)In other news, Boris Yeltsin has resigned as Russian president, handing the reigns over to Putin. We weren't expecting that one until the next millennium, were we?
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/19991231/ts/russia_yeltsin.html
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The_Tom,
Special Millennium Edition
(And the power did stay on.. )
A News Addendum: Looks like the Indian Airlines hijacking has ended as well...
http://fullcoverage.yahoo.com/fc/World/Indian_Airlines_Hijacking/
Shaping up to be an interesting 24 hours.
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The_Tom,
Special Millennium Edition
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Elim Garak: "Oh, it's just Garak. Plain, simple Garak. Now, good day to you, Doctor. I'm so glad to have made such an... interesting new friend today." (DS9: "Past Prologue")
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CONSERVATIVE, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.
--Ambrose Bierce
Come Hither and Yawn...[/B]
And since it'll be new Year's over here in less than 10 hours, I'm off to get ready. You'll probably see me lift my head up from the pillow and croak for water sometime late (very late) tomorrow.
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"Obesity. Adiposity. Corpulence. Whatever word you use, it represents one thing: being a big fatass."
Geraldo Rivera
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Elim Garak: "Oh, it's just Garak. Plain, simple Garak. Now, good day to you, Doctor. I'm so glad to have made such an... interesting new friend today." (DS9: "Past Prologue")
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"20th Century, go to sleep."
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R.E.M.
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"The things hollow--it goes on forever--and--oh my God!--it's full of stars!" -David Bowman's last transmission back to Earth, 2001: A Space Odyssey
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Elim Garak: "Oh, it's just Garak. Plain, simple Garak. Now, good day to you, Doctor. I'm so glad to have made such an... interesting new friend today." (DS9: "Past Prologue")
Sitting here with just 4.75 hours remaining until The Future--- I can hardly wait for my affordable flying car and household robot to arrive. I feel just like George Jetson!!
DAMN! Now I gotta do my homework.
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--Then, said Cranly, do you not intend to become a protestant?
--I said that I had lost the faith, Stephen answered, but not that I had lost self-respect. What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is illogical and incoherent?
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
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Calvin: "You don't think humans evolved from monkeys?"
Hobbes: "I sure don't see any difference."
Federation Starship Datalink - Starship site of the new millennium.
Other than that, my computer seemed to work fine, except that shutting off the breakers also turned off my computer abruptly and it went into scandisk mode. How was everyone elses' parties?
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"I suppose you thought I was dead? No such thing. Don't flatter yourselves that I haven't got my eye upon you. I am wide awake, and you give plenty to look at."
Household Words, Aug. 24, 1850
From the Raven in the Happy Family
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--Then, said Cranly, do you not intend to become a protestant?
--I said that I had lost the faith, Stephen answered, but not that I had lost self-respect. What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is illogical and incoherent?
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
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"20th Century, go to sleep."
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R.E.M.
January 1 , 21000
*LOL* Didnt expect that huh ?
This also happened at the Istandbul Stock Exchange.
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"I am First Omet'iklan, and I am dead. As of this moment, we are all dead. We go into battle to reclaim our lives. This we do gladly, for we are Jem'Hadar. Remember, victory is life."
-- Omet'iklan Ds9:"To the Death"
http://www.geocities.com/travlyn2/index.htm
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Try River of FAILURE!
Not only did they fail to set the Thames ablaze, but that giant ferris wheel (which is a mighty eyesore, might I add) didn't pass safety inspection, so no one could ride it!
I loved the Paris fireworks though, THOSE were fireworks!
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"The things hollow--it goes on forever--and--oh my God!--it's full of stars!" -David Bowman's last transmission back to Earth, 2001: A Space Odyssey
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On a side note, I would like to publicly state that I am not responsible for any of these Y2K temporal anomalies. Just because I have the ability to manipulate time itself doesn't mean that I caused it to go out-of-whack.
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"We exist in a boundless time continuum. There is no weekend!"
- Zorak, "Hungry," Space Ghost: Coast to Coast.
Still, he's right. Crap fireworks.
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"Obesity. Adiposity. Corpulence. Whatever word you use, it represents one thing: being a big fatass."
Geraldo Rivera
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--Then, said Cranly, do you not intend to become a protestant?
--I said that I had lost the faith, Stephen answered, but not that I had lost self-respect. What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is illogical and incoherent?
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
The reason we're seeing all the 19100's and 2100's in places probably has to do with someone not knowing how the dating system they were using worked. In Perl, for instance, the year is returned as the current year minus 1900. In the 20th century this was a two digit year but not anymore. In the C standard library the time.h header can also give the year - 1900, IIRC.
In any case these problems result from someone seeing a year like 99 returned and assuming a two digit year system. Then they might stick a 19 in front of the 'two digit year'. When the year rolls over to 2000 we see something like 19100
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Regards,
Adam Bauer