The 90 days for a vendor to correct the situation after they are notified - does not apply after death caused by elevator emergency brakes failing to operate at power loss or any other power variance.

clip - ********** One hospital worker died after stepping into an elevator that plunged to the ground. [I thought elevators didn't do that.. and planes won't fall from the sky... they PROMISED!] Several car crashes also were reported, blamed on confusion as traffic signals went out. ************* I can see auto crash deaths as traffic lights die during traffic activity, but the drivers can apply brakes at will, in the elevator, you are a helpless victim with no brakes.

consider this not only for the midnight stroke, remember tests and no guarantee of operation due to "the uncertainty of forward looking information".

-- Living in (the@real.world), July 30, 1999

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What in the HECK has this got to do with Y2K???? You push yet one more meaningful topic off the end of the list with this cr@p!

Listen Doomer - if you want to get worried about something, worry about how you are going to explain to your wife that the beans are rotten, and the gold you bought yesterday is worth only 2/3's of what it was when you bought it!

Worry about how foolish you are going to look standing there with your shorgun in one hand and flashlight in the other while the neighbors are going to Grand Ma's house for a barbecue on 1/1/00!

Doomer=Twit

-- (a@aaaa.hole), July 30, 1999.

Hey aa.hole or whoever the hell you are, why are you on this post? Do you have any worthwhile information to contribute or are you just someone who has nothing better to do than attack others contributions? If this is the case, just shut the *** up!

-- rw (cwiowa@uiowa.edu), July 30, 1999.

More coffee! This thread need more coffee!!!

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.com), July 30, 1999.

Per K.O.S. request!

http://www.folgers.com/facts/index.html

Unopened cans of coffee - good for two years!

Get $1 off coupon from home-page!

-- (a@aaaa.hole), July 30, 1999.

Let them eat cake!

-- Queen of France (gay@paris.com), July 30, 1999.

See thread...

Update on Taiwanese black-out--domino effect

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id= 001A7x

Or an older one...

Electricity Power Out--A Dead Squirrel Teaches Y2K Lessons In Fragility & Connectedness

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id= 0012gP

Or and even older one...

Power OUT In San Francisco

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id= 000IIh

And THINK about... whatever the cause... the effect is worth noting in a Y2K context.

Lessons... lessons. Choices... choices.

Diane

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), July 30, 1999.

Now wasn't that an interesting reaction from --(a@? Sitting in on a preparation forum and spouting off anti-preparation rhetoric. He should be worrying about what the wife will say when there are *no* beans or money (gold) available to carry on. Polly want a cracker?

-- Gordon (gpconnolly@aol.com), July 30, 1999.

Well...I don't know what standards Taiwan has for elevators, but at least we won't have to worry about ours plunging to the ground. No we might be stuck in them, but they won't be falling.

Just a little perspective.

DJ

-- DJ (reality@check.com), July 30, 1999.

12/31/1999 11:59:59 hordes of drunken revelers out carousing the Party Of Their Lifetimes tick tock 1/1/2000 00:00:01 kaboom, chaos, confusion, lights out, traffic lights out, flares, alarms, explosions, fires, chemical releases. How's the car trip home gonna go? How many car accident deaths to ring in the New Y-Fear?

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), July 30, 1999.

Ashton & Leska ask "How's the car trip home gonna go? How many car accident deaths to ring in the New Y-Fear?"

What about the (admittedly small) risk that embedded systems might shut down car's engines? Seems to me that a crowded city or freeway can be seen as one GIANT system with thousands and thousands of embedded "chips". On a quiet rural road if an occassional car stops due to a "glitch", you roll to the side of the road and hope its not too long (in the middle of the night in the middle of winter) before someone comes along. But in a bumper-to-bumper situation, the whole "system" - the rolling traffic - could come to a screetching, honking halt if very many of those cars/busses/subways have "glitches".

Good night to stay at home.. or within walking distance of home... just in case.

-- Linda (lwmb@psln.com), July 30, 1999.

Agree!

-- hibernating hermits (allaha@earthlink.net), July 30, 1999.

Geeze, is yout "internet" station stuck on one channel (tb2000) there is nothing in a car to cause it to stop due to date rollover.

-- Cherri (sams@brigadoon.com), August 01, 1999.