Finals week commences at VMI on Friday. Today, the last class session, my students asked me questions as I helped them prepare for their exam. I could tell them specifically what to prepare for and how because I will be writing the exam. My question for TPTB is this: how can you tell folks to prepare as they would for a 3-day storm? How can you know the parameters of the effects of the rollover? I write my exams for my students, so I can tell them just what to expect, in what proportions, etc. Are we to presume, from the 3-day storm advice, that you know the effects of the rollover so precisely that you can put a number on it? How can that possibly be, with so many variables at play?

-- Kurt Ayau (Ayau@iwinet.com), December 08, 1999

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It was my understanding not that any snafu's will be resolved in 3 days, but that the Red Cross will pick up our slack in the cities within 3 days, or 10 days for rural?

-- Hokie (nn@va.com), December 08, 1999.

The Red Cross can't possibly be expected to pick up the pieces in numerous cities simultaneously, can it ?

-- snooze button (alarmclock_2000@yahoo.com), December 08, 1999.

Yeah, they say that is how long they figure it wil take FEMA to get setup and have the governmnet grits served up and the portajohns ready.

They said they could handle 50 disruptions, one in each state. After that, they'll need to call out the Guard to keep any of the hysterical lunatics from going apeshit.

-- Hawk (flyin@high.again), December 09, 1999.

MANY SAY IT'S NOT THE U.S.A. that has to worry, it's everyone else around the world. Other nations have been slow to update their computer systems. This will in turn corrupt our computers through international markets, potentially leading to a global economic crisis and widespread civil unrest.

-- ew (s@ew.n), December 10, 1999.