"have filed" WA state, for one, hopes to make it possible for the new categories of unemployed to file by April 18. As of now, the only people who can apply for unemployment are those who fit into the traditional categories. I believe this is true for 20 other states. IBM is busy scrambling to find COBOL mentors because apparently once the world's data managers got through Y2K they figured why bother fucking with it again until we get to Y10k.
... or that they would rewrite into something more maintainable and less generally creaky before it came up again. Which was overly optimistic, of course, rewriting software when the reasons for rewriting it are invisible to the people you have to convince to let you do it is tough. And the real reasons for rewriting things is always invisible to the people you have to convince.apparently once the world's data managers got through Y2K they figured why bother fucking with it again until we get to Y10k.