Y2K - KANSAS CITY STAR 12-page Special Report [link]

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Here's the link for today's KANSAS CITY STAR 12-page Special Report on Y2K...

Kansas City Star: Countdown To Y2K

For a huge selection of other excerpts and quotes on Y2K, go to:

The 'New World Order Intelligence Update'Y2K QUOTES page

-- John Whitley (jwhitley@inforamp.net), November 07, 1999

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What I find amazing is that such high-visibility preparation oriented articles that now appear in the mainstream press are just so "routine". You sure would not have seen anything like this a year ago.

Maybe, just maybe, the potential of Y2K could result in is starting to sink in....

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.cum), November 07, 1999.

Their predictions story started with this line:

"We know most people are really tired of hearing about Y2K."

EXCUSE ME...I didn't think *ANYBODY* was listening...

(beep) (beep) (beep)

rooooolling ooooooover

-- snooze button (alarmclock_2000@yahoo.com), November 07, 1999.


yes, but "wild bears roaming the streets"? It is this sort of ridicule that trivializes the whole issue.

-- marsh (anon@anon.calm), November 07, 1999.

The King of Spain wrote:

What I find amazing is that such high-visibility preparation oriented articles that now appear in the mainstream press are just so "routine". You sure would not have seen anything like this a year ago.

Maybe, just maybe, the potential of Y2K could result in is starting to sink in....

I wouldn't count on that, your Majesty. :)

We're STILL seeing too many articles like this one, distributed by AP.

It Appears We're Ready for Y2K Associated Press, Nov 6th.

NEW YORK (AP) -- The decision appears to have been made, and it is that a society ingenious enough to create the computer is capable of avoiding disaster because of a few ominous zeroes. You can tell that the decision has been made by the way people act. Consumers are spending, investors investing, and corporations completing plans for even bigger sales and revenue in 2000.

In short, as Y2K approaches, the vague but intense concerns of earlier this year, such as the fear of economic collapse, seem to have dissolved into mere concern about disruptions and irritations.

As most now understand, if only superficially, Y2K involves the ability of computers to realize we are passing from 1999 to the year 2000, not to 1900.

Maybe no decision was involved at all, just a growing sense of reassurance that the $50 billion spent by businesses and the $8.34 billion by government was enough to fix the tiny but massive defect.

True, airline reservations for New Year's week are said to be down, some families are hoarding food and water, and banks are ready for cash withdrawals, but fears of cascading disruptions are fading.

Still, opportunists will exploit the days before year's end with terror tales and rumors, and amulets, tokens, souvenirs, insurance policies and final testaments. Entrepreneurship will be alive and well.

Most likely there'll be some disruptions, even serious, but more localized rather than regional, and very unlikely on a national scale. That is, speaking domestically.

Overseas, it may be a different matter, and since we now have a global economy (oil from the Mideast, for example), certain foreign breakdowns could spread beyond national boundaries.

Still, reassurance comes from government and business: The Senate's Y2K panel, the Federal Reserve Board, Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the Pentagon, and telecommunications and financial industries, among others.

Of course, the major question involved in all such reports of Y2K readiness is to what degree these reports reflect the true situation or are designed to quell public doubts while final preparations continue.

For example, in an Oct. 15 letter to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Archer, R-Texas, Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Charles Rossotti expresses confidence his agency will be ready. But he conceded, "We do have some trouble spots in our effort."

But regardless of surveys and assurances, Americans may be placing more faith in their economy than in anything else.

Their faith is in companies that produced the Internet Age and that seemingly can overcome any obstacle; in the strength of their incomes and ability to spend; and in an economic advance that has trampled for most of a decade the negative expectations of self-styled experts.

That in a sense is like saying, we've faced more threatening situations and come through, so why shouldn't we just overwhelm the enemy again.

[ENDS]

-- John Whitley (jwhitley@inforamp.net), November 07, 1999.


even in the so called "prep" articles--they promote a real low key image of y2k and your need to prepare. kind of makes you want to take a "preparation nap". ho hum. in the KC Star--the headline implied that all it will take companies to fix the problem is a weekend.

i wonder if part of the y2k GI or DGI status is whether you are a small picture or big picture person. maybe if you deal with detail and never need the big picture (let's say myers briggs SENSOR types) it is hard for you to put it all together and GET IT. you see the trees. then maybe if you are a big picture person it is hard not to panic because you see all the millions of failures (Myers Briggs N- Intuitor type). You see the forest with all these embedded chips and bad code? It would be interesting to know whether certain types of people are Y2K challenged because of their personality traits.

-- tt (cuddluppy@yahoo.com), November 07, 1999.



Localized means "not in your locality".

-- Earl (earl.shuholm@worldnet.att.net), November 07, 1999.

tt--

I am an ENFP and I GI ;-)

-- karla (karlacalif@aol.com), November 07, 1999.


I'm an INTJ and I get it. So any S (sensor) people out there??

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-- Artful Dodger (ckabel@rust.net), November 07, 1999.


Dodger, my hubby's an ISFP and he GI before I did.

-- ldeeds (ldeeds@kumc.edu), November 08, 1999.

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