20151120 - Art Bell Open Lines - Live Show Chat

[Sandra Kristen]

Can you even get skype on a blackberry?

[SciFiAuthor]

lol i guess...but..football?

I think it's more a poetic justice thing. The LA area is the home of Premiere Radio.

[(Sandman) Logan-5]

I'm a programmer and I spent many hours fixing Y2K bugs, but I still think it was overblown.  Software fails every day and life goes on.

It was an excellent boost for distributed programming/networking/computing because afterwards, disparate nodes/computers could directly talk to each other without an API.

[Sandra Kristen]

Blackberry is back, running Android with a slide out KB again, it may do fairly well

Slide out KB? I kind of miss those honestly.

[trostol]

I wish Hoaxland would take DMT one night during his show. That would be great.

i think he does

[Mind Flayer Monk]

I ran into Y2K problems quite a bit-especially on shit like tool and die machines and older scales, but at that time I was working with lower-level languages.

[Barfly]

Can you even get skype on a blackberry?

Not sure about the old ones, but im sure you can on the new ones, they run Android

[Zzzzillion]

Blackberry is back, running Android with a slide out KB again, it may do fairly well

Ifya' can't beat'em, join'em.

[Uncle Duke]

I wish Hoaxland would take DMT one night during his show. That would be great.

That happens and I will listen for the first time.  Flashbacks of "Jelly Pudding".

[Spinner]

Oh, good. I've been waiting for someone to call Art out on the Y2K nonsense.

Every IT person I knew at the time told me it was BS.

Just admit it Art, you used a fake crisis to make some money.

Gee, maybe they should have let the big corporations know that it was "a fake crisis" because they spent millions fixing it. And they even were thoughtful enough to send my company (and many others) updates on their progress on fixing the problem. We received letters and printed letters from many different businesses, especially banks (we had business relationships with several different banks). And WE had to send out such letters tou our clients.

[(Sandman) Logan-5]

hey Logan hows its going

Busy, but I'll be on both threads tonight.

[SciFiAuthor]

That happens and I will listen for the first time.  Flashbacks of "Jelly Pudding".

I'd avoid it. He'd just interview his producer and discuss his drug experiences in the roaring 40's.

[trostol]

RV is baloney

[GravitySucks]

See Barfly's post. He knows what he's talking about.

It was a load of BS.

Well, having programmed since 1978 and then being involved with major Y2K remediation efforts with two major aerospace companies, I know the systems we had to reprogram would not have kept working on 01/01/2000. And every 7 track and 9 track reel to reel tape and most cartridge tapes in every IBM mainframe tape library that used tape library management systems would have had to have the tapes removed to keep them from being automatically reused during normal batch processing.

That includes every bank, investment house, insurance company, auto industry, etc etc.

Believe it or don't. It would have caused a major meltdown. Would it have been the end of the world as we know it?  Who knows.  I was involved in the remediation efforts and I had a room full of food and water. Plus the gold I bought at $270 an ounce and the silver I bought at $6 an ounce is my plan B for retirement.

[Sandra Kristen]

RV is baloney

It's nothing compared to the power of the torsion field

[Zzzzillion]

"We had a head on collision and passed through each other"

Why doesn't Art ever call bullshit on these people? Fear of scaring off other wackjob callers? It'd make for so much more interesting radio if he'd just tell these people they're full of shit.

[Spinner]

And TOILET PAPER fer cryin' out loud!

Of course!

[norland2424]

dont well all lose ethics when we make accounts on bellgab hahah

[Sandra Kristen]

Art wants this guy to give him gold.

[Zzzzillion]

Well, having programmed since 1978 and then being involved with major Y2K remediation efforts with two major aerospace companies, I know the systems we had to reprogram would not have kept working on 01/01/2000. And every 7 track and 9 track reel to reel tape and most cartridge tapes in every IBM mainframe tape library that used tape library management systems would have had to have the tapes removed to keep them from being automatically reused during normal batch processing.

That includes every bank, investment house, insurance company, auto industry, etc etc.

Believe it or don't. It would have caused a major meltdown. Would it have been the end of the world as we know it?  Who knows.  I was involved in the remediation efforts and I had a room full of food and water. Plus the gold I bought at $270 an ounce and the silver I bought at $6 an ounce is my plan B for retirement.

Bullshit.

[Barfly]

I ran into Y2K problems quite a bit-especially on shit like tool and die machines and older scales, but at that time I was working with lower-level languages.

Most of these where a bios update OR to "trick" the bios.
I'm very familiar with CNC coding(i wrote more lines manually G code than i want to remember) and older machines, including old NC machines that run tape readers.
Everything was easy fix.

[MABUSE]

I wish Hoaxland would take DMT one night during his show. That would be great.

He'd be back alligator clipping an old Bulova Watch to an IBM Thinkpad to measure torsions fields at Machu Pichu like he did on television ten years back.
**M**

[Dr_Blue]

It's nothing compared to the power of the torsion field

you have said "torsion field" many times tonight. Where can I buy this said item? Does Walmart carry it? 

[starrmtn001]

dont well all lose ethics when we make accounts on bellgab hahah

No!  They actually get better, for some.

[Zzzzillion]

Gee, maybe they should have let the big corporations know that it was "a fake crisis" because they spent millions fixing it. And they even were thoughtful enough to send my company (and many others) updates on their progress on fixing the problem. We received letters and printed letters from many different businesses, especially banks (we had business relationships with several different banks). And WE had to send out such letters tou our clients.

Yes, we should've let the corporations know that. Corporations make stupid decisions based on nonsense every day. So yes, you're right, this would've been a great fake bullet to dodge.

[GravitySucks]

Bullshit.

No Bullshit is rooting for the Bulls.

[norland2424]

No!  They actually get better, for some.

lol you would hope 

[Barfly]

No Bullshit is rooting for the Bulls.

Go Bears 

[SciFiAuthor]

Well, having programmed since 1978 and then being involved with major Y2K remediation efforts with two major aerospace companies, I know the systems we had to reprogram would not have kept working on 01/01/2000. And every 7 track and 9 track reel to reel tape and most cartridge tapes in every IBM mainframe tape library that used tape library management systems would have had to have the tapes removed to keep them from being automatically reused during normal batch processing.

That includes every bank, investment house, insurance company, auto industry, etc etc.

Believe it or don't. It would have caused a major meltdown. Would it have been the end of the world as we know it?  Who knows.  I was involved in the remediation efforts and I had a room full of food and water. Plus the gold I bought at $270 an ounce and the silver I bought at $6 an ounce is my plan B for retirement.

I saw what a major aerospace company went through to deal with the issue. It was actually scary watching the extent of the effort. Whether it was warranted, I have no idea, I'm not a programmer but they spent some bucks on that one.

[Sandra Kristen]

you have said "torsion field" many times tonight. Where can I buy this said item? Does Walmart carry it? 

The Torsion field is something you can't buy. It's a way of life you dedicate yourself too. It is the life force of the universe that controls everything by a frequency of 19.5.