How To Use Y2k In A Sentence
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Fundamentalist and survivalist groups that promote apocalyptic visions also benefit from the scientism of Y2K fright.
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Sony said in a blog post Monday that the problem was likely caused by a bug in the clock functionality incorporated in the system, reminiscent of the so-called Y2K bug a decade ago.
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In this scenario, ill-written software itself intended to patch the Y2K glitch might go overboard and read an intentional 9999 end-of-file value as a date and convert it into an explicit 1999 date.
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The term Y2K itself suggested a new world awaited us.
Kenneth Kales: Understanding Understanding
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These predictions are the economic equivalent of "Y2K" - always apocalyptic, never true, and all too frequently believed.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: A Super Committee "Failure" Wouldn't Hurt The Economy - But a "Success" Sure Would
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In this scenario, ill-written software itself intended to patch the Y2K glitch might go overboard and read an intentional 9999 end-of-file value as a date and convert it into an explicit 1999 date.
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The President mentioned two in particular -- the importance of cooperation between the European Union and Russia in dealing with what we call the Y2K issue, the problem of the computers not reading a four-digit 2000 figure and the disruption that this could potentially have.
Press Briefing On The Eu Summit
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A global alert had gone out 10 years ago amid widespread fears of a similar problem, dubbed Y2K, which is linked this time to some computer's inability to recognise the year 2010.
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Simon Durham of Poster Plan said the research showed that Generation Y2K had high levels of unprompted advertising recall and, unlike their parents or older siblings, the word recession didn't even feature in their vocabulary.
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China's Ministry of Information Industry and the US Department of Commerce jointly held Sino-US International Seminar on Y2K Problem on March 31 this year and achieved a great success.
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Well, in Y2K we elected a defense contractor as vice-president.
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Out of this combined critique and celebration has evolved a contemporary Chicanismo with academic and artistic actions energized by the creative transculturation processes, and the renewed imagination of equality and democratic potential in our post-Y2K U.S.A.
Turistas
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Computer expert David Eddy, who may have coined the term Y2K, told American Radio Works: "I'd love to do a poll … and eliminate anybody that actually worked on year 2000 work and just talk to, what I would call civilians, and if you ask them, I bet you hard money that most civilians would say, 'Oh, Y2K, whole thing was a hoax.
Stephen Burt: A Game of Risk
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As someone who tends to overplan and prepare I still have a stash of canned goods from the Y2K panic, this seemed like a no-brainer to me.
Docs weigh in on private cord-blood banking
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German bankcards are believed to be infected with a "Y2K" - like computer bug that has rendered the cards unable to ...
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Economists have come to realize that the U.S. high-tech binge in 1999 and 2000 was an anomaly, driven by Y2K fears, euphoria over the possibilities of fiber optics, and a rapid buildout of the Internet.
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Plus, I wouldn't dare forget the mushroom haircut, which I have to brag is not that far from that of Anna Wintour (if the lady is so fashionable, why does she have my Y2K hairdo?).
Laurenne Sala: Pants Gone Missing at a Hollywood Club
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In this scenario, ill-written software itself intended to patch the Y2K glitch might go overboard and read an intentional 9999 end-of-file value as a date and convert it into an explicit 1999 date.
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As someone who tends to overplan and prepare (I still have a stash of canned goods from the Y2K panic), this seemed like a no-brainer to me.
Docs weigh in on private cord-blood banking
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We suffered through mandatory middle school Latin (well except the few who seemed to like it) and received endless uniform violations, we build stunt-nastic pyramids, scaled ropes courses, explored Career Days and although we never made it to D.C., we survived Y2K and APUSH.
Sofi Newmyer: Tomorrow's Dreamers, and Tomorrow's Leaders
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Yesterday while I was driving in my car, a heard a radio journalist on Safm describe the Millennium Bug - which is commonly referred to as Y2K as "the most dangerous formula ever since the creation of the formula for the nuclear bomb".
ANC Daily News Briefing
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All reliable information points to the fact that the Y2K Virus ( Millennium Bug ) will create havoc with computer systems worldwide at the turn of the century .
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The world was busily working to protect itself from the consequences of the Y2K bug with a lot of coding and a lot of hardware.
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The biggest Y2K doomsayers were the computer consultants who raked in big bucks peddling prophylactic programming.
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Yet despite my dismissive attitude towards apocalyptic theories and prophesies, last year's Y2K version did somewhat discomfort me.
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The Writers Guild's current contract with the TV networks and movie studios expires at midnight on Halloween, a spooky moment of disharmonic convergence which has created an industry-wide anxiety that feels eerily like a sequel to Y2K.
Eric Williams: Creative Differences
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But in Y2K's dystopian mode, nature is not a land of plenty and ease to which we might return and linger, but rather a howling wilderness, a return to bestiality and the Hobbesian war of all against all.
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Armed with that thought as the economic news gets bleaker by the day, a new kind of survivalism is gaining ground in our country, making the Y2K scare of a decade ago seem like a child's game.
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Other risks, global and potentially existential (catastrophic meteorite impact, pandemic disease, climate changes, collapse of the global socioeconomic infrastructure due to insufficient forward planning "Y2K") or "merely" regional (local famine, 'brushfire' conflicts formerly closely confined by their implications for the balance between superpowers) increased in their relative importance and/or attention regardless of any change in their independent
The Speculist: Doomsday Clock Speculist Challenge
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During the period of active Y2K remediation last year, much was made of the possibility that unscrupulous, fly-by-night contractors might install back doors to networks they were engaged to repair.