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06/04/2006 06:06:34 PM · #26 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by Spazmo99:
Me? I'll just get up and put on my tinfoil hat like usual... |
Uh ... someone did some tests and found that those actually amplify RF signals ... |
Yeah, Dave was telling me about that study too! some students at MIT did it |
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06/04/2006 07:21:29 PM · #27 |
As i said before:
Message edited by author 2006-06-04 19:22:29. |
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06/04/2006 07:29:22 PM · #28 |
Interesting Article.
Tuesday
The funniest thing is people are betting on the end of the world.
Message edited by author 2006-06-04 19:30:18.
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06/04/2006 07:35:30 PM · #29 |
| wait. help out a confused non-christian here. is 6/6/06 supposed to be the appocalypse, the day the anti-christ's rein starts, or the day he is born? |
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06/04/2006 07:45:23 PM · #30 |
Originally posted by danthesquidkid:
wait. help out a confused non-christian here. is 6/6/06 supposed to be the appocalypse, the day the anti-christ's rein starts, or the day he is born? |
None of the above. 666 is supposed to be the Devil's Number for reasons I don't recall, and the date correlation is just a point of amusement. The dates of the modern calendar were fixed about 1500 years after Jesus' death.
The Western Calendar
During the period between 1 A.D. and today, the Western world has actually used two main calendars: the Julian calendar of Julius Caesar and the Gregorian calendar of Pope Gregory XIII. The two calendars differ with respect to only one rule: the rule for deciding what a leap year is. In the Julian calendar, all years divisible by four are leap years. In the Gregorian calendar, all years divisible by four are leap years, except that years divisible by 100 (but not divisible by 400) are not leap years. Thus, the years 1700, 1800, and 1900 are leap years in the Julian calendar but not in the Gregorian calendar, while the years 1600 and 2000 are leap years in both calendars.
When Pope Gregory XIII introduced his calendar in 1582, he also directed that the days between October 4, 1582, and October 15, 1582, should be skipped—that is, he said that the day after October 4 should be October 15. Many countries delayed changing over, though. England and her colonies didn't switch from Julian to Gregorian reckoning until 1752, so for them, the skipped dates were between September 4 and September 14, 1752. Other countries switched at other times, but 1582 and 1752 are the relevant dates for the DBMSs that we're discussing.
Thus, two problems arise with date arithmetic when one goes back many years. The first is, should leap years before the switch be calculated according to the Julian or the Gregorian rules? The second problem is, when and how should the skipped days be handled?
taken from this site, which oddly provided the most concise explanation I could find on the fly.
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06/04/2006 07:45:24 PM · #31 |
Originally posted by buzzrock:
Interesting Article.
Tuesday
The funniest thing is people are betting on the end of the world. |
"the world a 100,000-to-1 favorite to survive Tuesday". Yeah but what about Wednesday? :P |
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06/04/2006 09:46:01 PM · #32 |
Originally posted by amandalore:
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by Spazmo99:
Me? I'll just get up and put on my tinfoil hat like usual... |
Uh ... someone did some tests and found that those actually amplify RF signals ... |
Yeah, Dave was telling me about that study too! some students at MIT did it |
The probably used Reynolds Wrap, which as you all should know is manufactured with special RF enhancing alloying elements placed there on orders from the Alien overlords that control the manufacture of Reynolds Wrap. This was perpetrated to take control of those of us who know how to foil (literally) the aliens' attempts to read our minds. If you are lining your helmet in preparation for battle with alien forces, avoid Reynolds Wrap at all costs. |
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06/04/2006 10:16:03 PM · #33 |
I have participate in almost all challenges this year but if there will be a 666 challenge I will skip it.
I do not like to make anything that can make evil look good.
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06/04/2006 10:29:06 PM · #34 |
Originally posted by Spazmo99:
The probably used Reynolds Wrap, which as you all should know is manufactured with special RF enhancing alloying elements placed there on orders from the Alien overlords that control the manufacture of Reynolds Wrap. This was perpetrated to take control of those of us who know how to foil (literally) the aliens' attempts to read our minds. If you are lining your helmet in preparation for battle with alien forces, avoid Reynolds Wrap at all costs. |
well, I'm pretty sure they factored in different brands of foil, lol, MIT is a pretty smart school... nice try though, :) |
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06/04/2006 10:54:59 PM · #35 |
| what's with 666 anyway? :p |
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06/04/2006 10:57:43 PM · #36 |
Originally posted by crayon:
what's with 666 anyway? :p |
came from the christian bible, and noone knows why, guess the scholars are still arguing about it |
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06/04/2006 10:58:54 PM · #37 |
Hit the reverse key and read the first couple of entries...
Originally posted by crayon:
what's with 666 anyway? :p |
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06/04/2006 11:03:53 PM · #38 |
Originally posted by Bosborne:
Hit the reverse key and read the first couple of entries...
Originally posted by crayon:
what's with 666 anyway? :p |
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Looks like yet another reason to have fear, making religious leaders more important than they really are :p |
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