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Technology Stocks : Y2k Denial on SI -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Joseph E. McIsaac who wrote (124)	12/23/1998 4:02:00 PM
From: firstman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 151

I guess we would just have to agree to disagree. All the research I have been doing (a lot!) leads me to believe that the computer "disruption" will be far more severe than simply requiring commercial farms to do things a little differently. How will they manage to continue to grow when they have no way to get it to the people? And the people have no way to pay? No trains running, no trucks, no financial transactions, little or no communications, the only food to be had will be from backyard farms (IMO). The trigger effect is more serious than most can comprehend. Food availability will be THE most important issue when 2000 hits. In my opinion, a couple of months into the new millennium people will be eating their pets. I have about a thousand links to back up these statements, but it would extremely time consuming to try and list the pertinent ones. I suggest following the other SI Y2K thread: Subject 16203 If you still do not agree, then so be it.........we shall know soon enough.

To: Joseph E. McIsaac who wrote (124)	12/26/1998 9:42:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 151

'Bill Gates, on the Millennium Bug issue: "There is no problem with PCs and with packaged software." And to prove it, Microsoft has a whole section of it's web site devoted to detailing the various non-problems at www.microsoft.com/year2000. Quoted on BusinessWorld Online Roundtable with Bill Gates, March 20, 1998. Submitted by Candace Skalet. AND... Bill Gates again: "Any program where you still have somebody around who remembers the program, it's pretty simple to go find the place that they compare dates. You don't compare dates that many places in a program. It's in very, very few places. Even if you do it in a lot of places, there's a way of fooling the system by just taking all the dates you put in and subtracting 30 years before you put them in and adding 30 years when you put them out. There are some clever ways to get around it." And of course, we're still awaiting Microsoft MagicBullet2000™, coming to a retailer near you real soon... Quoted on Microsoft's Q&A Session with Bill Gates, May 8, 1997. Also submitted by Candace Skalet.' duh-2000.com