LJ:

I must demur on the origins of the Y2K crisis. Geeks were discussing the issues long before Pat Robertson ever heard of it or mentioned it and there were plenty of them who thought it could be catastrophic. It is impossible to tell how bad it might have been if the huge amount of remediation work that was done had not been. Pat Robertson just decided that it might have enough cataclysmic potential to be suitable to his mythology. I guess there are a limited number of things that are bad enough that you can attribute them to GOd or some such notion.

I don't doubt he reckoned prayer averted the catastrophe, rather than hundreds of millions of dollars worth of programmer hours. More fool he.

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