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Old 10-03-2008, 06:26 PM   #24 (permalink)
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From all the responses possible to silly obsessions, making money out of it is for sure not the worst strategy, but it eventually encourages an economic world that encourages silly obsessions.
hmm.
Not that I want to make it a political discussion,
But isn't that an accurate definition of Capitalism ?
mmm.


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Originally Posted by Leto View Post
Heh.. they are difficult to digest. but at anyrate, the Y2K scare was all about the lack of foresight in programming computer systems in the 1960's, 70's & 80's to handle century date rollover gracefully.

The only thing religious about it was the dogmatic way money was thrown at us old mainframers to fix the issue in time!
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