Circle gets a square... to paraphrase what ever that game show is.
and to para-phrase the lady on cnn..
Isn't it amazing what the international community can acomplish when it
pulls it's head out of it's a$$.
I mean really.
It shocks me that we can acomplish this and people are still starveing ,
and bathing in the same water they (well you know) in..
On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Jeffrey A. Crum wrote:
> Hmmmm. Don't ya think that the hype about Y2K brought to light what people
> and companies had to do to make the fixes so there wouldn't be any problems?
> I am in the computer field and know for a fact that if we hadn't made the
> changes, our systems would NOT have worked. We are working with 10-20 year
> old code and they didn't even imagine that the programs would still be in
> use come 2000.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Etien T. VanDenBroecke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 12:20 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [newbie] New Millenium
> >
> >
> > Yes that is true, but it has been said that somewhere along the
> > lines we all
> > lost a year, so is it the year 2000 or the year 2001?? who
> > knows, all that I
> > know is that the media hype about the Y2K bug, looks like it turn
> > out to be a
> > big money making scam.......
> >
> > Anybody else agree? Example: three days ago a friend of mine
> > heard on the radio
> > that some fool went and purchased and re-wired his whole house, to on run
> > generators for the Y2K blitz!!
> >
> > HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL!
> > Etien
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, Daniel wrote:
> > > There is no argument the new millenium does not start until 2001. A
> > > millennia is 1000 years, there was no year "0", so 1 AD through
> > 1000 AD was
> > > the first millennia, 1001 AD through 2000 the second (see a pattern
> > > forming?) and the third millennia starts 2001. Just some food for
> > > thought...
> > >
> > > Dan
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Ernest N. Wilcox Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 07:25
> > > Subject: Re: [newbie] New Millenium
> > >
> > >
> > > > On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Warren Doney wrote:
> > > > | 00.32 01/01/00 NZDT
> > > > | Happy new Millenium all...
> > > > |
> > > > | --
> > > > | Full plate & packing steel! - Minsk
> > > >
> > > > I've heard all the arguments about the new millenium not
> > starting until
> > > > 1/1/2001, but I think we should all compromise, and make the
> > entire year
> > > of
> > > > 2000 a celebration of our miraculous survival for two
> > millemia. This way,
> > > by
> > > > the end of the year, no one will care when the third millemium starts.
> > > >
> > > > The finest the new millenium has to offer to all,
> > > >
> > > > Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> > > >
> >
>
