Darren New schrieb:

>> Remember the Y2K bug? The one that was supposed to make planes fall 
>> from the skies and nuclear reactors go into meltdown?
>>
>> ...
>>
>> Nah, it wasn't so bad. ;-)
> 
> Everybody says this, but I have to wonder how bad it might have been if 
> not for the hype and terror and everyone fixing everything because of 
> that. I'd have felt the same way if I didn't see everyone in the FAA 
> jumping up and down and cheering when 12:00 passed without anyone crashing.

I had been in the business of Y2K auditing for a short time; from what 
I've seen, it was pretty much hype after all.

Yes, there might have been some bad surprises here and there, and 
possibly even a few isolated cases of /real/ shit happening, if the 
issue hadn't been raised at all. But the level to which it was 
ultimately raised was way out of proportion.

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