[2853] in Humor
HUMOR: The millenium bug (from MailBits.com)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Igor Lyubashevskiy)
Thu Jun 17 11:16:34 1999
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 08:12:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: Igor Lyubashevskiy <igorlord@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: igorlord@alum.mit.edu
To: niichavo@MIT.EDU, humor@MIT.EDU
> Dumb things people have said about the millenium bug:
>
> ONE:
> Alexander Krupnov, chairman of Russia's Central
> Telecommunications Commission, which is coordinating the
> country's work on the millennium bug:
>
> "These agencies have already done half their jobs, they've
> counted out how much money they'll need," he told a news
> conference. "Now they're seeking their own sources of
> financing." (Reuters January 1999.)
>
>
> TWO:
> Vice President and all-round technology guy Al Gore:
>
> "How could this be a problem in a country where we have
> Intel and Microsoft?" (January 1999 issue of Vanity Fair)
>
>
> THREE:
> Columnist Paul Kedrosky:
>
> "Let's say that there's a 10 percent chance of something
> going wrong in a company come January 3, 2000 (January 1st
> is a Saturday -- we'll all sleep through any apocalypse).
> And imagine that probability is the same at other companies
> with which the company does business. ... The probability
> of two companies having a problem is the square of 0.1, or
> 1%. And the probability of enough companies simultaneously
> having a problem to return us to the Stone Ages is 0.1 to a
> very large power -- effectively zero. But you wouldn't know
> that from the "experts." Who knows what math they're doing?
> Likely none at all." (National Post Online November 17,
> 1998.)
>
>
> FOUR:
> Author Tom Clancy:
> "Actually, I think somebody just made that up, and if the
> Y2K problem, you know, the Year 2000 computer problem is
> real, nobody's proven it to me yet. ... Yeah, the worse
> thing happens is we shut down all the computers. You know,
> we can still live without computers. I can remember living
> in a world that had no computers at all." (CNN.com)
>
>
>
> FIVE:
> Pat Buchanan, Co-host of CNN's Crossfire:
> "Let me tell you something. I have been doing the show two
> and a half years, every day we have started on time. When
> you got a deadline, it seems to me, you get there." and
> "I'm a total skeptic on this, I think this whole thing is a
> total fraud. You can't tell me they're not going to fix it."
> (Crossfire July 14, 1998)
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