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Feb 6 2011 07:10pm
Quote (ChessMastr117 @ Feb 4 2011 06:09pm)
aliens will kill us all :D


All of us?

When will this happen? :P

All kidding aside though, World War III could really begin in 2012.

Will the days be cut short?

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Feb 6 2011 08:16pm
Quote (Stryker957 @ Feb 4 2011 07:30pm)
not to mention their calendar didnt account for leap year, which wasnt discovered till the 1500s


not really because a year is still a year. anyways, they kept seasons time by the stars which is a more accurate way of judging than our calendar which has to drop a day every 4 years...
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Feb 7 2011 10:42am
Quote (juliusjuice @ Feb 6 2011 09:16pm)
not really because a year is still a year. anyways, they kept seasons time by the stars which is a more accurate way of judging than our calendar which has to drop a day every 4 years...


The long count calendar didn't even count "years" at all...the closest thing it has to a year is a 360 day count...so all this "they didn't account for leap years" talk is complete bs...
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Feb 7 2011 12:31pm
Y2K MOTHER FUCKERS
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Feb 8 2011 08:23am
Anyone remember the Y2K bug? rofl

e/

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Y2K MOTHER FUCKERS


he does lol

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Feb 11 2011 03:31am
We will all die. /end
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Feb 11 2011 08:44am
Quote (Misfortune @ 11 Feb 2011 10:31)
We will all die. /end


and you'll get banned :D
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Feb 11 2011 08:43pm
Y2K survivor here, bunch of nonsense, go about your life with no further regard on the subject, complete waste of your beautiful mind
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Feb 11 2011 09:15pm
Quote (Jacknimble @ Feb 11 2011 09:43pm)
Y2K survivor here, bunch of nonsense, go about your life with no further regard on the subject, complete waste of your beautiful mind

I'm fairly certain that Y2K was a legitimate problem. The thing is, people spent a decent part of the 90's updating computer codes to avoid the problem. An analogy of what happened is if you were driving a car and seeing a tree up ahead that if you hit it will undoubtedly total your car, so before you get there you turn your steering wheel and stay on the road.

Another similar (though fundamentally different) event is known as the Y2K38 problem, where 32-bit operating systems hit their maximum Time variable, and so they'll revert to January 1st, 1970. Luckily this problem's pretty much been avoided already by switching everything to 64-bit operating systems. I plan on keeping my 32-bit XP disk though so I can see what happens on January 19, 2038 at 3:14:07am.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
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