I have been reading posts here for some time: I have had no bad experiences from any Y2K problems. However I read and annalize all with the feeble mind I have, and try to get an over all picture of things. One says its all over, the other says it has just begun. No body knows what the future holds. Everybody is doing to Y2K what they do to religion, speculate, and I am included in that group I do the same thing. However I have decided there are gages which will tell the true story of Y2K, they are not something we can read right now and get a real picture. They must be read over the full year. That gage being at the Gas Pump, Grocery checkout, Stock markets, the amount of bankrupcies, the amount of unemployment for bankrupcies. In other words follow the money path, it will give a picture you will not get from Television or the local ragsheet. It will tell me if the computer world is stable or not. To this I contrast what I read hear about pipe line ruptures, refinery actions etc. There is no more of a rock solid news source than the money trail not only money itself, but the material resources we must have in order to survive. Add to all this the human error, the acts of God in weather, the constant bickering and the rattling of swords among the nations, and you have somewhat of an explosive situation.

I have a brother who is the type that just sticks his head in the sand and rolls with the punches, never knowing from which direction they are coming. He has no interest in outside events. He gets all warped out of shape on local politics and such but to hell with the rest of the world.

Maybe I am wrong in trying to keep up with the current explosive situations of the world, I don't know, I just know I sort of like to know from which direction the punch from hell is coming.

-- Notforlong (Fsur@aol.com), January 16, 2000

Answers

How is it that a functional illiterate such as yourself, ever thought you were capable of doing more than mowing my lawn?

-- Your Employer (tired@ofstupid.doomers), January 16, 2000.

Your Employer..you handle is a truly accurate title for someone actively discouraging the search for the truth concerning y2k. If y2k is nothing, why are YOU here.

-- Carl Jenkins (Somewherepress@aol.com), January 16, 2000.

---hey, "your employer", you still beating your wife? Or is she so bruised now that you decided to take a little breather and go insulting on the ole internet? You got some magna carta opus from the sysops to be hall monitor and english coach here, or does it just give you warm fuzzies to be rude? Which is it? By the way, bet you make a SWELL boss, I'd love to work for you! Obviously a thoughtful and considerate person, most likely get civic awards too.

Not. Likely.

-- zog (zzoggy@yahoo.com), January 16, 2000.

Your Employer..your handle is a truly accurate title for someone actively discouraging the search for the truth concerning y2k. If y2k is nothing, WHY ARE YOU HERE?

-- Carl Jenkins (Somewherepress@aol.com), January 16, 2000.

Notforlong- I agree. Before Y2k, I was just as happy to go along with life like the sheeple "your employer". No more. I am glad to be in the hightened state of awareness now. Peace, snikpoh

-- snikpoh (snikpoh@ecentral.com), January 16, 2000.

No disrespect intended, Employer, but I'd sure be careful to double check my electronic >tax filings, new hire posting, child support deductions, wotc credit requests and ui balances and claim statuses.Also your eid, wage records, employee records and associated info.I know personally of an electronic child support deduction error on the part of an employer that may result in civil action against that employer by the person who had thought himself current on payments. I'm researching recent postings of local/state disruptions and although not earth shaking, certainly worth noting. Remember, these are interlinked systems. No one should be paranoid, but it is certainly a good thing to understand why people are anxious and to be absolutely sure of what is discussed before condemining another's anxiety. Oh yeah, before you hire notforlong to do that yard be sure the work permits are impeccable and the documentation is filed properly. Some heavy consequences for illegal workers. Don't screw up those child support deductions if you can possibly avoid it....Just trying to help out.Back to researching.....

-- another state hack (keepwatchinh_2000@yahoo.com), January 16, 2000.

Cult Members!

I can't believe it, I just can't believe it!

You Y2K Cult Members! What in the world are you talking about? The threat has come, the threat is gone.

What do you think is going to happen now? Someone please explain why it takes weeks, months, now years? for something to show up?

Goodness, you guys are incredible!

I prepared, now its over. Its over, get it? What the F**k drives your train anyway.

-- Unknown (doyou@believethis.com), January 16, 2000.

Notforlong-- I think you are doing what most of us are trying to do-- make some sense out of all the little snippets of information. The reply from "your employer" was uncalled for and not at all funny. It was downright rude.

-- Pam (jpjgood@penn.com), January 16, 2000.

Dear Unknown:

1) Month end processing

2) Quarter end processing

To be more explicit, NEITHER of these processing streams gets exercised EXCEPT at month and quarter end. These tend to be simply batch jobs, and the people running them only know that there are JCL files (sorry almost said decks) that they fit a couple parms for and run em.

The Maintenance of these processes tends to be minimal as they have been so wrung out over the past 10 years that nobody has a serious idea on what goes on in them. They MAY have been remediated correctly. They MAY have survived testing, or the briliant folk doing testing may have completely forgotten about them as they aged data and ran normally recurring processes.

[Apocriphal but verifiable story: A LARGE CLEVELAND based, very progressive cutting edge insurer had wrung out (or so they thought) their remediation work in their time machine for 6 months (actual elapsed time) and had put it into production one weekend. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday came and went and the MAIL ROOM and some customers called their attention to the fact they hadn't printed this month's bills on the normal runs. OOOOOOPSie!!!!!!!]

Night train

-- jes an ol footballer (nighttr@in.lane), January 16, 2000.

Thanks everybody for your posts, of course I expected the usual amount of dribble from those who have nothing better to do than to leave the IQ levels so all can point and laugh at such levels of ignorance.

-- Notforlong (Fsur@aol.com), January 16, 2000.

Notforlong,

I agree. Many things just don't work right. There have been no catastrophies. There is now way that "productivity" can remain unaffected! Y2k will have an economic impact ("the money path.") It will take awhile to show.

Polly/Doomer food fights will neither change things, nor will they speed up the ultimate results.

-- W (me@home.now), January 16, 2000.