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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues
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To: bearcub who wrote (6609)7/16/1999 10:06:00 AM
From: David Eddy  Read Replies (2) of 9818
 
bearcub -

esting whether or not a supply of military green toilet paper gets ordered and delivered

The reference to toilet paper is a cute literary allusion to the reality of how the fighting machine works... it needs everything.

The facts of DoD supply chains is that they are long & complex. These are systems & proceedures sometimes dating back to the Civil War (not that odd since railroads still run on proceedures formed before the Civil War).

The process of authorizing, ordering, shipping, receiving (remember we're talking WHOLESALE logistics here... by the train load... retail is truckload), inspecting, & paying for the volumes & varieties of stuff the fighting services depend on is now entirely dependant upon highly automated systems.

One teeny, tiny detail of this irrational fear of the DoD not being Y2Kready is the imaginary threat. Just who is going to be attacking us if our Ageis cruisers don't work? Iraq with machetes?

If our complex weapons systems don't work as we cross the mythical 1/1/00 line, so what? Who can threaten us? Who or what can attack us? The One World Government battalions? Russia? Last I looked, we still have two very effective moats & Russia is pretty much face down in the mud... starting over from 1917.

- David
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