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To: John Mansfield who wrote (734)	12/20/1997 3:22:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 9818

Y2K-LINKS 'Significant Y2K Links' 'Mother of all Year 2000 (Y2K) Link Centers' pw2.netcom.com At 'Significant threads': ' 48.Silicon Investor (SI) -- Year 2000: Impact on Stock Market & Society Added. ' I have added this thread's URL to the 'Mother of all Y2K links' John

To: John Mansfield who wrote (734)	12/20/1997 3:34:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 9818

INDEX-C.S.Y2K LONG POST - BEST OF C.S.Y2K: Cory Hamasaki on personnel - most critical success factor in Y2K remediation Message 2846916 BEST OF C.S.Y2K: Time Dilation update by Jace Crouch Message 2927104 Subjective Author INDEX into NG comp.software.year-2000 (c.s.y2k) Message 2840451 TIME DILATION ONC PC'S: "I hope the EXPERTS jump in with both feet" Message 2726195 Y2K-RATES - From C.S.Y2K - Cory Hamasaki exchange2000.com

To: John Mansfield who wrote (734)	12/20/1997 3:37:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 9818

INDEX-PC-SOFTWARE This is an index into my postings about Y2K issues in PC software Y2K-Java - Stop the rot - why Y2K must appear in PC magazines I found yet another sample of non compliant code that is written today. This rotting has to stop. the only way is by publishing in the pc/java/c++/... magazines. Message 2939770 Y2K-VISUALBASIC : the biggest single reason for VB's non-compliance is the use of Strings to handle dates class-solutions.com Message 2950837 Y2K-INTUIT - Multi-user version targetted at replacing Small business non-compliant accounting software? Message 2960504

To: John Mansfield who wrote (734)	12/20/1997 3:51:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9818

Y2K-US-GOVERNMENT - Congressman Pete Sessions on Y2K From C.S.Y2K, thanks to Kevin 'Pete Sessions' Comments on the US Gov' 19 Dec 1998 ----------------------- Today, I attended the DFW (Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas) Prep 2000 luncheon. While it wasn't free, not an all-you-can-eat affair, I thought it was worth attending since Congressman Pete Sessions, Vice Chairman of The House Subcommittee on Government Management, Information, and Technology was the speaker. house.gov The usual handout of the federal agencies and their status by phase was shown (completion dates of 1999 thru 2019) but he reinforced the footnote: Warning: projections may be overly optimistic. The subcommittee is only a reporting committee and is trying to negotiate in good faith with the government agencies. The only authority they have is to withhold funding. They are not an investigative agency. The right answer is to get the full backing of the president. In 1Q97 the agencies claimed they needed 2.3 billion (US dollars) to solve the problem. In 3Q97 they claimed they needed 3.8 billion but couldn't explain how they derived at that figure. He believes shortly they will claim at least 7 billion to resolve the problem. He stated the government is good at spending money...remember the IRS getting 8 billion to upgrade their system, spending 4 billion before throwing their hands up saying we can't do it? .... He compared the government to a large corporation where the department heads only take orders from the CEO and the CEO is in "denial". The Department of Energy, NRCC, and the Pentagon haven't realized there is a problem. The lights aren't on and nobody's home. They are on a watch list similar to double secret probation and he believes it will become critical in 1998 (I noticed several dumb looks of confusion from the audience). Concerning the IRS, he believes the only fix will be a flat tax but this is a political hot potato nobody wants to touch....Clinton has a 59% approval rating, don't rock the boat. Privatization/outsourcing is another political hot potato. Y2K is not a funds issue, it's an educational issue. It's an unpopular topic and the president won't admit the problem. The president runs the entire country...he ran his own campaign. The department heads are puppets and don't do anything. The department heads are political appointees and are waiting for orders. The president is in denial now and has been in the past on several issues until they are on his doorstep. Congressman Sessions believes a Y2K Czar must be appointed even though some of Clinton's past Czars have failed. Right now Y2K is going nowhere because everyone is waiting for someone else to do something. ....