You don't have to like it, you don't have to agree with it...but...it's happening so you better adjust to it.
And your welcome to try to change it - legally. You say over reaction I say under reaction. My argument if we did a Newfoundland style blockade we get to fully operational internal economy fairly quickly, We could do driver changes at the boarder for goods - with cleaning of said goods on transfer.
Regardless, mistakes are being made, and will continue being made. We did not have 20/20 vision. Was y2k a waste? Maybe. Or did the prevention save lives? Or if nothing was done much the same would have happened? Billons where spent in advance to fix the bug and in theory no problems should have happened anywhere:
A few random stuff did get threw
A couple of nukes had minor problems, but the critical systems where fixed.
A few video late fees where marked for 100 years + late.
Some goverment programs where automatically cancelled after 100 years
In Asia a few ships where lost with there crew doe to navigation systems failing during storms
Some random problems
Reported problems include:
- In Sheffield, United Kingdom, incorrect risk assessments for Down syndrome were sent to 154 pregnant women and two abortions were carried out as a direct result of a Y2K bug causing miscalculation of the mothers' age. Four babies with Down syndrome were also born to mothers who had been told they were in the low-risk group.[48]
- In Ishikawa, Japan, radiation-monitoring equipment failed at midnight; however, officials stated there was no risk to the public.[49]
- In Onagawa, Japan, an alarm sounded at a nuclear power plant at two minutes after midnight.[49]
- In Japan, at two minutes past midnight, Osaka Media Port, a telecommunications carrier, found errors in the date management part of the company's network. The problem was fixed by 02:43 and no services were disrupted.[50]
- In Japan, NTT Mobile Communications Network (NTT DoCoMo), Japan's largest cellular operator, reported on 1 January 2000, that some models of mobile telephones were deleting new messages received, rather than the older messages, as the memory filled up.[50]
- In Australia, bus ticket validation machines in two states failed to operate.[47]
- In the United States, 150 Delaware Lottery racino slot machines stopped working.[47]
- In the United States, the US Naval Observatory, which runs the master clock that keeps the country's official time, gave the date on its website as 1 Jan 19100.[51]
- In France, the national weather forecasting service, Météo-France, said a Y2K bug made the date on a webpage show a map with Saturday's weather forecast as "01/01/19100".[47] This also occurred on other websites, including att.net, at the time a general-purpose portal site primarily for AT&T Worldnet customers in the United States.
A small funny problem
Y2K bug bites German opera
BERLIN (AP) - It was almost as though Richard Wagner had come back to life.
When Berlin's German Opera ran its payroll for the first time this year, the millennium bug caused havoc by setting the date back to 1900, an official said Wednesday.
Staff at the Deutsche Oper -- which is known for staging 19th-century classics -- discovered that the software problem wiped out government subsidies for families with children by wrongly computing children's ages.
Suddenly, the payroll program would treat a person born in 1990 as 90 years old and automatically stop their child allowance payment, said Heinz-Dieter Sense, the opera's financial manager.
''Everything was year 2000-proof -- except for this isolated item,'' he said in a telephone interview. ''Of course, we hadn't checked every single line of the software.''
The opera was uneasy about withholding government-mandated benefits. So its accountants tricked the software by resetting it to December 1999, before calling in programmers to repair the problem for next month's payroll.
Still, staffers came up $10.50 short because child benefits increased as of Jan. 1. The amount will be included in February paychecks, Sense said.
''It's an unpleasant problem, but it is limited in scope,'' he said. ''Our employees were not that terribly upset.''
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As always hindsight is 20/20 and on fixing a problem, it appears the problem was a hoax. We know cancer is not a hoax now (and before it was -
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/heal...tells-truth-court-ordered-ad-campaign-n823136 ) mainly from the failure to cure it. If we did cure it, like small box and bed bugs (don't let the bed bugs bite) we now claim those areas are overblown and exaggerated.
Bonus unrelated link
Florida's Bestiality Law May Have Accidentally Outlawed Sex Entirely
www.huffpost.com
Is covid like telling soilders that radiation from being nuked was perfectly safe or is it the mars invasion on the radio from the 30s or is it Y2K?
