Why do this?

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Okay, if nothing is going to happen, then why do this?

"Cold War bunker made Y2K post

by Bob Brewin (IDG) -- In a facility once used to track Soviet bombers and missiles at the height of the Cold War, the Air Force last week opened a command post to monitor and engage the last threat of the millennium: Year 2000 date-code bugs that could infect the service's worldwide computer systems and networks.

The Air Force has set up its so-called Fusion Center in a refurbished space on the top floor of a windowless, hardened bunker annex at Maxwell Air Force Base here. The building once housed room-size computers that powered the Air Force's early warning system -- called the Semi-Automated Ground Environment -- that could warn the United States of incoming Soviet nuclear missiles. Now filled with state-of-the-art computer terminals and monitors, the Fusion Center "will be building the big picture of Y2K" for top commanders on New Year's Eve, providing them with a near-real-time status of Air Force computer systems worldwide, said Brig. Gen. Gary Ambrose, director of the Air Force Year 2000 Program"...

Complete story at http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/08/cold.y2k.idg/index.html

-- Uncle Bob (UNCLB0B@Y2KOK.ORG), September 10, 1999

Answers

Can you name a credible source that says "nothing is going to happen".

Koskinen, US House, US Senate, US STate Dept, US Navy etc all say something is likely to happen.

It appears that the powers that be are releasing more details bit by bit and the picture is not a bump in the road.

-- Bill P (porterwn@one.net), September 10, 1999.


The companies are spending billions and trillions of dollars. If y2k is no big deal, why would they do this? If they didn't expect us all to die in January, they wouldn't do this.

-- Clueless (aaaaaawwwww@a.w), September 11, 1999.

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