On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 01:17 am, murdoch wrote: > >compulsory seatbelts, random breathtesting, standard national laws (0.05% > >blood alcohol), 0% blood alcohol for the first 2 years of driving (2 years > >probation, driving age is 18).
> There are dozens of differences or nuances one could attempt to > consider as theories for our outrageously high danger of driving snip a lot of good points... yes, I agree with your points and yes I did get a bit high horsey mounted... stepping down now... > statistics. Sort of like the freakish high numbers of murders here, > hilighted in Michael Moore's documentary.... the numbers are just very > high, or seem so. yeah, that was an eye-openning doco... (presume you mean Bowling for Columbine.) I kinda assume that people know the US is pretty screwed up and it still surprises me when someone points out that the reason it is screwed up is not as straight forward and obvious as one might think.... I have my own theories, specifically that America cannot see past it's own sucess and is very introspective.... concequently it cannot see any point of view but it's own when dealling with others.... This explains a lot, but not all the issues the world has with teh USA, so I do have to be careful and re-ground my reality occasionally (please note: I knock the USA, but my own country is so damn keen to abandon it's uniqueness and underdog-based sterengths and become an ooutpost for the US that it makes me cringe... I am sure if we had teh economic strength of the US we would screw it up just as badly - if not worse. Also, note that I believe that the US and hence the world is heading for a major fall.... I just hope it is sooner than later so we have some chance of recovering with some natural resources left and an environment capable of supporeting life still) there is one easy way to prevent death on the roads.... get rid of cars and trucks.... -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM:bulwynkl2002 It's a book. Non-volatile storage media. Everyone should have one. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get A Free Psychic Reading! Your Online Answer To Life's Important Questions. http://us.click.yahoo.com/cjB9SD/od7FAA/AG3JAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
