Posted on 01/07/2009 11:27:20 AM PST by XR7
Thanks for the explanation.
It was Y2K that made me finally quit lurking, sign up on FR and make my first post.
The alarmism and just flat plain nuttiness of the Y2K posts during 1999 had driven me nearly to madness. And new year’s eve, 1999 I finally could take it no more. I signed up and posted something... spouting off about how Y2K was all a bunch of hype and nothing, absolutely nothing, was going to happen.
Mainly, I think I was merely making sure to be on record *before* 1/1/2000 so that my I-told-ya-so’s would have some shred of credibility. :-)
Granted, it wasn’t *all* hype. There were a great many systems that would have had problems, and that they didn’t is the result of some good work by lots of programmers. But the over-the-top EOTWAWKI blathering was too much.
Y2K was X-42’s (Clinton’s) “bailout” plan for dummies. Some estimate that the Y2K hysteria resulted in trillions of dollars, that would have been otherwise unspent, being spent by the government, businesses, and individuals on Y2K “upgrades” and the associated effect the infusion of all that new spending had on the economy - not to mention the propulsion of Microsoft stock into heights of astronomical values previously unknown. When G.W. Bush took office, everything would have imploded - but then the Golden Goose was discovered: FannieMae and FreddieMac.
Me in reverse. My now ex-wife believed it all, hook line and sinker. She bought two years worth of MRE's. Stockpiled beans, rice, water, and all that. By the time it was all over, the MRE's, beans and rice were infested with insects and mice.
We should remember that there was a legitimate bug and had it not been fixed would have caused major problems. A lot of the upgrade money spent was legitimate. Some wasn’t. And of course that golden goose did explode, I’m in tech, remember the dot-com meltdown, a lot of that was Y2K unwind as a lot of companies had bought the system of the future and didn’t need anymore. Sales for many companies suffered dramatically largely because Y2K inflated them.
Well, if’n I did it right, January 19, 2038 at 3:21 AM. Think I got all the leap years and the recent leap second in there.
Come to think of it, what ever happened to Jethro Tull? Not the rock band but Freeper who was posting doomsday threads here all through 1998 and 1999. After January 1, 2000, he literally fell off the face of the earth.
It’s 2038. That’s when the date runs out of ticks. Of course it’s not that hard a fix, they just have to move zero, and it’ll primarily be at the OS level.
Y2K was very profitable for COBOL programmers like me! [Damon Wayans impression] Mo money, mo money!
Probably got stuck on one of the chewing gum wads down there.
Dang. Right numbers wrong final addition. I added the 7 remaining seconds as minutes. Should have been 01/19/2038 at 3:14:07 AM. I put 3:21 AM.
This is why the gloom and doomers are so fond of “global warming,” it isn’t hindered by a pesky expiration date.
Still dang good. You got to within an hour!
There.
Updated it. No charge.
Up next: 2012.
January 19, 2038 03:14:07 GMT. Watch for it.
I’m not surprised. He was such a charming guy!
He hadn't.
LOL!
He should’ve bought smokes first.
You can buy a lot of food with cigarettes!
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