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To: JDN who wrote (25930)	12/29/1998 1:07:00 PM
From: Larry Brew	Respond to of 31646

JDN, << social security commissioner knowing about y2k >> I think he knows CRAP, but he indicated to a national CNBC audience that he does and there's plenty in that audience that don't know squat either. He could have said: "SS is fixed", then shut his stupid trap. Notice how the small, much needed y2k rally, came to a screeching halt? Larry

To: JDN who wrote (25930)	12/29/1998 1:34:00 PM
From: Captain Jack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31646

JDN --- TAVA PR --- give the world a break, there is none. Just as if TAVA did not exist. The reason for the price difference rests strictly in mgmts lap --- All those you mentioned were excited to give them a nice option package for the kind of performance the stock has given... they say "shit runs down hill" and it has with TAVA,, but remember it always "FLOATS TO THE TOP" so put it in jjs lap where it belongs--- not on ghosts! HDIE is doing well today, up 5/s <gg>.

To: JDN who wrote (25930)	12/29/1998 1:51:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31646

Senator Bennett: '2K: A Bump In The Road, Or A Drive Off The Cliff? December 8, 1998 January 1, 2000 is a day that we need to look forward to with concern, because of what has come to be known as the millennium bug, the year 2000 problem. As the chairman of the newly created committee dealing with this challenge in the Senate, I am attempting to reach a national audience on the dimensions of the problem. A lot of people say they understand it: It is simply that computers are geared to handle the date with two digits instead of four. So 1998 would be in the computer as '98' instead of '1998.' And that means when you get to the year 2000, the '00 'to the computer means '1900' because the '19' is assumed in advance. Actually, it is more serious than that. There are three areas of concern about Y2K. The first one, of course, is the software concern that I have already mentioned. The software is programmed with two digits for the date instead of four. If you do not change the software program, the computer runs into problems and starts to do very strange things when it hits the year 2000. Since I have been involved in this issue — and it has been almost a year since I began to focus on it — I have discovered there were two other areas. In addition to software, you have a hardware problem symbolized in the phrase 'embedded chips.' These tiny chips that drive the computers, the miracles of the modern technological age, very often have a date function built into them. And, again, in order to save space on the chip, the date function is built in with two digits. Where are the embedded chips? They are embedded everywhere. Andy Grove, CEO of Intel, the largest producer of chips in the United States, testified recently in Washington where he was asked, 'How serious is the Y2K problem?' He said, 'It is very serious. And the reason is, you don't know where the embedded chips are embedded.' For example, he said, the thermostat in your home may not work after New Year's Eve, 1999. And it won't do you any good to call the manufacturer of the thermostat, because the manufacturer does not know how to fix the problem. The chips were purchased, put into the thermostat, without concern as to whether or not they had a date function. And if the manufacturer got some chips that had date functions in them and put those chips into your thermostat, you are going to be very chilly on New Year's Day in the year 2000. And there is no way of knowing in advance whether that is going to happen. That can be a nuisance for you, but it can be a life-or-death situation for some people, and it can be an enormous manufacturing challenge where we are storing and refrigerating meat and other perishables that are dependent on those embedded chips. It can also be a life-or-death situation for an automobile manufacturer whose entire plant is now automated with robotics, all of which have embedded chips. So it is not just the software that needs to be changed, as the first of these three areas of concern; it is also the embedded chips that need to be found and dealt with ' .... y2kcertified.com