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Strategies & Market Trends : Piffer OT - And Other Assorted Nuts

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To: Carolyn who wrote (11456)1/1/2000 1:24:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid   of 63513
 
My Lady, my posts to the Y2K threads yesterday, said I was not going to post there anymore, BUT:

Statement I made a number of times:

> Y too Kay is going to be the biggest NON-EVENT in the history of man! <

August 21, 1999
Message 11027903

August 29, 1999
Message 11097451

September 7, 1999
Message 11177662

I have always stated there WAS a problem that had to be fixed, yet this Y2K thing got blown way out of wack. This has been a very interesting experience watching people reacting to this problem for the past 2 years, when I started following the story full time. Reading "Mass Psychology" by James Dines also goes into similar type thinking.


This observation of mine will help in the future for business related decisions. On the mass people don't change, year after year these patterns are repeated.

I still believe there will be investigations into this over blown Y2K hype:
Message 12433754

Start archiving Y2K Doomer sites, these doom and gloom predictions, I believe will start to disappear.
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