Sherman,
I'd like to point something out to you. This isn't CSY2k and you're
blatant trolling for what ever it is you're searching for can easily
be made mute with a simple "delete".
If you want to say something, I suggest you simply SAY IT and make
your point. However, your attempt to make this a place to conduct a
personal gloating war can't be tolerated.
Shape up or go play at CSY2k.
Sysop
-- Sysop (Home@TB2k.com), January 03, 2000.
No Sherman, you misunderstood.
If you have a point to make then make it. You just made your
intentions much clearer in the last post you made as in "perfect
call".
Fine.
Please, however, don't use this forum to push buttons and create more
tension than that which we already have to deal with. I don't think
you want to be put in the same company as some of the trolls who spam
this board.
Okay?
Sysop
-- Sysop (Home@TB2k.com), January 03, 2000.
20000103 Monday
Yes, 'Sherm'; that date is correct!
At the time I wrote/posted that missive, government, military and
utilities had not begun to take Y2K seriously. (Detroit Edison [DTE]
didn't complete their "inventory" until JULY, 1999!)
The first "serious" U.S. Senate hearings didn't occur until 1998.
Take a look at the history of the "GartnerGroup" (!) reports and
Senate testimony.
As I was then (1997) entering my third major Y2K project (BCBSM!), I
could _see_ that Y2K wasn't being taken seriously in the corporate
world, also. GartnerGroup reports (3Q1999!) that at least 1/3'd of
the Fortune 500 had "done nothing."
Now that the Telecomm and Power Grid appear to have "work arounds" to
avoid immediate "collapse," the Y2K meltdown won't reach critical
mass "climax" until around March or April (per published GartnerGroup
charts). (That is, assuming Telecomm and the Power Grid continue
holding their own.)
If the Y2K "Duct Tape" (TM) holding [U.S.] Military, Telecomm, Power
Grid, Finance, Health Care and Sanitation (e.g., Water, Sewerage)
services together holds, then the potential for a complete societal
catastrophe may be avoided.
Folks on this forum arguing against the effects of cumulative,
distributed (undiscovered or belatedly discovered) Y2K data/date
computed corruption do not know what they are talking about.
In most socio-environments, a 1% error rate may be tolerable; don't
tell that to a bankster, however. (I've been paid good money for
uncounted hours "searching"--until FOUND--unaccounted-for iterations
of "puny" penny ($0.01!) discrepancies!) It's all about
accountability and confidence in fundamental underpinnings of _ANY_
culture, health and welfare.
So ... Before you leap to your "Y2K's-OK" horse, make sure there's a
saddle --and that it's tightly strapped-- and ...
Don't discount Y2K "glitches" before they're cumulatively 'hatched.'
Regards, Bob Mangus
* * *
-- Robert Mangus (rmangus1@yahoo.com), January 03, 2000.
Your "PERFECT call on Y2K"? Geeze, you stink of arrogance.
Next, you'll be claiming you gave Al Gore the idea for the internet.
The vast majority of experts (of which you are not) agree that the
numbers are not yet in, therefore, the damage cannot be assessed for
months. You know it's true. Go back and play grab-ass with Alan on
CSY2K, you tub.
Andy Anderson
-- Andy Anderson (anderson@wf.net), January 03, 2000.