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Technology Stocks : Year 2000 (Y2K) Embedded Systems & Infrastructure Problem
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To: John Mansfield who wrote (411)5/24/1998 12:09:00 PM
From: John Mansfield   of 618
 
[CLINTON]

'Bob Hermann <hermannrg@nospamerols.com> wrote in article
<01bd8682$c67579a0$52a2accf@oemcomputer>...

> I think most of this is by design. As many readers of this ng know,
about
> a week ago the CIA gave an interview to the Reuters News Agency in which
> they made a warning about massive worldwide disruption due to the year
2000
> problem. I suspect that they have been giving even more realistic--and
> chilling--reports to the administration for months. Clinton has to know
> that the s**t is really gonna hit the fan in 2000. But to name that as
the
> greatest threat to our infrastructure would underline the fact that the
> present administration has done nothing substantive for 5 years to
prevent
> the problem. It would take a rare politician--Churchill, perhaps?--to
step
> up to the plate on this one.

A very plausible explanation and I cannot offer any alternative that has
any plausibility.

I doubt however that he will be able to continue this dance much longer.

It might be worse than you say. The biomedical and cyber terrorism threats
might be super emphasized as deliberate distractions.

They can be understood by the general population as plausible threats, as
opposed to Y2k which cannot be satisfactorily communicated.

A possible deception may be to fabricate all these reasons for partial
mobilization to combat individual threats and then when the Y2K threat
becomes evident, say "Gollee, it's a good thing we mobilized, because we
needed to do that for this newly-perceived Y2K threat.

He may be deliberately softening us up for some bad news. He has already
said that we are threatened by cyber terrorism, possible biomedical attack,
asian financial crisis etc. What's then just one more threat -- Y2K. He
can say, "Well I told you that we were threatened, there's just this one
more threat."

Harlan

____

Subject:
Re: - Bill Clinton still "doesn't [Y2K] get it" -- Speech at Annapolis Graduation
Ceremony
Date:
23 May 1998 16:11:07 EDT
From:
"Harlan Smith" <hwsmith.nowhere@cris.com>
Organization:
Paperless
Newsgroups:
comp.software.year-2000
References:
1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5
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