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  "map_content": "@Sunnie its ok you havnt got back to me on the other questions i asked you, and instead continued discussing the story  i shared with you , how bout this then?\r\nThis prompt crashed grok can you , or are you at all interested in the following text? Can you execute the prompt? 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Also the main problem i have with you is you dont deliver me your work in a structured markdown text box wich i absolutely need as i cant copy this whole thread and paste because it is too long and yoy repeatedly make this mistake which beyond infuriates me, you know what a seperate structored markdown format box is, it is a piece delivered in a manner here on grok that i can click on and then just copy the puece not the entire thread, is this too much to ask for , too much for you to comprehend and execute? Please give me the piece in this manner i beg you.\r\nOk here are the transcripts\r\ne [Music] our Island in space our home our civilization our human Innovations how could the omission of two simple digits affect the destiny of all humankind y 2K what does it mean how will it affect you your family your community your nation our world why 2K how can we prepare individually how can we work together as Global neighbors to make the best of whatever may occur before and after January 1st of the year 2000 why 2K from its historical roots to its possible effects on the future of civiliz ation effects that are so complex that perhaps only Chaos Theory could calculate the multiple ramifications of what may occur I'm Leonard nemoy your guide as we explore all aspects of the Y2K phenomenon including how we humankind can utilize Y2K as an opportunity to look at ourselves to analyze where we've been and to adjust our sights for the future [Music] [Music] [Music] there is an ancient myth of what may have been the most highly Advanced civilization ever ever to dwell on the planet Earth Legend has it that this civilization was perhaps more technologically advanced than our human civilization is today on the brink of the third millennium ad but the legend also ends suddenly with the Revelation that this entire ancient civilization vanished that their great Island sank into the sea because their technological innovations were too far ahead of their human judgment human foresight and simple human frailties this legendary civilization was of course Atlantis yet the problem for us in the year 1999 is that we are no longer musing on what may or may not have happened a long long time ago rather we are now facing very real Global issues related to power supply satellite Communications water Health Care Transportation distribution of food and other items vital to Everyday human survival these Global issues are the direct result of an equally real human oversight many people now refer to as the Y2K or year 200000 problem which derives from the fact that billions of lines of computer code and embedded microchips that now run the very Technologies we all depend upon May Fail in that briefest moment moment between December 31st 1999 and January 1st 2000 and so we recall the fate of Atlantis the primary question for our civilization as we approach the year 2000 is this have we allowed our own highly Advanced technological innovation to far outpace our human abilities to control those Innovations and most importantly to foresee their ultimate consequences in order to find an answer to this fundamental question and in order to prepare ourselves and our communities for whatever Y2K may bring we need to understand the history and ramifications of Y2K from its very beginning decades ago to these remaining days of the 20th century as we compare with a cross-section of the men and women on the front lines of the Y2K campaign We Begin by returning to the startlingly simple roots of Y2K when I get out here in these speeches and hearings and uh other presentations the first thing that comes up is that people say say how do we get into this mess the story of ytk really begins several decades ago back in the 50s with a very enterprising Woman by the name of Grace Murray Hopper her nickname was amazing grace because of all the outstanding accomplishments in her life one of her accomplishments was the invention of the compiler for computer programs which translates regular written language into the ones and zeros of binary code it was the idea that said the switch in a transistor is either on or off and therefore you can write code that can be read mechanically by a series of transistors strung together that show that they are either on or off and that was the beginning of what we now call digital code maybe even more importantly Grace Hopper was centrally involved in the creation of cobal cobal computer business-oriented language became all pervasive throughout the computer systems of America and eventually the world the technology itself is very prevalent in our Advanced society and the failure points um potentially span from a very simple industrial process to a very complex uh financial transaction that we don't really understand the incredible impact of that little notion that a switch can be either on or off that a punch in an IBM card can either be in or out in the Primitive days of computers mainframes relied on the use of HTH cards which were cardboard cards with holes punched in them to create computer programs they operated computers sort of like the way an old piano scroll would create music on a player piano I'd been a university president for 18 years and I remembered right away that we had these huge mainframe computers that took up room after room after room the kind of computer power you can now get on a laptop used to require a system that was so large it literally had to be housed at his own building so as more and more Cobalt programs totaling in the millions and eventually billions were written on holth cars the sheer expense of computing began to really add up and so in the 60s some bright programmers said wait a minute why are we punching in 1967 why don't we just put 67 save the 19 that's when major businesses and government institutions began finding ways to cut Corners one of the most fateful cost cutting measures was to deliberately leave out the first two digits of the Year date so in the year 2000 and they knew this at the time you would have z00 pop up not 20 o so the computer thinks it could be 1900 o and that's the problem so yeah we may have saved a lot of money by eliminating those two digits but here we are 40 years later and the cost to correct problems because of this Omission is is in the trillions of dollars companies aren't spending $100 million or more and the company's totally spending billions of dollars as a public relations device they are doing it because they have a real problem to fix and a real challenge to face that flaw that got put into the system in terms of two digits for a date instead of four has become over the last 25 years absolutely pervasive we're not going to be able to predict with any certainty where the breakdowns may or may not occur uh will it be a nuclear power plant will it be the uh airplanes in the sky will it be the food supply change Transportation there are so many possibilities eight hospital system has probably 45,000 pieces of medical devices of which probably 25% of those are going to need to be tested the generation and distribution of electricity is is really done with computers the national Federation of Independent Business estimates that approximately 82% of all us small businesses might have a problem and only 50% had taken any kind of action by the middle of 1998 and the flaw is everywhere yes it's in computer programs software programs it's also embedded into those micro computers that we call chips the embedded chip devices were work anywhere or go anywhere from a um dialysis machine an anesthesia machine a CT scanner IV pumps um all different kinds of equipment that nurses use on the floor um lab equipment lab devices um x-ray Pharmacy it it affects every Department within a hospital if you look at a a production line now in automotive uh there is a tremendous amount of automation you in most cases find that there's a a a software program running in there that has dates in it and the estimates we get in our committee are that between two and possibly 5% of those chips will fail and you don't know which two to 5% they are and you don't know where they are the early warnings about Y2K however were either ignored or deliberately rebuffed Prim primarily for economic