Our company firewall won't permit REAL playback...I would like to see the contents of his discourse if its available.....

-- Jay Urban (Jayho99@aol.com), November 15, 1999

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i summarized what i heard from the interview and then gordon's talk and just sent them to your aol address.

-- tt (cuddluppy@yahoo.com), November 15, 1999.

Thanks, tt!

-- Jay Urban (Jayho99@aol.com), November 15, 1999.

I don't know of one.

But this is a summary: Take the year 2000 Composium Series (technical conference). We're being told that major think tanks were at that conference. These are people without subjective opinions. These were people in the know, so to say. We're talking about people with government security clearences. The Naval War College, Head of retail Federation, U.S. Information Agency were present. But guess who didn't show up? The media. ABC was scheduled to be there, but for some reason they weren't seen. It's no wonder their source data are second class. This turned out to be a crisis management conference, not just another y2k conference. This is what they said:

• 200,000 viruses are set to strike in Jan.
• DOD is only 70% done.
• Social Security is not ready despite happy face reporting.
• IRS is not ready. They found new systems.
• The VA is going to reprint checks until fixes are done.
• They are expecting failures across all sectors.
• They are expecting local power outages.
• They are expecting supply chain problems.
• They are expecting international disruptions across all sectors.
• They believe 5% (I believe domestic, but I could be wrong) of the banks are not ready.
• It's time to set up crisis management centers, stop fixing code.
• 50% of the Fortune 1000 companies are not going to be ready in time.

Now come on pollies are these guys idiots? Are they lying to us? We're being told that Y2K isn't fixed plain and simple. I still find threads on this forum asking for any kind of evidence (of potential failures that is), yet I'm still mystified why the question is even being asked. Why isn't this enough to at least be prudent? To this day I still don't have an answer. My guess is that I'll never will.

Link Nov 8--RealAudio

-- Larry (cobol.programmer@usa.net), November 15, 1999.