RE: Chicago/London-PRESS claims Y2k is Scam

This is just pure ignorance.  Fix everyone's software except those who   
think like this, and they'll pay TRIPLE to fix it when the time comes...

muahahahahahahaha!
(yes, that is an evil laugh)

>At 01:59 PM 01/05/1998 GMT, Peter W Duncanson wrote:
>The following is an extract from the weekly column by Jonathan Miller=20
>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.=20
>
>" 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.=20
>
>" 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
>___________________________________________________
>Glenn Ericson,     Phoenix Consulting  =09
>P O Box 701164   East Elmhurst NY 11370-3164 USA   
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>AS/400 & Year 2000- - Solutions Specialists
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