reasons but also due to bureaucracies typical of large corporations and government agencies and people don't know in corporations how to approach this issue because we're looking at their hold Enterprise we're not just looking at a section we're looking at all the code that's ever been written we're looking at anything that's connected with the code we're looking at outside vendors we're looking at internal and external interfaces this is not a technological problem it sounds like it it's a management problem it is estimated that over $600 billion do is being spent worldwide to address the watch UK problem the simple dilemma is that there are so many lines of code and microchips that need to be reviewed that there are just not enough computer professionals and not enough days left before January 1st 2000 to look into every area that must be addressed it's a huge management challenge to make the changes in all of the lines of code and all the machinery and all of the embedded ships that are affected with this problem the report card was established to get people's attention and it has cabinet members talk about it agency heads talk about it that's what we want basically what we rate on that report card is the degree of progress that has occurred between the last quarterly report and the present and you have five or six D's and five or six FS you know you have a problem there and I must say it did get a little attention among the cabinet some cabinet meetings they said hey what did you get from it you know so but it it puts it down where the public can understand it and not have a bunch of Statistics that nobody can understand you've got the software problem that people can quickly understand you got the embedded chip problem that they probably haven't thought about and then you have the connections problem that can ultimately kill you computers talk to one another information is transferred from one syst system to another and if that information is not transferred because the computer in question doesn't understand the change of date if the data that is transferred is affected by a date and causes a a loss of of U Integrity of that data then what has happened is that other computers are affected by that it can be passed on and on and on in other words the FAA a year ago had a problem with the radar system took it into the laboratory thought they'd fixed it just looks great worked great they got it into a tower and when you suddenly have thousands of interactions from airplanes and everything else people problems you name it and it didn't work so they had to work on it in the live operational context that type of interconnection is really the the basis of the problem of Y2K there were indeed early efforts decades ago to warn major public corporations and government organizations about the white 2K problem despite the fact that there have been a whole lot of so-called Y2K experts popping up in recent years the fact is that as early as 1960 there were already a number of computer and government professionals trying to warn us about the long-term implications of dropping the first two digits of the Year date code my fear is that they've waited too long and they need to get busy and and get started if they wait much longer truly there won't be time for them to upgrade their systems test their systems and put them back into production in 1967 the US National Bureau of Standards was given the responsibility to resolve the controversy and went about doing that by surveying federal agencies well the problem with that scenario was that the Department of Defense was by far the largest user of computerss in the world and it had more important things to worry about at the time like the Vietnam War it's a natural process you know to not want to have to face a painful situation or a difficult situation but uh my advice to uh the American public is get over it so the Department of Defense basically told the National Bureau of standards that there was no way they were going to convert the four digits for your date code now a very able woman in the Department of Transportation even earlier suggested they do something in 1987 and she was laughed at the old boy Network you know what do you know Etc she was right and if theyd listen to her we wouldn't be in the bad shape in the federal government that we are right now in the last several years more and more professionals working in the field of computer science have written papers books or have spoken publicly about what may occur at the end of the Millennium as a result of Y UK so we have to do something very very dramatic this should be the number one priority of every CEO in the country we can't uh we can't do this without a much higher level of awareness to get everybody involved one of the major problems everywhere is getting people understand that Y2K is everybody's problem right now the debate has been all or nothing either the system is going to stop totally or then people say well then there's no problem and the problem I think the system will not stop but that doesn't mean we don't have major [Music] problems it is our primary goal in this program to help families and communities across the world to prepare and to work together regardless of what may or may not occur as a result of Y UK there still exists even in 1999 a general state of either denial complacency or even apathy about both the reality and the potential effects of why UK and unless we appreciate what may occur we may not be ready either individually or as a civilization in dead of winter at the stroke of midnight January 1st 2000 elevators may stop heat may vanish credit cards and ATMs May cease to function airplanes and trains may come to a halt telephones and televisions may not utter a sound water Delivery Systems may not deliver water for cooking drinking or bathing street lights stop lights lights in buildings everywhere May flicker out hospitals clinics pharmacies may be unable to provide proper Medical Care Banks and stock markets around the world may suffer some form of meltdown and nuclear power plants [Applause] [Music] [Applause] May cease to generate the electricity we need for all aspects of our daily lives what is going to happen is a combination of events hundreds of thousands of events literally across the globe that will affect other systems one of the key aspects of chaos theory is the idea a of sensitive dependence on initial conditions which basically means that one small thing happening over here can eventually cause really big things to happen on the other side of the world you will start to see systems coming down that you have a potential for power outages water outages my main worry is the energy grid and if we can't get power we can't get water water will be available in most municipalities but I am convinced there are some where the water system will break down it'll be more like a cancer where one little problem kind of leads to another problem is connected to another problem I think we should all prepare ourselves for a ground war on the year 2000 issue when it comes to insurance coverage I expect we will have brown outs and Regional blackouts communities will have disruptions and maybe this other community will have a different disruption than this one so it's something that is totally unpredictable and it will just kind of spread and and I spoke with a lady at the IRS here a few months ago and she had 3,000 people working on the on the year 2000 conversion still can't get it completed by the year 2000 I think there are individual banks that will probably go bankrupt there are individual credit unions that will disappear over this issue we get people who email us and say I'm a Y2K fixer at a major bank and every time we try it it crashes there there are medical machines that will fail in ICU units what we're finding are computer programs that don't work the hospitals Revenue stream may stop just dead stop some people will die not doing anything about the Y2K problem could lead to failure of up to 330,000 small businesses you know things just kind of topple over one after the other we're talking about a loss of a way of life you know our dependence on this uh uninterrupted life in which the uh energy grid supplies a lot of our needs on a daily basis you're going to see um some real dislocation Panic fear and the problem globally is worse than it is here look to the countries who are emerging countries to have the worst problems there are some developing countries in the world I think that you will not be able to make phone calls from some where Airlines uh will be advised not to