Don't you all find it so very ironic and interesting......

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That no one has stepped forth and said," You know, we're basically screwed. You know we tried but we just won't be able to lick this thing in time." No one. Every company, country and municipality, when addressed, is Y2K "ready"....Holy Jesus it's a miracle!!! Yeah, and I was "ready" every time I got my ass kicked on the playground as a child. Aren't we, as human beings, by nature "ready" for just about anything? I tell ya, if the CDC turns out to be a nightmare(as most of us expect) there will a "lot a splainin'" to do!

-- Tommy Boy (here@home.now), December 23, 1999

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Tommy, don't watch what governments, utilities and businesses are saying, just watch what they're DOING. Prep, prep, prep. That'll be the excuse - we did everything we could, we just didn't want to create a panic.

-- Servant (public_service@yahoo.com), December 23, 1999.

"...We just didn't want to create a panic".

Yeah, that is real comforting when your toes are numb and your belly is growling.

-- Rob (maxovrdrv51@hotmail.com), December 23, 1999.


It's interesting that the possibility these "we're Y2K-ready" announcements are essentially correct never seems to enter your mind. In fact, the large majority of evidence (actual Y2K problems experienced so far) and almost all Y2K announcements suggest only minor Y2K problems for a few days, or maybe a few weeks. Yet the doomers would have us believe almost every organization is lying in their Y2K announcements -- while this is possible, I do not recall any other time in history (excluding the Clinton Administration) when so many people from so many organizations told so many lies and fooled so many people ... or maybe they are telling the truth and their Y2K work IS done or is at least 95-98% done. Could so many people be telling the truth about Y2K? Sure. Most people tell the truth most of the time.

-- Richard Greene (Rgreene2@ford.com), December 23, 1999.

Richard - Maybe they are just telling the truth as they know it - which may be fine and dandy, but, perhaps, what the rest of us perceive as truth, may instead be reality... Of course, some of us may have more caveman genes left in tact, and the ole survival instinct is telling us something.

-- Valkyrie (anon@please.xnet), December 23, 1999.

Keep dreaming, Richard. Maybe Santa will bring you something nice for Christmas too. Idiot.

-- (chomod@retril.org), December 23, 1999.


Except where I work. The big guy stated at the beginning of the year that he expected Y2K to be a nonevent. Was at a meeting last week and he was very agitated that the contingency staffing for the rollover hadn't hit his desk yet. Interesting, very interesting.

-- margie mason (mar3mike@aol.com), December 23, 1999.

Here in Sydney, Australia, the company I am doing PC support for will be shutting down all routers, servers and PCs before the rollover. I guess many other large firms here in Oz will be doing the same. Boy, it will be most interesting first thing on Monday morning, 3rd January, 2000. The power surges could interesting as everyone comes back on line...

-- David Harvey (vk2dmh@hotmail.com), December 23, 1999.

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