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Technology Stocks : 2000 Date-Change Problem: Scam, Hype, Hoax, Fraud
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To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (880)9/19/1998 10:21:00 PM
From: jwk  Read Replies (1) of 1361
 
Look, you guys just keep dancin' around the edge of reality on this. Either it's bw holding up the extremists as an example of all y2k concerns, or it's you with the nonsense about "disasters happen all the time".

Yes, disasters do happen all the time.

By what leap of logic do you get from that unfortunate fact to advocating positions which have the direct effect of placing the most vulnerable members of society in the way of needless and unnecessary risk?

Your statement makes every bit as much sense as it would if you said, "Car accidents happen all the time, so I'm going to drive impaired and recklessly in a mechanically unsound vehicle."

It's nonsense.

You seem also to have a propensity to take the trival road and site examples of inconsequential items. That's everybit as backrupt a position as bw's holding forth with the extremists.

The problem with the y2k situation is the potential for so many things to actup on the same day. We've never faced that potential.

Why would a reasonable person not take the steps necessary to make as sure as possible that as few as possible glitches will occur?

So what if there is some hype and crap sholved in with the mix. The downside risk far outweighs spending anytime or energy spewing the stuff you do.
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