To and For Ron:< Coast Guard Posts a Warning
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It has been difficult since March to remind ourselves that y2k is real, that is is objectively a threat to our way of life. We have been the targets of a carefully orchestrated psychological warfare campaign. Those doing the manipulating are paid to make things look better than they are. Not much could look worse than y2k, and nothing this predictable looks worse. Every Establishment institution has an incentive to lie. Few are resisting.
But, at the same time, some of them have to deal with the truth in order to survive y2k. Their managers do want to be employed in a year. Heads will roll if the institutions do nothing to prepare. So, we look to internal memos for information. Thanks to the Web, these memos get published. Those who write them assume, correctly, that the public will not read them or interpret them correctly. But a few of these do wind up on a general public Website.
This one warns the reader that it's better to have a system shut down than to contunue spewing out bad data. The latter is more likely.
This is why good news on January 1 may be bad news by February and disastrous news in April.
This warning comes on the letterhead of the U.S. Coast Guard. It is dated July 18.
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In the best-case scenario, these applications will visibly fail, thus drawing immediate attention to the problem. In the more likely scenario, applications will continue to process but produce erroneous results which, left undetected, may wreak havoc on customers and Coast Guard missions. In addition to application failures, embedded microchips in hardware may, in rare cases, not be designed to be Year 2000 Compliant. The year 2000 problem is unique in the history of information technology since the problem impacts virtually every organization and the drop dead date for Year 2000 Compliance is nonnegotiable.
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