We have just went where no man has gone before. We must change the WAY we think. These are the things we have learned in the past few day's:

1 Bad code works fine 2 No error's were made in reworking 40 years of layered code 3 All bad chips can be found and replaced 4 All major software software projects get done on time 5 Bad data does not corrupt good data 6 The sun has no affect on the power grid/phoneslines/ect. 7 Domestic terrorism does not exist 8 International terrorism does not exist 9 99% IS good enough ( Greenspan) 10 Pirated software works fine 11 Russia is toaly open about it's nuclear status 12 Windows 3.1, 95, 98, never needed fixed 13 Computers bought before 95 still work fine 14 Government bunkers were only built to use up some extra money they had laying around 15 Non mission critical systems have NO effect on M.C.S. 16 True & False have the same outcome 17 Training and experience have the same out come as no training and no experience 18 Manual laborer's long since dead have returned from the grave to save us. 19 ECT./ECT./ECT.

WE SHOULD ALL BE AMAZED!

-- Scotty (blehman202@aol.com), January 04, 2000

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Sorry about the format. If I get time later, I will fix this mess.

-- Scotty (blehman202@aol.com), January 04, 2000.

Man always been one "lucky son of a bitch"

-- voynik (voynik@aol.com), January 04, 2000.

Good post. And we learned that computers have always had glitches and are still having glitches and guess what...??? The world doesn't grind to a halt because of it. The Y2K issue is not that computers don't fail--it's that the consequences are not all that dire, and the workarounds not all that impossible. My goodness; to read the breathless postings of all the failures here you'd expect to look outside and see chaos. Same/same in the computer world as always: lots of crappy code crapping out. Life going on.

-- Jim Thompson (jimthompsonmd@attglobal.net), January 04, 2000.