ROFL: 'Sidebar here - There is a terrible misconception flowing through the Y2K
world... the statement, "This is not a technical problem, this is a
management problem." does not mean, "We need more clueless droolers with
good hair to sit around looking at powerpoint presentations, more
secretaries (assistants to the VP who think they're the assistant VP),
more bonuses for management, etc."
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'From:
kiyoinc@ibm.XOUT.net (cory hamasaki)
12:05
Subject:
Re: Do You Remember?
Hey Lizzie, what's the point of this?
On Thu, 6 Aug 1998 03:35:17, alizard[spam]@ecis.com (A.Lizard) wrote:
> In article <6pjmlb$mot$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
> fedinfo@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> >
> >
>
> >The word is, now, that in major cities, 10 days of food will be
> all that may
> >be obtained. After that, nothing.
>
> 10? Sources, please. The number I've heard for the last few years
> is about 3 days food. 10 would be GOOD NEWS.
>
> A.Lizard
3 days... 10 days, it depends on whether you consider canned sour kraut
and pickled pigsfeet to be edible or not. A couple days ago, we had a
grocer-guy explain how his lettuce (which comes from Imperial Valley on
the Lettuce Bowl Express, a high speed refrigerated freight train) is
restocked daily but other items, the more sour items, stick on the shelf
for a while.
When Kos-Can-em, Al Gore, and the others finally come on TV, screaming
for everyone to REMAIN CALM, NOBODY PANIC, while the Fox channel is
showing evacuation routes, and the moving words on the bottom of the
screen go -beep-beep-beep-
<---<<< a 2nd Nuclear Power Plant has b...<---<<<
well, it's probably too late to try for that case of Mac and Cheese and
24 pack of TP.
but hey, what do I know, I'm just the geek who saw a date problem take
down 5 mainframes in 1979, who duked it out with the Unix Propellor
heads when the common knowledge was "Unix is safe until 2038"; they
called me clueless, I told them I'd seen code that misused tm_year; they
said son, read the man-file... I said, I've seen live code and I've been
cranking C since the early 1980s. ...so don't give me that "I'm a cool
Unix dude because I learned to say, 'man-file' jive."
The problem isn't will the stores be cleaned out in 3 or 10 days....
it'll take about 4 hours once it starts. The real question is how long
will it take to reprioritize the shipments... will the Frito-Lay truck
keep delivering those wonderful new 20 oz bags while deliveries of
basics are halted due to lack of freight capacity, fuel, communications,
management priority...
Sidebar here - There is a terrible misconception flowing through the Y2K
world... the statement, "This is not a technical problem, this is a
management problem." does not mean, "We need more clueless droolers with
good hair to sit around looking at powerpoint presentations, more
secretaries (assistants to the VP who think they're the assistant VP),
more bonuses for management, etc."
It means, we need the senior executive to say, this is the priority,
make it so. That's it. ... well, he should say it daily but we don't
need metrics, mission statements, executive retreats, awareness
brochures, committee findings...
With few exceptions, Y2K has not been a priority... and we will all pay
for that. Fortunately, this disaster has been well documented and in
2003 or so, when some semblence of order is restored, we'll be able to
hold the trials... I'm thinking... a speedy trial before Hangin' Judge
Frank Ney, the only law in the Pokono's, a new rope...
"... dag nab it, your lawyer's had his say for five minutes, I gotta go
tend to my horses... guilty as charged, string him up fellas..."
cory hamasaki 512 days... some of us geeks use language like:
Malfeasanse of Office.
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