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I remember Y2K. I wrote the letters, for the Company that I was working for at the time. That said that the several hundred (PLC's) Industrial Programmable Logic Controllers would not be affected and then charged a couple of thousand each for the letter.
CUZ, where did you get your list? You should give credit.
CPAC starts today! Should be lots of fear mongering at that. CAUTION! Tried to look at the schedule of speakers. Look at their website only if you dare. It immediately trys to take over your computer.
Here is a safer CPAC description site brought to you by NPR. Interesting that Trump is the Keynote speaker and that he boycotted it in 2016 because they wanted him to answer questions.
Sue, You need to recall,
Everything and anything run by a computer were vulnerable. Planes were going to fall out of the sky, newer vehicles were going to be disabled, food supplies gone, people trapped in elevators, the sale of y2k insurance, generator sales, gasoline, guns, survival gear, packaged food, all had record sales. It was the lead topic on every late night show for over a year.
https://www.throwbacks.com/y2k-was-the-biggest-disaster-that-never-happened-2/
If that event were to have happened in today's world of fear mongering social media, you would see panic that would make covid look like a runny nose.
Twenty one years later, people forget or refuse to admit their state of mind in Dec. 1999.
Frequently, an outgoing President will deliver the State of the Union message. Sometimes, especially in recent decades, the new President delivers it. There's nothing firm about which President will deliver it when there's a transition in January.
I remember Y2K, and I didn't hear anyone say it was going to kill us all. They did predict a good deal of disruption if computers were not fixed, and I don't think that corporations would have thrown so many resources at it if they thought it was fear-mongering. Certainly I spent a lot of time and effort amending computer systems to cope, and they would definitely have failed if I had not.
Cuz, You can do the same thing for Republican fear mongering. Start with The L word etc. Rush (Bless his cigar smoking lungs) was the master at it.
Follow the money. Boycott the Pillow Guy and Publix for starters.
2000 - Y2K is going to kill us all!
2001 – Anthrax is going to kill us all!
2002 – West Nile virus is going to kill us all!
2003 – Sars is going to kill us all!
2005 – Bird flu is going to kill us all!
2006 – Ecoli is going to kill us all!
2008 – Financial collapse is going to kill us all!
2009 – Swine flu is going to kill us all!
2012 – The Mayan calendar predicts the world is ending!
2013 – North Korea is going to kill us all!
2014 – Ebola virus is going to kill us all!
2015 - ISIS is going to kill us all!
2016 – Zika virus is going to kill us all!
2017- Trump is going to war with Iran!
2018 – Trump is going to war with China!
2019 - Trump is going to war with Korea!
2020 – Chinese virus is going to kill us all!
2021 – Biden is too feeble to manage the nuclear codes!
The truth is FEAR is going to kill you.
Turn off the TV,
Turn off your radio,
Stay off social media and wash your hands.
We got Reagan in 1981, Limbaugh in 1988, and FOX in 1996 creating the toxic soup that Trump managed to stir and bring to a boil.
So even though we want to say to these particular Republicans eat shit and die, we need to come up with a new menu and better "servers" to bring it to them.
This is not going to be easy, and we most definitely are going to lose our patience with one another in the process. Thom hit the basics; tell the truth and do the right thing.
I urge everyone to "know who you are sitting in the room with". This will help you get your job done, pick great friends and the best partner. From there, you can work toward peace, love & understanding, which by the way, is not funny (old song).
If you are still feeling particularly hateful, you can always go for knowing your enemy. In my quest for understanding over the years, I have read the following books. I am convinced it is about how people are "wired", which also has to do with how one is "reared".
The Gene: An Intimate History-Siddhartha Mukherjee
Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are-Sebastian Seung
The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science-and Reality-Chris Mooney
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cuz' family used to be tobacco farmers and he doesn't understand why he can't be one too.
CrAZY talk from #24 (if you can actually decipher what is being said).
Palast was exactly right about the circumstances leading up to this disaster -
and we're talking about decades, not days. The irony of this overarching
screed of #24 is that it is precisely this mental state that obliges us to rely
on the goodness of proper government action. Government often exists
in order to protect us from ourselves - especially from bimbo idiots who
probably feel that our neighbors to the north (Oklahoma) should have all
been "prepared individual(s)" who built tornado-proof homes. A pox on idiots
like this when they have an emergency situation that was thrust on them.