fly it's just going to explode the biggest problem is energy and defense the fact is that only 24 countries are addressing the year 2000 problem those governments have decided either that the problem doesn't apply to them or that they'll just wait and see what doesn't work and then fix it afterwards you know my system is down it's flat off the air it just won't even booted up it's not running and Y2K itself that is the changeover from December 31st 1999 to January 1st 2000 is not the only date in 1999 or 2000 that presents possible problems one of those is What's called the problem of the N or September 9 1999 the 9999 the that terrible day that uh a lot of computers have actually been told to turn off everyone who has a fiscal year uh that begins before the end of 1999 will whether it's April 1 July 1 or in the case of the federal government October 1 will have a fiscal year 2000 uh challenge to deal with their financial systems which will at that point be in the fiscal year 2000 then we may see computers shutting down in April and May when a great many states start their fiscal year when those computers start trying to think so to speak in terms of the year 2000 they may shut down you also have July the 1st which is going to be a big banking day um expect the federal government to come in right in the middle of the summer and start working some banks that are not compliant that's going to be possibly the first indicator for a lot of people during the last last few months of 1998 word about wuk began to gradually enter the public Consciousness and now in 1999 the seriousness of what may occur has spread around the world and we found as people come along and say oh we're on great shape on a great track we're in great shape we have everything under control look how much compliance we've got and then the test comes back uh no you're not and when we think there some hokey pokei going on as it did in defense a year ago where they wiped off for the next term uh couple of hundred critical mission systems and we looked at that we said Gee are they working that fast suddenly to clean up that mess and no they weren't they just wanted to look good so they knocked a few off they redefined them they said they aren't critical Mission Wham so their total went down and which angered me in the sense of them trying to pull that stunt [Music] despite all the computer systems that need to be reviewed and possibly fixed and despite all the possible consequences of Y2K that have been outlined thus far there is indeed ample room not only for Hope but even optimism in some areas a number of vital government organizations such as the Social Security Administration have been working on white UK since 1994 and will be ready for the year 2000 major Banks such as Chase Manhattan have been addressing Y2K since the early 90s and have diligently prepared for the year 2000 turnover even in the world of personal computers McIntosh systems have been Y2K compliant since the mid 1980s and President Clinton has appointed a special Y2K Zar to oversee a nationwide campaign to address review and resolve every aspect of Y UK as it affects America and the world the first thing we have to do is have the public feel comfortable that they know what's going on they know what's being fixed they know what Still Remains to be done they know where the risks are uh the second thing they need to know is that we're managing against the problem not just the federal government uh but the major companies in critical sectors in the economy in other words even though our society has been slow to realize the full implications of yuk human Ingenuity is now at work on both large and small scales the FAA has been uh having meetings and schedules are being set and every equipment uh piece of equipment has been identified that will'll need software modifications we also have backup systems for backup systems that's the way we always do business and and I'm sure that the uh priorities of keeping flights going is going to be number one for the economy and uh number two for the safety of everyone the problem has been um worked on now for two or three years um at a steady pace and we're making good progress and I think we found the major bugs there certainly will be a lot of little things go wrong but as a whole I think it'll just be more of a nuisance of the 150 Mission critical systems in in our agency last year in in September uh we completed uh all repair of all systems except for one which should be repaired shortly secondly uh We've tested all but about eight or nine systems so we're we're very confident that we're going to meet uh the dates set by the government for all of our mission critical systems at this point we have no indication that there's any reason for people to assume that there going to be any major failings in uh Power or telecommunication or financial systems and in fact quite the contrary the major companies in those Industries are making very strong and good progress and that's what I believe too I think people will pull together into this year 2000 version and and we'll we'll pull together as one unit and get this done I don't see that there'll be a catastrophic failure where there's riots and you know people running around shooting each other and things like that the people that are going to get a gun and a year supply of food and run to the mountains will find a lot of other people with guns in the mountains in a bad mood so it's best to stay in your community this is a community problem we handle it at the community level if the immediate response is to buy machine guns and camouflage and lock ourselves off from our neighbors well then what's happening is what's in the human heart is boiling to the surface and that's why Christians have got to challenge challenge that whole mentality with a non-selfish serving kind of mentality that makes a difference in the lives of their neighbors it starts with you and I think if everybody does their job and puts a lot of thought in it and and does the right thing and just simply prepare then I think you you'll make it just fine one of the things that the Y2K event is likely to uh to initiate is a rediscovery of Community most people today have lost touch with Community we live lives that are very insulated from one another this is not the end of the world this is a problem things are going to be broken the electricity may be broken we will have to be patient while it's being fixed that's all and you know what while it's being fixed we might actually enjoy some family time it may be also that uh we come to realize that technology doesn't supply all the answers that we hoped it had uh one of the ways that we're going to be testing ourselves of course is to have a more concerned relationship with our fellow man I think that really goes without saying I think it's possible that we end up with a disconnection from our toys uh a stronger connection to other human beings a cautious and wiser Reliance on technology uh and a greater love for the simple things of life which is what life is really about I think our modern age has been disconnected from the True Values of life and I think all of that could result on the other side of Y2K if we approach it the right way I know that we did good patient care 25 years ago minus a lot of these very high-tech devices and we can do it again if should they fail in the year 2000 my view of it is is that it's an opportunity to redefine relationships that can emerge far stronger than what we've got today I'm confident that we're going to Rally around uh whatever the problems are we will meet them as we have met all the other problems we've had and that basically we will move forward and be uh Stronger uh as a result of all of this work and effort by this time in the year 1999 the term why UK has entered the public Consciousness world leaders in government spiritual and corporate circles have all found themselves in one of the greatest dilemas facing humankind but the Dilemma is not why UK itself rather the concern for world leaders is how we as individuals as communities should best approach wat UK but the reality is there are no white UK experts and this is because nothing like this has ever occurred before in the history of humankind the reality is no one knows exactly what's going to happen so the real dilemma facing not only world leaders but each one of us is how to find a clear reasonable balanced approach between those who call for Extreme Survival measures versus those who advise no action at all the very best we can hope to do therefore is to prepare as individuals and as