Lets face the reality of the situation. It really dosen't matter how many refineries are down or how many brown outs there are or how many building lockouts or how many spy satellites screw up or how many web sites display funny dates or how many busy signals one gets or whatever. These problems don't matter until a threshhold of inconvience is met. Thats the reality. Perhaps the scale that is being used should be converted to a scale that measures public inconvience. 1- no inconvience, 10-massive inconvience. It certainly would put to rest all the controversy over this being down and that screwing up. Ignore all failures monitor inconvience only. That is what I am converting to . Right now Y2K is a 1 on the inconvience scale. Right now teh Y2K inconvience scale is about a 1.

-- lenny (Chmielecki@worldnet.att.net), January 05, 2000

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Good attitude and perspective. But I'll keep watching all reports. Just in case the inconveniences reach a critical mass. I want a little warning.

-- Lisa (lisadawn@yahoo.com), January 05, 2000.

wrong!

each person will have their own "scale." it doesn't matter to you if there's a power surge that blows out someone's home equipment, or if a brownout burns out a well pump. it sure as hell matters to the person who is replacing expensive equipment. it matters to a lot of people if gas goes up another 45 cents -- but I doubt if the Donald will be the least bit concerned.

if you really feel this way, stay off the forum until you feel inconvenienced.

-- (-@-.-), January 05, 2000.

If it happens to you it's a 1

If it happens to me it's a 10

-- don'twanasay (noname@aol.com), January 05, 2000.

But people didn't claim the world was going to end because it happened to you or me. It has to happen to millions.

My water pump just went out, that hardly justifies 6 months of provisions in a bunker. It's just wild to watch all of these people desperately grabbing for any justification for the fear mongering.

-- (dontscrewme_2000@yahoo.com), January 05, 2000.

C'mon knuckleheads, the scale applies only to the masses it does not register your bad hair day.

-- lenny (Chmielecki@worldnet.att.net), January 05, 2000.