Y2K IT'S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD, BUT IT MIGHT BE CLOSER THAN YOU THINK

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Here's the link, helps to refresh ones mind once in a while:

Y2K IT'S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD, BUT IT MIGHT BE CLOSER THAN YOU THINK by Steve Perry

Ray

-- Ray (ray@totacc.com), December 12, 1999

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Good stuff Ray. Like this:

"Where public complacency about Y2K is concerned, it doesn't help matters that corporations and government bodies routinely lie through their teeth about their preparation status. The mendacity mainly involves redefining terms and adjusting parameters: recalculating project duration so as to exclude testing time and contingency planning, assuming rather than verifying that all outsource suppliers of essential goods and services will be in perfect trim come zero hour. As one anonymous corporate contributor to a survey by the website Y2Knewswire.com put it, "We redefined [terms like] 'compliance' and 'critical systems' after [our] first 10-Qs got us reamed by the market analysts." "

That's why I don't think it will be a 3.

-- (cavscout@fix.net), December 12, 1999.


cavscout:

There is a big difference between lieing and not telling the truth. You have to get this straight if you want to live in the 21st cent. Otherwise you will always be confused. Get with it.

Best wishes,,,,

-- Z1X4Y7 (Z1X4Y7@aol.com), December 12, 1999.


Z-

Thanks for the reminder. BTW, is "spin" different from the other two thingies?

-- (cavscout@fix.net), December 12, 1999.


Talk about SPIN.

Ray

-- Ray (ray@totacc.com), December 12, 1999.


The link mentions the sewage spill in Van Nuys. No other data, just speculation. Anyone can speculate. I recommend against reading the link. We need data and facts. It's too late for speculation (opinions).

-- Richard Greene (Rgreene2@ford.com), December 12, 1999.


and, what will u do with those there facts? duh.

-- good (grief@charley.brown), December 13, 1999.

And I, Richard, highly recommend reading this link. It is definitely one of the best overviews of the problem I have read.

Thank You, Ray!

-- ed (ed@finn.com), December 14, 1999.


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