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

To: bearcub who wrote (7570)	8/1/1999 11:18:00 PM
From: Ken	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

"Y2K is all mental"Ron is equally clueless about tax collection problems! see his post #7568! Truely a discussion in cartoon-land, where the designer can create any wonderful senario he wants, complete with goofy little creatures and outta sight scenes! Outta fun, should we help him become unclueless? Let's give him a high school intro brief about y2k problems: 1. when electricity goes down, nothing electrical works. 2. he thinks that employers will still be making payroll deductions without electricity- guess he thinks computers can work off of D batteries 3. when electricy is down, all the office lites, heat, etc., won't work, and people won't be coming to work, including the employers who he thinks will still come there and do this by hand and candlelite power wearing heavy coats and thermal underwear, as they will be so focused on helping out the IRS, you know, doing their duty at all costs 4. they will still come to work, of course, even if all the cascading effects result in their bankruptcies-- still gotta do that duty for God and country! 5. shall we discuss the odds against the IRS operating under sop? na, that would get too, too complex for ole Ronnie 6. Without telecom, how is it gonna work so swell then, Ron? 7. what if a lot of these empoyers that gotta make things happen in Ron's cartoon don't live near a reservoir as is supposed to happen in Ron's other cartoon, and end up too dead stiff to hit the keyboard? 8. what if the mails don't work- oh, sorry, in Ron's cartoon, they must and will be delivered, come rain, snow, y2k or bad cartoon! thats probably enough, maybe even too much for this brief intro... don't want to load him down too much with too many new things to think about, all at once!

To: bearcub who wrote (7570)	8/1/1999 11:24:00 PM
From: Scrumpy	Respond to of 9818

Bearcub...my response was to Ken. Follow his thread and you'll soon agree his posts are replete with hysterical pseudo-facts. If one listens to Ken long enough, one will do as you do. And you missed no diatribes, because there were none. I will very gladly read any of the military opinions you mention. Please provide me with links and specifics. I suspect it is, again, another matter of speculative overemphasis on the worst case scenario instead of a careful redressing of the likelihood that such a worst case scenario will actually take place. Yes there are many unknowns, but i don't believe 35-45% of the U.S. population will be "wiped out", as Ken postulates. Do you really think you are or will be removed from the melee, if the worst case scenario does occur? And would you want to live in such a world? A rural foxhole sounds great. Just great. Scrumpy