... the world was flat! Everyone believed it was so, so it must have been true. Wasn't until some lunatic named Columbus tried to sail over the edge that people finally started to listen. (I think there was some viking guy that was similarly predisposed to self-thinking, but he didn't have as good a publicist.)

Sorry, Gene. A whole world full of mathematically challenged lemmings driven over the millennium cliff by all the profit-motivated marketeers doesn't change the fact it takes a full 1000 years to have a millennium. You don't celebrate your first birthday until the END of your first year. Why would you celebrate the END of the second millennium and the BEGINNING of the 2000th year?

If casinos are going to make these false millennium chips, I'll collect them and help other collectors to get them from my area. But I won't give up my knowledge of the truth. How else are the casinos going to know to produce all those Millennium 2001 chips next year?