Milne: NZ warns of three month interruption of essential services; concerned that citizens are not preparing

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Subject:New Zealand Govvernent: No services For Up To Three Months!
Date:1999/07/23
Author:Paul Milne <fedinfo@halifax.com>
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New Zealand Warns Citizens, Expects Global Y2K Media Rush
 
 
  By Adam Creed, Newsbytes
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND,
21 Jul 1999, 1:43 AM CST
 
New Zealand's Y2K Readiness Commission is concerned that the country's citizens are not preparing themselves for disruptions to essential services at the turn of the millennium, saying 25 percent of people are still ignoring the problem.
 
The latest study from the government commission came a few weeks after it warned that the Year 2000 problem could lead to the interruption in supply of essential services from December 31, 1999 up to as late as March 31, 2000.
 
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New Zealand is one of the ten best prepared nations on earth and even they realize that they could be out of the loop for up to three months. Believe you me, if they go that long , the rest of the world is toast.
 
If 'essential' services are out, how do they get along? I mean, what does "ESSENTIAL" mean anyway. If they are ESSENTIAL, and they get knocked out, you have more than an inconvenience. You have chaos.
 
 
http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/99/133654.html
Paul Milne



-- a (a@a.a), July 24, 1999

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Maybe that's because their idiotic government is still saying to only prepare for 3 days... gee, where have we heard that before?

R.

-- Roland (nottelling@nowhere.com), July 24, 1999.


Remember - they have recent experience of no power for large populations for long term.

They were caught unprepared and had citizens they had to deal with - They were under the international spotlight and... did it change the way they think?....(some of them - yes, others?..... also recall they had other nations provide aid.

-- Living in (the@real.world), July 24, 1999.


Paul, as hard as this seems to me, maybe the cure for all this "cradle to grave" welfare statism is to let large populations experience "the grave!"



-- K. Stevens (kstevens@It's ALL going away in January.com), July 24, 1999.


Someone should tell NZ what the REAL problem is. Its NOT the broken code.. its not the embedded chips, its not the fractional reserve banking system and non-compliant banks... its people preparing for Y2K. If 25% are still ignoring the problem, then 75% must be preparing. No wonder they are worried.

;If they can get down to the precentages of prepared people here in the U.S., then their problem will be solved.

-- Linda (lwmb@psln.com), July 24, 1999.


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