1 Jan
2000
1 Jan
'00
3:53 a.m.
Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
D'ya mean that it's now safe to come out of
the fallout shelter?
I can see that coming Fred....we're in the middle of a wood burning society here and
with alll the older technology not even one traffic light freaked nor did the power
companies fail. You don't think all this Y2K stuff could have been a way to make
money huh? Naw, just ask anyone that retired over the last 4 years from reworking
machines or selling "compliant" systems or writing software fixes (the non-free
ones). The local computer dealer (1 of 2) just closed up - not from bankruptcy but
Ah, me... all that hype, and the only
glitches I've heard of this evening
were only minor annoyances (like Auckland's airport web page reporting
flight dates of 1900). Methinks we're going to hear about an awful lot of
annoyed paranoid people and survivalists over the next couple weeks.
Watch. The news media will tell you that THEY SAVED you, by all of their
hysterical warnings. from getting rich enough to retire at 32 yrs old and
move on to where he wants to be.