It was a series of small corporate donations!

Gotta love the ol, "Judge, they can't tell the jury what I did, that would inflame them".

You Y2K cooks were adorable.

What's worse is that Ted never even realized that what they actually gave him was a jack-in-the-box.

JerseyTim: You Y2K cooks were adorable.

Cooks? Did someone make a nice Y2K pasta sauce or something?

Locke3k: JerseyTim: You Y2K cooks were adorable.

Cooks? Did someone make a nice Y2K pasta sauce or something?

Yes. I've got a bunker filled with canned tomatoes and I'm going to spend the rest of my life eating it, dammit.

The United States will prove this through, among other evidence, an October 10, 1999 email written by Stevens to a personal friend, in which Stevens wrote:

Shenanigans. Stevens doesn't know how to send internets.

JerseyTim: You Y2K cooks were adorable.

In 1999 I was working at Cracker Barrel. On New Year's Eve, I stopped by to pick up my paycheck. The parking lot was filled with trucks and campers packed to the roof with signs that said "Y2K is coming!" and "Heading for the hills!"

I giggled a bit at midnight when everything didn't come crashing down.

\2038 bug is real, though

Nestea Plunge: Y2K paranoids cracked me up. Jackasses.

I was consulting back at the time and travelling constantly. I could not believe the sheer number of Y2K con artits I met on the road. All of them trying to sell me on their Y2K certification services. I was consulting for Oracle. Who the fark did they think they were trying to fool? And they'd get really belligerent when I wouldn't buy their scam. Worse than Amway people.

I was the database admin for a company that went south in 2004 but until then, made record earnings. The boss cried to me about Y2K. I assured him I'd handle it and told him to have a safe and secure New Years.

That night I caught a plane to Miami. The drunken debauchery on New Year's, the which had never been seen since. We closed down The Clevlander (the Clevland Steamer for those in the know) and just about every other pretentious hipster place on the strip.

I staggered into work the next Monday and was given a bonus for keeping everything under control. It wasn't easy but thank God I had the fortitude to maintain some semblance of control.

Oh and Ted Stevens deserves to die of AIDS. Starting....now.

Well, guys, the internet doesn't run on diesel fuel. It's not a truck for frig's sake! How many times must this man tell you that?

Soon to be a whale oil-powered chalet.

Actually, when I lived in Anchorage, just about everyone had a standby generator on their home.. but we lived up on Hillside (a suburb) which is basically on the side of a mountain. When the power went out in the winter, you're dead in a few hours unless you have electricity... so.. yeah.

/Service High '93

xtex: Actually, when I lived in Anchorage, just about everyone had a standby generator on their home.. but we lived up on Hillside (a suburb) which is basically on the side of a mountain. When the power went out in the winter, you're dead in a few hours unless you have electricity... so.. yeah.

/Service High '93

Well sure. I have a generator in case of hurricanes here. But nobody just decided to give it to me.

Mugato: and just about every other pretentious hipster place on the strip.

You hit the Crowbar?

I hear he didn't even have to pay premium on his Old Glory Robot Insurance.

/hotlinked across a series of tubes, because I enjoy clogging them

Does he also own a truck? Most Alaskans do...

We still have the 2012-ers to look forward to. Not Innernetz related, but still capable of generating major comedy. And lulz.

Dear Ted:

If there is any justice in the world, you will find out that prison is a series of tubes that will be inserted into your rectum on a daily basis by the cellblock conga line that forms to the right of your cell door.

Yours in Christ.... Rann

At least the whole scare brought us that episode of Dilbert.

Y2K? You selling chicken or sex jelly?

yadoso: We still have the 2012-ers to look forward to. Not Innernetz related, but still capable of generating major comedy. And lulz.

Right now I'm in South Pole, observing Nibiru, so I'm getting a kick out of your reply

So, the guy that was (is?) in charge of regulating the internet was one of the nuts that believed that Y2K wasn't well in hand YEARS before?

Seriously, it's an internal clock. It didn't take THAT much of a software/firmware update to fix it. I had to show my dad back in 1999 that his computer was Y2K capable by changing his "99" to "1999." He wouldn't believe me otherwise, and thought I did some sort of amazing programing achievement.

Seriously. He was trying to have everyone he knew bring their computers over to his house the week I was there, telling everyone that I would "reprogram them for Y2K" for them.

LewDux: yadoso: We still have the 2012-ers to look forward to. Not Innernetz related, but still capable of generating major comedy. And lulz.

Right now I'm in South Pole, observing Nibiru, so I'm getting a kick out of your reply

That should be a handy place to be when 2012 comes. And you can make a fortune off selling "Phalanx" while you're at it.

rufus-t-firefly: Y2K? You selling chicken or sex jelly?

Bravo, good sir.

JerseyTim: Yes. I've got a bunker filled with canned tomatoes and I'm going to spend the rest of my life eating it, dammit.

To be fair, that's what you were planning to do with them anyway...

I remember watching the news when Y2K rolled around. There were genuinely disappointed in the lack of chaos.
=Smidge=

My poor little brother was only 10 in 1999. He was very worried because of all the fearmongering. At the New Years party, somebody tripped the house main breaker as a gag. He was so freaked out that he went and hid in the basement for 14 hours terrified that civilization was coming to an end.

I seriously thought this was a public display on behalf of investigators meant to take Stevens out of his role of protector for his son and Mirkowski.

Now that some more details are coming out about what's in the actual filing, this could be interesting.

PirateKing: He was so freaked out that he went and hid in the basement for 14 hours terrified that civilization was coming to an end.

