I dont know if I can take 3 hours of this:

"We want to calm the fear and hype that the Y2K movie coming out will create by having STRONG contingency plans"

Contingency plans?????????? what happen to compliance!!!

Witnesses are now being sworn in this should be interesting since they have just sworn to tell the truth!!

-- David Butts (dciinc@aol.com), October 29, 1999

Answers

and they'll tell whatever the truth is at the moment.

-- plonk! (realaddress@hotmail.com), October 29, 1999.

David,

I also do not understand the STRONG emphasis on contingency planning and Day One operations. Are they attempting to say that if you have a contingency plan in place then you are OK? If think perhaps Milne got this one right in a big way.

-- y2k dave (xsdaa111@hotmail.com), October 29, 1999.

Cool, the SSA is telling us exactly what their "Day One" plans are including "going off the grid", not *IF* things go bad, but *DEFINITLY* going off the grid just in case. The noted SSA has been remediating since 1989.

"Day One" is going to be a fascinating day to watch even if nothing happens. All the contingency plans, "lockdown's" and such will be interesting to watch.

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

Oh - the movie coming out will cause "all this fear and hype" .....

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (Marietta, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), October 29, 1999.

Morella just said the IRS condition is:

""Frightening""!!! got that Frightening!!!

I dont know about you, but listening to all these contingency plans is quite interesting.

Am I mistaken or was not the plan to be compliant??

They are all talking about what there plans are for-------- Failure!!!

Planning for failure?-----is it just me or what?

-- D.B. (dciinc@aol.com), October 29, 1999.

IRS is on right now. Intent is to cover the contingency plans and "Day One" plans.

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

IRS is admitting they will probably generate erroneous (sp?) notices to customers well into March and April of 2000.

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

Having had the pleasure of creating more than 1 contingency plan, OF COURSE THE FRICKING THINGS ARE PLANS FOR FAILURE!!!!! BY DEFINITION THEY HAVE TO BE!!!!!

SHEESH!! WHen I put 3 landing zones in the LIFEFLIGHT inventory, set up staging areas for EMS and Fire, set up triage and treatment areas in my contingency palns for the CART race, do I EXPECT to use them??? Do I KNOW I WILL use them??? COME ON!!! They are CONTINGENCY plans. PLANS contingent on something happening. Plans CONTINGENT on something happening. Plans IN CASE something happens.

SHEESH!! GO READ THE DEFINITIONS BEFORE YOU FREAK!!!!

Chuck, who has LOTS of contingency plans and expects to use NONE of them on any given day

-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), October 29, 1999.

"and they'll tell whatever the truth is at the moment"

Depending, of course, on what the definition of 'is', is.

They's all the same, ever last one of'em.

MFU

-- Man From Uncle 1999 (mfu1999@hotmail.com), October 29, 1999.

Thanks, Chuck, for a well-placed rant. Too often, people confuse precautions with expectations. It's a useful distinction that can prevent us from reading too much into the actions of business and officialdom.

-- Thinman (thinman38@hotmail.com), October 29, 1999.

Y2K is over. Problems could have been bad but now all systems are fixed and ready. Each agency has contingency plans done or in the works. All is well. Stand down.

Of course it may have been a bit different had Rep. Steve Horn been there.

-- the Virginian (1@1.com), October 29, 1999.

"WHen I put 3 landing zones in the LIFEFLIGHT inventory, set up staging areas for EMS and Fire, set up triage and treatment areas in my contingency palns for the CART race, do I EXPECT to use them???"

Sheesh--night driver I'm impressed!!!

I can only assume you did not understand the just of what I was attempting to convey.

Do you always misread into posts and then take the opportunity to impress all of us with your (yawwwwn) exciting experienced life.

Maybe you should go look up the word-------->humility!!!

what do ya think macho man!!!!

-- D.B. (dciinc@aol.com), October 29, 1999.