From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 1 14: 5: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from server03.gw.total-web.net (server03.gw.total-web.net [209.186.12.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 724CC14F3D for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2000 14:05:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jtilly@gw.total-web.net) Received: (qmail 17216 invoked from network); 1 Jan 2000 22:05:03 -0000 Received: from ip-165-157.gw.total-web.net (HELO frodo) (209.187.165.157) by server03.gw.total-web.net with SMTP; 1 Jan 2000 22:05:03 -0000 Message-ID: <001f01bf54bc$5f0c7520$0301a8c0@lothlorien.com> From: "Jesse Tilly" To: "Matthew D. Fuller" , "G. Adam Stanislav" Cc: References: <3.0.6.32.20000101101332.0080ceb0@mail85.pair.com> <20000101154420.A3800@futuresouth.com> Subject: Re: I will never trust NBC news again! Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 16:57:08 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 As much as I like to be "right", let's not forget that the calendar is a relative thing...it's not measuring *anything* accurately. Jesus' birthday is up for debate, the calendar has been changed for political reasons numerous times. Heck, some countries/cultures don't even use this calendar and have been in different year sets for, well, years...Two followed by three zeroes is neat. It's a story. Yes, people forget that they never count like programmers (starting with 1, not 0), but it's what the media latched on to, it's where the parties were, it's where the bug existed...it just is. If we're really going to nitpick, let's all start bitching about why the SI decided upon a time structure that only measures things in seconds and resorts back to European time scales for everything else...so much for divisible by 10. Jesse -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.1 for non-commercial use iQA/AwUBOG6iYwmK+av4UFSjEQK4JQCg9OxP/LxEt/0glW9FGZP4WB30b28AoPSz DDqzOtcylZPWqpVvDvbKQGk+ =1w5P -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message