The glitch, it turns out, originated with the Pennsylvania
Department of Transportation during a transfer of nearly
400,000 records to the Selective Service
14,000 draft notices sent to men born in 1800s
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Re: 14,000 draft notices sent to men born in 1800s
#12A clerk working with the state’s database failed to select the century, producing records for males born between 1993 and 1997 Wait so.. The US is drafting?
Right. It's essentially a ceremonial piece of paperwork, dating from a more militarized time (USSR etc) when un-computerized governments didn't have many other ways to keep track of its citizens. Nowadays, no human being really cares if you register anymore, because there's no draft, and if there ever needed to be, they could require registration again and track down the delinquents using computers.
So it'll probably be required forever. Wikipedia says the agency gets $24 million a year.
Re: 14,000 draft notices sent to men born in 1800s
#13Re: 14,000 draft notices sent to men born in 1800s
#14Is a pity they didn't show. Perhaps they need louder trumpets.
Re: 14,000 draft notices sent to men born in 1800s
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
The notice was for the recipients to register, which all American men must do when they turn 18.
Women isn't drafted?
No, as women weren't deployed to direct combat missions when the laws were looked over in the 1980s. [1]
Re: 14,000 draft notices sent to men born in 1800s
#16Re: 14,000 draft notices sent to men born in 1800s
#17A clerk working with the state’s database failed to select the century, producing records for males born between 1993 and 1997 Wait so.. The US is drafting?
Right. It's essentially a ceremonial piece of paperwork, dating from a more militarized time (USSR etc) when un-computerized governments didn't have many other ways to keep track of its citizens. Nowadays, no human being really cares if you register anymore, because there's no draft, and if there ever needed to be, they could require registration again and track down the delinquents using computers. So it'll probably…
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Re: 14,000 draft notices sent to men born in 1800s
#18"The glitch, it turns out, originated with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation during a transfer of nearly 400,000 records to the Selective Service. A clerk working with the state’s database failed to select the century, producing records for males born between 1993 and 1997 — and for those born a century earlier, PennDOT spokeswoman Jan McKnight said Thursday. ... The Selective Service didn’t initially cat…
That is what we call a y2k bug
Re: 14,000 draft notices sent to men born in 1800s
#19A clerk working with the state’s database failed to select the century, producing records for males born between 1993 and 1997 Wait so.. The US is drafting?
Right. It's essentially a ceremonial piece of paperwork, dating from a more militarized time (USSR etc) when un-computerized governments didn't have many other ways to keep track of its citizens. Nowadays, no human being really cares if you register anymore, because there's no draft, and if there ever needed to be, they could require registration again and track down the delinquents using computers. So it'll probably…
There are some consequences for not registering (can't get federal government jobs, can't get federal student aid) so it's not quite true that no one cares.
Re: 14,000 draft notices sent to men born in 1800s
#20"The glitch, it turns out, originated with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation during a transfer of nearly 400,000 records to the Selective Service. A clerk working with the state’s database failed to select the century, producing records for males born between 1993 and 1997 — and for those born a century earlier, PennDOT spokeswoman Jan McKnight said Thursday. ... The Selective Service didn’t initially cat…
That is what we call a y2k bug
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