[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <007f2bc1$0$26892$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>,
	JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> 
>> I had to point out that most modern conveniences; e.g. elevators don't 
>> really care what year it is.  They just went on working.
> 
> Actually, elevators do care about the date and time. They are programmed
> to behave differently depending on day/time of week in large buildings.
> 
> They have different behaviour depending on time of day, cater to
> cleaning crews at night and on weekends etc.

Time of day and day of week, maybe.  But year?  I doubt it.

> 
> Same thing for modern escalators which may be programmed for constant
> operation during peak hours, and on-demand operations outside of normal
> hours.

Same thing.

> 
>> The hysteria though, had to be seen to be believed. 
> 
> And that is what was needed to get everyone to check their systems to
> ensure that they would not be affected. It is called due diligence.

Actually, it was the fact that the majority, at least all of those that
really mattered, had known about and taken care of the problem long
before it became a problem.  Which didn't prevent the hype.

> 
> 
>> 2000 arrived normally, the world went right on turning and most forgot 
>> the sillyness!
> 
> 
> If australian kids don't all die of skin cancer, is it because the
> warnings about sun and skin cancer is just hype, or is it because the
> hype has caused parents to take preventive measures which has resulted
> in preventing the very problems they were warned about ?

Good example.  Either case could be right.  I have spent 60 years exposed
to that sun, most of it before they started "warning" me about it and the
after, but I don't really believe everything that is handed top me by a
"scientist" who has a financial interet in what he reports.  No cancer
here.  My father, who spent even more time exposed to that same sun had
a few small melanomas removed.  Effectsz of the sun?  Sorry, no, they
were attributed to his work as a welder.  A few minutes exposed tot he
UV from an arc welder is greater exposure than what he got from the sun
in his entire life.

There is much more hype in our lives today than fact.  Hype sells products,
facts do not.

> 
> Same with H1N1.

Yeah, more time, effort and money has been wasted on that already than
if there actually had been a pandemic.  But I am sure there are people
profiting nicely from all this.

bill

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