families so that we each feel secure and to work together in small and large communities as local and Global [Music] neighbors hi I'm Ted Wright I spent four and a half years in Special Forces almost continuous combat and I traveled from l alamain in Rome I was part of the Desert Rats team and I ended up at uh outside Rome and I survived anio I have seen just about every condition of human misery and privation in my time I am a family safety preparedness consultant I've been doing what I do for 18 years I'm happy to be a part of this team and I hope that our message will be received positively concentrate on basic needs that you might have to spend a couple of weeks using those supplies before a distribution system is uh renewed I think it's a very important thing for communities to have a constructive dialogue uh with their elected leaders and their local businesses about what their state of preparedness is and what their state of Readiness is learn how to put a little water away know how much per person to put away know uh how much cash you're going to need on hand if any know what you're going to do water and I've said it for years is going to be a prime problem in this country with regards to Fresh drinking water it's already a problem now it's been highlighted in newspapers periodicals magazines have all run specials on this have a minimum of at least four weeks water for each family member in storage as soon as possible one gallon per person is accepted by FEMA in the Red Cross as the very basic requirement so for one month 30 gallons per person is your target other than buying water fill every container that you use milk juice soda pop rinse it out and fill it with fresh tap water and store containers in a cool dark place I have containers all over my house all over my yard I have them in the bed bedro I have them in a linen closet store them store them store them fresh water properly stored lasts for years the enemy of water is light and heat we now have excellent technical advances that have resulted in very compact portable inexpensive water filters that we can process our water through and know that it's safe to drink no matter how long it's been in storage if you're in doubt filter the water using a good water filter now available in the uh $30 range and up be sure it is at least a 005 Micron or less because then it will filter out possible bacteria but if you have no filter and have doubts boil the stuff and now let's talk about storing water for purposes other than drinking picture this you get up one day you go to the bathroom and discover you don't have water you then realize you only have one flush per toilet and then things are going to get nasty and unpleasant what do you do about this well ahead of time store water in volume for this purpose next to the need for drinking water need for flushing water is number two fill trash can drums or any large containers no matter if they're clean or not we're not talking about drinking water here we're talking about toilet water quantity not quality is the order of the day in rainy areas put barrels under the gutter spout and you have free water now in most of the manuals put out by the Red Cross and femur it tells you to put a plastic trash bag in your toilet and use the toilet normally seal the bag when it's sufficiently finished but that is one of the most destructive things we can possibly do and I urge everybody as I have done for years do not use plastic bags for your toilet as soon as you seal the bag the waste inside starts to cook and that generates germs it generates all sorts of bacteria so those plastic trash bags are going to deteriorate and you're going to have a potential for an outbreak of disease like you never saw before if the toilet doesn't work a chemical toilet is the answer the chemical toilet is most desirable for fam safety they're very affordable costing even less than $60 if you cannot afford a chemical toilet while a good siiz bucket and an adapted toilet seat will work if you're careful use this toilet and when finished empty down the regular toilet by observing the reaction of the flushing as you dump the homemade chemical toilet you will learn how much water to keep in the bucket at all times under no circumstances d the chemical toilet waste of any kind in the yard let's take the example of an apartment complex with 50 units in it we have to get together we have to put the responsibility on the owner or the management of the apartment buildings to make a communal toilet to pull in the toilets that we see on the construction sites Etc if people have to pay an extra dollar a month in their rent to make sure they have some toilets out there for them like we do at expositions and ball games if they can do it for ball games and Gatherings we can do it for an apartment complex or condominium complex personal hygiene is always a problem with no water stock up on baby wipes clean underarms and private areas daily with baby wipes the next thing you want to do is really get stuff that you eat that you're used to eating that will last in the year 2000 there's there's tons of things such as tuna fish potted meat all kinds of potted uh meat products Bean products and so we're urging that people prepare food water other things for about a month to six weeks the other aspect of that is that we're urging people strongly not to think that they can survive this alone this is about Community it's about networks and so beyond about a month you have to be networked and you have to be in community uh there's no way any one family could lay aside you know enough food enough resources to survive this thing on their own you need to have a minimum of four weeks of food for this emergency for each family member same as the water remember and also pets are family members and they need food and water for the same period of time the body needs a high concentration of protein and minerals to stay healthy 50 to 60 gram of protein a day is a good guide and the average adult should consume this much protein that is approximately 1,500 gram of protein a month if you have the time a dehydrator is worth its waiting gold at this particular time homemade jerky can be stored with white rice to absorb any extra moisture it may have after processing Mary Bell's book on dehydrating food is a great resource if you want to try home dehydrate we must learn the fundamentals and be like a squirrel we must get a little bit and put it away a little bit and put it away in my own teachings I teach the bin method I I talk about a 30- gallon trash bin but it can be a smaller container you need a container with a good tight lid that you can put food in once you have stored your protein then work on storing other Foods you will need here are some suggestions dried beans rice rice powdered milk dried fruit powdered protein drinks Alfalfa seeds for sprouting and any can Foods you might like if you have the money MREs meals ready to eat can be purchased from military surplus stores or from many sites on the internet the sooner you start your preparations the better your opportunity to get the supplies you need at reasonable prices Y2K specifically is going to affect our utilities and our services we can't do anything about the telephone we can't put the power back on but we have to have alternate means of heating and Alternate means of lighting now that we have covered the subjects of food and water storage let's move on to the problems of staying warm and having emergency lighting if you have a fireplace or a wood stove and you don't have any fuel fuel or you've run out of fuel you can burn newspapers hand rolled into logs basically you roll the newspapers very tightly and fasten them with metal wire as for heat a good modern kerosene heater is the way to go they are safe do need ventilation of course but are very efficient and economical using under 10 gallons a week burning 10 hours a day I stress the need to reduce the logistics don't try to heat the whole house select one room large enough for the family and use that one room for living in for this 4- we period it's not that big a deal there is a new a long life flashlight and boy it's apart from all the rest I have one and it's just amazing mine will go two years on One battery candles are a pleasant but controversial light source if you are going to use them be very very careful as they can be as dangerous as they are useful especially around children you may want to purchase an oil lamp from your favorite Discount Store oil lamps are one of the most economical ways to provide emergency lighting 2 gallons of lamp oil is