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Huge panics and scares that never quite happened

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  • #62
    Deise Vu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,187 ✭✭✭Deise Vu


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Most of the systems in these countries were mechanical so the y2k bug was irrelevent to almost all of their working practices, in the few rare occasions that there was an issue it was a simple case of CTRL-ALT-DELETE and continue on.

    Mechanical bank systems? Jets, Air traffic control, hospital equaipment, all the household gear we were told would be exploding and / or launching a takeover of our houses? You learn something new every day.


  • #63
    sock puppet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭sock puppet


    Deise Vu wrote: »
    Mechanical bank systems? Jets, Air traffic control, hospital equaipment, all the household gear we were told would be exploding and / or launching a takeover of our houses? You learn something new every day.

    Just how developed do you think Haiti were in the 1980s?


  • #64
    who the fug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,042 ✭✭✭who the fug


    Ray Palmer wrote: »
    That would because people spent years fixing the problem before hand. I found a y2k bug a few months ago.

    Cool what was it?


  • #65
    miss no stars
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,957 ✭✭✭miss no stars


    davet82 wrote: »
    Originally Posted by Duggy747viewpost.gif
    Next, it's Lukewarm Universe.


    that sounds serious, what the fcuk are we gonna do!! :eek:

    Technically it's been happening for almost 14 billion years. It's cold compared to what it once was. Eventually though, the universe will* run out of energy and die.


    (* by will I mean that most likely will, but there are some things that still aren't fully understood such as dark energy and matter, so I guess there's still potential that the universe won't run out of energy but that'd require that our entire knowledge of physics be re-written basically. I don't know whether dark energy and matter obey the e=mc^2 equation? If they do, presumably dark energy can also run out)


  • #66
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Deise Vu wrote: »
    Mechanical bank systems? Jets, Air traffic control, hospital equaipment, all the household gear we were told would be exploding and / or launching a takeover of our houses? You learn something new every day.

    A room full of clerks, Jets they belong to the airlines not the country, ATC can be manual, household gear LOL, things were a lot simpler in most countries a decade ago. The worst thing that happened was a calandar application showing the date as 19100


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  • #67
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Swine Flu.


  • #68
    Ray Palmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,351 ✭✭✭Ray Palmer


    Deise Vu wrote: »

    So every third world country such as Zimbabwe, Haiti etc etc could afford all the updates and dilligently carried them out 100%? That is unbelievable. And I mean unbelievable.
    Updates don't really cost anything they are part of the licence. Don't know about Zimbabwe but I do no similar poor South American countries got their software from Ireland including updates. They wouldn't be able to do any banking internationally if they hadn't.
    Internal transactions are mostly on paper. Strangely Japan seen as a majour tech country also use mostly paper.
    Airplane stuff also also uses international standards and software. Planes falling from the sky was always an exaggerated claim. It wasn't made by the industry but hack writers.


  • #69
    Deise Vu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,187 ✭✭✭Deise Vu


    Ray Palmer wrote: »
    Updates don't really cost anything they are part of the licence. Don't know about Zimbabwe but I do no similar poor South American countries got their software from Ireland including updates. They wouldn't be able to do any banking internationally if they hadn't.
    Internal transactions are mostly on paper. Strangely Japan seen as a majour tech country also use mostly paper.
    Airplane stuff also also uses international standards and software. Planes falling from the sky was always an exaggerated claim. It wasn't made by the industry but hack writers.


    I see, we spent billions of manhours on it from developing upgrades to Y2K project managers in every business, we set up a Govt quango to daily berate the population for not being Y2K compliant. Then Mickey Mouse countries just downloaded our updates and happy days, they were grand.

    And you still claim it wasn't over-hyped?


  • #70
    Ush1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,484 ✭✭✭✭Ush1


    That HIV causes AIDS. Ha, really got us that time!


  • #71
    Sarn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,180 ✭✭✭Sarn


    Weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Oops!


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  • #72
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I thought I was out of coffee, but on closer inspection there was some behind the sugar in the cupboard.

    Phew! Panic averted :).


  • #73
    Ray Palmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,351 ✭✭✭Ray Palmer


    Deise Vu wrote: »


    I see, we spent billions of manhours on it from developing upgrades to Y2K project managers in every business, we set up a Govt quango to daily berate the population for not being Y2K compliant. Then Mickey Mouse countries just downloaded our updates and happy days, they were grand.

    And you still claim it wasn't over-hyped?
    You just over hyped what was done. We used computers where they don't so we had to spend money. Private companies with bespoke software had to fix their software. Many just replaced their systems coming up to 2000. I don't ever recall daily warnings nor the quango. There was a danger but it was prevented by fixing the problem.


  • #74
    StormWarrior
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,576 ✭✭✭StormWarrior


    Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »
    Microwaves - emit radiation and give you cancer

    It's actually been shown that eating microwaved food affects your blood. They took blood from people, got them to eat microwaved food and took blood again. Bad changes had happened. Can't remember what exactly but I'm sure anyone interested could google it.

    Also microwaves were once banned in russia after the russian government saw classified information about the damage they do people.


  • #75
    9959
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭9959


    StormWarrior wrote: »
    It's actually been shown that eating microwaved food affects your blood. They took blood from people, got them to eat microwaved food and took blood again. Bad changes had happened. Can't remember what exactly but I'm sure anyone interested could google it.

    Also microwaves were once banned in russia after the russian government saw classified information about the damage they do people.

    How come they never banned Vodka?


  • #76
    who the fug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,042 ✭✭✭who the fug


    9959 wrote: »
    How come they never banned Vodka?

    cheaper to make than microwave ovens, and means the proles forget about microwave ovens


  • #77
    Mr. Nice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 355 ✭✭Mr. Nice


    sock puppet wrote: »
    Just how developed do you think Haiti were in the 1980s?

    I thought the whole Y2K thing happened after the 1980s :confused:


  • #78
    who the fug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,042 ✭✭✭who the fug


    Clumsy Lout wrote: »
    Twin Deck cassette recorders would result in Adam Ant, Nik Kershaw and Howards Jones having to draw the dole.

    Wait, they were right!!

    worse it would kill the music industry


  • #79
    Recluse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20 ✭Recluse


    Iv lost count of how many end of the worlds I have survived.


  • #80
    Madam_X
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,327 ✭✭✭Madam_X


    The Cuban missile crisis/end of the world scare. People really thought that was it.
    I don't know whether humans cause climate change for certain but I wouldn't dismiss those who have researched it and come to that conclusion.
    CruelCoin wrote: »
    Dude, short of going back to living in caves and living meal to meal due to a lack of refrigeration, its not going to stop, so chiiill. (Not thats its real anyway, no matter what gore says).
    What makes you say climate change caused in part by human activity is not real?
    iDave wrote: »
    After a bit of snow 2 winters ago we were supposed to be plunged into some sort of 10 years cycle of snowy winters.
    Jeez it was a lot more than "a bit of" snow! I don't remember any warnings of many more severe winters (for here).
    PogMoThoin wrote: »
    Eh, the temperature of this planet has always been changing, a few thousand years ago we had an ice age
    Human activity affecting the atmosphere for thousands of years too though.


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