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DURATION: 90% of Y2K problems will be solved within 72 hours (Gartner Group...
Never mind computers going screwy when Jan. 1, 2000, comes. Prognosticators started malfunctioning a long time ago. Last week alone, a government report warned us to stockpile food and prepare for the worst while a U.N. agency claimed everything is rosy. Below, some of the more confusing conflicts in Y2K advice, all given by respected Y2K figures. (What the loonies say would fill several volumes...
Midterms. Mid-semester research papers. The senior thesis. That time of year at or around spring break when everything seems to come crashing down at once. Just imagine if your computer crashed too. No, it's not the Y2K bug, but it's just as sinister. On March 31, Harvard's license with Microsoft to distribute multiple copies of Microsoft software expires. That means that anyone who's ever installed Microsoft Office from the network will be coming back from Spring Break tanned, rested and ready to rock--but horrified to find that they are no longer able to even...
Midterms. Mid-semester research papers. The senior thesis. That time of year at or around spring break when everything seems to come crashing down at once. Just imagine if your computer crashed too. No, it's not the Y2K bug, but it's just as sinister. On March 31, Harvard's license with Microsoft to distribute multiple copies of Microsoft software expires. That means that anyone who's ever installed Microsoft Office from the network will be coming back from Spring Break tanned, rested and ready to rock--but horrified to find that they are no longer able to even...
...stealing our jobs,' they say, 'We are overwhelmed by immigration,'" notes Mark Potok of Klanwatch. "They are learning to use issues that have real resurgence among white Americans." Many white supremacists have moved into antigovernment "patriot" groups that (publicly, at least) attack gun control instead of blacks and Jews. Y2K fears and the spread of the Christian Identity movement, which counts whites as the chosen people, have also helped growth...