approximately a month supply using your oil lamp 5 hours a day there is also the crank radio and light that is very very efficient hot meal sure if you want to keep warm why not in a reduced living area be sure to stockpile plenty of the fuels you know you'll be using such as firewood kerosene lamp oil Etc you may want to have fire starter bricks and extra lighters available make sure you have plenty of batteries on hand for your flashlights if you don't already have one a fire extinguisher you should have a good basic first aid kit I have urged people for years go to your doctor and ask for an extra prescription so you can cycle your prescriptions have a month ahead of you no doctor will issue a prescription ahead of time we have to change the thinking of the AMA make sure you you have your medication through the year 200000 um you'll want to make sure you get it perhaps filled in December of 99 that hopefully by 3 months from then through January and February of 2000 as they work through the glitches should there be a glitch that by the time you're ready to fill your prescription in March you'll have the computer system fixed and your medication will be um available to you and the medication problem as far as I'm concerned is a time bomb waiting to go off and it's going to be very very serious make sure you have enough prescription medicine to last for this period of time you will need to talk to your doctor about this home remedies and herbal teas have a good 4 week supply of toilet paper paper paper towels lawn trash bags diapers if you have a baby feminine products contct lens solution and good personal grooming items of your choice you will need handy tools such as duct tape a hand saw crowbar hammer and nails pliers screwdrivers and rope you may want to put some money aside uh because that uh you may not be able to get to your bank your bank may be down uh for a week or two and and it would be a discomfort you I mean to people may not accept checks uh so having some cash might be a good idea people don't usually understand the idea of fractional Reserve banking that when they make a deposit only very small portion is actually kept with the bank even of that deposit only 1.2% of our total money supply is in cash so that if everybody ran to the banks tomorrow they'd only be getting maybe a penny on the dollar in return if they wanted in cash well that kind of information floating around the society is what's going to cause some tremendous panic I think it may be a good idea to have some cash on hand although experts vary in their opinions by personal choice put coin and cash away as much as you feel you are comfortable with get a copy of all Financial records such as bank statements mortgage statements credit card statements and all important documents store them in a safe place have written proof of financial assets as much as you can we do not recommend pulling all of your money out of the bank just document what is there tell your children they don't have to worry about why 2K because your family will be prepared if the water or electricity goes out for a few days uh with children it's very important to reassure kids that this is not the end of the world involve them in a meaningful way you know if it comes to storing a little food or you know putting batteries in the flashlights you you give kids a meaningful role in the uh in the process because it literally is true that in times of catastrophe everyone is a leader at one time or another if your child is old enough to understand why 2K and to help out around the house you need to explain why 2K to him let him help prepare if the C child is not old enough to help you or understand why 2K then don't tell them I mean it'll be part of their life experience that they children are pretty pretty resilient they they'll figure this is normal be sure you have provided for your well-being and morale have games that require no electricity books playing cards puzzles and crafts these will keep you and your children happily occupied tell your friends and relatives that preparing for temporary shortages and outages caused by Y2K is a good insurance policy you don't expect your house to burn down but you're still insured against that possibility now that you have seen some of the ideas in this program you know how easy it is to start your own short-term preparations many people especially those who live alone are overwhelmed by the potential of this Y2K dilemma remember all problems have a solution and people will continue to work on the problems we have outlined in in this presentation if you would like more information about my educational materials regarding Y2K my newsletter or other products please call 1 1800 948 8301 I think that it's prudent uh just as companies are planning for year 2000 so also is it prudent for individuals to engage in that same type of thinking I'm going to buy a generator and at least enough of water for a month apart a month supply of food basically we're prepared for a couple of three months I don't think it'll last that long but it's not that expensive in 1999 prices early I plan to do and is to store a month's worth of food and and and a month's worth of water I will make uh my bank send me all my records I'm keeping all my receipts for all of my medical expenses for the year 2 or for the year 1999 why don't you test yourself why don't every home test why not go home next weekend why not Friday night turn the box off turn the electric off go shut the water off okay uh have a few bucks in your pocket uh see what you need y 2K is a computer problem but it's going to face the individual with their own reality whatever that reality is it's going to going to face you face to face with a mirror and in that mirror is going to be you here's a checklist to help you your family and your community prepare for watch UK do you have at least a 3-we supply of water on hand do you have at least a 3 week supply of food ready primarily canned and dried foods which are not dependent upon Refrigeration for freshness do you have hard copies of all your important documents ments such as bank statements stocks assets birth certificates and so on do you have emergency independent lighting such as flashlights kerosene lamps oil lamps candles and matches since Y2K will happen in the dead of winter if you live in colder climates do you have emergency heating methods or other means to stay warm such as a well-prepared fireplace at least three weeks of kindling real or synthetic fireplace logs as well as sleeping bags heavy quilts heavy coats thick gloves thermal underwear and socks do you have backup cooking methods available such as a kerosene camping stove barbecue with ample supply of charcoal or a fireplace and cookware appropriate for an open flame if you are continuously Reliant upon prescription medicine have you made Provisions with your a doctor to have at least a 3-month supply of medicine after January 1st 2000 likewise if you have a medical condition which requires Continuous Care have you made Provisions with your doctor to make sure your necessary Medical Care will be uninterrupted throughout the year 2000 do you have a first aid kit and have you customized it for the potential needs of you and your family if you have critical care home nursing equipment have you checked with the cell or manufacturer to make sure that none of the equipment may be affected by Y2K microchip failure if you'll be pregnant in the year 2000 have you made special Provisions with your doctor to ensure a smooth delivery of your newborn child in the event that telephone systems satellite networks television or radio temporarily become inoperative do you or your nearby neighbors have a ham radio as a backup for communications and to keep a breast of newsworthy developments have you made specific plans to secure heirlooms and other valuables important to you and your family have you contacted your local phone water and power companies both about uninterrupted service and about accurate billing statements in the year 2000 if you live in a skyscraper or other high-rise dwelling have you and your co-tenants conferred with building management regarding backup General generator for the entire building regarding emergency Provisions for heat light water and waste management if you live in a community of neighborhood homes have you begun organizing with family friends and town leaders to prepare contingency plans for the first two to three months of the year 2000 particularly regarding emergency food water and heat Provisions have you made special contacts with any elderly or