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To: Slagle who wrote (22162)	9/9/2007 11:00:26 AM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217815

Y2K was a real set of problems, which became somewhat exaggerated. However, the exaggeration did cause most of problems to be fixed, often very quietly. You think your bank is going to announce that if they had not done the Y2K dry runs, half their systems would be down for three weeks ? Many banks are the result of multiple mergers with smaller banks, with systems pasted together to this day. When the Los Angeles Water Department did a test of their supposedly fixed software, it dumped raw sewage into the Los Angeles river. washingtonpost.com ***********a similar problem with NEW software*** From the Wikipedia article on the F-22 Raptors - While attempting its first overseas deployment to the Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, on 11 February 2007, a group of six Raptors flying from Hickam AFB experienced multiple computer crashes coincident with their crossing of the 180th meridian of longitude (the International Date Line). The computer failures included at least navigation (completely lost) and communication. The planes were able to return to Hawaii by following their tankers in good weather. The error was fixed within 48 hours and the F-22s continued their journey to Kadena.[45][46] en.wikipedia.org

To: Slagle who wrote (22162)	9/9/2007 11:13:45 AM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217815

A carbon tax will effectively be a tax on all economic activity. How long to emission credits last ? Forever ? This will become a giant tax scheme, enforced by governments, in the name of environmental religeon, and carbon trading will privatize much of the tax revenue. This merger of government and private financial interest, where the government collects money business, instead of enforcing contracts, is a move towards fascism.