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Re: *ping*


--Your message was: (from Mike Knell)
> 
> What the lack of major Y2K problems worldwide means, of course, is that 
> the lower-wattage sections of society are now asking why we wasted all
> this money on this non-existent Y2K bug, only to have nothing happen

Just tell them that it was a non-event because the geeks saved the world.

> when the clock rolled over.. like, what did they _expect_? A giant
> Millennium Bug emerging from the seas off Washington to be battled by
> a cybernetically-enhanced Bill Gates?

Heh. The bug would've won. ;)

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Lee Ann Goldstein, Computer Services
RAND Corp., Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138
leeann@rand.org