Re: Y2K clearance sale

[cuber@omaha.com (Uber, Chet)]

Anyone who thinks that Y2K passed without much trouble because there was 
never an issue is brain dead. There were a lot of major businesses and 
Infrastructure that would have failed (as many did in testing) and been out 
of business for a long time had they not reviewed their systems and alter 
them to alleviate the problem.

Yes there was a lot of hype. Yes there was a lot of profiteering. But there 
was still an enormous problem.

Anyone who says that there was never a problem; either never did any work 
to correct it, or are lying through there teeth.








At 03:47 PM 1/9/00 +0100, Eivind Eklund wrote:
>On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 02:54:41AM -0000, Anonymous wrote:
> > OK, how many are left once all cypherpunks that did anything
> > to "prepare for Y2K" are written off as cretins with miserable
> > cognitive abilities, zero perception and inability to correctly
> > extrapolate more than 5 seconds into the future ?
> >
> > I think that this was a good test. And many failed. I will certainly
> > not take seriously anything from someone I know was "preparing for
> > Y2K" *.
>
>Heh.  And I, unfortunately, will not have a chance to not ever take
>you seriously, due to remailer tech working.
>
>You may, some day, learn about *chances*.  These are something that
>one use when estimating things where one does not have perfect
>information.
>
>I estimated it as less than 5% chance of societal collapse, and ~80%
>chance at passing with minimal problems (like it did) - does this make
>me a "cretins with miserable cognitive abilities, zero perception and
>inability to correctly extrapolate more than 5 seconds into the
>future" ?
>
>Eivind.