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Non-Tech : Tulipomania Blowoff Contest: Why and When will it end? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (2405)	1/5/2000 6:46:00 PM
From: KeepItSimple	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3543

>Heh, guess what? Y2K was a NON-EVENT! What in the hell are you talking about? There are also dozens of cults who believe the world will end two weeks from next thursday, and there's 95% of this country's population who believes there is an omnipotent God who controls everything. If you're going to use examples to refute an argument, at least try to make even a REMOTE attempt at staying on the subject at hand. I never said the internet wouldn't transform many things. But it isn't going to change the taste of my cheeseburger, and it isnt going to change the color of my jeans. It also isn't going to produce unlimited profits for any schmuck who manages to set up a website, either. Remember BBSs back in the 80s? There were tens of thousands of those, and tons of people used them. Nobody made a dime on them, either. Did you know that if you take the entire revenues for this nation's airline system since 1970, and total it against all their expenditures, they have NEVER TURNED A PROFIT? This is a direct quote from William Buffett.

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (2405)	1/5/2000 6:53:00 PM
From: BelowTheCrowd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3543

Hey Kid, I don't know what computer programmers you talk to. I've been one myself. And everybody I know in my own profession has been convinced that with a reasonable amount of work, the thing could be avoided. That is exactly what happened. The people who prediced doom and gloom were mostly people who never wrote a line of code in their lives. The top folks to blame were Peter de Jager, a dutch "consultant". Ed Yardeni, an economist. And the Gartner Group, also a bunch of consultants. Those of us in the trenches have been laughing at them all the way. mg