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Fw: VERY Off topic [was Re: is Mindstorm/RCX Y2K Compliant???)
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Tue, 19 Jan 1999 14:00:05 GMT
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Tom Rowton <trowton@(spamcake)broadcast.com>
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I think you chose your word poorly. Ignorance is not the problem..._fear_ is
the problem. Why do you think so many _computer_programmers_ are heading for
the proverbial hills? They are scared, and, as a technogeek since I was 10,
I too am scared. What happens if the electricity grid goes out in a
metroplex? You can't get coffee from Starbucks on your way to work. You
might not be able to take a warm shower. You may not have heat in your
house. All your perishable food will go bad quickly...from frozen dinners to
milk. When someone can't get milk for their baby, they will start to panic,
and once one person panics, the virus spreads.
Personally, I am buying a few acres in central Texas, a generator, and lots
of canned food. I'll take my two weeks vacation for '99 at the end of the
year, and two weeks for '00 at the beginning. I am betting that by the end
of January, contingency plans for whatever failures occur will be in place
and I will return to work without having to worry about some fool mugging me
so he can buy food for his baby because he can't get money from the ATM
since it has no electricity.
So I am not worried so much about the actual bug as I am about its affect on
people. If you know anyone that was there, ask about how people were
behaving in San Francisco when the power went out last month...humans are
animals.
trowt
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Tarrabain <markt@lynx.bc.ca>
To: lego-robotics@crynwr.com <lego-robotics@crynwr.com>
Date: Monday, January 18, 1999 6:37 PM
Subject: Off topic [was Re: is Mindstorm/RCX Y2K Compliant???)
Jasper Janssen wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Dec 1998 19:53:26 GMT, lego-robotics@crynwr.com (Russell
> Nelson) wrote:
>
> > Did you *tell* it which year it was??
> >
> > Then why do you think it cares??
>
> It's a microcontroller. Therefore it has an internal clock. Therefore
> it can suffer from Y2K, if it hasn't been removed.
>
> > Sheesh, this Y2K panic is getting completely out of hand.
>
> No it's not. We're not even close to getting everything away. How do
> you think we will fare if the world's stockmarkets can't function
> anymore because of a comp crash? or, which is a more likely scenario,
> the stockmarket will just crash completely because of companies going
> belly up when they're not prepared...
The most likely scenario is that so many people are in such a tizzy about
Y2K that there will be runs on banks throughout the civilized world
before the end of the year, causing total economic collapse. Ignorance,
not computer bugs, are the worst problem.
> > Mark
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