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

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (1826)	5/15/1998 2:34:00 PM
From: jwk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Look Sire -- I've done very well for myself with creative, positive visulization and seeing opportunity where others only saw obstacles. I do not concede the high ground to you on understanding and using the power of positive thinking. My life is a mini-testament to what it can do, and I am grateful to those who taught me how to use it and benefit from it. That is not what this is about. We have a potentially serious situation on our hands and we can pay-up now to ensure things are going to go as well as possible, or we can put on our Pollyanna faces and recite happy talk. I believe in and use positive thinking. And, I'm positive that if we don't get to thinking about y2k issues seriously more people (many innocents) are going to face much bigger risks than are necessary. Personally, I'm in about as good a situation as one can hope to be. It's just a happenstance of the lifestyle we've chosen to enjoy and develop over the last 25 years. My concern is that the suffering and risk of those less fortunate and lucky than I have been will be needlessly exaccerbated if all we do is walk around noting how the sky has not yet fallen. Better to spend time and resources now ensuring well being than to scramble for solutions after the fact.

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (1826)	5/15/1998 3:40:00 PM
From: Mighty_Mezz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

They said it couldn't be done, With a smile he went right to it. He tackled the thing which couldn't be done, And then he couldn't do it. ...perhaps Ogden Nash?

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (1826)	5/15/1998 4:26:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Respond to of 9818

Electric Utility Subcommittee Hearing Message 4476130 And .... some of my thoughts. I sincerely wish this were a more simple world, where people worked TOGETHER towards a common goal. I wish companies were more open, without fear of litigation. I wish government was further ahead than they are. I wish now (never before,) that we as a nation were insular and didn't have global dependencies. I wish we weren't facing such a complex problem with a non-flexible deadline. I wish there will be minimal disruption. Unfortunately ... they're just ALL wishes. Reality is quite different. Cheryl