Year 2000 problem

While it is natural to believe that the government is not as malicious as the story states, in the past few years there has been a surge of knowledge about the government’s “stalkerish” behavior. For example, in a NY Times article the reporters states, “The N.S.A. broke federal privacy laws, or exceeded its authority, thousands of times per year, according to the agency’s own internal auditor”(The Editorial Board). The National Security Agency was put into place by President Truman in order to send information to other intelligence agencies and is responsible for the global monitoring of the world. However, as Snowden revealed, “the vast scope of the National Security Agency’s reach into the lives of hundreds of millions of people in the United States and around the globe, as it collects information about their phone calls, their email messages, their friends and contacts, how they spend their days and where they spend their nights. The public learned in great detail…

“Party like it’s 1999.” This celebratory anthem swept across the globe at the close of the millennium, at the same time signifying the end of the first one thousand years Anno Domini, and anticipating the seemingly endless possibilities for humanity in its next thousand years on Earth. 1999 would close a thousand-year history that included the rise and fall of the powerful empires, religious crusades and persecutions, the discovery and conquest of a New World, independence movements, bouts…

Iin the year of 1999, the real concern for technology failure had become an enormous topic for people around the world, “It does the whole coast and the whole country and wraps around the globe” (Maney). This is the year that data would need to change to the 2000s, which is a problem that was not prepared for. New Year’s 1999 would become known as the end of the world, and referred to as Y2K, “The Y2K bug was a computer flaw, or bug, that may have caused problems when dealing with dates beyond…

The race for the presidency in the year 2000 was very controversial. Now after watching the movie Recount it is obvious that George W. Bush illegitimately won the election. Firstly, older voters were confused on how to fill out the ballot, which ended up in a significant amount of dimpled chad that were not counted by the machines, therefore robbing thousands of people of their right to vote for the president they wished to be in office, not to mention that it may have costed Gore the…

Burden, Barry C. “Did Ralph Nader Elect George W. Bush? An Analysis of Minor Parties in the 2000 Presidential Election.” GET REAL DEMOCRACY. The Center for Range Voting, 2007. Web. Accessed 30 Sep. 2016. • This paper was written by a college student in Harvard University, but also, as it is stated in the article, used for a presentation at the 2001 meeting of the American Political Science Association. • The 2000 presidential election was one of the most controversial elections the United…

Sandstone. Nevada designated sandstone as the official state rock in 1987, as a result of the efforts of children from Gene Ward Elementary School in Las Vegas. The Nevada state capitol building is made of Sandstone as was the former United States mint. Sandstone makes up most of Nevada’s amazing scenery and is found throughout the state of Nevada in areas like the Valley of Fire State Park and Red Rock Canyon Recreational Lands. The state trees are the Bristlecone Pine and Single-leaf Piñon…

George W. Bush ran for president in 2000. The candidates running against Bush included: Al Gore for the Democratic party and a third party candidate Ralph Nader. During the election, the United States was dealing with many different issues. Some of these issues were health care, the economy and education (George). Bush made promises for his campaign based on the issues that the United States was associated with. Bush’s 2000 campaign was successful because of his domestic promises, Gore’s…

The face of Nicholas Easter was slightly hidden by a display rack filled with slim cordless phones, and he was looking not directly at the hidden camera but somewhere off to the left, perhaps at a customer, or perhaps at a counter where a group of kids hovered over the latest electronic games from Asia. Though taken from a distance of forty yards by a man dodging rather heavy mall foot traffic, the photo was clear and revealed a nice face, clean-shaven with strong features and boyish good looks.…

A gap year is a period of time, usually lasting one year, where graduating students decide to take some time off before working at their chosen career. There are incredible benefits to taking a gap year after university. Surprisingly, there are a few disadvantages, but overall, the benefits outweigh the harm that some people encounter. What to Do During a Gap Year? There are many things to do during a gap year. While students might be tempted to do nothing at all, they should take advantage of…

Managing my time has been the biggest obstacle I have faced all semester. Learning how to manage school from work and also giving myself time to study became very overwhelming. I did some research on calendar systems to see what system worked best for me. The three main calendar systems I came across during my searching were; making a list of task I need to accomplish, using a schedule book to stay organized, or to use an alarm on a device for events. The best calendar system that worked best…