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Re: hybrids in reference to?

Alda,

As an information systems professional for 23 years, most of it in the
transportation industy, I can assure you that you don't need to worry
about the transportation infrastucture collapsing on Dec 31, 1999
because of computer problems.  This person is trying to capitalize on
"Millenium Hysteria" for their own gain.

The computer systems with serious problems are the ones that have to do
with financial information and with long term scheduling activities such
as manufacturing schedules.  It's especially serious with government
systems, so things like social security and welfare payment (check)
delivery may be affected, which should be of concern to people who
depend on those resources.

If you want to worry about something you might try "Genetic
Engineering", perhaps, as a more suitable target for your worry.  The
practice of inserting foreign genes into growing materials and then
raising those materials into reproductive adult organisms has, IMO, been
rushed to production rather too rapidly.  There are today, growing on
this planet, cotton, soybean, canola, tomato and potato (and maybe
strawberry?) plants that are genetically unlike their ancestors.  Some
of them even have the genes of bacteria in them.

But the trains will run and the planes will not suddenly drop out of the
sky at midnight on Dec 31, 1999.

Steve

ke6gvp@juno.com wrote:
> 
> Thanks to everyone for replying  to me re: Hybrids.
> 
> I will try to explain this so called radio program I heard about NON
> Hybrids.  It is pretty much Millenium related, meaning that the person
> talking was trying to educate people in "saving their seeds" to plant
> each each year (from non-hybrid), she was talking about year 2000 beyond
> and future problems with computers stopping and What if's? such as what
> if the computers stop and now that Union Pacific and Southern Pacific
> trains have merged (and still don't know how to merge their computers)
> they may  not be able to deliver food around the nation due to computer
> problems, therefore creating major shortages in our food supply, the
> catalogs are also on computer systems, so how would you by your seeds?
> and if the stores are out of food then people would rush to buy what was
> left as far as seeds go, would there be any left for me or anyone else.
> So the idea is to grow our food (what we can, at least) and to not rely
> on who will deliver to us.  Wow when I heard this program I was blown
> away.
> 
> So to simplify things Geri Guidetti, I believe her name is educates
> people on being self suffient and growing non hybrids and saving your
> seeds for the next crop, kinda like they did in ancient times that way we
> learn to feed ourselves and not rely on computers that control the world.
>  Technology is great but is partially responsible for somethings going
> wrong.
> 
> Anyway that is why I brought this issue up!  It makes a whole lotta sense
> to me and hope to many others, but anyway I have joined this list because
> I am a novice gardner and want to learn tips from many of you experts and
> I do admire you.
> 
> Alda
> KE6GVP@juno.com
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