Re: Chicago/London-PRESS claims Y2k is Scam

>This will not make life any easier to get  funds or support  for your
>Year/2000 project or credibility.
>
>At 01:59 PM 01/05/1998 GMT, Peter W Duncanson wrote:
>The following is an extract from the weekly column by Jonathan Miller 
>in the (London, UK) Sunday Times:-
>
>" I was pleased to see the computer columnist for the  Chicago Tribune is
>debunking the millennium 2000  computer hysteria. Welcome to the world's
>smallest club. I  have been warning that this is a scam since the spring
>and,  as events have unfolded, it looks like becoming the biggest  scam of
>the millennium. What is clever is that irrespective  of future events the
>computer consultants will claim to have  been right. If little happens when
>2000 comes along, the  consultants will claim credit for fixing the bug; if
>everything  crashes, they will say they warned us. Either way, they will
>collect vast fees. I see Tony Blair [UK Prime Minister],   who does not
>know  Basic from a pump handle, has now fallen for the hype. He  is taking
>command of a government taskforce and is raising  the matter in Europe. 
>
>" I am prepared to admit that the millennium bug is a tiny bit  real, but
>in the grand scheme of things it is actually quite a  minor problem.
>Evidence that this is not a full-bore crisis is  ignored. There are few
>"help wanted" ads in the computer  sections of newspapers recruiting
>millennium bug
> reprogrammers. 
>
>" It is also curious how little litigation there seems to be. One  would
>have thought that vendors who sold defective  software would be liable, and
>that the lawyers would be  feasting. But so far there has been a deafening
>silence from  our learned friends."
>
>And then a spectacular misunderstanding:-
>
>" The computers most of us use crash  seven times a day anyway so if they
>crash on January 1,
> 2000, what difference would it make? "
>
>URL: http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/  The Contact Us link can be used  to
>e-mail the Editor.
>
>
>
>Glenn
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