I did some stockpiling in 1999 when our IT expert told us he believed in the Millennium Bug. He bought a generator, huge quantities of fuel and a disturbingly large amount of baked beans. I was less enthusiastic but found myself with more beans and corned beef than I could ever want. My only advice is, if you buy, make sure you get good quality stuff and get a reasonable variety...
If bog roll runs out, sales of the Daily Wail will soar....
I am doing bugger all, same as millennium bug, bird flu, the 2015 end of the world etc
Yes, the Millennium Bug (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem) where dates were stored without the first two digits in the year. There was a lot of hooh-hah at the time in the papers and TV, etc. with ridiculous claims on what would happen (planes falling out of the sky, power station exploding), but a lot of problems were actually prevented because of a lot of hard work in the IT industry at the time.I remember all the additional work we had to do at the time (and no, I wasn't a contractor so didn't earn any extra money), and as it was done correctly, a lot of issues were prevented. So "nothing" happened, because the issues were recognised and dealt with before they could happen. And then it was found that 2000 would be a leap year after all...
Let's face it, at 75 I've not got too many years to worry about.
Quote from: Laurie on January 17, 2019, 04:50:24 pmLet's face it, at 75 I've not got too many years to worry about. Isn't this the attitude that got us into this sub-optimal situation?
Quote from: paul on January 17, 2019, 04:04:35 pmPeople do not seem to realise that the fact the Millennium Bug turned out to be a damp squid was actually a very major achievement for the IT industry.yes and either people couldn't do sums or read a calendar else such a bloody stupid language like Fortran that actually used algorithms for dates to save a little bit of disk space would never have been developed.So who landed us with it in the first place?
People do not seem to realise that the fact the Millennium Bug turned out to be a damp squid was actually a very major achievement for the IT industry.