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Re: The Anti-Kunstler Thread

Unread postby AdamB » Mon 08 Sep 2025, 14:07:25

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR11', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AdamB', '
')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR11', 'Y')ear 2038 has some interesting surprises in store I bet; won't end civilization, but I bet more than a couple hickups will get noticed. Not my problem though. :-D


Haven't heard of that one. Why 2038?


32 bit integer representation of structure time_t in unix epoch, used in both windows and unix software... rolls over in 2038, making the day after... 1970.


Oh you have GOT to start up a website, get everyone lathered up, proclaim the world is ending, recycle the entire Y2K bit. I mean, all the Mayan Calendar, peak oil, American draft, Y2K, Amero currency, Yellowstone exploding, we haven't had a new thing for the next generation of gullible suckers to fall for yet, create Facebook groups, use it as an excuse to buy hunting/fishing cabins, buy high cost gold and silver, bows and arrows, the entire survivalist gig could get a big economic boost!

You just have to pimp it right. Get some computer experts...no...that won't work...Kuntsler wasn't one of those, he just needed the EXCUSE to pimp endtimes, he didn't need to know anything about the topic. No wonder he was a peak oiler as well, same story.

In any case, make sure you do what Savinar and the gang did, pimp the idea, tie it to likes and advertising on Youtube, or get a google store like Matt once did for the solar ovens, you could get RICH feeding nonsense to the gullible. I mean...look how consistent they are! We've got 2 suckers right here on a forum of like 5 people, can't even see that they've seen sold a rubber chicken of a doom, and are ready to spend even more money on not even high quality MORE rubber chickens!

You can do it Agent! Make a mint!
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Re: The Anti-Kunstler Thread

Unread postby AgentR11 » Mon 08 Sep 2025, 14:24:48

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

Already someone got to it, though no doomscrolling, just some math. Someone definitely needs to get with the program on selling the doom.
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Re: The Anti-Kunstler Thread

Unread postby careinke » Mon 08 Sep 2025, 18:14:00

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR11', 'I') recall fixing stuff for Y2K issues, also had a little stash of cash in case the terminals all didn't work right. But everything turned out fine. Y2K was a real issue, its just that we worked really hard to fix it before it became a problem. There's actually another one coming up... Year 2038 has some interesting surprises in store I bet; won't end civilization, but I bet more than a couple hickups will get noticed. Not my problem though. :-D


Ah yes, Jan 19, 2038 at 03:14:07 UTC, when imbedded 32-bit integer systems will reach their maximum value and overflow, causing the internal clock to reset to DEC 13, 1901. A quick check with my AI, claims there are still millions of products with this problem, including medical equipment.

I was a contractor in Saudi during Y2K, and the problem was taken very seriously, my IT folks were extremely busy. My Sister in Law, with a mathematics degree, (Pre Computer Science Degrees), was heavily involved in Y2K for the Seattle Times. We still have a case or two of Y2K coffee cups, thanks to the Seattle Times. Finally our DINC college friends working at Intel, spent a lot of time trying to break everything Intel owned. NUMEROUS failures occurred at Intel, to the point, our friends were unsure if the deadline would be met.

Bottom line, LOTS of people worked VERY HARD to make Y2K a non event. They succeeded and their efforts should be applauded, not mocked.

Meanwhile, our local parrot, who did not even have Internet, is congratulating himself because he was smart enough to attempt saving a clock. Which apparently was not even needed.

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Re: The Anti-Kunstler Thread

Unread postby AdamB » Mon 08 Sep 2025, 18:59:26

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR11', 'h')ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

Already someone got to it, though no doomscrolling, just some math. Someone definitely needs to get with the program on selling the doom.


Hey, peak oil fear mongering started out small, that kernel from Hubbert in 1956. So Wiki is thinking about it...the money to be made is in PIMPING IT!!!!

Got Matt quoted on the floor of the US Congress!! The idea was like half a century old and had been published by a scientist doing seminal work...you are WAY ahead of the timeline here!
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Re: The Anti-Kunstler Thread

Unread postby AdamB » Mon 08 Sep 2025, 19:06:44

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('careinke', '
')Bottom line, LOTS of people worked VERY HARD to make Y2K a non event. They succeeded and their efforts should be applauded, not mocked.


And those of us who participated in stopping peak oil dead in its tracks should be applauded as well!

I do not denigrate the work required to solve the problem, be it Y2K or peak oil. I mock the folks who used it to pimp doom without being bothered to discover the amount of work that went into making sure it woudn't amount to a hill of beans.

