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

To: John Hunt who wrote (6224)	7/1/1999 12:09:00 PM
From: NickSE	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 9818

States Face Early Y2K Test Thursday dailynews.yahoo.com CHICAGO (Reuters) - The year 2000 won't begin for another six months, but the state of Kansas has put its Y2K SWAT team on high alert for Thursday. Forty-five other U.S. states are bracing for Thursday as well. That is the day that most states begin their fiscal year 2000 -- and it's an early test of whether months of work to upgrade computer systems and eliminate Year 2000 computer bugs were successful.

To: John Hunt who wrote (6224)	7/1/1999 12:42:00 PM
From: David Eddy	Respond to of 9818

John - Queues for passports all summer Very interesting. It hadn't dawned on my before seeing this posting that perhaps (fingers crossed) early snafus like this will serve to possibly lighten the crunch of people supposedly wanting to be zooming all around the globe for millennial/jubilee parties. Assuming that getting a passport is an administrative task typically left until well into one's trip planning, clearly a lot of folks planning on going places, just won't be able to. "Discussing" an expired passport at a port of entry just isn't the sort of thing I'd want to face. What better way to dampen demand (certainly worked in the Soviet Union) than to have endless queues of people not being helped by the poor clerks wrestling with a non-functioning system. So in my books this sort of early snafu is great! news. - David