THOSE WHO MAY CARE August 26, 1996: Insides-Out 2000

************************************************************************** * Do not attempt to adjust your set. We will control the video, the... * ************************************************************************** The General Accounting Office's program evaluation division, spent nearly four years examining more than one million pieces of Pentagon data on the Gulf War and interviewing more than 100 pilots, commanders and war planners. Per the G.A.O, what military officers and arms makers said about their weapons was "overstated, misleading, inconsistent with the best available data, or unverifiable,'' the report said. For example, the Air Force told Congress that the Stealth fighter had an 80 percent success rate on its bombing runs. In fact, the rate was more like 40 percent. Why? The accounting office found that commanders defined ''success'' as launching a bomb or missile, not hitting a target. The ironic part of this story is that the division is being dismantled, destroyed by budget cuts imposed by Congress this year and last. In a few weeks, it will disappear. Source: The New York Times ************************************************************************** * A good reason to put all your holdings in cash come 1999. * ************************************************************************** A recent survey of more than 300 North American executives on year 2000 software conversion was conducted by temporary services provider Olsten Corp. Of those companies preparing for the conversion problem, 34 percent are in the planning stages and 28 percent already have programs underway. An unbelievable 13 percent of the respondents reported they were unfamiliar with the issue. Source: Olsten Corp. ************************************************************************** * Well said... * ************************************************************************** A senior aide to the Liberian factional leader Charles Taylor, explaining to the New York Times in April why this year's civil war is more civil than earlier ones: "In the past, fighters would rip out people's intestines and use them to string up roadblocks. This time there has been none of that." Source: News of the Weird ************************************************************************** * THOSE WHO MAY CARE |\__ --- ___/| MOO THINKS: * * \-- 0 0\--/ * * ____ =====================/ \ "He wouldn't make * * // --//'''''''''''''''''''' _ oo | love to a loaf of * * __// // / \_/\_/ bread. Unless, of * * //~~~ | | '' course, he found * * {} | _ _ __________ / one in his bed." * * || || \ / || || -Robyn Hitchcock * * || || ||| || || * * || || ''' || || * * [] [] [] [] - Alex P * **************************************************************************