The local radio station just did a phone quiz about "frauds and hoaxes", and after questions about Milli Vanilli and the balloon-law-chair kid, the grand finale was a question about the Y2K Bug.
So here's the take-home lesson: if you identify something that might be a problem well in advance, and spend huge amounts of money and effort trying to
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I was not worried about things going to hell when vital systems suddenly went casters upward, because vital systems are *always* going casters upward and people generally have work-arounds in place, however crude and unwieldy.
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Political debates can be a motherlode of such nonsense, needless to say. Thinking of the "Obamacare" tussling, one audience was being told how this overarching governmental takeover (*cough*) would leave the insurance companies utterly unable to compete, whilst another line at the very same time would have people believe it'd be a bureaucratic nightmare that could never get anything done.
At no time did anyone seem to cast an eye anywhere else in the world, other than perhaps a squint in Canada's direction, let alone notice that every other industrialised nation in the world has universal health coverage, usually with public and private systems running in parallel.
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