[107246] in Cypherpunks
Re: There's Something About Gary
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Mynott)
Thu Jan 7 09:11:46 1999
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 13:53:43 +0000
From: Steve Mynott <steve@tightrope.demon.co.uk>
To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
In-Reply-To: <199901071329.FAA07342@smtp.well.com>; from Declan McCullagh on Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 08:33:33AM -0500
Reply-To: Steve Mynott <steve@tightrope.demon.co.uk>
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 08:33:33AM -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote:
> >
> > In 1980, he forecast rationing of housing
> > and a nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
> > He warned his followers to buy "gold,
> > silver, a safe place outside the major
> > cities."
> >
> > Then AIDS became the threat: "In 1992,
> > we will run out of available hospital
> > beds.... The world will eventually panic,"
> > he wrote in 1987.
> >
> > Now North has found Y2K and a skittish
> > audience receptive to predictions of
> > doom.
So all the "world will end in Y2K" stuff is just bullshit!
pity...
--
1024/D9C69DF9 steve mynott steve@tightrope.demon.co.uk http://www.pineal.com/
if a equals success, then the formula is _ a = _ x + _ y + _ z. _ x is
work. _ y is play. _ z is keep your mouth shut. -- albert einstein
