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

To: bearcub who wrote (7856)	8/8/1999 5:19:00 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

It looks like our discussion of labels has been overtaken by events. From Humpty Dumpty Chapter 2: Y2K Scenarios first draft: August 8, 1999... ...In the Y2K discussions and debates that appear on the Internet, we often see the terms "polly" and "doomer." Americans are fond of abbreviating everything (hence "Y2K" instead of "Year 2000," and hence, arguably, the very existence of the Y2K problem!), so it may take a moment for the uninitiated to realize the "polly" is short for "pollyanna" and "doomer" is short for "doomsayer." A polly is characterized as someone who believes that all of the concerns about Y2K have been exaggerated, and that absolutely nothing unusual will occur at the stroke of midnight on December 31, 1999. A doomer, on the other hand, is characterized as someone who believes that the consequences of Y2K will be so horrific as to cause TEOTWAWKI (the end of the world as we know it). But if you read the Y2K-related Usenet postings, chat-room discussions, and forum dialogues, you'll notice that there are quite a few people who reject these two simplistic scenarios. There are many, for example, who are essentially optimistic about Y2K, but who accept the possibility that there may be minor-to-moderate disruptions. And there are pessimists who foresee serious, if not catastrophic, problems, but who don't believe it will lead to the downfall of government or the death of half the world's population. There is, in short, a middle ground -- indeed, many middle grounds -- that people have staked out, depending on their own estimates, hunches, and gut feelings about the outcome of Y2K.... yourdon.com