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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J.L. Turner who wrote (6351)	7/7/1999 12:40:00 PM
From: Bald Eagle	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

Y'all are really mean to new posters here. What's your problem? Arrogance is NOT a virtue.

To: J.L. Turner who wrote (6351)	7/7/1999 1:40:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

How concerned is Jamie O'Rourke about the Y2K computer bug? Enough to sell his million-dollar home near Nashville with its pool and tennis courts, pack up his wife and children, and move [from their 9,000-square-foot home] into a double-wide trailer on 350 acres ... Mrs. O'Rourke said her friends joke that she's like Eva Gabor from the old "GREEN Acres" TV comedy about urban sophisticates taking up a rustic life ... How did all of this change come about? It got started a little more than a year ago when friends mentioned the millennium bug to O'Rourke, and at first he did not understand. "I said, 'Well, if it's a computer problem, I have computer people and ... they'll let me know," said O'Rourke, who employs 30 at his Brentwood office and another 100 at a plant in Mexico ... "And that's kind of where I left it," he said, until last summer when some of his customers -- Wal-Mart, Kmart, Target and Toys R Us -- sent letters asking whether his company would be Y2K compliant. His bank asked, too. He read more about Y2K and started paying close attention when "credible" people such as Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan talked about it. Then he found some people he knew were stockpiling food and buying wood stoves, just in case. He was disappointed they hadn't told him but he understood why. "They didn't want to be thought of as foolish or extremist," O'Rourke said ... greenspun.com The Oakland Press -- Page A-11 Cheryl

To: J.L. Turner who wrote (6351)	7/8/1999 11:43:00 AM
From: bearcub	Respond to of 9818

nice of you to write, J.L.T., and thank you for expressing your sentiments. i find that as the days grow shorter, so does my patience with opportunists who aren't realists. fortunately, y2k will level them just fine and i won't have to lift a finger. and that leveling will not be one whit more than any of them deserve. my challenge will be in not becoming one of society's biggest 'i told you so-ers' it will be a rude awakening for us all, of that i'm totally certain. but some of us have put the pre y2k time to good use and others haven't. it is that simple. as i have posted earlier, our pre y2k planning has also helped me clarify in my ethics, my spiritual decisions/criteria and my practical side about "just who IS my neighbor." opportunists are not my neighbor any more than those who gouged post Whittier California earthquake victims by exhorbitantly pricing a gallon of clean water. i don't know about you but neither my food nor water is going to be 'FOR SALE' at any price. just made up my mind a few months ago that this 'who is my neighbor' thing had to be faced and that i had better start evaluating people NOW, by their actions as well as their verbiage, and not wait until they were perfecting their bleeding hearts and flowers spiels post y2k because they were too busy chasing a buck to get real. God will help those then who help themselves now. age old truth there. Good preparations wishes to you and all the other sincere out there who are good neighbors now and will be then as well.