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Offline CC27

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I don't know how many of you all remember late 1999.
« on: October 23, 2024, 07:57:10 AM »
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I don't know how many of you all remember late 1999.
Remember how many were on the news and talk shows saying that when the time changed to the year 2000 cars with computers and planes would stop. Water and power would shut off because computer programmers didn't think to program for the year 2000?
Remember how they were never heard from again. And how stupid we felt when we found we didn't need to fill the bathtub with water or take extra money out of the ATM?
Remember that?
Hopefully we will feel that again after the vote.

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Offline SVPete

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Re: I don't know how many of you all remember late 1999.
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2024, 08:13:24 AM »
Srkdqltr is suggesting that DU-folk will feel silly in 2025 when their Hate-Trump hysteria is proven stupid by reality? Nah, DU-folk are too hate-driven to be that honest.
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Offline Old n Grumpy

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Re: I don't know how many of you all remember late 1999.
« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2024, 08:54:33 AM »
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I don't know how many of you all remember late 1999.
Remember how many were on the news and talk shows saying that when the time changed to the year 2000 cars with computers and planes would stop. Water and power would shut off because computer programmers didn't think to program for the year 2000?
Remember how they were never heard from again

So you remember the msm panic that got everyone worried, but you still believe the rhetoric that they are spreading now. You’re a fool. :thatsright: :loser:
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Re: I don't know how many of you all remember late 1999.
« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2024, 04:50:43 PM »
I worked as an IT consultant doing Y2K system remediation in the late 90s. It was a real issue. Corporations spent millions and millions of dollars on Y2K.  The media "panic" was actually a good thing because it helped upper management take Y2K seriously.
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Offline jukin

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Re: I don't know how many of you all remember late 1999.
« Reply #4 on: October 23, 2024, 05:41:55 PM »
Working in the automation field, Y2K was a complete nothing burger and a bullshit fear campaign that stupid people fell for. PLC ran industrial machinery then. Dates were not important to PLCs. Relay ladder diagrams were. Maybe your bank statements and brokerage statements might have been temporarily interrupted for matter of days. Nothing more.  In early 2000 I picked up some bargain priced generators from stupid people that I still use camping.

What was amusing is all these ignorant leftist assholes were telling me I didn't know what was going to happen even though I owned an automation company and had designed 20+ machines. In the end i would just egg the really ignorant and prideful idiots on that it was going to be bad, horrendously bad. 
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Re: I don't know how many of you all remember late 1999.
« Reply #5 on: October 23, 2024, 05:50:32 PM »
Quote from: jukin on October 23, 2024, 05:41:55 PM
Working in the automation field, Y2K was a complete nothing burger and a bullshit fear campaign that stupid people fell for. PLC ran industrial machinery then. Dates were not important to PLCs. Relay ladder diagrams were. Maybe your bank statements and brokerage statements might have been temporarily interrupted for matter of days. Nothing more.  In early 2000 I picked up some bargain priced generators from stupid people that I still use camping.

What was amusing is all these ignorant leftist assholes were telling me I didn't know what was going to happen even though I owned an automation company and had designed 20+ machines. In the end i would just egg the really ignorant and prideful idiots on that it was going to be bad, horrendously bad.

It would matter to you if you didn't get paid. When prioritizing Y2k efforts we always advised putting the payroll system first.
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