You can't be serious, surely....

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Come on folks, did you REALLY expect:

...the power grids every where to fail on rollover?

...the media to be on top of, AND report what's going on -- factually?

...to get an accurate picture of the situation by watching CNN and ABC?

...for this "moment" to reveal the entire result of Y2K?

You must be kidding. We won't know for days, at best -- more likely weeks, what's going on with oil, just as one example. It's going to be a "slow grind", but we've pretty much expected that.

Remember, this is the BEGINNING, not the end, unfortunately. Tell your friends that in six months, if the DJIA is still above 10,000, they can laugh all they want. It's a bit premature, to say the least, at this point.

-- TA (sea_spur@yahoo.com), December 31, 1999

Answers

Just a swag, but I personally am giving it 3-4 weeks for infrastructure impacts and until the end of the first fiscal quarter of 2000 (3/31/00) before making any judgments about Y2K.

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.cum), December 31, 1999.

I've chatted on the net with my friends in a small provincial area of a third world country (Philippines) since their rollover. That is worth a celebration. Other than this forum, I get all my news from people I know. I don't watch TV or listen to the radio (at least normally I don't - I probably will later when I go offline to avoid contributing to phone-line glut).

I don't think the entire "Y2K" picture can be revealed to me prior to it even arriving where I am. I'm just inclined to be happy with the way things are going so far. Sue me if you can't stand optimism.

-- Gus (y2kk@usa.net), December 31, 1999.


Well, personally I'm happy, but experience tells me that there is NO WAY that there are going to be NO problems.

Does everybody in a class score 100% on their final exam?

Consider as well the track record of the software industry - particularly with regard to projects with fixed schedules.

INDEED - it may not be TEOTWAWKI, but there will most certainly be some bump-in-the-road.

Regards,

G

-- G (balzer@lanset.com), December 31, 1999.


Thank you for your comments, LL. And PLEASE stop impersonating me.

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.cum), December 31, 1999.

I hate to say it, but they are serious. Believe me when I say that I do want the best to happen, but I also want to be realistic and practical. BTW, I'm on the phone with a friend right now in south- suburban Chicago. Her cousin in Country Club Hills just called her as we are talking and has told her that 3 blocks of power in that community is out. She also told me that she has heard scattered news reports that Russia 'accidentally' launched a nuke... I cannot confirm this as I did not hear this first hand, so take it as such.

Mello1

-- Mello1 (mello1@ix.netcom.com), December 31, 1999.



like "just the beginning"...I picture a swimming pool with a surprisingly short shallow end: Like take a few steps out and wham-- over yo head! all of a sudden? or angled slope? is the real question.

-- gl0ria (watkins@dtc.net), December 31, 1999.

"...the power grids every where to fail on rollover? "

No, that's Hollywood. But, in this infotainment society, we EXPECT Hollywood level entertainment to be delivered to us... in our NEWS!

If humanity's getting fireworks tonight, they'll be gettin' drunk again tomorrow, they'll be watching TV Sunday, and they'll be renting videos by Wednesday. It's all entertainment.

Y2k's reality will be BORING -- and that's something we haven't fessed up to one another here... so what, we were having so much fun at our own party thru 1999.

-- jor-el (jor-el@krypton.uni), December 31, 1999.


We won't really know for sure until the y10k rollover, so keep on buying all the junk, doomers. For another 8000 years.

-- jumpoff joe a.k.a. Al K. Lloyd (jumpoff@ekoweb.net), December 31, 1999.

I must admit, so far, so good, and I may be eating tuna and rice for a good part of the rest of my life. Suits me just fine. But I'll reserve final judgement until mid-March or so.

BTW, I was serious and don't call me Shirley! (I've waited years for a chance to say that!)

-- I'm Here, I'm There (I'm Everywhere@so.beware), December 31, 1999.


Wow, guess that power plant that supplies those three city blocks went off line! This is panic B. S.!!!!! Three whole blocks huh? Probably a cat got fried in a transformer, happens all the time. Please let me know when the Russian Nuke arrives as well. Maybe it will be powerful enough to take out a whole three block area.

-- David (tdavidc@arn.net), December 31, 1999.


I am serious.

And don't call me Shirley.

-- Binzer, The Dog (binzer@angal.com), December 31, 1999.


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