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	<title>Comments on: 2012 to be a great year… Oh, wait</title>
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		<title>By: Ausduck</title>
		<link>http://www.youngausskeptics.com/2010/02/2012-to-be-a-great-year-oh-wait/comment-page-1/#comment-13086</link>
		<dc:creator>Ausduck</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Bastard Sheep... I thought Young Ponder Stibbons had actually ironed out the Y2K- like  bugs in Hex....  :)

But I do take your point.  We were pretty well prepared for Y2K IT wise.  Although it did amuse me that the Emergency SOPS at my hospital at the time prepared for the end of the world as we know it.  Just in case.  We even had candles and battery 2 ways in our Y2K kits.  You were stuffed if you relied on any peice of electrical equipment that may be instrumental in keeping you alive, but we had candles!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Bastard Sheep… I thought Young Ponder Stibbons had actually ironed out the Y2K– like  bugs in Hex.…  :)</p>
<p>But I do take your point.  We were pretty well prepared for Y2K IT wise.  Although it did amuse me that the Emergency SOPS at my hospital at the time prepared for the end of the world as we know it.  Just in case.  We even had candles and battery 2 ways in our Y2K kits.  You were stuffed if you relied on any peice of electrical equipment that may be instrumental in keeping you alive, but we had candles!</p>
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		<title>By: Ausduck</title>
		<link>http://www.youngausskeptics.com/2010/02/2012-to-be-a-great-year-oh-wait/comment-page-1/#comment-13084</link>
		<dc:creator>Ausduck</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Michael.. that would work lol.  I am so going to try that one out on the doomsayer that I work with!  :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Michael.. that would work lol.  I am so going to try that one out on the doomsayer that I work with!  :)</p>
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		<title>By: Bastard Sheep</title>
		<link>http://www.youngausskeptics.com/2010/02/2012-to-be-a-great-year-oh-wait/comment-page-1/#comment-12833</link>
		<dc:creator>Bastard Sheep</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s nothing like the Y2K bug.  The only reason Y2K appeared to be such a non event was due to the throughness of which IT departments worldwide did their job.

There were numerous issues affecting ATM&#039;s, EFTPOS and mobile phone systems recently due to the date format in Hex.  Many people were unable to use those devices for a few weeks, it certainly caused chaos for them, the exact same type of chaos we would have seen from Y2K.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It’s nothing like the Y2K bug.  The only reason Y2K appeared to be such a non event was due to the throughness of which IT departments worldwide did their job.</p>
<p>There were numerous issues affecting ATM’s, EFTPOS and mobile phone systems recently due to the date format in Hex.  Many people were unable to use those devices for a few weeks, it certainly caused chaos for them, the exact same type of chaos we would have seen from Y2K.</p>
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		<title>By: Andrew Langendam</title>
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		<dc:creator>Andrew Langendam</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It occurs to me that this whole 2012 idea is incredibly similar to the Y2K bug. Now, how did that turn out?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It occurs to me that this whole 2012 idea is incredibly similar to the Y2K bug. Now, how did that turn out?</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Kingsford Gray</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michael Kingsford Gray</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It is simple.

Get them to legally sign over all of their property to you effective say 2013.

Then watch them squirm.
It works every time to shut up these benighted bozos.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is simple.</p>
<p>Get them to legally sign over all of their property to you effective say 2013.</p>
<p>Then watch them squirm.<br />
It works every time to shut up these benighted bozos.</p>
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		<title>By: thinktwice</title>
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		<dc:creator>thinktwice</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well its shaping up like quite a fight of ideas isn&#039;t it (ie not of science as you and many have pointed out).  Sure we could call it propaganda but the believers might get angry that we&#039;re associating them with Nazi Germany or something, and take chase with pitch forks and garlic around the neck.

What I&#039;d like to add is simply this.  There is evidence for this and that, Mayan calendars ending, alignment of earth, the sun and the centre of the galaxy in2012, changes in the sun causing changes in our biosphere (business as usual!) etc.

Now all this stuff is simply more information that we need to look at, being objective, free thinkers (well we genuinly aspire to at least).

What we need to be careful about though is not to play into the hands of the shadowy figures that generally (as history shows) premeditate these sorts of reactions from the masses, in order to drive some sort of agenda (which tends to be imperial, as history also shows).

You don&#039;t have to look far back in history to see how the truth tends to come out after big events, rather than before them.

To me personally, I see the culmination of many years of planning, carefully staged public and non-public campaigns in the great game of chess that is geopolitics and control.

I don&#039;t think it really makes much sense in that context to analyse the propaganda.  It&#039;s a small piece of the puzzle that makes the people prepared to believe rather than to question (sets the stage for certain important changes, not democratic).

Enough of my rant in reply to your rant, I look forward to staying in touch with this site!


Oh one more little thing I have observed.  At times of crisis (real or staged), there exists vast political and imperial opportunity.  Boils down to that really, unless they can honestly show the science.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well its shaping up like quite a fight of ideas isn’t it (ie not of science as you and many have pointed out).  Sure we could call it propaganda but the believers might get angry that we’re associating them with Nazi Germany or something, and take chase with pitch forks and garlic around the neck.</p>
<p>What I’d like to add is simply this.  There is evidence for this and that, Mayan calendars ending, alignment of earth, the sun and the centre of the galaxy in2012, changes in the sun causing changes in our biosphere (business as usual!) etc.</p>
<p>Now all this stuff is simply more information that we need to look at, being objective, free thinkers (well we genuinly aspire to at least).</p>
<p>What we need to be careful about though is not to play into the hands of the shadowy figures that generally (as history shows) premeditate these sorts of reactions from the masses, in order to drive some sort of agenda (which tends to be imperial, as history also shows).</p>
<p>You don’t have to look far back in history to see how the truth tends to come out after big events, rather than before them.</p>
<p>To me personally, I see the culmination of many years of planning, carefully staged public and non-public campaigns in the great game of chess that is geopolitics and control.</p>
<p>I don’t think it really makes much sense in that context to analyse the propaganda.  It’s a small piece of the puzzle that makes the people prepared to believe rather than to question (sets the stage for certain important changes, not democratic).</p>
<p>Enough of my rant in reply to your rant, I look forward to staying in touch with this site!</p>
<p>Oh one more little thing I have observed.  At times of crisis (real or staged), there exists vast political and imperial opportunity.  Boils down to that really, unless they can honestly show the science.</p>
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		<title>By: dazza</title>
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		<dc:creator>dazza</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great rant Andrew! Totally agree. This whole 2012 thing is yet another excuse for fruitcakes to predict the end of the world. I am sure that they have claimed the end of the world just about every other year. Wasn&#039;t it a few years ago, for example, that a guy called Pebble or something on the south coast predicted it?

There is no evidence to support any of these dumb claims and yet some people believe it because scientific literacy (especially in the US, but also here) is severely lacking. It is unfortunate.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great rant Andrew! Totally agree. This whole 2012 thing is yet another excuse for fruitcakes to predict the end of the world. I am sure that they have claimed the end of the world just about every other year. Wasn’t it a few years ago, for example, that a guy called Pebble or something on the south coast predicted it?</p>
<p>There is no evidence to support any of these dumb claims and yet some people believe it because scientific literacy (especially in the US, but also here) is severely lacking. It is unfortunate.</p>
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