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

To: tcd who wrote (6548)	7/14/1999 7:42:00 AM
From: J.L. Turner	Respond to of 9818

TCD this challenge was issued on another thread,perhaps you or cheeky or whomever would like to respond. "I'm going to keep posting this at least once a day until Mr. Poole answers it. Since I know he is posting here, if he doesn't answer this message, the reason should be obvious to anyone with a brain. But just in case, here it is: He has no answer. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hey, Poole, please explain why the Chemical Safety Board (a US government organization), the EPA, and "several chemical industry trade associations" have written a brochure dated June 1999 (http://www.chemsafety.gov/1999/news/smefinal.pdf) that tells small chemical plants that: "Many systems and pieces of equipment used to sustain process safety in chemical facilities rely on the progression of dates from year to year (for example, 1998 to 1999) to function properly." (page 2) Is that true? If so, shouldn't the operators of these plants know it already? Also, why do they have an elaborate flowchart on how to assess and fix the problem? Why don't they just tell them to set the clocks back? They also say: "Some systems, especially "embedded" systems, may have date dependence that is not obvious. This "hidden" date dependence may affect other functions of the system." (page 8) You've already explained that this is nonsense; they must have picked it up from Gary North or Bruce Beach. I think you should straighten them out right away, so they will stop spreading FUD. Go to it!" We are all about to sail the y2k sea shouldn't we be good sailors and take our lifeboats? J.L.T.