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US to build Y2k Command Center Bunker

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i've-got-my-seat-with-my-red-hat-letter dept.

munchkin writes "CNN has a story from their computing section on the U.S. government's plans to build a Y2k bunker. Apparently, the bunker will be used for Y2k "event managment", better known as "panicking stupid people" and/or "drunken rioting". " What's even more interesting is that this is being considered as the first test of Clinton's drive for a "cyber defense", an initiative that was starting last May.

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  1. Ryder now renting... by Skyshadow · · Score: 5
    Personally, I plan on spending my New Year's inside my fully gassed-up Ryder truck, backed up to the front of my local Best Buy waiting for the looting to begin.

    I figure with a few of my friends and a good plan of attack, we could get a great deal of the good stuff (palms, flat-panel displays, notebooks, etc) loaded into the truck before the National Guard arrived -- screw limiting myself to what I can carry. From there, we head to my nice Y2K-complaint storage locker with the Y2K-compliant key Master Lock bolt and hold tight until my Y2K-compliant fence can set me up.

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  2. Boom. by J.+Pierpont · · Score: 5



    "What's that sound, mommy?"
    "That's Y2k coming, honey"
    "Whelp, I guess we'd better get down in the bunker, Eunice."



    "Mommy, I forgot Fluffy!!"
    "Don't go out there, dear, it's not safe!"

    Y2K--Coming to a computer near you.

    -awc