Hi: This is the website for Owen Carter, a British guy who has been living in Amsterdam for the last 11 years.
I'm afraid there is nothing earth-shattering here, no solutions for World Peace, no cures for peoples ills.. Just a few of my photos and ramblings.
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 July 27th, 2011 |  OwenSarah – PayPal :
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You :
How do I cancel my account
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them all
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I found the following information. You can click to learn more.
- How do I manage my profile information and preferences?
- How do I close my PayPal account?
- I want to cancel a transaction
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How do I close my PayPal account?
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Personal
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Because you are a bunch of scum bankers
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Actually; I need to empty my account first; but their helpful savant at least showed me the way.
May 18th, 2011 | Owen
March 11th, 2011 | Owen
December 7th, 2010 | Owen “It is dispiriting and upsetting for anyone who cares about the American tradition of a free press to see Eric Holder, Hillary Clinton and Robert Gibbs turn into H.R. Haldeman, John Erlichman and John Dean. We can only pray that we won’t soon be hit with secret White House tapes of Obama drinking scotch and slurring his words while calling Assange bad names.”
- David Samuels in The Atlantic
November 18th, 2010 | Owen 
I really should try harder to remember this..
Embedded courtesy of XKCD.com and the beauty of their Licence.
June 28th, 2010 | Owen Getting a little problem with those inadequate idiots… the sex-pill scammers. If you see one of their sad adverts appearing in the comments don’t worry, it will be rapidly deleted.
April 13th, 2006 | Owen Nice products, but when I arrive at the collection counter and get ticket 160 I thought ‘great’ since they had just brought out number 157.
30 Minutes later I got the 36×40 cm piece of wood I needed to collect. It could of quite easily been in the self-service part, like the other 8 pieces of the small cabinet I was buying.
Needless to say I did not buy anything at the food counter which is ‘conveniently’ nearby.
Well, you transparent and crap prats, there are lots of nice furniture shops and I’ll go elsewhere next time.
April 10th, 2006 | Owen 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.
January 27th, 2006 | Owen Cingular tries to patent selecting emoticons (:-O) on a mobile phone.
The worlds patent systems are really, really broken.
September 23rd, 2005 | Owen
July 29th, 2005 | Owen Another interesting quote about recent events.
“I actually don’t blame the cop, this is what happens when the so-called leaders of societies see tragedy as opportunity to increase their control. They have hyped up their cops, put weapons in their hands and taken off the leashes, of course this is what happens.
We have spent generations teaching ourselves that a police state is not a safe, secure or free place. A police state is a terrorist organisation. The totally unjustifiable killing of Jean Charles de Menezes is either a warning to us all, or just the first name in what will be a long roll.”
- A Networked World.
March 18th, 2005 | Owen “Consider the usenet as a kind of asynchronous network. Consider the participants as nodes that connect and disconnect at random. Now consider the result. The value has *NOT* increased along with the number of nodes. Instead, the SNR became very small, and my belief is that the current SNR is negative, at least on average. There is still some good information to be found in pockets, but there is plenty of misinformation, too, and *LOTS* of noise.
I think the decisive factor is that the fanatical propagators of misinformation must be aware (at some level) that they are fighting against reality–but their response is to shout louder and more frequently, simply repeating their misinformation. Are they hoping that lies repeated enough times will somehow become true? Or they just hope to bury the truth they hate?”
Very interesting.. From Slashdot, a post by ‘Shanen’
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