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

To: Ken Salaets who wrote (9080)	11/3/1999 7:19:00 PM
From: TD	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Good overview of the debt crisis and how y2k maybe a big problemo..I adhere to the Austrian School myself garynorth.com

To: Ken Salaets who wrote (9080)	11/3/1999 7:32:00 PM
From: David Eddy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Ken - What's this stuff about "modern" languages...? Bogus code is written in ALL languages. FACT... I have a volume of published private letters from the '70s... 1870s. One jumped out at me... 18 Apl 72 .... April 18, 1872. Use of short dates was around looooong before any computer languages. - David

To: Ken Salaets who wrote (9080)	12/9/1999 1:07:00 PM
From: Ken Salaets	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

Toured the fed's Y2K Information Coordination Center here in DC. Very impressive operation, though not surprisingly, it wasn't nearly as flashy as the one portrayed in the NBC flick. 'Spect we will be seeing a lot of the media briefing room in a few weeks. By the way, it's being painted in "North Carolina blue," as a dig at Duke alumni Koskinen. I think it's more to pacify the media hacks. ggg. Beats pastel green, although the place did smell like a dentist office. The facility is the former operations center for the Secret Service, so the build out didn't require a whole lot of imagination. And of course, they have battery and generator back-up. At the end of the session, I jokingly asked the "tour guide" if they would have a direct link to Dick Clark, meaning Times Square, NY. He responded that Mr. Clark of the NSA would play an integral role in analyzing and evaluating international developments. So much for humor! Ken