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Originally posted by verbatim
But in all seriouslyness, 2001 sucked. Nothing good came out of it: recession (thanks Dubya!), terrorism (11-9-2001), adultery & policiticians (Condit & Ch. Levy), elections (Bush vs. Gore), sports (no olympics, riots, cheating, drug use and spousal abuse), and technology (DMCA, RIAA, MPAA, etc...). So much for the big blast of a beginning to the new millenium.
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Yeah. The recession was Dubya's fault. Pay no attention to the fact that my family, personally, watched our stocks deflate by nearly a million dollars all of 2000, before he was even in office. I guess that's just coincidence.
The Bush-Gore election was in 2000 too. Wow! That whole fucking thing, as a matter of fact, was sorted out in 2000.
If the only things that stand out to you, technology wise, in 2001 are the DMCA, RIAA and MPAA, maybe you forgot to read about all the other cool things that happened. I'll give you one right here: AMD's 760MP chipset, which I'm employing to write this post. Also, the DMCA took place in 2000, as did the beginning of all of the RIAA & MPAA strongarming. Napster effectively died in 2000. A lot of bad shit happened in 2000. About the only things that happened in 2001 were the Sklyarov proceedings and the Felten case & dismissal. BFD. But we also got cheaper components, better components, faster components, the GameCube, the Xbox, the Dreamcast at $50 a pop, advances in fuel cell technology, Slashdot being a horrible piece of shit, etc. 2001 wasn't all bad.