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

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (4102)	2/25/1999 9:14:00 PM
From: Ken Salaets	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9818

>> My opinion, Canada is ahead in the Y2K front, from my research, and natural resources are a major export for us. What is the nature of your research? Surfing the web and coming up with ZD editorials and various newspaper articles? Seems to me that you believe press reports when they verify your "opinion," and criticism them as "GLOOM" and "DOOM" when they don't. I have yet to see any genuine, independent research reflected in any of your comments. So, when you say "research," what do you mean? >> I just can't see, with all the money at stake, companies would do or not do anything to jeopardizes that. You clearly haven't paid any attention to the arguments and articles proffered here, nor the reports coming out of the General Accounting Office, etc. Whether someone can comprehend businesses ignoring a problem does not alter the reality that they do, on a regular basis. Consider this: wouldn't a businessman or businesswoman who shares your view of the Y2K issue be inclined to do nothing, irrespective of the potential risk to their operations, and perhaps their economic viability? The Bennett report and numerous others make it clear that numerous businesses STILL haven't done anything to address potential problems, nor developed contingency plans in the event problems materialize. It's one of the few problems where, if you are completely successful in dealing with it, nothing happens! >> In my opinion, there will be problems in the Year 2000, but I believe the Y2K problem is being blown way out of proportion... By whom? The CIA? The Pentagon? The Royal Mounted Police? etc. etc. Sure, there are some folks using Y2K to further a variety of personal agendas, or to fan their personal paranoia, etc., but even the most casual observer can figure out that there is something going on, and it isn't business as usual. >> besides, there are problems happening every day from computers that malfunction and software bugs. Part of life in the 20th and 21st century. Oh, come on! Expert programmers and software engineers in the most successful IT companies in the history of the world are spending thousands of hours and hundreds of millions of dollars on this problem, and you, the auto mechanic (?), are the expert on this issue? And who is buying your argument? Bill O'Neil? LOL! >> I just don't believe we are going to see the problems doomsayers predict. Hey, I don't believe that my transmission is nearly as shot as everyone says it is. Granted, I'm no mechanic, but it's my opinion that I don't have anything to worry about. In fact, despite the high-pitched sound that I hear when driving, and the occasional 'clunk' when shifting, I'm sure that I can squeeze another 50,000 miles out of it. By the way, my buddy the accountant agrees with me, and my neighbor the lawyer said that I shouldn't worry about. No sweat. After all, it is a GM. ggg.