y2k survey - FWIW

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"We're professional liars. We're not telling our bosses how bad it is because of how severely we've seen others treated." -- An anonymous Y2K programmer

"Some offices are just now beginning to take Y2K as something worthy of management's attention. ...Of course, we are reporting that we are 'clean and green' - as the politicians require us to report." -- A second anonymous Y2K programmer

"Y2K programmers are now eleven times more likely to purchase food supplies than the general public." -- A mathematical analysis of recent food purchasing trends, investigated and reported by Y2KNEWSWIRE

I don't know anything about the veracity of Y2KNEWSWIRE. Follow the link to read the whole thing.

http://www.y2knewswire.com/19990614.htm

It becomes obvious that with all the conflicting information that we will have to use a good deal of our own judgement. Since the "system" that Y2k affects is our over all infrastructure their is no one single expert or group who can see the whole picture. Whole industries could be right as rain and it wouldn't matter. On the other hand, the economic/infratructure system is huge, tens of thousands of failures could disappear in to it with out a trace IMHO.

Here's a concept. If everyone had a supply of food and basics and could replace services that were lost at least temporarily, wouldn't that make us nationally one tough nut to crack?

Keep your...

-- eyes_open (best@wishes.net), June 14, 1999

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Hard as steel, tough as nails! American ingenuity has been the envy of the world. They may have "screwed the pooch" in Y2K, but that doesn't mean ingenuity will be dead....let's just hope we learn from their mistakes once we decide to pull ourselves up by the bootstraps again.....and WE WILL!

-- Will continue (farming@home.com), June 14, 1999.

One of the best quotes that was used in the article:

http://www.y2knewswire.com/19990614.htm

We know that the Titanic sank in an ocean that was better than 99% iceberg-free and that the damage to its hull was confined to holes totaling about 1 square meter in surface area, again far less than 1% of the surface area of the hull. And we know it sank.

-- Linkmeister (link@librarian.edu), June 14, 1999.


"One of the best quotes that was used in the article: http://www.y2knewswire.com/19990614.htm

We know that the Titanic sank in an ocean that was better than 99% iceberg-free and that the damage to its hull was confined to holes totaling about 1 square meter in surface area, again far less than 1% of the surface area of the hull. And we know it sank.

-- Linkmeister (link@librarian.edu), June 14, 1999"

Link,

This is a silly analogy. Do you really think the sinking of a single ship is a decent comparison to how society will react to the Y2K problem? If you think society is this fragile, I am amazed we have surived this long.

Regards,

-- Mr. Decker (kcdecker@worldnet.att.net), June 14, 1999.


Mr. Decker,

I think the analogy is meant to apply not to society's reaction to Y2K, but to its perception prior to Y2K. The unsinkable can't be sunk by something so minor.

Jill

-- Jill (jdance@mindspring.com), June 14, 1999.


Dicker;

Your mind get's smaller with every passing day. YOUR MELTING, YOUR MELTING,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

-- FLAME AWAY (BLehman202@aol.com), June 14, 1999.



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