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To: Bilow who wrote (172517)	10/15/2005 8:19:03 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Not necessarily incompetent, but these individuals and organizations stand to benefit from money spent on dealing with bird flu. WHO is an arm of the UN for God's sake. And professors live by obtaining grant money from the government. I'm pretty cynical, but I don't lean towards the notion that everyone in the entire world is without integrity. Would it be your suggestion is to eliminate research because researchers are only doing it to obtain money. So you admit that if I go look for posts from back in late 1999 I'll find you going on at length about how Y2K is going to destroy us? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! LOL!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Sad. Your response illustrates your ability to make definitive and absolute conclusions based on ignorance. Go ahead Carl, find those posts. My question [and the question that followed] in my previous post made the subtle suggestion that you were making certain conclusions based on being unaware of what was going on in the world wrt Y2K. You don't know what was going on in the US; what software was being modified and you know even less about what any other country was or was not doing. You have no idea how many legacy COBOL programs, an otherwise obsolete programming language, were floating around the US. Do you know why legacy COBOL programs was a Y2K issue? jttmab