Aren't we all programmers here? Are we not all supposed to know how
count so that we can fix the Y2K bug? Or maybe this explains why there
even IS a Y2K bug to begin with.
BTW, I don't care about the start of the next millennium in 2001,
because I'm already living in the best time, the twentieth century !
- Kal.
Guilherme Nelson F De Souza wrote:
>
> Some one in this list sent the message below. I'd like to say
> that my original note was supposed to be a light remark, almost like
> a joke (for those who don't know or didn't notice, that's what the
> "emoticon" :-) at the end means). I apologize if it sounded some
> other way, or if it's an old "tiresome", "sixty-time heard" remark.
>
> Now... what is *your* excuse to be pedant ?
>
> Happy Holidays for those in 1999 BCE, and Merry Christmas for those
> in MCMXCIX BC. :-) (you see? this is a joke)
>
> gnd
>
> PS - Gloria, a special apology to you, if I sounded serious before.
>
> PS1 - People celebrate 100,000 mile reading on the odometers because
> they start counting from 0 (zero), rather than from 'I' (one)
>
> PS2 - "There are three kinds of people: those who can count, and those
> who can not".
>
> (by the way, the last two PS's were jokes too) :-)
>
> >Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 13:34:26 -0500
> >Subject: Re: [rtl] From Barcelona...
> >
> >To make a perfectly pedantic point (of which I consider your note to be a
> >splendid example), not everybody uses the terms "AD" and "BC" since; though
> >almost all people in the world use the Gregorian calendar, most of those
> >people are not, in fact, Christian. The preferred term is "CE" for "Common
> >Era" and "BCE" for "Before the Common Era".
> >
> >And I'm quite sure *everybody* on the list has heard every point you made
> >at least sixty times in the last ten years, and, like me, find it quite
> >tiresome. Folks are gonna celebrate the turnover from 1999 to 2000 the same
> >way they make special note when their odometers flip over from 99,999 to
> >100,000 miles. Enough, already, just grab some champagne.
>
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