[Windsong]

WND dissolved all credibility after their Y2K Doomsday predictions flopped.

[Adrastus]

You may be right. But on the other hand can you afford to disregard the history here? Is there anything here that you can point to and say, "Ah ha! a clear indication that this idea has no credibility!"

I think not.

[derllak]

WND dissolved all credibility after their Y2K Doomsday predictions flopped.

Did Intel also lose credibility with you because they idled all their factories just before midnight? We knew our systems were ready because we had spent the previous year identifying the bugs and fixing them. But we didn't trust that the power companies were as diligent as we were. We expected the worse.

While everyone else was partying, I was shutting down systems and backing up databases. Y2K was very serious and no fun at all for me!

[newcthem]

Sorry that you didn't have time or the desire to read the article. It is one of the most well thought out and well reasoned pieces on the subject. However when your standard regards one mistake as reason for rejecting all future work, you must be terribly limited in your reading matter.

[Eastbound]

"WND dissolved all credibility after their Y2K Doomsday predictions flopped."

Some systems failed, did they not? Perhaps without all the hype, more would have crashed. Who really knew what was going to happen except a few rare systems folks?

Besides, all the hype was responsible for taking all the un-employed analysts, code-writers and programmers off the streets and out of the bars and pool halls for many months. ;>

But apart from that, what did you think of the article? Do you think the world-wide jihad is all hype too?

If not, how to fix before the system comes crashing down?

[TruthRespecter]

WND dissolved all credibility after their Y2K Doomsday predictions flopped.

Now, now, Windsong...

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. In 20/20 retrospect, I agree with you that WND overly hyped warnings on Y2K, but I continue to trust WND over CNN and any of the other commie-loving MSM types any day of the week.

[Burlem]

WND is not the only ones that overstated Y2K, I was listening to CSPAN one day during the big conversation there were very credible people that believed we would have a "mess" on our hands. I would not be too harsh on the story.
All it will take for you to find out what the Islamisists have been doing is go to the internet.
If you google, type in Wake Up America in the search, you will find a short speech by a retired naval commander he illustrated the attacks on us since the 1970s bringing to 911