Uncle Sam wants...

From: Ward Donald Griffiths III <gram_at_cnct.com>
Date: Fri Jun 5 23:19:09 1998

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.

Best bet would be to skip to Israel, Saudi Arabia, Morocco or some
other place that isn't crippled by the AD system. Me, I'm for
Wyoming and hide my computers in the basement so the peasants with
torches and pitchforks don't get some idea that I'm the one who
screwed up their government checks. But I can't desert New Jersey
until my father-in-law craps out, and since he's not even 80 yet,
that could be a while, a long while, like after whatever the Y2K
thing does is ancient history -- my wife's family tends to outlive
redwoods.
-- 
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
				Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
Received on Fri Jun 05 1998 - 23:19:09 BST

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