Thank you for that. The only way I could enjoy that story more is if you dug up some old VHS tape of him crying in the dark under the basement stares and uploaded it to YouTube.

The Icelander:

In 1999 I was working at Cracker Barrel. On New Year's Eve, I stopped by to pick up my paycheck. The parking lot was filled with trucks and campers packed to the roof with signs that said "Y2K is coming!" and "Heading for the hills!"

I giggled a bit at midnight when everything didn't come crashing down.

In 1999 I was working for a consulting company for a number of companies, including a couple of healthcare concerns. I ended up as the Y2k team lead for pretty much all of our clients.

Lots of BIOS upgrades, lots of setting up SNTP proxies and getting off of WINS, there actually would have been a lot of problems come new-year's day if I hadn't done that work.

Well, ok, a lot of people wouldn't have been able to file health care claims, that much I can speak for firsthand.

After midnight I was attending a party at a hotel in downtown Baltimore where a friend's band was playing... He got me in as a roadie... I got a series of pages from all the major servers I was responsible for letting me know that they had kicked over properly and half a year's work wasn't in vain, so... Yay me!

BTW, The Icelander, I think Cracker Barrel was a client of the clients for one of the healthcare brokers I worked for.

You're welcome... :)

It's easy to say that it was a non-problem if A) you weren't involved and B) other people saw the problem in advance and dealt with it.

It's only when you *fail* at dealing with problems that most people learn your name.

hrm...i had him pegged as a steampunk.

I had a strange phone call a couple of nights ago. I picked up the phone, and a recording on the other end said, "Hi, I'm Ted Stevens and I'd like to invite you to a teleconference town hall meeting already in progress." So, um, I actually stayed on the line. If you dialed *3 you could ask him a question.

I have to say that was the oddest telemarketing call I've ever recieved. I didn't have any good questions for him either, so I just hung up after listening for ten minutes. This would have been an awesome question though.

yadoso: We still have the 2012-ers to look forward to. Not Innernetz related, but still capable of generating major comedy. And lulz.

There's a very strange web comic with 2012 as a major issue -- the cosmology involves most of the multiverse actually being a simulation. Unfortunately, the simulation was written on top of a custom operating system designed by dead Mayan programmers (I did warn you that was weird), and the Mayan calendar behaves rather badly at that time. One particular character is supposed to be The Programmer who'll patch the bug and save the multiverse from crashing.

Of all the things one could dislike Ted Stevens for...

Um, well, is the whole tubes / truck analogy that bad? Heck, I might have done as much.

Stevens is a farkwad for other reasons.

Good gravy...

I just used the term... "Farkwad"

poopalacarte: Remember, no one worked to try to minimize the potential effects of the Y2K problem so it was never real in the first place.

/sorry about the threadjack
//which is over now
///okay - ted stevens is a smelly cock

And no companies lost their accounting packages and had to get all their invoicing corrected by semi-manually for several months afterwards. Honest.

I spent Y2K in Times Square and the surrounding bars. If the world was gonna end I wanted to be at the epicenter.

A former boss had a meeting about Y2K. He mentioned we weren't wealthy enough, but he has a multi-acre spread in NC w/ 3 new dogs, generators, and MUCH etc. So, "La la la la la la," to us.

Great meeting. Hit a bar.

A generator is an odd choice of weapon but I'd be afraid too...

chaddsfarkprefect: A former boss had a meeting about Y2K. He mentioned we weren't wealthy enough, but he has a multi-acre spread in NC w/ 3 new dogs, generators, and MUCH etc. So, "La la la la la la," to us.

Great meeting. Hit a bar.

Thats the part where you go 'well I guess I know where to lead the mob then eh'

The Icelander: JerseyTim: You Y2K cooks were adorable.

In 1999 I was working at Cracker Barrel. On New Year's Eve, I stopped by to pick up my paycheck. The parking lot was filled with trucks and campers packed to the roof with signs that said "Y2K is coming!" and "Heading for the hills!"

I giggled a bit at midnight when everything didn't come crashing down.

\2038 bug is real, though

I read up on the 2038 bug on Wikipedia after I read your comment. I especially enjoyed this passage:

Using a (signed) 64-bit value introduces a new wraparound date in about 290 billion years, on Sunday, December 4, 292,277,026,596. This problem, however, is not widely regarded as a pressing issue.

I remember the Y2k scare and the news outlet showing these videos of all these blue collared redneck lumberjacks in their flannel returning these power generators, bottled water, canned foods. It was just an entire line of idiots and the computer illiterate.

Its a programmable bug, not the beginning of the apocalypse.

JerseyTim: You Y2K cooks were adorable.



Be quiet. Many companies made millions of dollars off of that scam. Call it an 'artificial boost to the economy'.

I dunno why anybody would be worried about 2012. Most ancient religions were cyclical. Times of death and renewel. December 2012 is when President Obama gets a law passed to prevent any of the Clintons or Bushes from ever holding office again, and a reign of peace and prosperity washes over the land. Or, more likely, he single handedly faces down a zombie apocalypse and prevents Cthulhu from being awakened.

My point is it's just the time where the calender is supposed to be reset.

Falcc: I dunno why anybody would be worried about 2012. Most ancient religions were cyclical. Times of death and renewel. December 2012 is when President Obama gets a law passed to prevent any of the Clintons or Bushes from ever holding office again, and a reign of peace and prosperity washes over the land. Or, more likely, he single handedly faces down a zombie apocalypse and prevents Cthulhu from being awakened.

My point is it's just the time where the calender is supposed to be reset.

It's also year when Nibiru hits Earth like FoAG, solar activity reaches all time high and Poles flip the Earth or something