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

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (7823)	8/7/1999 8:31:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

<And what is even funnier is that those people apparently lived in or quite near Rock Creek Park ... Down there near Georgetown?) which has a very nice stream flowing throw it 365 days a year (even with this drought our here)> Ron, I'm gonna throw one back at you. Maybe these 55-gallon tanks had nothing to do with Y2K. Though they may have used it as the excuse. Maybe it had something to do with the drought. Back in the late 70's we had a drought in northern California. I lived in Tiburon (Marin County) - just north of San Francisco. We were told that we would be "fined" if we used more that our pre-defined water usage. I don't remember all of the details, but ... How they "managed" this, was to determine how many people lived at that household (don't know how they did it - of if they could actually do it). Nonetheless, it made many nervous. If we went beyond our specified usage, which could be determined from our water bill ... we got "fined". And it was a pretty hefty "fine". Neighbors could/would report you if they saw you watering your lawn or garden. But, they couldn't report you for using too much water for showers, etc. But water company could. They had a pre-defined amount of water that everyone in the household should be using on a daily basis. That's where/when I learned about putting a brick in your toilet tank. We all did it back then. Had no choice. Real quick showers. Anyway ... I wonder if these people were just worried about the current drought ... and their garden, lawn, showers, etc. - and just used Y2K as the excuse. Who knows? I don't. And apparently the FBI, etc. didn't either. Does it really matter? It's still a funny story. Cheryl :-))

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (7823)	8/7/1999 10:23:00 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 9818

OT: washingtonpost.com Neo-Nazis Call Off D.C. March Anti-Nazi ralliers arrive at Lafayette Park to protest the neo-Nazi march that did not happen. (Craig Cola — WPNI) By Spencer S. Hsu Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, August 7, 1999; Page B1 New From The Post City and federal police staged a massive show of force in the nation's capital today for a renegade neo-Nazi demonstration that never materialized. More than 2,400 D.C. police officers and at least 300 U.S. Park Police officers cordoned off a 20-square-block area around the White House and Lafayette Square in preparation of an afternoon march by the American Nationalist Party, a group formed by a 21-year-old South Carolina college student and self-styled race leader. Although the group's founder, David Wolfgang Hawke, told D.C. police to expect 150 to 300 demonstrators, only four showed up at a staging area prepared by police. "They decided, at the location where we were going to pick them up and transport them down here by bus, to call off the march," Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey told a throng of reporters at 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW. "Only a couple showed up. They immediately determined they weren't going to go through with it." Ramsey said he would call on the city's corporation counsel to explore suing the party, formerly known as the Knights of Freedom, to recover an estimated $1 million-plus cost of mobilizing for the march and anticipated counter-demonstrations. However, counter-demonstrators, gathering at the northern edge of Lafayette Square, celebrated upon hearing of the march's demise. "Ho, ho, ho, the Nazis didn't show!" a group of 200 college-aged students chanted, as their comrades blew whistles and banged on drums of tin and plastic barrells. A few feet away, the International Socialist Organization carried a red bed banner that read, "Unite to Fight the Nazi Right," while a more militant group took credit for intimidating the neo-Nazis with the threat of a violent clash. "Apparently it's the Nazis who buckled. They weren't willing to risk their lives to march down Pennsylvania Avenue," said a bearded man with a bullhorn, who hailed the power of the "anger and rage of working people [against the] ruling class."