Hi Tel, On Mon, 14 May 2001 12:12:40 -0700, Tel Tofflemire <[email protected]> wrote:
>Thats quite a s t r e c h Nope. >Y2K made some " sky is falling " guys $$ thats itl eating my Y2K caned >beans, & dried jerkey from the bomb shelter. That's because people were listening to talk shows and such. If you listened to (or read) the real computer gurus, you'd know that the prediction was for: fuel prices to rise a lot due to reduced capacity of the systems (in turn due to failures with control computers), long term electric power problems (due to plant breakdowns), loss of profits for lots of large businesses (due to accounting problems caused by computer program malfunctions). All of these would result in people being laid off by the 100,000's -- which in turn will result in a recession/depression (or worse). The fuel problems were projected to start about 1 month after rollover, with the company accounting problems starting in the second quarter of 2000 and continuing to get worse as the year went on -- with even more problems just after 1/1/2001. Of course, *nobody* -- especially Xerox, Kodak, Intel, etc. -- is going to admit they're having any problems due to any cause. It's just a "business slowdown." But the reality is that the managers at these companies (and many, many others) have lost the handle on production and sales. In some cases, customers order product that never arrives, or get product they didn't order, or get product and never receive an invoice. Hershey's had a problem with their Halloween candy shipments (biggest candy holiday), Samsonite seems to have major problems. With profit margins in the 1-2% range, any misstep can spell disaster for a company. And the domino effect cascades the problems to thousands of other companies. That's what we're seeing right now. -- Dean -- from (almost) Des Moines -- KB0ZDF -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
