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Announcements: a Y2K Briefing June 12 in DC LINK

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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The next in the series of briefing/brainstorming sessions on Y2K will be held on Tuesday, June 13 from noon to 2 PM at George Washington University in Washington, DC.

Spanky Kirsch of the Department of Defense and Olivia Bosch of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will be the featured speakers.

Mr. Kirsch will cover additional issues surrounding approaches taken at DOD to addressing Y2K challenges here and abroad not covered in the May session. Actions and proposals on the Hill pertaining to computer technology will also be discussed. These actions and proposals could possibly include provisions for ongoing assessment and oversight of Y2K-related concerns.

Olivia Bosch, Senior Research Associate, Center for Global Security Research, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and International Institute for Strategic Studies, London will address similar issues, including issues raised during the April 12 panel program at GW and at the January conference that was held at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

The location for that session is in the Conference Room of the RPSOL program, Suite 230, 2033 K St. NW (actually the entrance is on 21st St. NW around the corner from K St.). Tea and coffee will be available. Participants are welcome to bring their lunch.

Please feel free to pass this invitation on to anyone who might be interested in attending. The event is free and open to anyone who is interested in attending.

The next program in this series is scheduled for the same time and place on Tuesday, July 11.

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Additional Announcements and a Quote 1) Video now online of April 12 program: A video of the April 12, 2000 GW Panel Program on Y2K is now online: "Y2K: What Happened and What Has Been Happening Since January 1?"

The panel program was entitled: "Y2K: What Happened and What Has Been Happening Since January 1?" It can be found at www.stuarthrodman.com/video.htm

Two of the presentations are also available in text form at the URLs below.

The following individuals participated:

Stuart Umpleby, Professor, Department of Management Science and Director of Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning, George Washington University (www.gwu.edu/~y2k)

Paula Gordon, Director of Special Projects, Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning, George Washington University (www.gwu.edu/~y2k/keypeople/gordon)

Olivia Bosch, Senior Research Associate, Center for Global Security Research, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and International Institute for Strategic Studies, London (For a copy of her presentation see cgsr.llnl.gov/Y2KLessons.html.)

Stuart Rodman, Director of Communications, Ecological Life Systems Institute "Technology, Knowledge, and Power: Mapping a Course Towards a Sustainable Future" (See elsi.org/rpsol.htm for copy of prepared remarks.)

-- cpr (buytexas@swbell.net), June 05, 2000

Answers

SEE? The Anti-Doomers were right.

It was fiction. Paula is having "SPANKY and The Gang":

"...Spanky Kirsch of the Department of Defense and Olivia Bosch of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will be the featured speakers. "

-- Anon (anon@anon.anon), June 05, 2000.

This is incredable! Who is paying for this? More to the point, who is paying HER? At least a welfare Mother has to work at getting her stipend, has to justify getting the little bit of money she recieves, has to change diapers! This farce shows how bodies of higher learning are becomming a joke-not all- but antiquated functions should be thrown out to make way for the 21st century. Like Linda Tripp and her $97,000.00 a year she rakes in for working at home in a job where she does what? Her income is the equilivent of what 16 welfare mothers pull in a year. And she ends up exempt from federal laws.

It's understandable why Paula goes on spouting whatever she feels like, she is not required to be honest or report facts, she is free to write anything her little immagination comes up with.

-- Cherri (sams@brigadoon.com), June 05, 2000.

I just received a phone call from somebody in our marketing dept. A customer wants certification that our new software (development finished in May 2000) is Y2K compliant.

Somebody please stop this insanity!

-- Buddy (buddydc@go.com), June 05, 2000.

I am responding to your invitation ( you placed my name in our posted heading). But I can see no reference to me in your text.

As for knowing ( or following) Mistress Gordon's themes...This I have not done. But apparently I should have.... No! I do not have the time in my day, to do so. And I believe that she doesn't need any one help in proceeding in her efforts. Most certainly not the efforts that an old shirt tailed electrican ( with a "bent" towards modifying systems to that they are (time counting).

Really...All any control system needs to be "date" sensitive. Is a small cap.( to act as a battery) and a counter. Now add a sordering pencil! And you have a "date" sensitive control..

But thanks for the thought ( using my name in your heading)..It will surely attract little Kennie Pec..I mean Decker's attention.

LOL

"As for me...I shall finish the Game"!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Shakey~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

-- Shakey (in_a_bunker@forty.feet), June 05, 2000.

-- simple (simple@huh.com), June 05, 2000.

shakey how do you think the game will play out.

Best Wishes bob

-- bob (Bob@ghoward-oxley.demon.uk.), June 05, 2000.

Somebody with contacts in the media should send this Gordon release saying "these nuts think y2k is still a big deal, almost 6 months into the year". Would make a funny story. Please mention George Washington Universities' involvement, they deserve the press for this nonsense...

-- FactFinder (FactFinder@bzn.com), June 05, 2000.

Shakey,

You are wrong. Using a capacitor to store a small charge of electricity may keep the digital data from disappearing, but the "date" is not the same thing as stepping, or what once was relay logic. Just clicking off increments of the spacing between movement of electronic pulses does in no way involve what we use to determine "dates" in a real life. I'm afraid you may be stuck in your knowledge, somewhere in the past. As it is, having a cap for saving data is just that preventing the loss of the data, holding it in place when external power is gone. Caps don't power running equipment, they can't.

And Shakey,you may finish the game, but you may be the only one left playing it, all the others have taken up their equipment and gone home.

-- Cherri (sams@brigadoon.com), June 06, 2000.