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...cherry farmer in Washington State who commands the 419th Yakima County Militia, blames the slump on a lack of "Y2Ks or anything like that." The smooth turnover of the clocks on Jan. 1, 2000, was a blow to many conspiracy-minded groups, which had predicted global chaos. "After Y2K," says Potok, "there were a lot of angry letters in the extremist publications saying, 'You've made fools of us--we have a basement full of supplies and nothing to use them for.'" But if the militias are fading, some of their paranoid fervor lives on. Take John Trochmann, who still...
CONVICTED. AHMED RUSSAM, 33, an Algerian national, for plotting to bomb sites in the U.S., maybe during Y2K festivities; in Los Angeles. Russam was also sentenced to five years by a French court for membership in a radical Islamic group...
...says they predate its regulatory authority (the agency has classified the devices in the category it uses for equipment whose risks are high or unknown). The website for the Thymatron, the Cadillac of electroshock devices, still features a painfully outdated page on how to test the device for Y2K compliance...
Each person, of course, must decide if precautions are in order. For every example like asbestosis, in which doctors discover the health risks years later, there is at least one Y2K, in which the fears of disaster turn out to be baseless. What is beyond doubt is that the ongoing debate is not going to stop tens of millions of Americans from yakking away on ever newer, sleeker cell phones...
...Number of tests the convenience-store chain 7-Eleven said it performed on its computer systems to make sure they were Y2K compliant...