This tidbit is from y2ktoday.

-- regular (zzz@z.z), April 26, 1999

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(p?): "Don't give me that legalistic talk,'' Lubotsky snapped. "You can save it for the commission of inquiry you'll have to face if there's a collapse of the systems because not enough was done to prevent it.''

God, bring Lubotsky over here...... kinda cajones we need in US.

-- lisa (lisa@work.now), April 26, 1999.

Lisa,

Sounds like someone over there is getting really concerned. Knowing what little I know about Israeli society, it would seem that they are probably at least as far along in fixing this as we are and maybe even further. After all, for a long time they were the targets ov most of the computer viruses around.

-- K Stevens (K Stevens@TEOTWAWKI.com), April 26, 1999.

You know K Stevens, I think you may have hit on something. It sounds like ov, why not? I was ridiculed awhile back for spelling congradulations but that's a lawng one.

-- KoFE (your@town.USA), April 26, 1999.

There is noting like actaully being faced with a real threat - as they do every day - to minimize the effect of political BS.

Also, the "complacency" found in the spring and summer 1973 - while the Yom Kipper War preparations were being "missed" by the intelligence services and government - alerted many (in both parties) to actual negligence. They have not forgotten.

Now, will they remember in time though? Don't know - it's a very small country - there is less to remediate. They are a very resourceful people, and used to self-disciple - they are not prone to defeat, panic, or "rioting" at the loss of luxuries. They, unlike those in our own inner cities, can more easily "ride out" temporary troubles mentally and physically.

But the small size also means little redudancy, and they are vunerable to outside and inside threats.

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (Kennesaw, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), April 26, 1999.