Either Y2K is a trillion dollar hoax or things are not being reported! Why would we expect problems at midnight when most off all business are closed, financial markets are closed and industrial complexes are closed!

Another point is why panic the World by reporting cases before their new year arrives?

-- ray jones (rhwtech1@home.com), December 31, 1999

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Right. This is a very touchy point in time, I'm sure maximum pressure is being exerted to show only the upbeat celebrations. sdb

-- S. David Bays (SDBAYS@prodigy.net), December 31, 1999.

Very good point Ray.

-- Culturepill (disaster@midnight.com), December 31, 1999.

On the other hand,we have some GIs in those places, right? (Not Moscow.)

-- Mara (MaraWayne@aol.com), December 31, 1999.

Need to wait until Monday...In the meantime I'm eating Crow this weekend. And trust me, my friends and family are way more brutal than the pollys who hover over us like vultures.

In the meantime I'll watch football, drink a barley pop or three, and wish anyone who reads this a Happy New year!!!

-- Uncle Bob (UNCLB0B@AOL.COM), December 31, 1999.

Am learning HTML so I keep screwing it up...The photo above is this...

Happy New Year!!!

-- Uncle Bob (UNCLB0B@AOL.COM), December 31, 1999.

Never mind...up early and its been a long day...

-- Uncle Bob (UNCLB0B@AOL.COM), December 31, 1999.

it is not a million dollar hoax, people. the 'cast of thousands' of programmers and other technology personnel have been working this issue for 4 - 6 years to make sure that nothing happened. All the press given the topic has served to make sure that folks checked their particular arenas out -- from making sure devices from elevators to all those money spewing ATMs work. All that work is resulting in what you call a big yawn. Well, we'll be sitting here all night yawning -- and we couldn't be happier. Hopefully as the rest of the world (the even more technology oriented countries) roll, it will continue being uneventful. FYI there are some small technical problems being reporting regarding certain software packages / potential viruses etc.... but these are not the types of things that they are going to report on TV because this is the type of stuff technology folks take care of on a daily basis. And, as some of the other threads have already said, we won't experience all the problems during the one date roll. But, fortunately, it appears the infrastructures for power, telecom, etc. so far are doing well. That means all the fixes, testing, etc. were effective -- and the world can stop saying that technology folks never finish projects on time....... :-) Happy New Year to all....

-- y2kgeek (liz.nusser@equifax.com), December 31, 1999.

Not to be negative. It is hard to believe we were having Y2K related problems almost daily around the world and now not a single problem.

-- ray jones (rhwtech1@home.com), December 31, 1999.

Is this what you wanted Bob?

-- _ (_@_._), December 31, 1999.

Not to be negative. It is hard to believe we were having Y2K related problems almost daily around the world and now not a single problem. What makes you think all of those Y2K related problems that you read about were real and not "spin" to convince you to prepare and buy Y2K survival products?

One thing you need to understand, there were real problems, the thing is, they were fixed. They were checked and checked and checked again which does not normally happen so the odds are better that there would be less problems with them than normal day to day failures.

-- Cherri (sams@brigadoon.com), December 31, 1999.