Y2k was a non event because a lot of time, effort, and money was spent fixing it before the deadline.

The estimated cost of fixing the bug was between 300-850 billion dollars in 2000 - adjusted for inflation that’s about 0.5-1.5 trillion dollars

The estimated worldwide cost of fixing the Y2K bug, according to analysts: Cap Gemini America Inc. — $858 billion; Gartner Group Inc. — $600 billion; International Data Corp. — $300 billion.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/1372100/some-key-facts-and-events-in-y2k-history.html

🤷‍♂️ not a clue. Maybe English isn’t their first language and some kind of joke worked in their language?

English is mine and I still had to look it up.

It seems they’re asking if it’s medical grade silver.

https://www.qwant.com/?q=colloidal+silver

Even if he does he’ll still have more money than most people earn in their whole life.

My brain kept trying to add it in :(

On a side note, I’m pretty sure the way that this site does the accept cookies thing is how whoever in the EU came up with the idea imagined it would be implemented.

I am.

I just don’t understand how they can work.

If you don’t use them for every transaction how do they stay synchronised with the bank’s records of how much you have in your account?

When the power is out and the bank can’t check their computer, what’s to stop someone turning up with a bank book that says they have £1 in it and saying that there’s more because they transferred it online before the power went out? Or, of course, the book saying they have more than they do because they took some out before power went out?

Doesn’t seem like decline. He was a bat shit crazy moron from before his first term.

So you have to use them every time you use the bank, I’m assuming this also means that these accounts don’t allow you to do any kind of internet or telephone banking.

Presumably even there though they check the details from your book against the computer system, to not only check that the book is accurate and that the branch has enough cash on hand to fulfil your request? The computer system that has had no power for a week.

If productivity is going up wages should go up. However what has been happening is that the extra money has been being funneled into the pockets of the rich. I’ll bet you the board and senior management ain’t giving themselves inflation based pay rises.

That’s not how inflation works. Inflation going down means they just stay around 80 and in theory your wages gradually come up so 80 now feels like 40.

I’m just imagining trolling this. Doing a couple of the pubes slightly crossed kinda over one of the options so the candidates have to take time discussing whether they think it counts as a vote or not.

If the way you vote is as simple as it is in the UK (bit of paper where literally write a X in the box next to the candidate you like with a pencil) you can literally just write ‘fuck the lot of you’ across the page.

In that scenario most of the food has gone bad anyway and is stuck in distribution centres as the shops can’t send orders up through the supply chain.

Also, without power most places couldn’t take cash. Tills are computers that do all the maths so the 16 year old serving you doesn’t have to they also track inventory going out.

The cash that there is is stuck in banks because the banks have no way of knowing what money is yours as we haven’t had bank books for like 20 years already.

Ok I ate the onion on this one.

I don’t think you can say someone voted wrong if they voted for what they believe in. As you say it lies with the parties to win people over (and potentially to reform voting systems so that people can vote for that they want rather than being forced to vote against what they don’t want)

I would love it if they just called it Half Life 4

Yeah that’s true. I think the way a lot of people (myself included) read your original comment was that it was blaming those 7 people for voting wrong.

Post match analysis. This is where we fucked up and why Dave ended up with a mammoth tusk through his belly.