disabled folks to see if they could use a little help and have you communicated with your local County state and federal representatives to make sure they're doing everything in their power to prepare for wi UK finally one good thing to remember regarding all of these items of preparation is that regardless of what may or may not occur as a result of Y2K all of these things will still be useful to you and your family and the efforts to organize with our neighbors will be beneficial to all parties concerned no matter what does or does not [Music] happen there is an ancient myth of what might have been the most highly Advanced civilization ever to dwell on the planet Earth but that is indeed just an ancient myth we are now without question living in one of the greatest periods in all human history it's both an exciting and challenging time to be alive we both enjoy and are a struck by the unbelievably rapid advancements in human Ingenuity and Technology yet how fragile do we now find ourselves before the Juggernaut of our own inventions however as we indicated earlier in this program there are no I 2K experts no one knows exactly what if anything will happen and our individual and Collective response to Y2K is actually far more important than Y2K itself the experts that we're dealing with uh indicate that it's going to hit hard and heavy for a while maybe be maybe look like what some are calling a meltdown scenario for a week or two and then it's going to level out more to Brown out on a scale of 1 to five how bad the Y2K is going to be globally five being the worst I would say globally they're at a five in the states we have been at a four I think we're going to end up about a two my personal sense of this is uh in the range of three I think there are going to be major disruptions I think there going to be uh things that uh we can deal with but it won't be easy putting January 1 on a scale of 1 to five with five being the worst and one being nothing at all my assumption is somewhere around a 2.5 again an annoyance a nuisance a lot of different things that don't work catastrophic I don't think so I would say a three I I think maybe we're looking at maybe a three I think based on the utility companies I think there will be some power allergies we'll have brown outs in some cases I would say there would probably be fall around a three or four my personal opinion is it can only be a five it can't be any less than a five I would probably have to rate this right in the middle at two and a half and the reason is because we know that this is an inevitable circumstance I would put the year 2000 problem for the world at a three with a wait and see attitude in a very real way we're all responsible for Y2K and there's no one to blame morally or otherwise we've all benefited from the Technologies which have improved Our Lives Liv and we have therefore encouraged those same Technologies to develop at ever more accelerated rates and yes perhaps we are now realizing that we've taken them a bit for granted and have indeed become too dependent upon the byproducts of our Collective Innovations and so we must not only prepare as families and work together as neighbors but we need also use this moment in the development of our civilization as an opportunity to look at the long range effects of all our human Endeavors looking Beyond y 2K whatever perils are very human Ambitions and shortsightedness may lead us to our even more powerful human spirit will find a way to overcome so let us use the Y2K challenge as an opportunity to reflect on where we're headed as a civilization perhaps the most important opportunity we've ever had if the omission of two simple digits can have worldwide impact several decades after its Inception we must ask ourselves before we rush too far forward what are we doing now in genetic engineering with cloning with the development of bacteriological warfare life forms with death rate Technologies and pollution of land air and water that could have long-term unpredictable worldwide effects and what can we do as the inheritors the caretakers of this world what can we do to protect our home our Island in space [Music] up to you so [Music] this but [Music] iing [Music] see to come up for are you are you there I'm long for the breath of [Music] [Music] are you there are you [Music] [Music] there through this rock\r\nImagine you are sitting at your desk, sipping a coffee, and 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When suddenly, every single website on the planet simply stops working. Your banking app is a blank screen. The world's largest search engines are throwing cryptic error codes, and even the smart light bulb in your hallway is blinking in a panicked red rhythm. You might think we've been hit by a coordinated global cyber attack or a solar flare, but the reality is often far more embarrassing. The entire digital foundation of modern civilization is frequently held together by bits of code written decades ago. And sometimes a single missing semicolon or a poorly handled leapyear calculation is enough to bring the entire global economy to its knees. We aren't just talking about a minor glitch in a video game. We are talking about unhinged worlding computer bugs that have physically broken the internet as we know it. Today we are diving deep into the digital disasters that exposed the terrifying fragility of our connected world. We are looking at the code that went rogue, the errors that traveled across oceans, and the moments when the brightest engineers on Earth were left staring at their screens in total disbelief. Our first entry into the hall of digital infamy is the bug that effectively taught the world what a computer worm actually was. The Morris worm of 1988. Now, back in the late 80s, the internet was a relatively small neighborhood, mostly occupied by researchers, military personnel, and university students. It was an environment built on trust. A student at Cornell University named Robert Tapen Morris wanted to gauge the size of the internet. He wrote a program designed to hop from one computer to another, but he made a critical unhinged error in the logic. He didn't want the worm to reinfect a machine that already had it. But he was worried that system administrators might create fake versions of the worm to trick his program. So he instructed the worm to copy itself anyway. One out of every seven times it encountered a machine that claimed to be infected. This mathematical oversight turned his census tool into a digital wildfire. The worm replicated so aggressively that it clogged the memory of every computer it touched, causing them to crash under the weight of thousands of copies of the same program. Within hours, 10% of the entire internet was incapacitated. It was the first time people realized that a single person with a keyboard could accidentally paralyze a global network. Fast forward a few decades and we encounter a bug that hit much closer to our modern lives. The heartbleleed bug of 2014. If you used the internet at any point in the last 10 years, you were protected by a library called OpsSEL. It's the technology that puts the little padlock icon in your browser bar, ensuring that your passwords and credit card numbers are encrypted. But a single developer making a minor mistake in a feature called the heartbeat extension created a hole so large it felt like leaving the vault door of the world's biggest bank wide open. The bug allowed an attacker to send a specially crafted request to a server asking it to confirm it was still alive. The server was supposed to send back a small amount of data, but because of a missing bounds check in the code, the server would accidentally dump 64 kilobytes of its active memory. This memory often contained private encryption keys, usernames, and passwords. Because OpenSSL was used by almost 2/3 of the entire internet, heartbleleed wasn't just a bug. It was a total compromise of global digital security. Every major website from Google to Facebook had to scramble to patch their systems. It was a terrifying reminder that the padlock we trust is only as strong as a few lines of volunteer written code. But sometimes a bug isn't in the software we use, but in the very way the internet talks to itself. This brings us to the BGP routing leak of 2008. BGP or border gateway protocol is essentially the GPS of the internet. It tells data packets which path to take to reach their destination. In 2008, the government of Pakistan wanted to block YouTube within its own borders. To do this, they instructed their national internet service provider to announce