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I know I do. I hate it.

I'm a visual learner meaning I use most of the right side of my brain. Supposedly the creative side.

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What's Australia like you two?

Lived in Astralia my whole life, but from watching different things I think I have found how it must differ from the US. Our news is not as tragic, but it is going that way, gun laws are fairly strict, that means you can't pick one up at Kmart, infact my dad has to have the it desembled witht the screws out. We have a lot of Australian acsents, we use the metric system, from what I picked up in a business class we are less formal and do a lot of drinking at pubs, though government trying to turn it around. Our major political parties is the Libral and the Labor, at the moment Labor is in power and there is a lot for the working family, almost become a catchphrase. We have around 7 states/territories each with a major city, though the Australian capital has its own territory. we are about as big as the US but most of the middle land is desert and therefore near useless, for building towns. We drive on the left side of the road we pronounce Z as 'zed' instead of 'zee', we are currently having winter though it generaly does not snow. That means tha during the christmas time we mostly have a lot of bbqs, seafood isquite popular during that time. Is this enough?

Yeah, I think more of us are turning toward the BBC News. I think there's more bias then ever espeacially with the troops in Iraq. That's what I watch is BBC News and then some MSNBC News.



I wish it was here. I know most people like their guns but I think that's partly why there's so much fatalty in accidents and crime rates are so high. Most of them are related to guns not to mention that guy who was clearly insane before he roamed around the campuses of Virginia Tech College with an AK27 killing more than 30 people. Could've been worse had it lasted longer. I think if we had gun control, this would slow crime rates down even though it's just "not fair" to the National Rifle Association.



Well that wouldn't help. I'm a recovering alcoholic but that would sound like a dream come true for me....



You mean more working classes?

I know here, it's getting harder and harder in the economy. You can't live on minimum wage alone and the healthcare is real bad. No wonder there's so many homeless people then there was say...since 1998.



Yeah I don't know why they changed it here.



We seem to make uses anywhere including places that are prone to disasterous flood. Ashame most of the wildlife is going down because the phrase "eminant domain" is being abused. I guess the same would go backt to the past of the Native Americans who were promised to live land of their own and then look what happened..a massacre. That's why I respect the Native American culture, they respected land for what it was not for who's it was.



Mmmm....seafood!!



Yeah for now...I'll think of something though..

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I was talking about what Australia is like. A few things that I saw how we are different was from documenturies that are directed towards you guys, such as 'Bowling for Columbine'. But it is not all good, our farmers are being ripped off, theres drought and people are getting a lot of credit and we are importing more then we are exporting. And lately we have found out we are neglecting the elderly, so our news programs are rallying people to try and support them.

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Here's why I'm a little against the NRA.

I read a few of the coments and many of them said that the article was too harsh, I tell you that many Australians would think it is not harsh enough. I guess I don't live there so I can't get the whole picture, but have you seen the documantury 'bowling for collumbine', it pointed out that less guns meant less deaths from guns. Another point they said was that there is too much fear in your culture, deaths and crimes reported all the time make people edgy so they go out and get guns to protect them. And then there are people that are driven nuts from this scarey society that go out and decide to have a masacre, we have not had one for years, no time that I can actualy remember.

Yeah I watched Bowling For Columbine.

Good documentary but rember it's also meant to be somewhat bias meaning not objective but subjective. I think Michael Moore had some good points and the history of how the west was won..

I can't believe we're one of the very few countries for capital punishment, Texas being the f*****g HIGHEST!! !

The statistics of each state in capital punishment is startling!!

But America has some good things, who have a strong national identidy, with holidays backing it up. It is one of the most open markets which acording to what my ecconomics teachers said is a good thing. You get a lot of things cheaper, basicaly it is the modern day ancient Rome. Also they have started a lot of good trends in the world.

Yeah, I'm greatful but you know what they say, even the greatest civilization doesn't last forever like the fall of the Roman Empire.

I'm just a little struck with what our president's gotten away with. Espeacially the war with the war crimes in Iraq. I think he's made us look bad.

Other than that, you're right. I guess not everything's peachy anywhere you live.

And this two sided thing has caused me to refuse a lot of the terrible things I hear about how this county acts, and that some of the things my countries soldiers did to our enimies could not have been pure. I even think that even communism under the right thing would be good, but absolute power corupts absolutly, corrupting the whole system. If you have read animal farm you see how it seem so good but the top always want to get a bit higher and it turned bad.

^QFT.

I like the idea of socialism, and yet the PPR went crazy like that's just not right. But I never meant it in a way of communism. That's just the problem with the leaders like Fidel Castro who promised to better the country in Cuba after what it been through but then....corruption.

The thing is if humans corrupt that, then if we were to have a perfect society we could not be trusted with it. Begining to remind me of the matrix again. If you have a society where all given the same (idea behind comunism) then you get people who slack and ride on the rest of society. But if it is all for one then you end up with people being left behind, there has to be midle.