This document may be redistributed provided that the 11 lines containing this notice accompany it. There are lessons here. Learn From History, or . . . If you have not second-sourced your data transport yet, do it now. The Year 2000 is coming, better make that triple- sourced.
Humanity has an amazing inability to plan.
Not too many generations ago, when our relatives lived by hunting and gathering, the inability to plan for the next season meant death. The clueless died. But today, Homo Sapiens eats at McDonalds - for the moment, planning and survival are not strongly linked. Inability to plan made news during the big United Parcel Service strike of 1997. Anybody that cared to look could have seen the strike coming weeks before it occurred.