Re: sick and fucking tired of this Y2k shit

[Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>]

At 12:18 PM 2/18/99 -0500, Sunder wrote:
>
[snip]
>Then again this insanity isn't
>caused by the media, the media just adds more hype it.  It was caused by
>the bad management of programmers and bad programmers pushed by ever
>growing deadlines from marketing and VP's of nothing and the usual 
>government programming projects bought at the lowest bidder from
>contractors who don't give a shit and look forward to getting paid for
>fixing bugs, but you don't much care about that, naw, you just want to 
>fill Oprah full of holes 'cause she sensationalizes things to make
>herself a buck...

No, what you're calling the reality of the problem, I'm calling the
perception of the problem.  The Y2k problem, in reality, will probably
not be that bad by the time it rolls around.  Sure, there are going to
be unforeseen problems that crop up, but the fire and brimstone
problems will most likely be fixed.  We're not going to be without power,
without medical care, without money.  The major systems will be
functional enough for the Y2k thing to be an annoyance, but not a
complete disruption of society.

But do you think that reality matters, when the media gets ahold of
the issue, sensationalizes it into the vision that this author gives,
and throws that fundamentally warped picture out to the masses?  Do
you think the masses question Oprah, or Jerry Springer, or anything
else they see on TV?  Especially the network news, our country's
finest in entertainment?  No.  And when people panic because of it,
what you have on your hands is a self-fulfilling prophecy.  So
who's responsible?  Programmers?  To say so is remarkably
irresponsible.  That's the equivalent of the argument that gunmakers
should be responsible when some wacko shoots someone in the
head.

>Gotta love it, the net's full of nuts.  Can't wait for'em to be culled
>out of the gene pool.. what only 300 some days left now?

To call me nuts is ludicrous.  Sure, the idea of actually going out
and shooting the collective media in the head is far-fetched, but
the fundamental issue is right on the money.  Unless of course you're
a media bitch who needs to suck on the Fox tit for your daily
ingestion of the Y2k lie.  But that's not the impression I got.