-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/29/98 10:08:04 AM Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > The British Army on the Rhine have been recalled for crowd control exercises > and British Newspapers eg. Scotsman have beeb pedalling the preperatory > ground for Martial Law given the necessity. Andrew, Major governments in the world are seriously concerned about looting/rioting and other such problems. Personally believe that to be understanderable. Look at what happened in LA after the OJ simpson verdict. People, using the excuse of the verdict, went absolutly nuts and burned/looted everything in sight. What happens was in a perceived crisis, basic survival, or criminal elements seem to come out in full force. IF all the Y2K "doom and gloom" predictions come true, i.e. loss of power, electricity, air travel, trains, so on, many nations will likely see a restless population, many of which will be inclined to riot/loot and burn everything in sight. > > However my Discussion group in Edinburgh, Scotland think that the problem > could have been easily and quickly spotted by some of the most logical > and pragnatic minds in the world ie. computer scientists - many years ago. Computer minds knew about this problem in the 60s, but those great minds looked at the rapid advancement of technology, and everything else and figured that by the time we got to the 90s NOBODY would even consider using old main frames with 60s code in them. Further that people in that era and time frame could worry about all those problems...after to those who lived in the 60s, 2000 wasn't going to happen for 30-35 years so why worry about it. Guess what. Governments and institutions continue to use old code and old mainframes. As I recall from my reading their is already some kind of problem with the year 2019, and 2030. Are the computer geeks and guru's bothering with those problems? NO! Why not? Because they are worried about more immediate problems, and figure they will deal with those problems down the road. The truth be known, human nature never changes. > > In the UK, there is some publicity from Banks and Bureaus re dealing with > Y2K > but as usual - there is this mind - numbing blanket of media silence, > whilst the TV continues with its other agendas. The media will do what it always does, and will continue to do. That being to not seriously bother with Y2K coverage and problems until two to three weeks or perhaps days before it happens. Take any issue in the media. For example US Super Bowl coverage in newspapers will seriously begin 1-3 days BEFORE the Super Bowl. Serious coverage of the Senate impeachment trail will start trickling out 1-3 days before the trial is expected to start. Should the US or UK bomb Iraq again serious coverage will start either at, or just after the first bombs start falling. Speaking of that, supposedly nobody knew when the US would strike Iraq, yet the media was all in place on top of the information ministry in Bagdad, AND supposedly CNN reporter Christian Amonpour had to drive 19 hours over the desert to get into Bagdad for the start of coverage. And people are expected to believer that NOBODY knew when the bombs would start falling. Anybody that believes that, I got a bridge in brooklyn for sale. In 1988 many people in the Pacific Northwest will remember that as the year of the fires in Yellowstone Park. I happened to be visiting West Yellowstone, watching all the reporters doing their thing for the nightly national news casts. TV reporters from all the networks were assembled in a line, spaced about 3 feet apart doing their standups in front of network cameras. I noticed junior grade people running up to their networks guys with papers. All of a sudden people are scurrying around, packing up etc etc. I asked one of the reporters "Hey, whats going on?" The reporter said some big hurricane or storm was expected to hit Texas and cause alot of damage so they were headed down to cover that. I asked something to the effect of "Well the fires are still going..." To which his response went something to the effect of: 'Well we in the news business, especially the TV side, go in a figurative sense to one smoking dead body to the newest smoking dead body and Texas is where the next smoking dead body is...' Needless to say, Y2K will not be a smoking dead body until perhaps as late as Dec 28th, 1999. 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