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r33t.org’s favorite psychopath spammer has checked in with yet another installment of his religious millenialist ravings…

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See this ‘ that is what a multi-warhead looks like just before it hits the ground. In a few months when all of your societies begin to totally collapse, you are going to see a whole bunch of these ‘ all over the place.

The rest is the same as the original spam.

This leaves me wondering what mal-adjusted apocalyptic idiots like this are going to be doing after things return back to normal (my guess is business as usual in 4-8 weeks, with some possible extreme results in countries that haven’t put a lot of thought into y2k fixes). Maybe we can get this wacko to write for r33t - considering that he’s already got a fan club, I’m sure it would increase our hate mail in a most loving fashion.

When I was growing up, the year 2000 was that which by all others were measured. “By the year 2000, the average American lifespan will be 110 years old. By the year 2000, the DOW will have hit 3000!” And so on. Here as we swiftly approach January 2000, we must contemplate the end of the future. What comes after that, I have no idea - perhaps we can use a crafty, irritatingly trite term like “post-future”.

In a such as this, when we have an entire century to compact into meaningless soundbytes and are on the verge of new ways of thinking (for instance “do I write 00 or 2000 on my check?”), it becomes important to look to things we can count on.

Let us contemplate several constants, a few things that we - as citizens of the world - can be assured will remain true. These are truths that are constant, and we needn’t worry about their ability to withstand social, economic, and proctological change.

With no further adieu… Things we can count on:
Quality French automaking. Dependable, stable Italian government. Cuban naval superiority. Value of the Mexican Peso. Microsoft Quality Assurance. Wall Street altruism. American consumer electronics manufacturing. Catholic family planning. Protestant rationalism. Republican and Democratic realization that the “American System” is democracy rather than capitalist libertarianism. Chinese passivity. Canadian colonialism. Congressional morality. Quality Alabaman education. Indian international cinema success. English dentistry. Russian rock music. Singaporan justice. IBM OS/2 market dominance. Turkish foreign policy. Brazilian IRC prescence. Christian charity. Afghan peace. Lebanese tourism industry. Nepalese independence.

Thank you.