Anybody who knows anything about this problem should not be surprised at the likes of Pro etc. crowing that the problem is beaten, yes after only about ten minutes into the year in the Paciic.

Some of you more experienced forumites shoold know better.

So far the embedded problems seems OK, i.e. no power failures apparently anywhere, no nuke problems even in Russia.

So far I don't but any of this. Yes I'm pleased that there is no loss of life etc., no I don't buy the uniform happy happy smiley smiley media spin.

Very early days - wait and see how baking clearing and settlement works out - that will be Monday night. Even then it will take time for problems to surface. Wait and see on energy and JIT/production snafus.

Give this puppy a little time, personally I've gone on record as saying I'd give it six months.

Bad code doesn't just go away.

Off to work now.

I have an Airline reservations system to cutover.

Of course if I was y2k Pro and Co. I'd just go back to bed.

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), December 31, 1999

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Andy, Have fun. I'm not giving away any gold, don't worry! By the way UPS and Fed Ex are raising their rates 3 percent--due to the cost of oil. Does that spell inflation? I think so.

-- Mara (MaraWayne@aol.com), December 31, 1999.

Report are circulating of "minor problems occurring seconds after rollover" at two Japanese nuclear power plants. Gary North has links to a British news service story.

Two ways to look at this one: 1. Hurrah! Just minor problems. 2. Are these minor like the uranium processing plant accident was minor?

WW

-- Wildweasel (vtmldm@epix.net), December 31, 1999.

Pro -- I hope when this is over that you'll tell us what you really DO believe in (and make it a non-deletable understanding with Sysops)-- only caught a few glimpses during the year -- there's gotta be SOMETHING in there generating all that, uh, energy.

-- jor-el (jor-el@krypton.uni), December 31, 1999.

Oh sure, now ball about inflation! Waaaaaaaaaaa I thought this was a Y2K forum.

-- (Ha@ha.com), December 31, 1999.

How can any business sector be assessed and found "flawless" which is what we are supposed to think right now, with all the sound and light shows (circuses) going on around the world.

I can just see the Y2k Boss in Moscow saying to his underlings: "if da lights go off, da head will roll" when we are on the TV. Incentive enough to have the power stay on even if you have to run the city with generators.

But seriously, we have to wait until the businesses are running to evaluate the severity of the problems, and there will be some, because nobody spends billions on a tiny problem, and does it right in all aspects. Something smells fishy in Denmark, Sweden, England....

-- Laurane (familyties@rttinc.com), December 31, 1999.

Hello Andy,

BILLIONS of chips HAVE ALREADY passed the Y2K test. The people in those countries are not even reporting anomalies, much less TEOTWAWKI.

I'm sure there will continue to be application system problems, but the rollover happened and left power and communications alone for most of the world.

Everything else can be fixed.

-- bryce (bryce@seanet.com), December 31, 1999.

6 months? No, that is too soon. It'll be years before we know the true extent of the y2k bug. All these pollies crowing makes me sick. The jury is out! It'll take six years to really sort this out and see who was right!

-- King Of Spain (spain@athome.com), December 31, 1999.

This forum is a lot like religion. It makes wonderful sense as long as you ignore evidence and reality.

How long can "the world be ending"? (I swear, it's just around the corner!... :)

-- fg (d@w.mhj), December 31, 1999.

QUIT PUTTING POSTS UNDER MY NAME THAT I DID NOT WRITE, YOU PATHETIC MORON. SYSOPS, PLEASE DELETE ANY "KING OF SPAIN" POST THAT IS NOT FROM THIS IP ADDRESS


Yeah, Andy, it's really amazing when you consider that on numerous occasions the general question has been asked: "How much time should we allow to figure out the impact of Y2K?" Each time, I have said: "Until the end of the first fiscal quarter of 2000". Oh, well, you know pollies and their brains....

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.cum), December 31, 1999.

You sir, are a moron.

Doug

-- Doug (Doug@itsover.com), December 31, 1999.

The Pollies are happy. The Doomers are happy. I am happy.

But, a prick is still a prick.

-- Carlos (riffraff1@cybertime.net), December 31, 1999.

6 years, you are a polly.

-- Butt Nugget (catsbutt@umailme.com), December 31, 1999.

Andy,....Just an observation while scrolling through the threads.

Every fence-sitting lurker on this board is now crowing because the Y2K issue is a non-event. Many names and handles I've never heard from until now. Shows me that many took the cowardly approach to this issue instead of jumping into the fray and risking the possibility of being wrong. I don't know about you but here in Illinois it's still 1999. The last time I checked there was still 365 days in the year 2000.

PS...your stock market/gold posts were invaluable...expecting my metal holdings to multiply in value even if Y2K is a bust.

Sincerely

Tim

-- TM (mercier7@pdnt.com), December 31, 1999.