will the y2k fix be the y2k bug that bytes?

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It seams that most people are so happy there is just minor or slight problems that we fail to see the y2k fix may be the real problem. This part of y2k may be worse than waiting for it all to crash at midnight! There is more uncertainty now than before. Stock market may reflect this. Now we will have accounting systems trying to sync up with windowing date fixes. This should be interesting along with solar storms and putin in russia. Do you feel more sucure now thinking everthing is fixed or that the future is unclear? Not a poly or a doomer,just asking.

-- (curious@questioneverything.com), January 04, 2000

Answers

Was thinking the same thing last night. The "EMBEDDED END-TIMES" scenario offered the imagination ... a "cookie" as the programmers here say: a pat macro to wrap the mind around, with sudden universal outages, all-out failures, etc., "three-day-storm" images all occurring at rollover, 12:00 GMT and none other.

Now what we have to face -- the death by a thousand paper-cuts -- will haunt every action and more transactions and those who have not already prepared will have no "date certain" by which to determine whether things will contintue to degrade or might improve, and continuing in the mode of the pollyanna ... until it is too late, and their dependency and integration with the digital world begins to render them as obsolete as the Machine is becoming.

MAYBE, ANYWAY.

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-- SH (squirrel@huntr.com), January 04, 2000.


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