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An Open Letter to the Y2K Bug

Posted by Hemos on from the scathing-sarcasm dept.

Felis writes "Did you work on New Year's Eve? I did. So did the person that wrote this letter. It's for those of us that worked while the rest of the world was celebrating something we'll never see again in our lifetimes. Unfortunately, there's no mention of police checkpoints or the plainclothes fuzz that harrassed my coworkers and me. Bitter? Me?"

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  1. Point Of Order by cdlu · · Score: 5

    I am sure that most of you know - whether you believe it or not - the story of Jonah from the Hebrew bible.

    In the story, god comes down and tells Jonah that humans have to fix their ways or they will be destroyed. When humans fixed their ways, nothing happened to them and Jonah was peeved at god for making him go to the trouble of fixing their ways if nothing was to happen.

    The point I'm making is we spent billions upon billions of dollars fixing this bug. The bug is squashed. Y2k comes along, and the bug is already dead and as such doesn't bite. Everyone cries because they didn't get hit by the bug to know it was real.

    Disclaimer: I don't "believe" in god or subscribe to organised religion other then culturally, but the religious texts are there for just this kind of occasion. The events that have been built around them are just to make people remember that there is this set of texts as a ... how to say, "man page" for human problems. Think about it.

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  2. Bitterness by razvedchik · · Score: 5

    I've been in the US Army for 8 years.

    I've missed anniversaries, birthdays, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and anything in-between so that I could go stop two races of small, rakija-drinking people from killing each other.

    Take the time when you can get it. When you have days off, have DAYS OFF. A fact of life is that sometimes you have to work on fun days. If that is below your station, quit, get a job shoveling trash.

    At least your computer didn't blow up or try to shoot you. That's not more than I can say about some of my holidays.



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  3. Top ten things I've learned from y2k. by bons · · Score: 5

    10) Embedded chips really don't care what year it is
    9) There aren't 200,000 virus writers on the face of the earth.
    8) Microsoft has code that reads: "99 + 1 = 2000 for purposes of getDate"
    7) Some of my web pages are now Y2.1K noncompliant
    6) Seattle is not a party town.
    5) New Years is not an event.
    4) Microsoft still has more bugs and viruses than all of y2k put together.
    3) Pulling your server because the date changes makes you look like a fool.
    2) 2600.com really does have a sense of humor.
    1) Don't release the doves and launch the fireworks at the same time!

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