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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Hunt who wrote (5975)	6/10/1999 1:21:00 PM
From: Christine Traut	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Not surprised that Y2K 'experts' are concerned. But it looks like the White House is adopting a Mad Magazine, What Me Worry?, philosophy. When I looked at the front page of today's Wall Street Journal and saw "The Clinton Agenda: For Y2K, the Mall Is the Place to Be" - silly me - I thought it must be referring to Koskinen's grass roots preparation campaign moving into suburban shopping malls. Ah, no Christine. The article is about a giant, three-day party that the Clintons are throwing on the Mall. And how ticked off New York is likely to be for Times Square competition - will that hurt Hillary's chances for the Senate? And how the Clintons are raising the 30 to 35 million privately - will that compete with Bill's legal defense fund, his Presidential library..... I'm resigned to living in an alternate universe. Wake me when anyone starts to deal with reality. Or will the screaming on Wall Street do the trick? Christine

To: John Hunt who wrote (5975)	6/10/1999 2:32:00 PM
From: William Peavey	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

<< Koskinen says, "The basic infrastructure is going to hold. There are going to be glitches lasting hours. But, for example, we don't see any indication that there will be regional brownouts or blackouts lasting two or three days." And he expects the IRS "to be declared Y2K ready in several days." >> Are any of you prepared to gamble on that last sentence? IRS quarterly tax deposits are due on June 15th. You could short the IRS by shorting your deposit.