That is a funny article. They could have added resistance to mandatory
seat-belt laws 15 years ago, protecting the sacred right to have your body
hurled through a windshield at 100 km/h.
Nat
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> This appeared in the Saturday, 2000-12-30 issue of the Sydney Morning
> Herald, apparently written by their USA correspondant. It writes about
> the inertia that prevades American culture, preventing such utterly
> simple, logical improvements to day-to-day life as 8 digit local
> telephone numbers, dumping the $1 note for the MUCH more convenient coin
> and 'metrics'.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> http://www.smh.com.au/news/0012/30/text/features12.html
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