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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (35634)	11/9/1998 5:13:00 PM
From: MythMan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

>>Hi Ice, you seem to be a knowledgeable guy<< Oh please, he shorts internet stocks for fun -g-

To: Ilaine who wrote (35634)	11/9/1998 5:47:00 PM
From: heraclitus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

CB The conspiracy theorist in me asks "are you sure this was a blunder?" On another note, like my SI namesake, I work in the control room of a nuclear power plant. After speaking to the people in our computer group about our exposure to Y2K my biggest concern is if the banks will cash my paycheck <dohh>. Seriously, we may have to shutdown for awhile due to regulatory pressure but not due to any significant safety concerns. Most plants are too old to have many microprocessor control systems (mostly for monitoring functions only) homer

To: Ilaine who wrote (35634)	11/9/1998 6:39:00 PM
From: IceShark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

name of the person/people who decided that Cobol only needed two digits to express years? Cobalt, No I do not. But I don't think the original fellow is to blame, he did it for a darn good reason. It is all those lazy programming geeks that didn't do squat once the hardware improved to the point that another two fields didn't matter much. Even my P-133 computer I have at home is apparently a problem child. So I say let's blame Bill Gates and burn him at the stake. -g- Regards, Ice