Don't forget to add your question suggestions here prior to the June 7th meeting.

-- (Just@facein.thecrowd), May 30, 1999

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Hi Bill,

JIT, just in time systems are based on hind sight knowledge as you know.

My questions are related to JIT systems, locally, nationally and Internationally.:

How are JIT systems going to cope with Y2K for which we have no clear understanding of possible outcomes, no surplus capacity to move anything.. even transport to cope with more than ordinary system flaws (which will continue anyway)?

We will need the surplus to feed those who have not prepared or cannot prepare.

-- Bob Barbour (r.barbour@waikato.ac.nz), May 30, 1999.

Maybe the Navy is looking for suggestions for THEIR Y2K Town Hall telecast on 6/15....

http://164.224.120.66/y2k/specialevents/june99/index.html

-- (Hoowaaa@,^.^), May 30, 1999.

A good way to look at your local preparedness is to find out the information Hospitals have on local utilities, business, govenment. As it is critical they have acurate information to assess the risks they might get clearer answers than the average Joe.

If the hospital infomation doesn't jive with the offical line of the critical entities then you have problems. Might be a way to narrow in on the lagging efforts.

May I also mention that lawyers are community members also and if a group can find helpfull legal advice at Pro Bono rates one may attract the attention of local governments - utilities. Lawyers would know some tough questions eh? :o)

Identify the really critical stuff, anything that is a hazard in the local area is a risk. Ask for binding documents from these entities and if they are not forth comming, go to the press.

If you understand the Y2K problem then educate the press in your area. Email them imformation and CC the local goverment, legal, utilities in the area as a record that everyone has been informed. Use information from GAO reports and other Government documents showing the risks. Don't forget the SEC Y2K filings from local corps. in your area. Lots of relevent information on there.

All entities are required to provide the community with contingency plans, expect a detailed community response by the Entity involved. It must contain recommendations on what local area residents should do in the event of a failure.

Ask about duration of failure. Do they have plans for a failure that is a month or longer?

To ask the right questions in your local area one must educate and be educated on the issues that Y2K represents.

Some thoughts.

-- Brian (imager@home.com), May 31, 1999.

Sorry Bill, I know this isn't what you're looking for but, If I could attend, I'd ask them when they're going to start acting like fellow Americans, in a tough position, rather than spoiled children clinging to thier stash of lolli-pops! Are we ALL in this together, or am I just kidding myself into believing that this country stands for something MORE than pocket-books? Maybe the joke is, there aren't enough of us who feel that way anymore. (athletic, large men in dark suits with dark glasses, approach woman in the back rows and calmly ask, in monitone voice, "would you please follow me miss")

-- Will continue (farming@home.com), May 31, 1999.