WHY AREN'T WE DOING MORE IN THE U.S.??? So much silence.
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Look at what these countries are doing ... while we remain silent. Beholden to special interest groups. Partisan politics. Fear of of litigation.
UNITED KINGDOM
"Ensuring supply of critical imports, like food and drugs" ... "We'll ramp up contingency planning all the way through 1999," said Cruickshank. He will also look at the international level of contingency planning that affects the UK directly, such as ensuring supply of critical imports, like food and drugs, and the international dimension of year 2000 on the UK."
computerweekly.co.uk
computerweekly.co.uk
WALES
"Infrastructure bodies in Wales are getting together to lay down contingency plans for the millennium date crisis. Representatives of the utilities, police, emergency services, local authorities, and BT will meet next month to discuss the real impact of the millennium bug on the Principality."
computerweekly.co.uk
SCOTLAND
"Scottish Power is already working on the assumption that any critical system that can fail will fail..."
computerweekly.co.uk
AUSTRALIA
"... power, water, transport and communications" ... Australia's emergency services have been put on alert over possible life-threatening situations arising from breakdowns of essential services caused by the Year 2000 problem .... Possible scenarios have included failure or contamination of water supplies, and looting resulting from prolonged power loss to urban areas ..
"It's impossible to deal with everything, so we need to deal with those critical things that are life-threatening or business-threatening." - "We need to look at contingency plans to ensure we can keep operating, even though we know some things aren't likely to work."
theaustralian.com.au
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The British Bankers Association's (BBA) Year 2000 working party on risk management has decided banks should pool information to identify "international and domestic hotspots" - sectors where there are particular Y2K problems and risks. BBA will monitor bank customers' Year 2000 preparations & publish "a broad consensus" of results on a Web site this summer.
Message 3870707
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UK MP seeks new law on 'millennium bug' plans. Would make it illegal for companies not to alter their computer systems...
infoseek.com
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TOO LATE: CONTINGENCY PLANS
It is now too late to fix the Millennium computer bug and urgent contingency plans are needed to limit damage to the national infrastructure, the head of a former Government advisory body said yesterday .... On the eve of a speech by Tony Blair on Government proposals to tackle the Millennium bug, Robin Guenier, who was the head of Taskforce 2000 under the former Tory government, said that a satisfactory outcome was now impossible. He said that correcting the bug was even more complex than originally thought and most companies had made no preparations. Gwynneth Flower, the director of Action 2000, set up by the Labour Government to advise on the bug, has said that it is "a problem that could bring down a government"
telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000140326706927&pg=/et/98/3/27/nmil27.html
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LEADERSHIP IN THE UK - EXTRA œ10M
The British Government is to spend an extra œ10m to try to protect businesses from the so-called millennium bug ... a leading British expert warned that there was simply not enough time to get all affected computer systems fixed.
Prime Minister Tony Blair will tell business leaders that they need to do more to prepare for the bug... Speaking at "Tackling the millennium bug" conference ...
news.bbc.co.uk
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LOL - BRITISH BOOKMAKER CLOSED Y2K BETTING ON FRIDAY
LONDON, March 27 (Reuters) - A leading British bookmaker closed betting on Friday on the chaos which the ''millennium bug'' could cause to aviation after punters reacted to warnings that some computer problems in the year 2000 could not be avoided. - William Hill had offered 50 to one against all scheduled flights from British airports being cancelled on New Year's Eve, 1999, and the following day.
infoseek.com
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Cheryl
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