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Lance Birch <lan### [at] usa net> wrote in message
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> I just find it disappointing that some people don't get what I mean and
> actually think the new millennium starts at the start of the year 2000,
and
> not the real start which is at the start of 2001.
>
Well I get a little weary of folk who can't see that while we all agree
that they may be mathematically correct about the number of years that have
passed, they are nonetheless quite wrong about when the Millennium ends. It
ends when we say it does.
But don't take it personally, some folk are just more literal minded
that others, right now, the less literal people rule...
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On Fri, 13 Aug 1999 16:16:15 -0400, Bill DeWitt wrote:
> But don't take it personally, some folk are just more literal minded
>that others, right now, the less literal people rule...
>
You misspelled "literate." :)
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Ron Parker wrote:
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> On Fri, 13 Aug 1999 16:16:15 -0400, Bill DeWitt wrote:
> > But don't take it personally, some folk are just more literal minded
> >that others, right now, the less literal people rule...
> >
>
> You misspelled "literate." :)
Troll !
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Ron Parker <par### [at] fwicom> wrote in message
news:37b47e81@news.povray.org...
> On Fri, 13 Aug 1999 16:16:15 -0400, Bill DeWitt wrote:
> > But don't take it personally, some folk are just more literal minded
> >that others, right now, the less literal people rule...
> >
>
> You misspelled "literate." :)
Hey! No fair!
Now I've got Breyer's Yogurt all over my monitor! Just when I was
going to type a witty and telling rejoinder about the value of a
mathematical mind being devalued in an age of Grade 8 reading level masses
of Astrology following minions of the Orwellian Newspeak driven media...
But now that I've been branded illiterate (and we all know how
painful -that- can be), I'll just have to say, "doy huh! I better go buys me
some lottery tickets befo them puters all get a y2k virus an I has to hide
up in the cellar wid my rifle and my cusins"
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On Fri, 13 Aug 1999 16:48:06 -0400, Bill DeWitt wrote:
> Now I've got Breyer's Yogurt all over my monitor! Just when I was
>going to type a witty and telling rejoinder about the value of a
>mathematical mind being devalued in an age of Grade 8 reading level masses
>of Astrology following minions of the Orwellian Newspeak driven media...
Sorry about your monitor. Really. But I think Grade 8 is exaggerating a
bit, don't you? That's far above average.
> But now that I've been branded illiterate (and we all know how
Where did I say you rule? :)
>painful -that- can be), I'll just have to say, "doy huh! I better go buys me
>some lottery tickets befo them puters all get a y2k virus an I has to hide
>up in the cellar wid my rifle and my cusins"
Ah, yes. The lottery. "Ya gotta play to win!" Because of the lottery
(aka tax on people who can't do math) my taxes are lower. I feel like
a winner. I'd say you have to play to lose, really.
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Ron Parker <par### [at] fwicom> wrote
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> Where did I say you rule? :)
>
< childish victory chant > I -RULE-! I'm number 1! I am the best! Best I
am the! I me best are a.... ummm... O yeah!...
... I Rule! < /childish victory chant >
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Ron Parker wrote:
> Ah, yes. The lottery. "Ya gotta play to win!" Because of the lottery
> (aka tax on people who can't do math) my taxes are lower. I feel like
> a winner. I'd say you have to play to lose, really.
My wife and I have invested a total of $12 (USD) on the California lottery
and have won a total of $5005 (USD) before taxes. There are some winners
after all. We of course stopped playing after the second win so as not to
diminish the accomplishment.
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On Fri, 13 Aug 1999 14:19:34 -0700, Ken wrote:
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>Ron Parker wrote:
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>> Ah, yes. The lottery. "Ya gotta play to win!" Because of the lottery
>> (aka tax on people who can't do math) my taxes are lower. I feel like
>> a winner. I'd say you have to play to lose, really.
>
>My wife and I have invested a total of $12 (USD) on the California lottery
>and have won a total of $5005 (USD) before taxes. There are some winners
>after all. We of course stopped playing after the second win so as not to
>diminish the accomplishment.
Oh, I don't dispute that. In fact, before I ever bought a lottery ticket
I was a winner because someone had given me a winning lottery ticket in
place of a bow on top of a Christmas gift. But I also win the lottery
every time I don't play, and that's a sure thing. I like those odds
better. :)
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Lance Birch wrote in message <37b3c7bb@news.povray.org>...
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>No, all I was saying is that in our current date system, according to the
>date it will start on 01/01/2001 not 01/01/2000 (because there was no year
>0).
No, the second millenium ended approximately 3,759 years ago.
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main(i,_){for(!_||(--i,main(i+2,i["FHhhTBFHdhTBFBQT\2TBF&]zRF$hh*:FHhh+&FBIs
bDF"]));i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_^=_,"\n")),_/=2);} /*-
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Ron Parker wrote in message <37b49064@news.povray.org>...
>Oh, I don't dispute that. In fact, before I ever bought a lottery ticket
>I was a winner because someone had given me a winning lottery ticket in
>place of a bow on top of a Christmas gift. But I also win the lottery
>every time I don't play, and that's a sure thing. I like those odds
>better. :)
Actually, the odds are even better when the jackpot (after taxes) is greater
than the odds of winning times the cost of a ticket. If you only buy
tickets when this is the case, then over the (very) long run, it is possible
to make a profit off of playing the lottery.
--
main(i,_){for(!_||(--i,main(i+2,i["FHhhTBFHdhTBFBQT\2TBF&]zRF$hh*:FHhh+&FBIs
bDF"]));i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_^=_,"\n")),_/=2);} /*-
Mark -*/
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