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To: cuban leaf

Not really. Most of them aren’t actually a big deal, and it’s unlikely most if any of them are related.

I stopped believing in the end of the world when I realized people had been predicting it constantly for thousands of years and been wrong every single time.

The no cyber attack comments are proof that the paranoid idiots of the world are taking up too much bandwidth. They already know you’re overly gullible, if you weren’t you wouldn’t think every downed server is an attack and they wouldn’t feel compelled to say “no it wasn’t an attack”.

Once upon a time people understood that all of our communication systems were prone to failure. As recently as the 70s and 80s phone connections would just drop and people’s would just redial. Now everybody freaks out, but there’s still failure inherent in the system. I just heard one of our tech support guys (I work on communication software that uses telephony) having to explain to a customer that yes, transmission errors happen, they always have, they always will, that’s why we have a retry algorithm. Every single day we get an e-mail from IT about this system or that system down.

It’s just how things work. As the great philosopher John Bender said: screws fall out all the time the worlds an imperfect place.


29 posted on 07/08/2015 10:52:36 AM PDT by discostu (In fact funk's as old as dirt)
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To: discostu

Not really. Most of them aren’t actually a big deal, and it’s unlikely most if any of them are related.


United shutting down flights because of a “computer” glitch” is a big deal. The US stock market shutting down due to a “Glitch” is a big deal.

When they happen on the same day, it’s an amazing coincidence. When the latter happens the day the Chinese market shut down because it was in free fall and the US market was headed that way when the “glitch” happened, it increased, by an order of magnitude, the “bigness” of the deal.

Regarding the end of the world, I’m kinda with you. My take is that we are either entering the end times, Ezekiel 39, Matthew 24 and Revelation, or we are on the cusp of September 1st, 1939.

Either is bad.

Everybody knows the fiat money ponzy scheme can’t go on forever, just as they know the sun will eventually explode. They just don’t think about it and hope they are not around when it happens.

And Jews in Germany hoped that nasty Nazi thing would just blow over. It did, eventually...

My tag line is more about timing than Obama specifically. And I believe it more now than ever.


35 posted on 07/08/2015 10:58:02 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: discostu

They already know you’re overly gullible, if you weren’t you wouldn’t think every downed server is an attack and they wouldn’t feel compelled to say “no it wasn’t an attack”.


Remember the huge market crash due to someone “fat fingering” a trade?

Yeah, that could happen. ;-)

Not every downed server is an attack. Not every plan crash is terrorists. But some are. Recognize the signs.


51 posted on 07/08/2015 11:13:04 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: discostu

As recently as the 70s and 80s phone connections would just drop and people’s would just redial.


It still happens. I just redial.

But that is not what we’re really talking about here


52 posted on 07/08/2015 11:14:17 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: discostu

Not really. Most of them aren’t actually a big deal, and it’s unlikely most if any of them are related.


This really should be considered as more than just a wild coincidence as well:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3309245/posts


53 posted on 07/08/2015 11:16:05 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: discostu

I’m not predicting ‘the end of the world’ at all.

I’m predicting another cycle. We’ve gone through them before and we’ll continue going through them. Times get rough... things get better... things fall apart again...

The thing is, we never really recovered from 2007-08. We’ve got an entire generation working part-time. We’ve got a massive “Boomer Bubble” of elderly and retirees just taking off. We’ve got more people on welfare than ever before. We’ve got more fatherless children and single mothers than ever before.

When you factor in the coming solar cycle... Nature is going to kick our butts hard - and soon.

So when this downtrend cycle hits, it’s going to hit harder. We’re already on the ropes.

Is this the ‘end’?

Hardly.

We’ll adapt. That’s why we do.

But it’s


63 posted on 07/08/2015 11:29:06 AM PDT by Marie
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To: discostu

This is how things can work during Shemitah. Check it out.


79 posted on 07/08/2015 11:55:00 AM PDT by Raggedy Granny
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