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Article #633124Re: Y2K False Alarm or Programmers LOOT the Public Purse (was: millennium Reading)
From: p.k... Peter Kerr
Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 00:00
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da...@XOUT.u.washington.edu (David B. Greene) wrote: > This is of course bullshit. It is just a scare tactic for programmers > to LOOT the public purse. Already Y2K checks and fixes are being > implemented. If there was a big problem our economy would already be > tweaking by now as computer systems are now scheduling activities into > the next millenium. So far the problems have been minor. Yeah, in our country it's called "She'll be right", or also "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" Now come 1.1.2000 I expect to see a significant number of heads down, tails up, Mr Fixits busy on whatever did actually break. I also expect that a certain number of them may never again come up for air... -- Peter Kerr bodger School of Music chandler University of Auckland NZ neo-Luddite
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From: p.k...@auckland.ac.nz (Peter Kerr) Subject: Re: Y2K False Alarm or Programmers LOOT the Public Purse (was: millennium Reading) Date: 1998/05/11 Message-ID: <p.kerr-1105981443120001@news.auckland.ac.nz> X-Deja-AN: 352091501 References: <354F04D2.794B@ptc.com> <3552003c.15393013@newshost> Organization: School of Music University of Auckland Newsgroups: rec.org.mensa,sci.skeptic,sci.astrology,seattle.general,comp.misc,alt.folklore.computers,soc.culture.usa,talk.politics.misc,misc.survivalism,alt.politics.usa.misc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit