RE: Chicago/London-PRESS claims Y2k is Scam -- MIDRANGE-L

It's fun to see members of the press compete to see how far they can
stick their heads up their own asses (or arses for those in the UK) !
:-)

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        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Glenn Ericson [SMTP:Glenn-Ericson@att.net]
        Sent:   Monday, January 05, 1998 11:46 AM
        To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
        Subject:        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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