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

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (5354)	4/7/1999 9:26:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

<With advance notice of potential instability to the grid, it is very easy to take certain non-priority customers off-line temporarily until they can be assured the system is stable.> Almost ALL commercial customers are already "non-priority" when it comes to utilities, if and when power is down. That's why they pay the discounted rates. They play the odds. Odds have been in their favor for some time. They pay less, besides quantity of usage ... they accept that with power failure they'll be the low man on the totem pole. It's worked in their favor for some time. I think sometimes your thinking is too linear. When I see your comment above, I don't think of only "utilities". I think, if commercial customers are "non-priority" and a business or plant is shut down for an extended period of time ... what are the ramifications??? You know - the domino bit? Residential customers may get power, but then they don't have a job to go to. Some are on salary. Some are hourly. Some have savings. Some live on credit. Some have food in their pantry. Some don't. JUST-IN-TIME-DELIVERY??? What if the food-processing plant can't operate? Say govt and utilities consider them critical and give them power ... but most of their suppliers aren't? Say somehow govt & utilities were able to figure out who all was critical for food processing and distribution (including paper mills for packaging). How many grocery stores would accept credit cards or checks without verification? Oops. I forgot - transportation is also a critical factor with "just-in-time" delivery. I have another word for your to add to your vocabulary besides "Kendemonium" call it "Houstonominium". I find this attacking people & their opinions - personally childish and disgusting. Like a pissin' match in a schoolyard. Issues should be discussed and debated. People shouldn't be attacked and berated because of their intensity of beliefs. I hope you stop this name-calling and baiting. And, I hope Ken stops the same deal. This is a lose-lose proposition. You both ultimately look foolish, and what ever good points either of you have ... get lost. Because I, like many others, begin to scan over what either of you have to say ... and look for ... and get entertained by the name-calling. Cheryl P.S. flattsvile & Christine - and they say women are emotional - LOL.