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niyad

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79. You misunderstand me. I was referring to the charlatans, gurus, snake-oil
Tue Oct 22, 2024, 08:07 PM
Oct 2024

huckster types who promised "protection", "safety", or whatever, so long as you gave them large amounts of cash. Like the villain in the video piece this morning, from a 1958 tv episode. "I alone can fix this ". (sound familiar? and the villain's name was, I kid you not, t####!)

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To be fair LearnedHand Oct 2024 #1
They spent over a decade... Whatthe_Firetruck Oct 2024 #66
Exactly LearnedHand Oct 2024 #72
"Office Space" with Ron Livingston and Jennifer Aniston Simeon Salus Oct 2024 #75
I remember DeepWinter Oct 2024 #2
This wysimdnwyg Oct 2024 #29
Happy 21st DUnniversary. niyad Oct 2024 #51
Thanks! wysimdnwyg Oct 2024 #76
Unless you were working for IT for a company slightlv Oct 2024 #54
we worked hard in the decade before that... da svenster Oct 2024 #64
Oh do I remember..... Karma13612 Oct 2024 #3
Not the best comparison Cirsium Oct 2024 #4
Well just the extreme hand wringing over Kamala loosing. I think she has a very good chance of winning. Srkdqltr Oct 2024 #5
We're talking about voting vs technology LeftInTX Oct 2024 #8
You are doubling down now Cirsium Oct 2024 #15
Many of the potential Y2K issues were dealt with well ahead of time. TwilightZone Oct 2024 #12
Good point Cirsium Oct 2024 #21
Hey,ever prep for an extreme hurricane? BattleRow Oct 2024 #22
The other WAS a threat kcr Oct 2024 #63
Yes Cirsium Oct 2024 #84
Went to library conference planning program where the displacedvermoter Oct 2024 #6
Why was Y2K more widely believed than... lame54 Oct 2024 #11
because alas... da svenster Oct 2024 #52
Got news for you. That threat was real. zonemaster Oct 2024 #7
It is also a testament that major threats CAN be averted localroger Oct 2024 #13
Sounds trivial but libraries all over the world were displacedvermoter Oct 2024 #17
same was true of banks... da svenster Oct 2024 #53
Agree -- it could most definitely have been disaster in the making. Luckily the worst that ended up happening Jmb 4 Harris-Walz Oct 2024 #18
Thanks for the perspective! I was a teenager at the time and didn't Earthrise Oct 2024 #19
I spent all New Years Eve at Walmart HQ to be sure all of sinkingfeeling Oct 2024 #9
The catapult of disinformation is unyielding. Duncan Grant Oct 2024 #10
Yep. Water, stock up on basics, and get cash. No one I knew believed Earthrise Oct 2024 #14
It was a cold fart. nt miyazaki Oct 2024 #16
Yep that was ridiculous, the stock market would crash, doc03 Oct 2024 #20
Nothing happened because IT programmers spent the last sinkingfeeling Oct 2024 #86
I remember President Clinton made it a priority. I worked in a steel mill at the time, they hired extra people doc03 Oct 2024 #88
My best memory of 1999 ToxMarz Oct 2024 #23
We spent 15 years hearing about the concept of partying like it was 1999 Xavier Breath Oct 2024 #78
Yes I do remember ampm Oct 2024 #24
There is little glory in preventing a disaster Orangepeel Oct 2024 #25
I like that. Collimator Oct 2024 #36
We are, as we did then, kozar Oct 2024 #26
I loved 1999-2000 duncang Oct 2024 #27
it was all a part of the tech et tu Oct 2024 #28
The Danger WAS REAL! Jamison59 Oct 2024 #30
Thank you! The OP fails to understand WHY nothing of consequence happened! markpkessinger Oct 2024 #58
Y2K wasn't a catastrophe because people worked through the issues and fixed them. paulkienitz Oct 2024 #31
The hospital lab I worked at canceled all vacations hoosierspud Oct 2024 #32
The US Space Forces still haven't caught up.... Mustellus Oct 2024 #33
I remember working a lot of overtime so people wouldn't be affected by the problem 0rganism Oct 2024 #34
There were a tremendous amount of people working to update software to prevent that problem IronLionZion Oct 2024 #35
The success of our Y2K response further highlights the failure of our climate change response 0rganism Oct 2024 #37
Sure, or the efforts to save the Ozone layer IronLionZion Oct 2024 #50
Well said! LearnedHand Oct 2024 #73
We are dealing people and voting, not LeftInTX Oct 2024 #83
Ahem. It wasn't the programmers who didn't think. Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2024 #38
the issue in the early days was how expensive storage was da svenster Oct 2024 #57
Thank you. Your post, and the immediately following response answered niyad Oct 2024 #80
I still have cans of freeze-dried food. I also remember this Seattle WTO late 1999. spike jones Oct 2024 #39
Please don't forget all the programmers that made that happen. Susan Calvin Oct 2024 #40
We actually did lose power for most of the day on Jan 1. Mariana Oct 2024 #41
Y2K ? PhilG Oct 2024 #42
I distinctly remember a documentary called The Unsung Heroes of Y2K. Susan Calvin Oct 2024 #45
it drives me NUTS when people act like nothing happened by fate Skittles Oct 2024 #48
Welcome to our DU family. niyad Oct 2024 #82
I thought Figarosmom Oct 2024 #43
All too well, quite frankly. PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2024 #44
the reason DMV didn't have an issue da svenster Oct 2024 #61
That the media are too stupid to have reported this intelligently LearnedHand Oct 2024 #74
I was working as a bank teller on the last workday of 1999. Aristus Oct 2024 #46
funny switch... da svenster Oct 2024 #62
let me tell you something Skittles Oct 2024 #47
Ah, yes, the great Y2K hoax. I had a mac at the time, and left it on from niyad Oct 2024 #49
Was your mac running COBOL? Ptah Oct 2024 #55
I don't remember, although that sounds vaguely familar. Actually, I don't niyad Oct 2024 #56
You said, "some scum made millions." Ptah Oct 2024 #59
You misunderstand me. I was referring to the charlatans, gurus, snake-oil niyad Oct 2024 #79
iOS (or iPadOS) if you have an iPad, or android if it's just about anything else da svenster Oct 2024 #65
I do not have an ipad, and I do have that little martian creature whenever niyad Oct 2024 #81
it wasn't a HOAX per se Skittles Oct 2024 #60
dates were handled differently... da svenster Oct 2024 #67
Wow. Talk about taking learning the wrong lesson from history! n/t markpkessinger Oct 2024 #68
as the great sage donald roeser once wrote... da svenster Oct 2024 #69
The point i wanted to make was, and many made it here, there was a huge effort going to make sure things went as smoothl Srkdqltr Oct 2024 #70
My dad did his 1997 through 1999 Navy reserve duties haele Oct 2024 #71
Yes, Art Bell stuff. Sneederbunk Oct 2024 #77
Hubby is IT for small companies Maeve Oct 2024 #85
Well, this is bringing out all the programmers and sysadmins. usonian Oct 2024 #87
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