Posted by Victoriah Nichole Little on July 20, 2005 at 03:06 [65.0.62.106]
In Reply to: Victoriah Full of herself posted by Research Pickle on July 19, 2005 at 23:54
Your own "cite" speaks against you, Pickle.
The first place you cite, you put in parantheses "Some large scale Y2K1 glitches that REALLY DID HAPPEN in spite of Y2K efforts".
In fact, your own cite disproves what you are trying to say:
"January 2000 was supposed to be the date that the Millennium Bug bit deepest, but it passed without the worldwide meltdown feared by some experts.
The bug arose because some computer programmers used only two digits to record dates. When the year rolled over from 99 to 00, some machines interpreted this to mean that 1900 had only just dawned.
What seems to have caused problems this January was the fact that many programmers did not realise that 2000 was a leap year. As a result, 2001 appeared to arrive a day early for some computers and they crashed in reaction."
Two things mentioned here - IN YOUR OWN CITE. One, that 1/1/2000 passed without problems. Two, that the problems mentioned in this news story have nothing to do with Y2K, they have to do with a different date crash problem. Using a small scale Y2K1 problem that happened to 4 companies to try and prove that the Doomsday Prophecies concerning Y2K really had any ground to them is insane.
People who believe these Doomsday Scientists are as bad as conspiracy theorists. You all sound like a bunch of raving lunatics, and you aren't even aware of it yourself. GET A GRIP, people.
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