Y2K a Mystery in Southeast Asia

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/19991229/tc/y2k_confusion_1.html

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"Boonsri Harttalay runs a beach bungalow resort on Ko Ngai island, one hour's boat ride off the coast of southern Thailand. She won't be answering the telephone over the New Year. She's afraid of catching Y2K. Like many people in remote parts of Thailand and its poorer neighbors, Cambodia and Myanmar, she's still in the dark about the millennium bug and what it really means if computer chaos strikes Saturday at the start of 2000. ``My sister warned me not to pick up the phone on Dec. 31 and Jan. 1 because I can catch germs traveling through the line,'' said Boonsri, who is prepared to lose a little tourist business as a result. ``Better to be on the safe side. I've also heard we might not see the sun or the moon on those two days.'' "

-- hamster (hamster@mycage.com), December 29, 1999

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``My sister warned me not to pick up the phone on Dec. 31 and Jan. 1 because I can catch germs traveling through the line,'' said Boonsri, who is prepared to lose a little tourist business as a result. ``Better to be on the safe side. I've also heard we might not see the sun or the moon on those two days.'' "

My God, someone even LESS informed than the average American!!!

Got brains?

John Ludi, aghast.

-- Ludi (ludi@rollin.com), December 29, 1999.

Do you remember the article that read Indonesia officials were deliberately keeping the populace in the dar about Y2K? I was noticing on the news, on one island, the Muslims and Christians were at war again and burning down the town. I am at a stand still. I'm not sure if Indonesia did right to keep mum or silent. Boy, the populace is violent and trigger happy. It takes nothing to explode them into ethnic cleansing on each other. In some cases is ignorance right? Looking at them burning each other out, 50 dead already, I just don't know.

-- Paula (chowbabe@pacbell.net), December 29, 1999.