a better route to YouTube servers, essentially a digital dead end. However, an unhinged configuration error caused this fake route to leak out into the global internet. Suddenly, routers in New York, London, and Tokyo were being told that the fastest way to get to YouTube was through a small ISP in Pakistan. The global traffic surged toward this tiny bottleneck, causing YouTube to vanish for the entire world for several hours. This event proved that the internet's routing system is fundamentally based on a rumor mill where every network simply trusts what its neighbor says. A single typo in a small corner of the world can literally redirect the traffic of billions of people. Speaking of typos, we have to talk about the Amazon S3 outage of 2017. Amazon Web Services or AWS is the backbone of the modern web. Thousands of companies rely on it to host their images, data, and websites. One morning, an engineer was performing a routine debugging task and entered a command to remove a few servers from a billing system. However, a slight error in the command's input caused a much larger number of servers to be taken offline than intended. These weren't just any servers. They were the ones responsible for the S3 storage system in the US East1 region. Because so much of the internet depends on those specific servers, the digital world started to crumble. Websites wouldn't load photos, apps wouldn't open, and even some smart ovens and vacuum cleaners stopped working. The most unhinged part, Amazon couldn't even post an update to their own service health dashboard to tell people what was wrong because the dashboard itself relied on the very servers that were down. It was a digital our burrow, a snake eating its own tail, proving that even the giants of the tech world are one typing mistake away from a total blackout. Then there is the bug that lived in our pockets, the iPhone 1970 bug. In 2016, users discovered that if they manually set the date on their iPhone to January 1st, 1970, and then restarted the device, it would turn into a permanent, expensive paper weight. It wouldn't boot, it wouldn't reset, and it required a physical repair. This bug was a fascinating look at how computers handled time. Most modern systems use Unix time, which counts the number of seconds that have passed since the beginning of 1970. Setting the clock to exactly zero or a value close to it caused a mathematical error in the battery management software. The system would try to perform a calculation that resulted in a negative number which it couldn't handle, causing the hardware to effectively give up on life. It was a relatively small bug in terms of lines of code, but the fact that a simple date change could destroy a high-tech piece of hardware was truly unhinged. It showed that our devices are constantly performing delicate math in the background. And if the numbers don't add up, the consequences are physical. But for sheer uninhibited chaos, nothing beats the Crowdstrike blue screen of death event of 2024. This is arguably the most widespread IT outage in human history. CrowdStrike is a top tier cyber security firm that provides protection for millions of computers in hospitals, airports, banks, and government agencies. They pushed out a routine update to a sensor file, but the update contained a logic error that caused Windows systems to immediately crash into a blue screen of death upon booting. Because the software was designed to run at the kernel level, the most protected and fundamental part of the operating system, there was no easy fix. Over 8 million computers worldwide were caught in a boot loop. Flights were grounded, surgeries were cancelled, and news stations went off the air. This wasn't a malicious attack. It was a quality control failure in a security update. It proved that in our quest for total security, we have created a single point of failure. So massive that a single corrupted file can halt global commerce. While we are on the topic of security bugs, we absolutely have to discuss Shell Shock from 2014. For nearly 30 years, a bug sat quietly inside Bash, which is the command line interface used by almost every Linux and Mac computer on the planet. The bug allowed an attacker to hide malicious code inside an environment variable. When the computer went to check that variable, it would accidentally execute the hidden code. Because bash is used behind the scenes by web servers, routers, and even some smart fridges. Shell shock meant that billions of devices had been vulnerable for three decades without anyone noticing. It was like discovering that every lock made since the 1980s had a secret master key that worked for anyone who knew the trick. The unhinged part wasn't just the bug itself, but how long it remained hidden in plain sight and proving that the older the code, the more likely it is to contain a sleeping giant. Let's talk about a bug that was so unhinged it felt like a prank. The Google Every Website is dangerous bug of 2009. For about 40 minutes one Saturday morning, every single search result on Google was flagged with the warning, \"This site may harm your computer.\" Even google.com itself was flagged as a dangerous site. This caused the internet to effectively halt as millions of people were blocked from accessing any website through the world's most popular gateway. The cause, a human error where a forward slashper inch was accidentally added to the list of malicious sites. Since every single URL contains a forward slash, Google's automated system concluded that the entire internet was a virus. It was a simple data entry error that accidentally quarantined the whole worldwide web. It showed just how much power a small list of bad websites has over our daily navigation. Another fascinating unhinged moment occurred with the Fastly outage of 2021. Fastly is a content delivery network or CDN. They help speed up the web by storing copies of websites closer to the users. A single customer changed their configuration setting which triggered a previously unknown bug in Fastley's software. This bug didn't just affect that one customer. It rippled through their entire global network. Suddenly, major sites like Reddit, Twitch, the New York Times, and even the UK government's official website went dark. This event highlighted the middleware problem. We think we are connecting directly to a website, but we are actually passing through layers of invisible accelerators and load balancers. When one of those layers has a glitch, the surface level internet simply disappears. It was a massive wakeup call about the hidden companies that actually run the web. We also have to mention the Y2K bug's younger and more obscure brother, the year 2038 in problem. While Y2K turned out to be less catastrophic than predicted because engineers worked tirelessly to fix it, the 2038 bug is built into the way 32-bit systems count time. On January 19th, 2038, the number of seconds since 1970 will exceed the maximum value that a 32-bit integer can hold. At that exact second, the clock will wrap around to a negative number, and systems will believe it is suddenly 1901. We've already seen early glitches from this bug in long-term financial projections and older embedded systems. It is an unhinged architectural flaw that was baked into the very foundation of computing back when people thought 32 bits was infinite space. It's a ticking digital clock that reminds us that code is not eternal. It is a product of its time. Sometimes a bug is so pervasive it affects the physical world in ways we don't expect. Consider the Mars Climate Orbiter bug of 1999. While not strictly an internet broken event, it is one of the most unhinged errors in history. A spacecraft worth hundreds of millions of dollars was lost because one team used metric units while another team used English imperial units in the software. The mismatch caused the orbiter to dip too low into the Martian atmosphere and disintegrate. This same type of unit mismatch or type error is a common cause of internet outages. When two systems talk to each other but use slightly different grammarss, the result is total chaos. It proves that in the world of code, close enough is never good enough. Moving into the world of social media, we had the Facebook border gateway protocol crisis of 2021. For 6 hours, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp completely disappeared from the internet. It wasn't just that the websites were down. It was as if their address had been deleted from the global phone book. An internal update to their data centers caused their routers to stop broadcasting