Someone's child, somewhere, will be safer.

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Many of us come to this forum for a moment of truth about what lies ahead, to lighten our load, and perhaps that of our brother.

That moment has come.

A contributor to this forum, Bonnie Camp, has discovered and published the true status of our electric utilities: http:// www.cbn.org/y2k/insights.asp?file=990114o.htm

This is it. This is what lies ahead.

If this truth is exposed, people will act. Every utility could have its y2k team increased. There is still some time left.

But the mainstream press will not publish Bonnie's report. If they would, you would be reading what they write. But you are here.

There is only one way that Bonnie's message can get out. That way lies with me, with you, with us, with the web.

There are hunrdeds of y2k forums and newsletters. If each of us just got the url to Bonnie Camp's report to just one other forum...Just one...

Then thousands could know.

Someone's child, somewhere, will be safer.

-- Tomcat (tomcat@tampabay.rr.com), January 16, 1999

Answers

Unwanted spaces crept in

http://www.cbn.org/y2k/insights.asp?file=990114o.htm

-- Blue Himalayan (bh@k2.y), January 16, 1999.


Despite the all-American appeal of Bonnie's image (a race run on a football field!), the emphasis on individual, isolated performance is slightly misleading. Every utility must check & fix their own stuff of course, but the "runners" ahead in the race can contribute heavily to the laggards' efficiency by shouting back help (formal and informal information sharing networks), more like an obstacle course where front-runners can leave pointers that assist others.

-RC

-- Runway Cat (runway_cat@hotmail.com), January 16, 1999.


I think the missed point here is that Utility companies don't need to read horrendous reports about the possible effects of Y2K... they already know and have known for years. Do you think that the people who bring you your power every day are simpletons?

-- Jack (MissedPoint@power.com), January 16, 1999.

Jack,

not simpletons per se, merely short sighted. Although come to think of it, since they fired most of their big iron programmers back during the '80's, yeah, 'simpletons' in the sense of having erased a great deal of their institutional memory that could have helped to deal with this...

Arlin

-- Arlin H. Adams (ahadams@ix.netcom.com), January 16, 1999.


Not simpletons, nor shortsighted. They acted as any other red blooded American company.......with greed and with misplaced faith in "human ingenuity". They didn't want to shell out the money for inventory, assessment, remediation, and testing plus they expected Bill Gates to jump out from behind the red velvet curtains and yell, "SURPRISE!!! I'VE GOT THE FIX-ALL IN THIS BOX GUARANTEED TO WORK IN 1 HOUR! System requirement: Windows NT" Greed, laziness, and misplaced faith in the very technical gurus that opened Pandoras Box in the first place. Now they are behind because they made the wrong decisions.

-- Mr. Kennedy (y2kPCfixes@MotivatedSeller.com), January 22, 1999.


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