> Trust me. The year 2000 problem is only a
>problem in the sense that big companies have to
>spend
> money to fix it in their software. The actual
>ramifications of it on the average American
> citizen will be almost nil. I never cease to be
>amused, though, by the continual panicked reports
> about what will supposedly happen. I'm amazed
>at how exaggerated some of them are.
> Several made my Computer Stupidities page.
>There's a really good one under "Paranoia," where
> a television station broadcast a report about
>cars and alarm clocks ceasing to function....

I'm not so much worried about the USA having any "major" problems with the y2k issue as I am with other, less fiscally solvent nations. Think of all the nuclear missles still sitting in silos around the former Soviet Union and in China, and think of how little money those places have to fix these kinds of things. I'm afraid we're all going to wake up on 1/1/2000 to a rain of ex-Soviet or Chinese missles that freaked out when their clocks ticked over to 1/1/1900 or something. *shudder*