So, how safe are we right now?

Consider all the code in the world. How much of it involves dates? Let's say it is a bizillion lines?

Consider all the stored data in the world. How much of it involves dates? Lets's ay a quagillion bytes?

How many date interfaces are in all of the above? Let say a mamillion interfaces.

How much of the above has been tested so far? And how much do we really know operated correctly. You know: was not denied, not noticed, not worked around, etc?

I don't know what the real numbers are here, but we are not out of the woods. We just entered the woods.

-- billy d (bdangelo1@home.com), January 02, 2000

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There will be a cacaseptillion excuses that the failures are not Y2k related.

-- fatanddumb (fatdumb@nd.happy), January 02, 2000.

They can call the failures whatever they want . . . enough of them and the stock market takes quite a tumble.

-- Think It (Through@Pollies.Duh), January 02, 2000.

OK, there is a lot of code in the world. The point is: how much code is there that REALLY MATTERS that has bugs in it.

If the computers are messed up at your work place so badly that no work can get done (no shipping, so invoices, no billing, no payroll, etc.), then you and your co-workers might be out of work. Or you might be inconvenienced if things were fixed before the enterprise went belly up. In this case, your preps would serve you nicely. But it would not affect anyone else.

Unless, unless this happened to lots and lot of places, or to a few really big institutions that had such enourmous money power that their failure would mess up the economy.

Now companies you under all the time. Usually there is not a big effort to prep just in the off-chance that you get laid off (unless you are a Mormon).

We were all preping for the really big show stoppers. Lights out. No water. Companies failing. Supplies running out. A really total world-wide disaster.

It captured our imagination. We all said "we got it".

I myself am starting to eat my preps. I will dispose of anything I know I will not need. I will try to live my life for the next few months spending as little money as possible. This way I can recoup any money invested in preps I am not using.

I got out of the stock market. It would be crazy to go back in tommorrow if the stock market will tank because of other y2k effects.

So, lets look for any "show-stopper" economic effects. If there are none, then the game is totally over.

-- David Holladay (davidh@brailleplanet.org), January 02, 2000.

Fatanddumb wrote:

"There will be a cacaseptillion excuses that the failures are not Y2k related.

-- fatanddumb (fatdumb@nd.happy), January 02, 2000."

Naw, I think just the opposite.

Wouldn't it be great if you could escape Chapter 11 and hordes of angry customers with armies of lawyers following them into courtrooms to do battle against you for your business failing if all you had to say was, "Don't blame me! My business failed due to the Y2K Bug! Nice government, grant my that wonderful Y2K Bug legal immunity!"

You can bet that there will be more reported Y2K related failures throughout the year, and some of them will be fabricated to take advantage of the legal protections. Wait and watch for it...

Peace,

Don

-- Shimoda (enlighten@me.com), January 02, 2000.