[watsisname]

So it's almost 2010 and we still don't have moon bases or space elevators or flying cars or computer chips in our brains yet.  I thought this was supposed to be the future, what the hell is wrong with this world?  As far as what did happen -- if you've been comatose the past ten years then you missed the world economic crisis, the explosive spread of the green movement, the death of Arthur Clarke, the election of a [half]black man for US president, and the source code project.  You might wanna check up on that junk.

On a more serious note, this decade sucked.  With any luck the next one will suck at least slightly less.  On that note I hope you all have an awesome New Years, party hard, be safe and prosper.
Cheers. 

[Blue Lion]

Looking around at the electronics we have, I wouldn't exactly say we didn't make any progress.

[Commander Zane]

I get to spend the entire first year of the new decade in Iraq!

[Nuke]

i expect 2010 to suck. i dont expect it to be any different from any other year.

[IceFire]

No wonder I'm so depressed.... if you all say it's going to suck ... then it will suck.  Hoping for a better 2010.  BTW the new decade technically begins in 2011.  And you know that is one year away from Armageddon.... again... until the next time it is but isn't Armageddon.

[Thaeris]

I for one am happy with having no electronic implants in my body. 

However, I do agree that the decade was quite effective at producing fail. Let's see: got kicked in the teeth multiple times at my old university, was unable to (as of this point) find a job (with the conveniant excuse that I'm a student... but I still have no job), have become enslaved to the financial institutions due to school loans, and have not done nearly all that I've wanted to do. Yes, I feel pretty much like fail. 

However, on the bright side, it can always be worse.

Cheers, foos.

[BloodEagle]

I for one am happy with having no electronic implants in my body. 

The Hell is wrong with you? 

I, for one, would absolutely love having a calculator implant. Among other things, of course.

[General Battuta]

Need more implants.

Must become like SHODAN.

[Colonol Dekker]

Only one more day of two consecutive  zeros, then it's a thousand years wait. Twenty ten, the year jupiter explodes. . . .
 
And the decade started with two thousand and one as two thousand was the last year of the old millenium
Check out basic counting, 1-10, 11-20 etc. Also you're born at zero so technically everyones older than their current age

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Well actually the whole damn thing was miscalculated and 0 was never accounted for so year 1 was like 32BC or something. 

So frankly we have no fraking idea what year or day it is.  Heck it's 4:20 AM and I'm wide awake so so much for biological clocks too.

[Colonol Dekker]

I wouldn't worry. That's the time I get to bed most saturday mornings anyway.

[Nuke]

time sucks

[Dilmah G]

With all seriousness, we need more hours in the day. As it stands, 24 hours isn't enough for me to sleep, live and eat.

[watsisname]

time sucks

Lunchtime doubly so.

[Dilmah G]

Australia, bringing in the new decade! 

[Colonol Dekker]

Before I get tied up with snogging some random women I haven't met yet, just wanted to wish HLPs patrons a happy new gregorian calender penultimate solar orbit celebration day!
 
Bring on twenty ten and BP2, BP1 voice pack, Diaspora demo and possibly TAP demo. . . .

[Sushi]

time sucks

Lunchtime doubly so.

 

[iamzack]

With all seriousness, we need more hours in the day. As it stands, 24 hours isn't enough for me to sleep, live and eat.

[Commander Zane]

Bring on twenty ten and BP2, BP1 voice pack, Diaspora demo and possibly TAP demo. . . .

Or even the newer INF and INFA.

But yes, definately BP2.

[Mongoose]

Check out basic counting, 1-10, 11-20 etc. Also you're born at zero so technically everyones older than their current age

When you're 19 years old, you're still a teenager.  When you're 20, you're not.  QED.

But seriously, so long as the count of years is an arbitrary number originating from the estimated time of a particular historical/religious event, why not just go with the more aesthetically-pleasing value for milestones?  As far as I'm concerned, there was a year 0, the millennium began in 2000, and we enter a new decade tonight.  Everything else can stuff it.

More importantly, here's to a less fail-tastic 2010!