Snippet from Infomagic's last missive

"...But back to the question of timing. Firstly, the greatest number of Y2K problems will indeed occur in the first two months of the year 2000. There are certain "experts" who have said that the majority of failures have already occurred, before the actual rollover. Bovine Scatology. Because of the very nature of the record keeping task inherent in most business systems, almost all digital dates are historical and so, except for the limited and shoddy testing of Y2K fixes, dates with a zero-zero year cannot possibly enter most systems until after December 31st, 1999. Only a tiny fraction of dates are computed in advance and the failures we have seen so far are therefore only a tiny fraction of those we are going to see next year. In my expert opinion, almost all Y2K failures will be experienced in January, and at the beginning and end of February (as month end and leap year processing adds to the general confusion). There will be a secondary spike at the 2000/2001 boundary but, basically, most of the failures will have already occurred by early March, 2000. That does not mean they will be fixed by then, of course. Most of the failures will take days, months and even years to fix, as we have already seen with several of the early failures. In some cases, the systems will never be fixed and their benefits will be permanently lost to their owners and to the economy as a whole. Some of their owners will also fail, taking with them the benefits even of those systems which didn't fail and starting the widely predicted domino effect and the collapse of Charlotte's web..."

...NOT on the first day!

-- (Incredulous@peoples.shortsightedness), January 01, 2000

Answers

Incredulity,

What I've discovered about the majority thru the rollover is they have bought into the end game Fallacy that has been projected by the media. Everything A-ok!! no problem. This without the knowledge of what may come next week when the 'system of systems' cranks back up.

Talk about eating crow. People are really into convenience, whether its a catastrophy or dinner. Unbelievable. Get it over with quick.

-- d......... (dciinc@aol.com), January 01, 2000.

You sir, are a moron.

Doug

-- Doug (Doug@itsover.com), January 01, 2000.

Yeah, yeah, that's what Y2K pessimists have been saying more or less, but you have to understand "polly-think":

1) It is now 2000.

2) Stuff works.

3) So, Y2K problems are no big deal.

Just be sure to stay out of their way the next few weeks, as they may be in for some "attitude adjustments"....

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.cum), January 01, 2000.

King of Spain:

And when Wall Street crashes, investors will make some altitude adjustments!

-- dinosaur (dinosaur@williams-net.com), January 01, 2000.

Yeah - most people don't read beyond the headlines if that. Also they saw fireworks, lights on, telephone works = y2k was a scam. It can't be too complicated.

-- Sheri (wncy2k@nccn.net), January 01, 2000.

My Dear Mr. Doug,

Once more sir you prove that the combined numbers of your I.Q.+ waist size and your hat size all added togeather. Would give you a double didget I.Q. number..And since you virtually have only a one line sentence that you keep repeating! A low order of double didget numers at that.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Shakey~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

-- Shakey (in_a_bunker@forty.feet), January 01, 2000.

(nudge nudge) Shakey.....that's digit. ahem (hehe) But seriously Doug, that wasn't nice. We're all allowed to speak our opinion (1st ammendment rights, I believe). Perhaps you can come up with a better argument than that. Come on Doug, give it a more-than- five-word try.

-- cin (cinlooo@aol.com), January 01, 2000.