I wish it was that nice Tina, but it wasn't. If you were a racial or religious minority forget about living anywhere you wanted to. If you were a woman getting a serious career was a terrible challenge. And looming over everything was the feeling that an atom bomb could drop on your head at any time (I was there, and '50s alien and moster movies and Twilight Zone episodes catch that paranoid feeling very well). Oh, and let's not forget massive pollution, minimal safety standards, and virtually no concern for what America's military, CIA or corporations did abroad.
Sure some things were much nicer, and for many it was a much more hopeful and perhaps happier country. It certainly was much friendlier and more relaxed. I miss those aspects of the time very much. But for many it certainly was not a golden age. What did work better was Congress, and according to a reporter I know who covered D.C. there were two things happening here: With no jets most people in the House and Senate stayed around on weekends, put their differences aside, and socialized. And also most of them had been throgh WW2 and understood some things about cooperation that we have forgotten. I do not see them coming back soon either.
In other words, Republicans are the party of death, and Democrats are the party of life.
It's painfully obvious in the war-ravaged aftermath of the last election that Republicans are trying to form a more imperfect union while Democrats are trying to clean up the horrible mess they inherited. And then, surprise, the destroyers of democracy whine that the true patriots aren't working hard enough or fast enough to fix the damage, as if they're responsible for Republicans' malfeasance. It's like a drunk who pukes on the floor and then bitches at the swamper for missing a spot.
I would really like to have this country go back before Reagan. It would be nice to take it back to the fifties era. People earned a decent living, could live anywhere they wanted to, had money in their pockets. If you listen to the music of the fifties..it was happy. This country has gone down a very dark path..creating massive poverty, destruction of the soul and no empathy for anyone. Greed has replaced decency. It's all about the bottomline of business. It's not about humanity...no concern for the people who toil in this country to try to make a living for themselves and their families. We all live in fear of losing everything we've worked for and landing out in the streets. That new movie on Netflix called "I care a lot"...this what has become of our country..take all of our hard earned money, put us in squaled living conditions, control us and come off like this is normal. It is not normal. The wealthy and corporations need to pay their fair share of taxes. If you folks haven't watched the Panama Papers..please do. This shows how rotten these oligarchs really are. We need to bombard Biden and Harris to take us back to the 1950's tax era so America can truly be great again.
When the Democrats are gone
And only GOP remain
The Democrats will still be blamed
For safety nets aflame
G O P:
Genocide's
Our
Plan
Great links, Legend, for correcting delusional disinformation parroted by Limbaugh dead-enders suffering from an inability "to cover up dementia" -- so far, a glaring failure of self-awareness.
The difference between listening to Biden haters "stammer and stumble" through the programmed talking points -- i.e., lies -- of a rudderless Republican Party that lost its demented Dear Leader and listening to the other far-out, looney-tune conspiracy theories propagated by the far-far-right (some of which are similarly on proud display in post #4) is only a matter of degree in the value of comic relief.
As "for the fools attempting to defend" the indefensible, "who can't read" or absorb the larger countervailing truths of human-caused climate destruction, "let's dumb it down" even further by reviewing the basics yet again, for the umpteenth time. Follow the science and the economic facts, ditto-head people, "and pretend you are not being" a typical Republican lost in fossil-fuel-industry lies:
As Thom said, "It's time to end the lies and consign today's Republican Party to the dustbin of history."
lifesizedolls4company the rich don't want to reduce the population. Our economic model, from which they profit, is based on continuous growth. They may carelessly reduce the population and kill off the planet, but not by deliberately reducing our numbers.
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Why use tar sands at all? They are an evironmental nightmare. It is Canada's problem. The remaining Koch Brother is about the only one that benefits from it. Seems like it is the last source for oil that you would want to use. Basically, it costs more to produce than it is worth. Just for starters:
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Thom,
Your guest Greg Palace was uninformed retlated to the power interuptions in Texas. Although, reliability regions are interconnected, there is insufficent transmission interconnection to tranmit the power demand which occurred in Texas as a result of the loss of generation. Florida is only has a couple of transmission interconnections to the North. The major load centers are in the South Florida and therefore the power stations. The transmission interconnects are not designed to carry 100% of the demand to another region. Additionally, if Texas had typical transmission interconnects and Texas began to lose generation and did not shed load, the interconnects would have tripped due isolate the disruption to prevent to voltage sags impacting neighboring regions. The solution? You can build infrastructure for every contingency but no one could pay the bill. This is not a Dem or Rep issue rather individual preparedness. A prepared individual would have isolated their water at the street and drained their pipes, filled tubs in advance for flush water, bought some sternos or gas for the grills. We have become soft and dependent on others/government to live our lives. The same tool people use to follow politicians, movie stars and post stupid things provides all the information a person could use and have been relatively unaffected by the weather event.