OOOH! Just Found This. Polly Alert!greenspun.com : LUSENET : TB2K spinoff uncensored : One Thread |
http://members.aol.com/scipublic/private/rbchap2.htm
-- polly (polly@incognito.polly), March 29, 2000
Related link:http://hv.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=002pNP
-- Polly Lover (Love@those.pollies), March 29, 2000.
Shut up, Marianne.
-- (2nd@polly.com), March 29, 2000.
Who's Marianne?
-- pirate (of@silicon.valley), March 29, 2000.
Something to read after you've been to http://members.aol.com/scipublic/private/rbchap2.htm.IEEE Y2K Chairman's Personal, Pessimistic Take on Y2K and Yourdon's End Game Paper
http://hv.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=001fqh
-- (y2k@history.buff), March 30, 2000.
polly,Do you think that just because you "found" this that it's news? Marianne Michaels has been writing a book on the entire Y2K experience. What you've posted is Chapter 2 of that effort. Chapter 4 was recently posted to her TP Chronicles site.
I think that her effort to represent the fear and uncertainty surrounding the whole "what will happen?" question before the rollover is a fine endeavor. It offers, through the use of humor and various "pundits" opinions, a pretty concise record for us to study. Hopefully, we can learn from it and begin to understand the polarizing force the issue had.
Jimmy
-- Jimmy Splinters (inthe@dark.com), March 30, 2000.