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To: Boca_PETE who wrote (4837)	5/4/1998 7:11:00 PM
From: wooden ships	Respond to of 42834

Pete: Thanks. I got the best laugh in weeks from your post. Very refreshing. This Y10K problem, so dubbed, could prove the real villain in the piece. Brinker has posited that, as a consequence of the Y2K glitch, he will not fly in an aeroplane come New Year's Eve 31 December 1999. Think of a future Brinker beset by the di- lemma of rocket ship travel New Year's Eve 8,000+ years hence. Brinker's namesake must worry not only about the fifth digit of the year A.D.10,000 bedeviling the computers of the future for the first time in 8,000 years odd, but also about what day it might or might not be! This could be a real problem, and I agree that the the time for action is now.

To: Boca_PETE who wrote (4837)	5/4/1998 9:33:00 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 42834

Of course there may not be computers in the year 10,000. There may be something else or, by then, the earth could get hit by an asteroid. Gee, if the earth is hit by an asteroid 8,000 years from now, we'll never know how Kenneth Starr's investigation would have turned out! (from "Politically Incorrect".)