> Thank goodness! I was beginning to wonder if it was the early arrival of the Y2K insect. It could happen. I read somewhere about some people out west who registered their new cars and got plates that read "horseless carriage." It seems that those plates are issued to cars built before 1916 and the computer thought "00" meant 1900.
> We can't say they didn't warn us.
> Howard

There's another serious issue with this Y2K insect that has been completely ignored by those in power. I am referring to the effect it is going to have on rock music. When we play our CDs in the new millennium, what is going to happen to songs such as "Summer of '69"?

Got my first real six string
Bought it at the five and dime
Played it till my fingers bled
Was the summer of ERROR ERROR INPUT NOT COMPATIBLE

Mayhem, that's what. Of course, songs with four digit dates such as "Party Like It's 1999" will be safe. As for the rest, we are going to need a huge task force to rewrite and rerecord music that mentions two-digit dates so that we can continue to listen to our favourite hits well into the next century.
And the governments of major countries are sitting idly by, worrying about utterly trivial things like nuclear warhead firing systems. It's a conspiracy, that's what I say.

Brunnen-"paranoia"G