On 4 Jun 98 at 8:56, Roger Ivie wrote:
> >>From the yk2 Newsletter <http://www.y2knews.com/>:
> >
> >"The federal government is in dire need of technical resources to fix the
> >Year 2000 problem-so dire, in fact, that there is speculation about a
> >possible draft of Cobol programmers."
>
> What, we don't have time to fix the Y2K problem but we _do_ have time to
> build a whole new bureaucracy to mobilize the nation? Of course, the new
> draft agency would have to be Y2K compliant so they can track down and
> punish draft dodgers...
>
> I guess it wouldn't do any good to skip off to Canada because _they'd_
> probably draft you, too.
>
> Roger Ivie
> ivie_at_cc.usu.edu
>
No way ! In ww1 a government got booted for trying that and even in
WW11 they didn't dare institute a full draft. Mind you we do have Corel
and a few others wwho haven't moved south yet.
"Give us your tired,your poor, your huddled masses etc." that the US
rejects. We'll take anybody. All that empty space y'know. Unfortunately
because of the cold and the black flies and mosquitos we huddle for the
most part on a thin strip along the US border.
ciao larry
lwalker_at_interlog.com
Received on Thu Jun 04 1998 - 15:01:24 BST