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

To: B.K.Myers who wrote (5505)	4/13/1999 3:17:00 PM
From: David Eddy	Respond to of 9818

B.K. - A computer glitch at city hall caused some property taxes to be withdrawn from bank accounts without warning. Bingo! Give the man a barbi doll! This is how Y2K snafus will unfold. Death by ten thousand paper cuts. Long automated (and therefore largely forgotten) clerical proceedures will go haywire in bizare & subtle ways. And what's one of the responses? Suddenly EVERYONE examines their statements & bills with a magnifying glass. If there's a penny out of place they call (Hello? Any human attendants still around?) & complain... and they don't pay their bill! Not good for the billing company's cash flow. Plus it takes a huge chunk of time out of our individual lives. Let's face it, as dull as (electronic) paper is, it does run our lives. When the paper work gets screwed up, our lives are all going to slooooooow down. - David