I'm not kidding either. I can only compare it to being invited to heaven, only to discover you're really in hell. The angels morph into demons and start tearing at your clothes. All that sweet, syrupy talk is about to change, swiftly, abruptly, into the severe voice of martial law....

-- starkiller (luke@sky.walker), December 08, 1999

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I am not afraid of Martial Law, chemtrails, clinton, y2k viruses, etc... What is really bugging me is that I personally see the non-compliance on a daily basis, so much fix-on-failure is likely to occur during the first few days of the new year that productivity is likely to grind down to zero. It might not last very long but it just looks inevitable that alot of stuff will go bump on that night and much of it will be on systems that are thought to be compliant or were not even addressed.

Anyone dare to guess how many millions of computers or devices using a date function are being used where the operator doesnt know anything about it other than how to turn it on and off ? I know of many people who dont even know how to roll back the clock on something just to get it working.

Anyone want to guess how many millions of phone calls to all types computer tech support people will be made during the first week of 2000 ? This on top of the normal amount of trouble calls which flood tech support people and make you wait 45 minutes on the phone for help.

We are going to go lockdown earlier than planned, probably 12am on 12/31/99 and stay that way through 1/4/00.

-- hamster (hamster@mycage.com), December 08, 1999.

Not going to happen until something significant comes down the pike and reported nationally and worldwide. The event, when will it happen? No one knows. So quit worrying about something that may or may not happen, be prepared just in case, continue to live a normal life. You may kill yourself with stress and what has all that worrying given you? No one knows what the ugly truth is because the truth has not been told. We call it a lie, but what is the lie? There may be a few here that are privvy to information but are afraid to reveal it to us because of fear and the promise not to divulge information. So I've got a secret and you guess what it is, and we'll continue to play the guessing game. In the big picture of things whether it is Y2K, an earthquake, threat of war, etc., it's out of our control. So make today a special day and tomorrow and the next because you can't relive it again. Bardou

-- Bardou (Bardou@baloney.com), December 08, 1999.

Its like the innards of a fine Swiss watch that's exposed to water and friction.

If its just a little moisture in the case, the mechanism may just slow down until it dries.

If its soaked in water, the watch may stop for a while and the mechanism may need to be dismantled and repaired.

If its salt water, and the gears and springs and levers corode and rust, well, you get the picture.

-- a (a@a.a), December 08, 1999.

It's like mud that has had steamy babes wrestling on it. They they go home. And the mud dries out.

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.cum), December 08, 1999.

You LOVE the mechanical analogy. Sorry, "a," but the economy is more organic than mechanical.

-- Ken Decker (kcdecker@worldnet.att.net), December 08, 1999.

Elaborate on your point Decker. Your post makes no sense.

-- haha (haha@haha.com), December 08, 1999.

Its like finding out that your date is really Ted Bundy. Sorry, but that's how I feel about it. Its going to be really, really sordid. Not nice at all.....

-- starkiller (luke@sky.walker), December 08, 1999.

"You love that mechanical Analogy"

Uh! ----last time I checked a computer was mechanical!

ORGANIC ----hmmmmmmm! Anybody seen a Chia computer yet??

Kenny---Kenny--Kenny---Kenny--Kenny!!!! You go girl!

-- d----- (dciinc@aol.com), December 08, 1999.

Sure. The big Mac comes in Strawberry, Blueberry and Tangerine. Yummmmm!

-- starman (luke@sky.walker), December 08, 1999.

I too am getting a really bad feeling, not because of my experience but because of what I am seeing. How many good reports has anybody seen that has any substance beyond unsubstantiated claims? Pretty close to zero.

How many reports are surfacing of Y2K related failures? I've lost count. It doesn't matter if the failure is non-compliance or remediation related, it is still a failure.

For a failure to be reported in the media it must be so significant and so obvious that no amount of "spin" can bury the incident. For every failure that is reported perhaps hundreds more go unreported.

There is virtually no good news and abundant bad news. Add virus attacks, terroist attacks, cascading cross defaults, and the domino effect, maybe this thing will go 10. I've been a 7-8 but I starting to think I've been a Polly.

BS/IT-CAD, MS/IT-CAM, CNE, 15 years experience

-- flook (tflook@compuserve.com), December 08, 1999.

flook:

If you read everything written on y2k, you'll find that positive stories outnumber negative stories at least 3-1. No, NONE of them are substantiated, although around here that lack is applied ONLY to the positive stories. But to filter out ALL the good news and exaggerage ALL the bad news, and THEN claim there's "virtually no good news and abundant bad news" is simply dishonest.

If you've lost count of the number of even unsubstantiated reports of y2k related failures, you must have lost some fingers somewhere. Unless you're counting ALL stories of companies having problems, on the grounds that the problems *might* be computer related, and those computers *might* be running into date bugs. That logic seems pretty common around here, substantiation be damned.

"Add virus attacks, terroist attacks, cascading cross defaults, and the domino effect, maybe this thing will go 10."

This is pure speculation. Has there been even a single virus attack, terrorist attack, cascading cross default or domino? Where? Ah, I know. These things will all come later, right? Right now, you're simply piling them onto your absurd misrepresentation of the news to make a flimsy case even flimsier. Why? Aren't there enough *real* problems, that you have to engage in such transparent fabrication?

-- Flint (flintc@mindspring.com), December 08, 1999.

Here you go, Flint, since you are in a blathering mood, try this (From Gary North's site today):

39 Hard-To-Answer Questions That Will Not Be Answered

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.cum), December 08, 1999.

Flint is in his "polly mode" today. He's got all of the bases covered, that's for sure. No matter what happens, he can claim he was right. Pretty clever, huh?

-- Boy Scout (boyscout@beprepared.com), December 09, 1999.

This is too easy Flint. CurrentDate<1/1/2000.

-- gary (a@a.com), December 09, 1999.