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25-February-2008, 05:07 PM
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New evidence for 2012 TEOTWAWKI!!!
It's finally official. 2012 is The End.
Here's how I know. Electronic circuit component makers mark their parts with a date-of-manufacture code, generally the month and year. For the smallest surface-mount devices there isn't enough room for four digits, so a letter is used to represent the year, and a digit or letter for the month (months 10, 11, and 12 are O, N, and D respectively). The year codes run from 1998, which is J, through 2009, which is W (skipping O and Q). Now, if you follow that pattern to its conclusion, you get X, Y and Z for 2010, 2011, and 2012 respectively. And that's it. Obviously, 2012 is the last year in which electronic components will be manufactured. Diodes, Inc. must have the "inside scoop" on the End of the World. The convergence of evidence is complete and unassailable. Okay, to be honest, I only started this thread so 01101001 would have another 2012 thread to add to his link list. 
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25-February-2008, 05:13 PM
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... or of course, with China being the up and coming nation, what about using chinese characters instead? That would have to be good for about 2000 years, at least ... 
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25-February-2008, 05:28 PM
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I'll also point out that, on the data sheet I'm looking at, they cleverly stopped listing the year code at W for 2009. That's clearly intended to prevent a casual observer from noticing that the sequence ends with Z in 2012! 
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Bring back Firefly! "It is quite clear that Occam's razor does not sharpen in your pyramid." (Nicolas) "Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest." (Paul Simon)
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25-February-2008, 06:13 PM
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Fortunately, those of us lucky enough to be spared by our reptillian overlords will learn their alphabet, thus giving us new symbols to use for future manufacture.
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25-February-2008, 06:19 PM
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No 2012 is not the end of the world, just the date when the Evil Government will release the knowledge about that super advanced technology making electronics obsolete.
Ups, I was not allowed to reveal this. Watch out for the helicopters...
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25-February-2008, 09:11 PM
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Teotwawki, interestingly enough, is the real name of the reptilian shapeshifters who secretly control the Illuminati New World Order. (And I, for one, welcome them. You knew someone had to say it.)
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25-February-2008, 10:14 PM
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Us Swedes continue the alphabet another three characters, so I suppose we'll be around for a while longer.
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25-February-2008, 11:22 PM
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Or, like the Mayan calendar, they can just start a new cycle over at A. Or use double letters, AA, AB, AC.... That should last a few years.
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26-February-2008, 01:42 PM
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26-February-2008, 02:56 PM
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26-February-2008, 03:07 PM
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(And I feel fine.)
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26-February-2008, 09:20 PM
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Around these parts it's pronounced TAY-oh-tuh-WAH-kee. Any other interpretations?
Oh, and 01101001... thanks and 
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27-February-2008, 10:58 AM
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27-February-2008, 01:03 PM
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PS: I know, a lame pun, but then this is my first on this board.
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27-February-2008, 01:23 PM
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27-February-2008, 01:29 PM
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