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

To: foobert who wrote (9653)	1/1/2000 7:23:00 PM
From: S.C. Barnard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Was this sort of crap really called for? Message 5505303 "...January 1, 2000 The President will declare martial law on this day, prohibiting people from being on the street after 11pm. He will call in the National Guard to try to control the rioting, but the effort will have little impact. While Guardsmen can easily handle isolated outbreaks of violence (such as the O.J.trial riots in L.A.), they now find themselves spread paper-thin as rioting and looting take over in L.A., Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, New York, and a half-dozen other cities. Fires, started by the rioters, burn well into the weekend, and few people realize why the fire department can't respond: their communications systems are completely down, and effectiveness is reduced to a third of normal..."

To: foobert who wrote (9653)	1/2/2000 1:36:00 PM
From: marcos	Respond to of 9818

Yes, i was lurking. Well, when i wasn't tossing my cookies over the dietary hints - "buy a substantial amount of gravy for next year" Message 10954958 Sure was hoping that chiles, limes, garlic etc would be y2k compliant .. lol It's all still there. Unless and until go2net kills Classic SI the posts are easily scanned by using the hundred-ranges, like this, here's the 8000-range - techstocks.com Looks like Cheeky doesn't plan to hang around and point out that he told 'em so. It'll be interesting to see which of the doomers have the class to point it out, eh.