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Article #93470Re: "New MMX Comercial...WIERD OBSERVATION!!....WHY!!?"
From: Bill Newton
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 00:00
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In article <Wz1zkHAN...@the-raven.demon.co.uk>, Stevie Kay <ste...@the-raven.demon.co.uk> writes >>Because a Millenium is a span of a thousand years and accordingly can >>only be identified in looking backwards in time. >> >>Ater the year 2000 it would be in order to say "we lived in the second >>Millenium" because we could then look back and identify the 1000 year >>span that became the second 'Millenium. >> > >In which case we won't be going into but out of the new millenium. >Also it will be the "old" as opposed to the "new" millenium because it >will already have passed. By George, you've almost got it! Just try to remember that when a Millenium is 'born' it HAS, by definition,to be in the past! Therefore we can never 'enter' a 'new' Millenium as such, and we can only identify a span of time (1000 years) as a Millenium when that span of time has passed! Now concentrate hard and I'm sure you'll grasp it this time;-) -- Bill Newton
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From: Bill Newton <Bi...@notwen.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: "New MMX Comercial...WIERD OBSERVATION!!....WHY!!?" Date: 1997/06/16 Message-ID: <QPJpOHA+aNpzEwuq@notwen.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 248777426 Distribution: world X-NNTP-Posting-Host: notwen.demon.co.uk [158.152.40.97] References: <339ade10.4630363@news.tiac.net> <339afb04.5853121@news.hol.gr> <339c3101.1474150@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <01bc750e$7441ea00$5af62581@dferner> <daS67JArUInzEwO4@notwen.demon.co.uk> <01bc773e$7b8ac160$d5db0a26@elnnharrington> <nTyk5FAWtRozEwAe@notwen.demon.co.uk> <Wz1zkHAN0qozEwU3@the-raven.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,alt.games.quake,alt.games.duke3d,alt.games.mechwarrior2,alt.games.descent,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,alt,recipes.babies,alt.games.redalert,chile.futbol MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit