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It all goes in cycles.

Owen — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:20:28 +0000

We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in.
Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want.
Our knowledge as made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind.

Charlie Chaplin, the superb closing speech from The Great Dictator, 70+ years old and still as relevant today as ever.

Curious

Owen — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:31:00 +0000

“Today there is no one to correct a lie once it is told. The media, thanks to Republicans, has been concentrated in few hands, and they are not the hands of newsmen. Corporate values rule. If lies sell, sell them. If listeners, viewers, and readers want confirmation of their resentments and beliefs, give it to them. Objectivity turns listeners off and is a money loser.”
Just what I’ve been thinking too.. Amusingly it’s from someone who is also selling something, a book about modern-day Brownshirts.

Useful info

Owen — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 14:08:00 +0000

The Register really is a useful source of info, I especially like the way they tackle the really big stuff, such as why you have to shut your eyes to sneeze..

Long day yesterday

Owen — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:52:00 +0000

The Diana enquiry report came out. Drunk driver trying to outrun paperazzi, in probably the worlds safest car, three people were not wearing seat belts. They died, the one who belted up survived, that says more about this than any conspiracy theory.

Thinking of conspiracy, I feel really sorry for Mohamed Al-Fayed, I don’t blame him about his reaction because the British establishment -is- crap enough to have murdered her, but in this case an accident is the most plausible explanation.. And Al Fayed is a man who has lost his son and is in terrible grief, he has my deepest sympathy.

Voice or no voice, …

Owen — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 12:32:00 +0000

..the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.
- Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Göring during the Nuremberg Trials.

Well Said

Owen — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:46:00 +0000

“Ah, but that doesn’t matter in today’s politics. All you have to do is find a single instance of someone from the other side doing something similar to what you’re doing, and that makes it magically okay for you to continue doing it.

There are no ethics anymore. Instead of people striving to be ethical, they just strive to find other people being unethical so they can excuse their own unethical behavior.”
Too True.. from a /. discussion.

Internet ‘safety’

Owen — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 13:42:00 +0000

“…you can drill into your kid that the internet is full of weird people and christians.”
- ‘David’, in a letter to my favorite newspaper, The Register.

Modern Business

Owen — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:31:00 +0000

This is war. And wars for the customers’ hearts and minds are won by ridicule, bad manners and SHOUTING!!! And, above all else, never give in to reality.
- The Register.

Thoughts on infinate numbers of monkeys.

Owen — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 09:32:00 +0000

“This is what the inherent failure of Wikipedia is. It’s that there’s a small set of content generators, a massive amount of wonks and twiddlers, and then a heaping amount of procedural whackjobs. And the mass of triddlers and procedural whackjobs means that the content generators stop being so and have to become content defenders..”
From a ‘readers letters‘ article in The Register, which at least, has an editor.

Dr.Who?

Owen — Sun, 12 Jun 2005 21:33:00 +0000

Brilliant TV. Last nights episode (Bad Wolf) has to rate as one of the most fantastic bits of television I have seen in a very long time.