'Why We Fight'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
If, while I'm gone, anyone suddenly receives a huge burst of medieval-Arabic-combinatorics knowledge, please let me know, as I'm pretty stumped.
Once you get back, I might be able to help, if I'm still here then. (Do you have AIM? Might be easier than filling up the boards with math homework.)
Speaking of lots of media reports about a problem, lots of money spent, and then I heard nothing, can anyone explain the whole Y2K thing to me? I mean, I remember why we were told it was important. But I never heard of anything bad coming of it. Were we just super-efficient and fixed everything on time, or was it a crock?
There was a big brouhaha from the GM labor groups a few weeks ago when management said that they had to up the level of unionized employees healthcare contributions from 5% to (I think) 10% (white-collar GM employees pay upwards to 33%).
Uh huh. And it's not over yet.
Were we just super-efficient and fixed everything on time, or was it a crock?
It wasn't a crock. A whole lot of software running a whole lot of stuff would have broken. I'm not saying planes would have fallen out of the sky onto your head or anything, but it would have been, at the very least, fucking irritating for all involved.
I'd say the coders who made an assload of money off it deserved what they got. Anything that needed to be fixed can't have been fun to fix.
I'd say the coders who made an assload of money off it deserved what they got. Anything that needed to be fixed can't have been fun to fix.
Yup. There was a fair ol' chunk of code whose source was long-lost and which didn't have documentation.
And there is the amusement of find old pieces of tech that have the ubiquitous green, yellow or (well, those would be scrap so you don't see them anymore) red stickers on them.
Also Y2K got me into Biohazard Level 3 places that I in no way should have been, but I seem to have missed any of the major bugs. It also meant I didn't get a kiss on New Year's but you take what you can get.
I hope you're all happy. I was just upstairs dropping off some papers for someone's signature, and the hallway was covered with FLU SHOT signs, so I got one, all because of you. Also, I didn't flip out over the needle-ness of it hardly at all, and my nurse gave me a Power Rangers band-aid.
Still, ALL BECAUSE OF YOU. Except for Nutty, the contrarian anti-alarmist.
my nurse gave me a Power Rangers band-aid.
Cool! Dino-Thunder or SPD?
Ninja Storm.
Rock!