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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Mansfield who wrote (3731)	2/7/1999 8:36:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

LOL 'My email is down today. I called my ISP - they can't log on to my email address. And it's only me - not the whole area. Must be some kind of "Jo Anne Effect". If anyone has sent me any email lately, please don't expect a reply right away. The husband and I recently spent a weekend at my parents' place. Mum and Dad were away - we were just sleeping there and looking after the cat. When my parents got home on Sunday, Mum was emptying the dishwasher. She pulls the manul can opener out, holds it up, puts on her best "you silly girl" look, and says to me: "Couldn't you find the electric can opener? It's right there on the counter!" Apparantly, one does not use a manual can opener for the cat food unless one has absolutely no other options. My husband's nephew visited us recently for a couple of days. He's checking out the local colleges. At dinner the first night, he picked up the pepper mill and made a comment about how "fancy" that was. I had to show him how it worked. Maybe that can be my post-Y2k career - teaching people how to operate manual kitchen equipment. Jo Anne ____ from c.s.y2k

To: John Mansfield who wrote (3731)	2/7/1999 8:51:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 9818

'I have been bemoaning the lack of detailed, in-depth coverage of Y2K. We've had too many goofy stories about "gun nuts huddling in their caves waiting for Jesus to return" and too many reports based on press releases. Too many tours through "Preparedness Expos," too little in-depth investigation. "The Economist," Britain's respected no-nonsense weekly, has weighed in with the February 6-12th issue: economist.com A series of articles. I don't have the printed version, so I can't quite tell if this is a cover story; it's listed online as a Survey. In any case, half a dozen interconnected articles on Y2K. Far more detailed than anything "Time" or "Newsweek" has been willing to do. A keeper. I plan to buy the newstand copy. I don't like quoting long articles and adding my comments paragraph by paragraph, as some here do, but I will quote one paragraph, from the "Are you ready?" section: "Beyond central government, progress is motley and mediocre. Among Japan¹s municipalities, says MITI, the industry ministry, only 30% have even started work. In June a report by Britain¹s Audit Commission found that fewer than one-third of local authorities and National Health Service bodies had even developed strategies for dealing with the problem, and fewer than 10% had begun to think seriously about contingency plans. Health care is a particular concern in many countries: perennially short of cash, increasingly dependent on information technology and on processes controlled by embedded systems‹but notoriously short of IT expertise, or managers who understand the issue. Wise citizens will avoid falling ill over New Year 1999." This is in stark contrast with the recent spate of "Administrators say city will not have problems" types of reports we've been seeing lately. --Tim May -- Y2K -- Where were you when the lights went out? ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May \| Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 \| anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA \| knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist \| black markets, collapse of governments. ----- from c.s.y2k