name your favorite star trek episode or action movie. 5...4...3...2...saved again ! it seams that in our culture we have the impression the technilogical ingenuity and american know-how will always save the day. i think thats why the realization of the severity of the body blows that y2k will inflict on our social and techknowledgy systems is low.

-- Guns, Grub & Gold (home@the city.com), September 01, 1999

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Culture,Culture,Culture ....

Y2K is NOT a technologigal issue. Provided enough resource had been released to the problem in time, Y2K could have been a non event. However, with the vox populae with their heads firms embedded between the cheeks of their posteriers, we have no chance.

Silver bullet ? Software fairy ? The'll do - and Bill Gates will make Hotmail secure .....

-- Rob Somerville (merville@globalnet.co.uk), September 01, 1999.

No. These failures, if and when they occur, will occur without reading the script.

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (Kennesaw, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), September 01, 1999.

Mr Scott and MacGuyver don't do software. They're hardware guys who are most likely living up in the hills somewhere. Working at building solar-powered, replicators, transporters and phasers out of PVC pipe, Reynolds Wrap and old soda bottles.

WW

-- Wildweasel (vtmldm@epix.net), September 01, 1999.

And "mnemonic devices out of stone knives and bear skins..."

(One of my fave moments from Trek Classic)

-- Mac (sneak@lurk.hid), September 01, 1999.