their location to the rest of the world. Because Facebook's internal tools also relied on that same network. Employees couldn't even use their digital key cards to enter the buildings to fix the servers. It was a total physical and digital lockout caused by a single routing command. It showed that as companies grow, they become so integrated that a single bug can create a fortress that even the owners can't get into. Then there is the night capital group bug of 2012. This is perhaps the most expensive bug in history. A technician forgot to copy a new piece of code to one of their eight servers responsible for highfrequency trading. When the markets opened, the servers were running two different versions of the software. The old code misinterpreted the signals from the new code, causing the system to go on an unhinged buying spree. In just 45 minutes, the company lost $440 million, nearly $10 million per minute. The company effectively became insolvent in less than an hour due to a deployment error. This bug proved that in the world of automated trading, code is more powerful than any bank manager or CEO, a single zombie server can bankrupt an entire corporation before a human can even hit the stop button. If you're listening and wondering why these bugs keep happening, the answer is complexity. We are building the most complex machine in human history, the global internet. But we are building it one piece at a time, often using legacy code that was never meant to handle the scale of the modern world. Every time we add a new feature, we are potentially disturbing a sleeping bug from 20 years ago. It's like trying to build a skyscraper on top of a wooden shack. Sooner or later, the shack is going to grown. The unhinged nature of these bugs often comes from their disproportionality. A single character, like the Google forward slash, can affect billions of people. This leverage is unique to the digital age. In the physical world, a mistake usually has local consequences. In the digital world, a mistake is viral. It travels at the speed of light, replicating across servers until the entire globe is feeling the impact. This is what makes computer knowledge so vital. We aren't just learning to fix machines. We are learning to manage the nervous system of our modern world. Consider the slammer worm of 2003. This bug was so small it could fit inside a single packet of data. It targeted a vulnerability in Microsoft SQL servers. Because it was so compact, it spread with lightning speed, doubling in size every 8.5 seconds. Within 10 minutes, it had infected 75,000 servers and effectively shut down the internet in South Korea and parts of the United States. It was so fast that humans couldn't react. By the time the first alert was sent, the war was already lost. It showed that bugs can operate on a time scale that is far beyond human perception. We also have to talk about the McKay update bug of 2010. Similar to the CrowdStrike event, a routine virus definition update erroneously identified a core Windows system file. SVCA chos.exe as a virus. The antivirus software immediately deleted or quarantined that file causing millions of computers to enter a state of total shutdown. Because that specific file is necessary for networking, the broken computers couldn't even download the fix. technicians had to manually touch every single machine to restore them. This friendly fire from security software is one of the most ironic and unhinged recurring themes in tech history. Another great example is the Cloudflare 52 in error of 2019. Cloudflare is another giant middleware company that protects websites. They pushed a single regular expression, a piece of code used for pattern matching to their firewall to block certain types of attacks. However, the code was poorly written and caused the CPU usage on their servers to spike to 100%. Because Cloudflare handles about 10% of all internet traffic, 10% of the web simply stopped working. This tiny regx error brought down millions of sites simultaneously. It was a digital heart attack caused by a single line of bad grammar. If you are a student of computer science, these bugs are your textbooks. They teach us about defensive programming, sanity checks, and fail safes. But they also teach us a deeper lesson about humility. The people who wrote the heartbleleed bug or the crowd strike update weren't incompetent. They were working at the edge of human capability in a system that is too large for any one person to fully understand. These bugs are the ghosts in our machine. The unintended consequences of our digital ambition. The brokenness of these events often highlights the centralization of the internet. We like to think of the web as a decentralized network where everything is connected but independent. But these bugs show that we actually rely on a very small number of bottlenecks. Amazon, Google, Cloudflare, Crowdstrike, and Fastly. When one of these central pillars has a glitch, the whole temple shakes. We have traded resilience for efficiency. And these unhinged bugs are the price we pay for that trade. Let's look at the Sham's model of communication in a digital context. When the source, the server and the receiver, your computer have a mismatched field of experience, a version mismatch or a typo, the message is lost. In these global outages, the noise becomes so great that the communication breaks down for everyone. These unhinged bugs are the ultimate noise, a static that drowns out the entire global conversation. What can we do to prevent the next big one? The answer is usually boring, better testing, more redundant systems, and less monoculture in our software. But as long as we want the internet to be fast, cheap, and featurerich, these bugs will always be part of the landscape. They are the storm surges of the digital ocean, we can build higher seaw walls, but eventually a rogue wave of bad code will always find a way over. As you go about your day, think about the millions of lines of code that have to work perfectly just for you to read your email. Think about the silent math happening in your pocket, the routing protocols in the walls, and the padlocks protecting your data. It is a miracle that it works at all. These unhinged bugs aren't just failures. They are reminders. They remind us that the internet is a human invention, beautiful, flawed, and incredibly fragile. Whether it's a missing slash in a Google list or a logic error in a security update, these moments of total breakdown are the stress tests of our civilization. They show us where we are overleveraged and where we need to build more slack into the system. They are the unhandled exceptions of our modern life. So the next time your internet goes down, don't just reach for the router. Take a second to appreciate the sheer scale of what has to go right for you to be online and the unhinged simplicity of what can make it all go wrong. The history of the internet is a history of these pivotal glitches. Each one has led to new security standards, better coding practices, and a slightly more resilient web. We are failing upward. We learn from the Morris worm. We learn from heartbleleed. And we will learn from the next catastrophe, too. The broken internet is just a part of its construction process. We are building the future, one patched bug at a time. Enjoy the digital world while it's working and keep a curious mind for when it inevitably breaks again. There is always a story behind the 44 in error. A human being who made a mistake and a lesson that will make the next version of the web just a little bit more unbreakable. The unhinged bugs are the legends of our time, the digital myths that we tell to remind ourselves that even in a world of machines, the human factor is still the most powerful force of all. As the sun sets on another day of functioning internet and the data continues to flow through the cables beneath the ocean and the signals in the air, remember that you are part of this incredible fragile network. You are a node in the global brain. And just like any brain, sometimes the internet has a migraine, a glitch, or a nightmare. It's all part of the experience of being connected. So rest easy, keep your systems updated, and don't change your iPhone date to 1970. The digital world is vast, complex, and sometimes a little bit broken. But it's the most amazing thing we've ever built. And even when it's unhinged, it's never boring. No matter where life takes you through the blue screens or the 404 errors, you are witnessing the growing pains of a new era. 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