Re: No Y2k Bug

[Richard <richard_snook@primus.com.au>]

So you wanna buy  a bridge ?/ its  little singed!! :-))
Dave you make some very valid (sic) comments re water...even better withe "snowy mountain" thing   theres an ad her
ethat shows  a  local Melbourne Landmark....Dwights falls..about as far removed from the snowy as could be..its
comical!!

Inmany industrialised countries thatuse treated water..there were serios concerns...sure water will always flow downhill
but it was the tr4eatment plants thatgot worried...a Y2K test ona NSW water treatment plant ended witha levelof
treatment chemicals at around 100 x the accpeted safe level being dumped intowater....luckily this was onl ina contained
testing envirinmnet ..but it showed up the possibility of grave errors...it want all about total system collapses...more
danger was feared fromerroneous outcomes.....maybe incorrect use by dates of pharmacueticals etc or incorrect dosages
administerd..it was all the little things.

The media generally had no idea ( as often ) whatit was taliking about....a little knowledge is indded a dangerous
thing.....and lets not let facts get in the way of a good story.

It was always going to be hard for the missile tofire...it takes humans to do it!!
Still two French Military satelites have failed (since rectified I believe) ...just goes to show....
Interesting that there was panickbuying inNZ (correct?)  didnt seem to happen  here....apathy is a wonderful thing
sometimes!!

cheers >:~)) Richard

David McLoughlin wrote:
> 
> pdwyer wrote:
> 
> > And the media? Well, they're only on the lookout for the next crisis.
> > Facts are things which just get in the way. They were informed of the
> > state of play, and should've relayed the information.
> 
> Indeed they were and should have done. Here in Auckland, the water
> company attempted to point out that the water was gravity fed and not
> reliant on computers (or even electricity for several days if the power
> failed). But the water company got a line at the end of a story on page
> 27 while the front pages and the TV and radio kept urging people to buy
> bottled water and fill their bathtubs. The water company tried to point
> out that if everyone filled their bathtubs, it would be a huge waste of
> water, and that when nothing happened, the effect of everyone emptying
> their tubs at the same time could flood the sewers. But that only got a
> line on page 27 too.
> 
> The most bizarre thing is that Auckland has some of the purest tap water
> in the world. If people wanted to stockpile drinking water, they could
> have just bottled their tap water. But no, the media was urging everyone
> to go to the supermarket and buy imported bottled water (which the sheep
> did in their tens of thousands and the supermarkets happily complied
> with, importing the stuff by the ship and planeload).
> 
> Tests by the NZ Consumers' Insitute found that the imported Australian
> "mineral water" under the Snowy Mountains brand was actually
> chlorinated, fluoridated tap water from Melbourne. That didn't even get
> a line on page 27; you had to be a subscriber to the Consumer magazine
> to learn that gem.
> 
> I think Australians could sell the Sydney Harbour Bridge to the average
> thick New Zealander, especially to the average no-nothing New Zealand
> journalist.
> 
> David McLoughlin
> Auckland New Zealand