When our working lives end at 45

1999-08-05 Thread Ian Ritchie
FYI When our working lives end at 45 DAVID THOMSON looks at trends in age group employment and suggests that people in their later 40s and 50s will soon have to find something else to do. Dialogue, NZ Herald, 5 August 1999   Paid work past about age 45 is vanishing fast. This change of the pas

Re: Retirement to solve unemployement?

1999-08-05 Thread Victor Milne
I read the article too. I think the clause "if the current ratio of jobs to residents stays constant" is an awfully big "if" given the forecasts of Rifkin and others to the effect that technology will decrease the net number of jobs available. I also noticed that the big vacancies were predicted f

Re: y2k bug urgent request

1999-08-05 Thread Ray E. Harrell
Robert, I'm sure there are many people testing their machines. What I am doing now is to be sure that my clock registers the correct time and date, no matter what, if I am sending an e-mail. Like any disease, finding the beginning of it is interesting but not much practical use other than as

Retirement to solve unemployement?

1999-08-05 Thread Melanie Milanich
Re: "Plenty of jobs in future for today's kids", The Toronto Star, Thursday, August 5, 1999, p. 1 and A20. I would like to hear your response to the Urban Futures Institutue's Report released in today's newspaper. According to this report the retirement of the big bulge of the baby boom (currently

y2k bug urgent request

1999-08-05 Thread Neunteufel Robert
Could it be, that the mails on future-work with wrong dates are disturbing my mail system? I am working with Netscape 3.0 under Windows 3.11. When loadinng down the wrongdated mails Netscape crashed. So I had to uninstall and install Netscape twice. Now I have removed all the mails from the las