Anyone else remember when the biggest fear was that everything would come to a halt when the year 2000 hit?
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 “If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.” — Confucius 
Yeah. I was in IT at the time. I went in to work (3 sites) on a Sunday to check everything.
No God, No fear.
Know God, Know fear. (April 12, 2020 at 7:28 pm)ignoramus Wrote: Yeah. I was in IT at the time. I went in to work (3 sites) on a Sunday to check everything. It's still kinda IT - ya know this is all because of 5G technology. 
“If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.” — Confucius  (April 12, 2020 at 7:13 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Anyone else remember when the biggest fear was that everything would come to a halt when the year 2000 hit? Yup. Generators were unavailable. I sold mine at a huge profit.- then bought a far better one 6 months later for less than 1/2 the money. People who believe that arbitrary numbers rule the universe are fucking idiots. 
I was on a stage in Belfast when 2000 hit. Most of the crowd was so out of their minds on heroin and shortbread, I don’t think they cared.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
(April 12, 2020 at 7:32 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I was on a stage in Belfast when 2000 hit. Most of the crowd was so out of their minds on heroin and shortbread, I don’t think they cared. Heroin and shortbread? I understand the first - the second has me mystified. “If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.” — Confucius (April 12, 2020 at 7:37 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:(April 12, 2020 at 7:32 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I was on a stage in Belfast when 2000 hit. Most of the crowd was so out of their minds on heroin and shortbread, I don’t think they cared. There’s a huge Scottish population in Norn Iron, so shortbread biscuits are insanely popular there. Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
(April 12, 2020 at 7:32 pm)onlinebiker Wrote:(April 12, 2020 at 7:13 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Anyone else remember when the biggest fear was that everything would come to a halt when the year 2000 hit? There were the crazies thinking planes are going to fall out of the sky and elevators are going to drop. We were running servers (old even by them days) which had very simple bioses. My main concern was that the reports for the Monday managers meetings were accurate. Truthfully, it was a complete non event. I had already changed the bios on all of them as a test 2 weeks earlier 
No God, No fear.
Know God, Know fear. (April 12, 2020 at 7:41 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(April 12, 2020 at 7:37 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Heroin and shortbread? I understand the first - the second has me mystified. I thought it was a street name for some other drug. “If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.” — Confucius  (April 12, 2020 at 7:41 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(April 12, 2020 at 7:37 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Heroin and shortbread? I understand the first - the second has me mystified. Shortbread? Where??
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