As I mentioned, I fixed an entire companies accounting systems so Y2K wouldn't cause issues. Never garnered any applause for helping solve that issue either, never expected any. Just doing the job.


$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('careinke', '
')Meanwhile, our local parrot, who did not even have Internet, is congratulating himself because he was smart enough to attempt saving a clock. Which apparently was not even needed.

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Really? I must have missed that, I tend to just run past the parrot repeating himself as of late. He saved....a CLOCK? Did it involve heroics? Or just him flapping his gums? Or wings?
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Re: The Anti-Kunstler Thread

Unread postby careinke » Tue 09 Sep 2025, 03:11:42

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AdamB', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('careinke', '
')Bottom line, LOTS of people worked VERY HARD to make Y2K a non event. They succeeded and their efforts should be applauded, not mocked.


And those of us who participated in stopping peak oil dead in its tracks should be applauded as well!

I do not denigrate the work required to solve the problem, be it Y2K or peak oil. I mock the folks who used it to pimp doom without being bothered to discover the amount of work that went into making sure it woudn't amount to a hill of beans.

As I mentioned, I fixed an entire companies accounting systems so Y2K wouldn't cause issues. Never garnered any applause for helping solve that issue either, never expected any. Just doing the job.


$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('careinke', '
')Meanwhile, our local parrot, who did not even have Internet, is congratulating himself because he was smart enough to attempt saving a clock. Which apparently was not even needed.

Peace

Really? I must have missed that, I tend to just run past the parrot repeating himself as of late. He saved....a CLOCK? Did it involve heroics? Or just him flapping his gums? Or wings?


$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Parrot', ' ')Most of us weren't even online back then. I simply reset my clock back a couple of years and waited to see what happened. Nothing happened.


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Re: The Anti-Kunstler Thread

Unread postby theluckycountry » Tue 09 Sep 2025, 04:04:24

I see the TV heads have found a little corner to masturbate together in. I'll leave you in peace, even total fucktards deserve a little peace, virtual peace that is, a digital haven away from the stabbings and shootings and general mayhem of the greatest *cough cough* nation on Earth.
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Re: The Anti-Kunstler Thread

Unread postby careinke » Tue 09 Sep 2025, 20:04:42

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', 'I') see the TV heads have found a little corner to masturbate together in. I'll leave you in peace, even total fucktards deserve a little peace, virtual peace that is, a digital haven away from the stabbings and shootings and general mayhem of the greatest *cough cough* nation on Earth.


HaHa, Men should ejaculate at least 21 time a month, how is immaterial. It flushes a lot of bad shit out of the urethrae preventing some forms of cancer. Also good for the prostate.

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Re: The Anti-Kunstler Thread

Unread postby AdamB » Tue 09 Sep 2025, 21:14:42

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Careinke', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AdamB', '
')Really? I must have missed that, I tend to just run past the parrot repeating himself as of late. He saved....a CLOCK? Did it involve heroics? Or just him flapping his gums? Or wings?


$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Parrot', ' ')Most of us weren't even online back then. I simply reset my clock back a couple of years and waited to see what happened. Nothing happened.


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I see. Sorta. The Parrot is really hard to understand sometimes, I mean, how does one lower their IQ enough to be on that level? Drunk to incoherence? Induced brain damage with a hammer? Take a "forget it all" pill that removes all learning since the 8th grade?

Find ANOTHER uneducated Aussie and ask them?
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Re: The Anti-Kunstler Thread

Unread postby AdamB » Thu 11 Sep 2025, 18:21:01

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Re: The Anti-Kunstler Thread

Unread postby theluckycountry » Sat 13 Sep 2025, 18:18:36

Oh I'm sorry, did I disturb your little jerk circle?
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Re: Kunstler's War Hawk Stance on Iraq days after 9/11

Unread postby AdamB » Sat 13 Sep 2025, 21:31:52

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'T')he War is on and will continue right into the post peak era. It will get much hotter before it ever cools off.

Except it did end, we tried nation building, that stupid shit didn't work, so we washed our hands and walked away. Typical America since Vietnam I guess. But of course it cooled off, hell America wasn't even loosing many soldiers there towards the end, but the non-stop fighting and drain on the budget in nation building a kleptocracy couldn't be sustained.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '
') Kunstler is a realist.


Kuntsler is a crank, doing performance art because theater majors are nothing if they can't create drama one way or another. And the suckers went for it. My Y2K didn't even care what BS he was spinning, only that whatever it was created drama.
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