Janaury 2009 is "Your Fucked Month"

[Evil Robot]

Kicking off the worst month of the year so far we have Isreal invading Gaza, Somali pirates attacking random shit, the realization that Mexico will fail, Spontaneous riots for various reasons, now we have another for the list. North Korea has proudly announced that it has just completed the weaponization of 30.8 kilograms of plutonium.

And its all out fault.

[Evil Robot]

Oh yeah, and we just lost Circuit City. Now where will I buy the same crap I can get anywhere?

[pac-man]

It's good to know that 2009 is starting off on the right foot!

[Guitar Woman]

dibs on Mexico.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

It's also East Coast Freeze Month apparently.

[ZeldaQueen]

It's also East Coast Freeze Month apparently.
Lord, it's insane. In the words of Lewis Black, "Where the f*** is Global Warming when you need it?"

Oh yeah, and there was also that plane crash into the Hudson, though fortunately everyone survived that.

[Tadao]

The geese didn't.

[VaporTrailx1]

The geese should have known better and flown south months ago.

[ZeldaQueen]

Let this be a lesson to all geese on this forum: Never wait until the last minute when it comes to travel plans.

[Shrubfest]

Suddenly, the 'you're fucked' i was expecting this month has become a 'you're fucked' of a much better context.

[Abcdxxxx]

Are you sure January isn't just the month you became aware of the current climate instead? None of this popped out a box on New Years day. More people have died in the Congo, and the Chinese and Russian are jailing minorities left and right, without anyone caring....this is just getting started.

[Evil Robot]

Quit that crap about the rest of the world, your always trying to make everybody look like uncaring assholes by pointing out that they don't spend every waking minute solving the worlds problems.

[ZeldaQueen]

There've been problems the whole world over since life began. Time was primative life was probably worrying about the loss of ocean water and whether or not they could develop working lungs.

[Evil Robot]

Yeah but dinosaurs never had no nuclear bombs and shit.

[ZeldaQueen]

Nah, but they did have meteors and bigger, carnivorous dinosaurs to worry about. You ever see those "Walking With Dinosaur"-type movies? The narrator will be like "We can see the mother leaving her nest. The eggs will soon hatch. But the noise in the bushes indicates that a hungry egg-eater has other plans. The mother senses danger, but is not in time to rescue three of the five eggs. Then, an ancestor of the modern-day alligator comes out of the water, looking for dinner. The mother turns to fight him off, but she is too tired from her fight. She will not last long, leaving the remaining eggs defenseless..."

[pac-man]

What the fuck are you talking about? He's talking about this month being fucked up, not January of 27 million B.C. I mean, shit, I don't think we're going extinct this month. Not to mention journalism from that era is spotty at best.

[Evil Robot]

It is my belief that world strife progresses at the same exponential rate as technology. "International bad events" will continue to grow in frequency and grow worse with time.

[Evil Robot]

This is also the belief of the Discovery Channel.

[Dimnos]

Now they say coral deeper than 4,200 feet is dying. :tear What is our world coming to?

[ZeldaQueen]

What the fuck are you talking about? He's talking about this month being fucked up, not January of 27 million B.C. I mean, shit, I don't think we're going extinct this month. Not to mention journalism from that era is spotty at best.
My point is that the world's always had messes. We've managed to (more or less) stumble through, but it's kind of weird to think about it.

[kahljorn]

WE LIVE IN FASCINATING TIMES IN WHICH THINGS ARE DIFFERENT THAN OTHER TIME PERIODS! EVERYTHING IS FUCKED UP CAUSE THE EMPIRE IS GOING TO FALL. IM A PROFESSED MILLENARIANIST.

[Big Papa Goat]

That's millenarian. Millenialist is also acceptable.

[ZeldaQueen]

Speaking of Millenium, whatever happened to that Y2K thing? Wasn't there supposed to be some technological apocolypse? :\

[Alive]

Speaking of Millenium, whatever happened to that Y2K thing? Wasn't there supposed to be some technological apocolypse? :\

Your nearly a decade too late on that one. i think it would have happened by now. dont know exactly how young you are but nothing happened.

[ZeldaQueen]

I know nothing happened. I was in fifth grade when that came up. My teacher passed out copies of "Time Magazine for Kids" to us all and we read about it, the result of which was that I came home from school freaked out that the world was coming to an end.

Of course, come New Years nothing actually happened. Go figure. :rolleyes:

[Tadao]

That's because many people worked day and night to recode software so that shit wouldn't fuck up. Watch office space.

[ZeldaQueen]

Depends on who you ask. I've heard it argued on both sides. My dad's an engineer and he didn't think there was cause for concern.

On an unrelated note, I loved Office Space! Especially the printer. :lol

[Tadao]

My dad's an engineer and he didn't think there was cause for concern.

That's because many people worked day and night to recode software so that shit wouldn't fuck up.

:rolleyes

[ZeldaQueen]

That wasn't what I meant.

Oh, never mind. The point is that nothing happened while people were busy building bomb shelters. I remember reading about a girl who worried that they'd be stuck indoors and have to drink her water bed.

[VaporTrailx1]

"t was speculated that computer programs could stop working or produce erroneous results because they stored years with only two digits and that the year 2000 would be represented by 00 and would be interpreted by software as the year 1900" - wikipedia

If the system can recognize 1900... I don't know where to start with this.
If 1900 exists in the system, that would mean that they were dumb enough to have had an 8 digit dating system software that only saved info in 6 digit format, or that depended upon inferior programming of whatever OS.

I can't even come up with a good analogy for this. all I know is some programmers should still be serving time.

[Tadao]

1900 didn't exist. 00 existed.

[VaporTrailx1]

I just want to see what will happen when one of these computers hit's the same date over again. somebody should play around and see what happens if they got an Amiga or an early Packard Bell. BTW as a side note, some highway weigh stations still operate on commodore 64's and Amigas.