Vladimir Z. Nuri wrote:

some people have talked about the y2k problem here, the "year 2000 problem". as programmers know, is the name given to the glitches that are caused by software malfunctioning because it only used 2 characters for the date field.

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some recent new data and analysis by someone named Gary North causes me to rethink my position. it's somewhat alarmist, but he's got some excellent evidence. he believes the year 2000 problem is vastly more serious than anyone has realized. he thinks it may even lead to bank panics and instabilities in the entire worldwide economic system.

There is an underground computer organization in place which is actively working toward sabotaging government and corporate efforts to resolve the Year 2000 problems. They began coordinating their efforts in 1990, almost a decade before the powers-that-be will finally get around to recognizing the need to definitively move on the matter in a major way. In essence, the goals of the organization have been to promote the most unwieldy, unworkable and inefficient solutions possible to the Year 2000 programming problems which exist on various platforms. It was forseen that the problem would be a weak point in the New Electronic World Order that could be effectively used to inject chaos and diversion into the plans of the secret world governments to turn the Internet into a tool of government and corporate fascism. The end goal is to be able to manage a breakdown of the current world-power structure in a manner that will allow society to be able to survive and continue, while shifting the source of power and control to the innovative individuals and organizations who are able to adapt and evolve in the InterActive Electronic Age of Communication. The problems of creeping fascism are closely related to the problems that result from statism. Even anarchist recognize the need for social order and contracts, but not at gunpoint--not in a static system which results in the rich getting richer and the strong getting stronger. A controlled breadown of existing systems will prevent the stifling of our freedom to grow and evolve by those whose interests lie in crushing innovation and evolutionary progress. It will give those who have the capacity to adapt and survive an edge in the development of the evolving Age of Information. We are on the threshold of the dawning of a New Age which will be every bit as world-changing as the Industrial Revolution. It is up to each of us, as individuals, to choose whether we will attempt to cling blindly to the past or stride boldly into the future. The criminals who are currently in power are a danger to our lives and our freedom. Their interest lies in maintaining the currently prevailing power structures, and in stifling and oppressing those ideas and individuals who threaten their hold on the reigns of power. There is a need for spies and saboteurs who are capable of working on their own, or in small cells, to disrupt the attempts of the fascists, the censors, the power-grabbers, to define, rate and censor, to control and manipulate world markets and currencies, to monitor all activities and communications and suppress those who would think or act in ways which are contrary to the goals of the New Electronic World Order. The "Digital Revolution" began almost a decade ago, regardless of when "Wired" copyrighted the phrase. Feel free to join the revolution and do your part to change the course of history. Government and Corporate fascism is much like configurable software--it "defaults" to certain settings, but the more individuals who customize it to meet their own needs, then the more those who produce that software will have to strive to meet the legitimate needs of the *users* in order to retain their votes/market-share, instead of requiring the users to bend to meet the "legitimate" needs of the Fa$cists and Ca$h Cow$. Your rights and freedoms are your inheritance. Will you allow them to be sold for a "bowl of pottage?" Bubba Rom Dos '0' if by land. '1' if by sea. 'NULL' if by air.