The nay sayers were everywhere. Where are they now? I haven't found one person who will admit to it. Are there any honest people out there who can admit that they fell for it, even slightly?
2007-02-24 18:17:21 · 16 answers · asked by Nationalist 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
I am still eating canned food and bottled water.
2007-02-24 18:19:06 · answer #1 · answered by The Angry Stick Man 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I was actually disappointed in all the people who fell for it. I mean, I always hold out hope for mankind - then they do something stupid like freak about "Y2K"!
So, which country would have been hit first? I mean, it's like it never occurred to ANYONE that we don't all reach new year AT THE SAME TIME! In fact, the commonly practiced "New Year" is Anglo, so should we have also freaked over the Chinese Y2K???
Oh well. If you can't have hope, there is always the ability to laugh at the idiots! LOL ;)
2007-02-25 02:21:36 · answer #2 · answered by ... 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didn't belive in the world was going to end scare but I did believe in the problem, now I'm about to graduate with my first programming degree and I understand what the problem was now.
Due to the very expensive price of memory back when these systems were programmed they left off 2 numbers of the date, eg 00 instead of 2000. It makes sense, and I see how it could pose a problem, I have instructors and older friends that made a temporary good living re programming these mainframes.
2007-02-25 02:27:07 · answer #3 · answered by D 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I remember being slightly concerned about it but not doing anything about it. The Y2K survival magazines were particularly funny. I was at a concert at the Pyramids in Egypt when 2000 rolled around. I figured I wouldn't find out till later if the world went to hell till afterwards
2007-02-25 08:44:19 · answer #4 · answered by samurai_dave 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the Y2K snafu was a test marketing thing for the same minds that have magnificently manipulated the 911 events. This gave them plenty of time to make the final adjustments in their public reaction psychological analysis for later use. They release their propaganda and the press makes it true. Then the people think the way the programmers want them to. The truth becomes just a ghost in the machine.
2007-02-25 02:55:06 · answer #5 · answered by Myron 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The ignorant chewed their finger nails back to the first or second knuckle, the knowledgeable took care of the issues as new patches were made available. To those whose computers did not have BIOS capability to recognize a time after 1999, my advise to them if they did not have a critical need for an accurate date stamp for their computers, just pick a date prior to 1999 and use that for the system clock. It wouldn't make any difference. I too had to explain what was going on to many and to assure them that that their computers were not going to become bombs, or useless for anything other than a door stop after 2000. Once the time came and went, many just didn't want to talk about it anymore.
2007-02-25 02:27:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a computer network engineer, I did well on that scare. Only a few systems were affected and the patches that were made available for the software worked. I sold a lot of hardware though. It was great we need a 2008 bug scare of some sort. I need some new furniture.
2007-02-25 02:20:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It was far worse than what I expected. They made me Y2K DOS machines twice. DOS. Yes DOS. We had soem food, not enough food thoug, for Earthquake preparedness. I didn't think it was necessary for more. I really wish it did happen so I didn't have to Y2k the DOS machine the second time around for 02/29/2000.
2007-02-25 02:29:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I thought it was possible but not probable. Most of the world operates manually, so any computer failures would be temporary.
If you mean preparing by buying enough supplies to last five years and by buying a shotgun, then no, I didn't.
If you mean preparing by buying an extra week of canned food and 20 litres of water, an extra package of AA batteries plus a few extra litres of gas for my camping stove (which I owned for years), then yes, I did.
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2007-02-25 02:49:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
well... I was at home at the time... far out in the country... and to be frank... they pretty much know how to live without the modern comforts if they had too... farming... hunting... and they always have a ton of garden food and meat canned up in mason jars anyway, regaurdless of what's going on... it wouldn't be fun, but you have to do what you have to do...
so, I was keeping an eye on it out of curiosity... but relatively, I was in the one place that wouldn't have been in total calamity if something went wrong... so I didn't have a lot to be afriad of...
they didn't and still don't have a computer...
2007-02-25 02:29:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wasn't sure what was going to happen. I did have a huge Y2K party. We brought in the New Year worry fear, I can tell you that.
2007-02-25 02:20:27 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