars spent on y2k. I wonder if there is a 2012 fund yet?





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reply posted on 5-1-2010 @ 08:09 AM by davesidious
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You clearly weren't working in IT in the late 90s then. Millions of developers were working round the clock to ensure your ATMs kept working on 1/1/00, that your flights weren't delayed, that your home computer didn't start deleting all your files.

Saying it is a non-event only speaks of your ignorance of the subject. Saying it was a non-event in the fashion you did only speaks of your arrogance.

There was a LOT of evidence for the Y2K bug, and there is no evidence for the 2012 'predictions'. Saying otherwise, on either count, is a lie.


reply posted on 5-1-2010 @ 09:42 AM by SquirrelNutz
Originally posted by davesidious
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You clearly weren't working in IT in the late 90s then. Millions of developers were working round the clock to ensure your ATMs kept working on 1/1/00, that your flights weren't delayed, that your home computer didn't start deleting all your files.

Saying it is a non-event only speaks of your ignorance of the subject. Saying it was a non-event in the fashion you did only speaks of your arrogance.

There was a LOT of evidence for the Y2K bug, and there is no evidence for the 2012 'predictions'. Saying otherwise, on either count, is a lie.


1) correct - Clearly, it WAS an 'event' - anyone saying it wasn't is obviously not thinking it through.

2) right again - There WAS lots of evidence for a Y2K bug - none of which implied an apocalyptic end of times. the problem was all man made

3) Say what?! "No evidence for 2012 'predictions'?" Okay, dude - you clearly are not spending enough time in other areas of this site - the SCIENTIFIC / HISTORICAL / GEOLOGICAL evidence is everywhere, and IT is entirely natural / cosmic.

Don't get any sand in your nose.



[edit on 1/5/2010 by SquirrelNutz]
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