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20-Jan-09
20-Jan-09
Feel free to start arguments with me about any or all of the following assertions.
| 01 | Factional terrorism is no excuse for state terrorism. [True in the nineties, true now!] |
| 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 RAH). |
| 10 |
No nation to which children are routinely expected to declare
their allegiance can be entirely free. [Let alone the UK…] |
| 11 |
Free-market Libertariansare a greater threat to civilisation than Marxists. |
| 12 | All philosophy written before the Industrial Revolution is best forgotten. |
| 13 |
Dehumanisingtechnology 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. [The tabloids' coverage of John's disappearance hasn't improved my faith in journalists.] |
| 28 | Trade-format paperbacks are nothing but a rip-off. |
| 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?) |
| 31 | Wikis (with one glorious exception) function mainly as a way of losing documentation. |
| 32 |
The only real raciallink between Barack Obama and Colin Powell goes via the British Isles. |
(The missing numbers were retired as boring)