This would be funny if it wasnt so pathetic.

Our local smalltown newspaper has finally noticed Y2K, and has assigned a man to cover the topic. Weve already had articles telling us the utilities and hospitals are in great shape. On November 2 there was an article about the National Processing Center for the census bureau, which is located in our town. The headline says, "Census Bureau: You can count on it after Y2K." A bureaucrat is quoted saying they have stipulated that new hardware and software has been required to be Y2K compliant for some time. "We have been focused on the Y2K issue since the summer of 1996."

The sad/funny part is the caption under his photo, where he says the National Processing Center is currently about 85% Y2K compliant. With 57 days remaining, they are 85% compliant. I wonder what will happen when they reach that elusive final 1% where everyone seems to stall out. Thank goodness the census isnt necessary to our lives.

-- Pearlie Sweetcake (storestuff@home.now), November 03, 1999

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yet another Constitutional mandate down the tubes

-- not the 2nd Amendment (goingdown@what.counts?), November 03, 1999.