Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 14:15:00 -0600 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net> To: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I will never trust NBC news again! Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20000101141500.009bac10@mail85.pair.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001011849090.9474-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.e u.org> References: <3.0.6.32.20000101111741.0080a680@mail85.pair.com>
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At 18:50 01-01-2000 +0000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: >Well it seems to me even the people who *know* (though that may be a very >small minority) that the millenium doesn't begin until 2001 would rather >just jump on the bandwagon with everyone else because it's a lot more fun >watching a calendar roll over to '2000' than '2001'. I have no problem with NBC watching the 2000 rollover. It is their reporting "news" that is factually wrong that makes me not trust what they say. I am not sure about the very small minority - I learned in grade school about when centuries start and end, and it was just an ordinary grade school. I agree watching the 2000 rollover was fun. But not because it starts a new millenium, but, rather, because to anyone my age we are now "in the future." When I was a school kid in the late fifties and the sixties, my teachers had a very utopian view of the year 2000 which, to us, kids, was way in the future. Welcome to the future. :-) Cheers, Adam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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