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

To: Lane3 who wrote (8910)	10/12/1999 3:23:00 PM
From: Jim	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

Karen, you could be right - but consider this situation: Suppose that some scientists were predicting that on a particular date a huge meteor would hit the earth, resulting in tremendous hardships ie. no water, services, food etc (kind of like the results the doomers are expecting), but other scientists were equally convinced the meteor would miss. Don't you think that the level of anxiety (and the amount of discussion) would increase as the date drew close? I really think that people are convinced that there will be no major problems. As Peter de Jager says: year2000.com I don?t buy the notion of Y2K disruptions lasting 6 to 120 months. I can imagine no reasonable scenario where such lengthy disruptions are feasible. Are they possible? Sure! In the same way it's possible for you to get four flat tires at the same time. That's possible, but I don't see too many people carrying four spares in the back of their car - just in case it happens You and he also make the good point that most people have enough food in their pantry to last 2 or 3 days. Jim