100% ready --- NOT!

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Link from Gary North's site...template boilerplate for power companies.

Since I live in the Washington, DC area, I found Pepco's PR statement most enlightening...

"Pepco reported to [NERC] today that 100 percent of its 'mission-critical' systems are Y2K ready..."

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"All [suppliers] have advised they are either Y2K ready or will be within an acceptable time frame prior to Dec. 31."

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"...no company can make absolute guarantees about something as COMPLEX as Y2K..."

Okay....time out! I did read they are 100% "ready" (not to be confused with compliant). Reading through the first seven paragraphs one might begin to believe that Pepco has taken care of business. But then you get to the dreaded "suppliers" inability to fix their problems and once again the systemic nature of this problem lurks its ugly head.

It's a good thing Pepco isn't taking any chances and will have contingency plans in place to "address the POTENTIAL problems caused by Y2K".

-- I'm (with@titude.now), July 01, 1999

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i'm, whats so critical about pepsico getting compliant? us big folk tend to prefer coke anyway.

a bubly kiss ya big lug.

-- corrine l (corrine@iwaynet.net), July 01, 1999.


This entire gamut of "We are now ready, sort of" crap is a joke. And of course, it comes exactly on June 30. Reminds me of when a teacher calls "time" on a test, and everyone madly scribbles their final desperate answers as the bring up their papers -- while the ones that knew their stuff, finished early, and have already handed their tests in earlier sit back smugly.

Only this time there are none that sit back smugly. A sad, sad joke. As we will see come Jan.

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.com), July 01, 1999.

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