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The explanation is really messed up. You can hardly tell where one year ends and the next begins. Can someone who's better at editing than me fix this, perhaps by putting a line across the page after each year? [[User:GizmoDude|GizmoDude]] ([[User talk:GizmoDude|talk]]) 19:11, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
 
 
 
This one slipped under the transcripting radar. I may do it. --[[User:Quicksilver|Quicksilver]] ([[User talk:Quicksilver|talk]]) 20:52, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
 
This one slipped under the transcripting radar. I may do it. --[[User:Quicksilver|Quicksilver]] ([[User talk:Quicksilver|talk]]) 20:52, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
 
:Do not talk about radars, just do it. The transcript is done right now, but the explain section still does need a big radar!--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 20:20, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
 
:Do not talk about radars, just do it. The transcript is done right now, but the explain section still does need a big radar!--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 20:20, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
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I would correct the entry in 2014 that says that the Taliban are the organisation responsible for the September 11th attacks. The more accurate explanation would be that The US believed Al Qaeda (the real organisation responsible) were hiding out in Afghanistan and that defeating the Taliban, and bringing stability to the country was an important stepping stone towards finding Osama Bin Laden. Of course we now know he was in Pakistan all along, but still that was the original rationale for invading Afghanistan.--[[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.192|141.101.98.192]] 15:27, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
 
I would correct the entry in 2014 that says that the Taliban are the organisation responsible for the September 11th attacks. The more accurate explanation would be that The US believed Al Qaeda (the real organisation responsible) were hiding out in Afghanistan and that defeating the Taliban, and bringing stability to the country was an important stepping stone towards finding Osama Bin Laden. Of course we now know he was in Pakistan all along, but still that was the original rationale for invading Afghanistan.--[[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.192|141.101.98.192]] 15:27, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
 
This further details stuff is wrong about the comic. The lines are just random answers to Google searches.  There is no explanation.  I move to remove this table, or convert it into links or summaries of the articles in the links.  This sucks. It is good enough as it is now without the table (as the table is random and the explanations on the table are incorrect. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.209|108.162.216.209]] 22:12, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
 
:Let's get to work on the table then. I'm adding suitable references to incomplete sections to aid as jumping off points, from where further expansion can be done on a case-by-case basis. Can you provide some inspiration as to which explanations are most egregiously in need of correction? [[User:Pmw57|Pmw57]] ([[User talk:Pmw57|talk]]) 01:44, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
 
 
As of 2014 I have noticed that a lot of US sites are moving from html to closed sources such as Adobe so the quote: "The prediction about GNU/Linux Operating Systems is ambiguous" is now fighting through government agencies. Users of Linux trying to access the volcano archive (once supplied by listserv using linux) now have to get access via Windows machines. This has to be the saddest computing news in a long time. [[User:Weatherlawyer|Weatherlawyer]] ([[User talk:Weatherlawyer|talk]]) 08:19, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
 
 
“The prediction about GNU/Linux Operating Systems is ambiguous, as Android (based on Linux) constitutes nearly 50% of the mobile OS market” — GNU/Linux refers to an operating system consisting of the GNU userland toolchain over the Linux kernel. Android is based on Linux but not GNU, therefore, it is irrelevant in GNU/Linux context. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.230.107|108.162.230.107]] 11:18, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
 
 
Can we change this to Incomplete explanation of the month? [[User:Foldark|Foldark]] ([[User talk:Foldark|talk]]) 22:03, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
 
 
2145:War... War never changes
 
(the Great War happens) {{unsigned ip|173.245.54.252}}
 
 
Is it just my reading, or does it say "ACHEIVE" instead of "ACHIEVE" where it says something about 192 UN member nations achieving millennium development goals in the comic? (It's under 2015.) --[[Special:Contributions/172.68.55.70|172.68.55.70]] 21:45, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
 
:No, it reads like this for me too. (Even on the original comic page, where I'd expect it to have been long fixed already.) --[[Special:Contributions/172.68.11.87|172.68.11.87]] 19:35, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
 
 
Some of these predictions seem very realistic. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.59.172|162.158.59.172]] 00:22, 25 December 2016 (UTC) Jawa457
 
 
I am not sure if this needs to be added or not since it was not happening when the comic was produced and it is not the government doing it but a private tech company microchipping its employees in 2017 [https://www.google.com/search?q=microchipping+workers&rlz=1C1OPRB_enUS709US709&oq=microchipping+workers&aqs=chrome..69i57j0.3111j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 Google results] since I do not know which news articles will disappear over time. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.62.231|162.158.62.231]] 12:03, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
 
 
I think we can delete incomplete tag. --{{unsigned|1337-PI|04:21, 26 February 2021 (UTC)}}
 
 
I feel it would have been funny, if a bit confusing, if the first few years numbers after 2037/2038 started referring to, e.g. 1970, 1971, before suddenly "Year 2038 bug finally exterminated". You know it's gonna happen... at least to some poor schmucks somewhere in the world.--[[User:Twisted Code|Twisted Code]] ([[User talk:Twisted Code|talk]]) 12:52, 22 November 2022 (UTC)
 
 
; The link is bad
 
 
[//origo.hu/gazdasag/20180822-az-usa-allamadosaga-rekordot-dontott.html Here]'s a working one. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.93.27|162.158.93.27]] 14:57, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
 
 
 
How do I add an Incomplete tag to the top? It's now 2024 so more stuff needs to be added. {{unsigned|Danger Kitty|20:18, 1 February 2024}}
 
:You just need the {{template|incomplete}} template.
 
:e.g. <code><nowiki>{{incomplete|This page will need updating to account for facts known up until the start of 2024}}</nowiki></code>, but you might instead prefer a version that follows a comment format more of <code>Created by THE 2024 EQUIVALENT OF A BOT - Needs to be updated to the current year. Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.</code> to blend in with the 'starter' version currently used and then tweaked... [[Special:Contributions/172.70.90.92|172.70.90.92]] 21:12, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
 

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