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15-Nov-04
15-Nov-04Feel free to start arguments with me about any or all of the following assertions.
| 01 | Factional terrorism is no excuse for state terrorism. |
| 02 | Faith is incompatible with Occam's Razor. |
| 03 | Babylon Five was the best SF ever to hit our TV screens (but not perfect - see under Mark Two). |
| 04 | Noam Chomsky should stick to politics, Roger Penrose should stick to interior decorating, and Andrew Lloyd Webber should stick to the ceiling if hurled aloft with sufficient force. |
| 05 | Anyone who advocated celebrating the millennium on 31-Dec-99 was a party-pooper (see under Y2k). |
| 06 | Come to that, weeks don't start on Monday, or spring with the equinox. And everyone on 0° should keep permanent GMT. |
| 09 | Heinlein's predictions for 2000 AD were laughably inaccurate (see under Heinlein). |
| 10 | No nation to which children are routinely expected to declare their allegiance can be entirely "free". [Let alone the UK...] |
| 11 | Free-market "Libertarians" are a greater threat to civilisation than Marxists. |
| 12 | All philosophy written before the Industrial Revolution is best forgotten. |
| 13 | "Dehumanising" technology is a step in the right direction. |
| 15 | Time does not literally "move" (see under Chronophysics). |
| 16 | English spelling doesn't need a reform - it needs a bloody revolution! (See under Spelling Reform.) |
| 17 | Society owes me a living. |
| 18 | Green chilli peppers go nicely with lapsang souchong. |
| 20 | Esperanto is rubbish - for rather technical reasons (see under Ranto). |
| 22 | You aren't necessarily entitled to your own opinion. |
| 23 | A single word is worth a thousand pixels. |
| 24 | It's perfectly possible to do without fame, wealth, domestic bliss, adventure, consumer goods, mystical enlightenment, sex, drugs and rock'n'roll... and still have an enjoyable and fulfilling lifestyle! |
| 26 | The interesting thing in the news is the gaps. [PS: The tabloids' coverage of John's disappearance hasn't improved my faith in journalists.] |
| 27 | By 2004 I'll be able to describe the things that happened to me in 1999 so that they sound hilariously funny, at least to Dilbert fans. [Alas for libel laws...] |
| 28 | Trade-format paperbacks are nothing but a rip-off. |
| 29 | The protestor who gave Churchill's statue a green mohawk deserved an Arts Council grant, not a prison sentence. |
| 30 | The only moral answer to "You're either with us or against us!" is "Then we're against you". (What is this, a War Against Pacifism?) |
(The missing numbers were retired as boring)