Re: SNET: United Nations plans SWAT team training to "control" citizens in Y2K crash

[Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de>]

Reeza! wrote:
> 
> At 10:15 AM 12/29/98 +0100, Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
> --snip of magnanimous import--
> >
> >Is is (approximately) known how many percent of the owners of computer
> >systems have ever tried with some test cases to find out whether
> >their hardware/software could be susceptible to the Y2K problem?
> >I guess such tests would deliver some confidence intervals of
> >whether the problem could actually arise at 2000.
> >
> 
> What, you trying to downplay the tumult and ? that y2k will cause??? the
> fearmongerers will not be happy with you. They want everyone to be begging
> them for mercy, safety, deliverance from the y2k bug.
> 
> What? you say consumers should actually test their own shit? You forgot to
> mention the outside consultants who should be brought in at xyz dollars per
> hour. To think that Joel and Janice Consumer might actually be able to test
> their own equipment for y2k compliance.
> 
> y2k is coming, or else!!! (read, it will be manufactured if it does not
> eventualize itself).

In WHICH word I wrote I was downplaying???  I think you are up-playing!
Are you a consultant, desiring to earn money? If not, then try
to keep discussion to real matters of the problem.

M. K. Shen