Gary North appears to have missed one thing.  That is, the "fix on failure"
folks who are fine are (as he lists them) small businesses, societies which
don't depend on technology as we do and one Communist country (which may fall
in the previous category and which, if not, may not report what actually
happened).  The little guys could afford to "fix on failure" for their
failures, if any, would be few.  A country which doesn't depend on a computer
infrastructure can survive if it's computers get confused.

I'll happily grant that "the power grid is going down" and "planes will drop
out of the skies" were hoaxes.  We said that from the beginning.  But the
smoothness of the transition (and it ain't all been perfectly smooth) is due
not to Y2K being a hoax, but to a lot of well-invested cash on the part of
management and hard work on the part of programmers.

Ted

P.S.  He also appears to forget that this is only the year 2000 in Christendom.
For many other countries, 2000 came long ago.
--
Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Serv, Southern Adventist University
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