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Because we try to teach multiculturalism without teaching culture. Australian schools tend to have a very basic, very isolationist view on history, geopolitics and religion. We could greatly reduce racial and religious discrimination throughout Australia if we made the understanding and...

It already is bad. The estimated death rate of the first wave is 0.4%. This includes figures from the U.S.A., before you claim this is because of Mexico being a "filthy hellhole" or some such. The rate for seasonal flu is less than 0.05%. The presumed mass of missed cases is not believed to...

Referring to ethnic, national or religious groups as filthy is an extremely unpleasant habit. Please refrain from doing so in future posts.

Re: what has this world made of kids? <<TABLOID RANTING ALERT!!!EVACUATE!!!>> Hyperbole. The question is not why the 6 year old had access to games. It is why no-one seems to have explained to it that driving is dangerous. Now we know why Children's Panadol has the heavy machinery...

Hotmail. More reliable than web-based Bigpond & gives me some really lovely spam*. *I am collecting.

This is very old. I read it on BoS last year.

Random fact about Schindler's List: The music during the opening credits is an instrumental version of the "Hungarian Suicide Song", which was translated into english for Billie Holiday as "Gloomy Sunday". It was rumoured for several decades that any person who listened to an instrumental...

Try reading "The Pianist". It's an autobiography, well-written, and regards all agents involved as humans rather than steriotypes. I assume that that's what you meant by alternative views?

I'll assume you're talking about the media frenzy. The actual epidemic is stillgoing strong (though the death rate now appears to be closer to 1% than 5), and it is likely to officially go pandemic this week - see Japan.

From the Wiki article:"She became pregnant after having sex with the baby’s father."

I tend to neither tan nor burn (I can but it takes several hours unprotected in UV-10+ days), and I am translucent. I stopped freckling several years ago and most have faded. I don't see any problem with dark or light clothes worn well (contrasting hair, socks or jewellry work as well as...

I'd say it depends on the service. I know one Mathematics tutor who charges from $40pp ph for group sessions til SC, $60+ for HSC individuals, works in her own home and is well worth the money. If I had found a similar English tutor, I would have been delighted to pay that much also. But...

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Or get a $7.95 pair from the reject shop. They have decent quality sound, are fairly durable and if the break after a couple of months you don't feel ripped off. My cat hunts headphones & I would not pay that much unless they were fixed location or noise-cancelling and very good. It's called...

Try charging it fully and then detaching the power supply and letting it run down fully as often as is practical for a few days/weeks (depending on your patience level). There is a chance that this could slightly improve the battery life. There is also a chance that the battery is screwed - talk...

The first human-pig transfer of this strain occurred in Canada the other day.

The aftermath of the pandemic would still be affecting public events - just because people have stopped dying by the thousand doesn't mean the survivors will be rushing to crowd into examination/marking/shopping centres/cinemas/parliament/etc.... Besides, there is a fair chance that the flu...

7 confirmed deaths in Mexico, 159 other deaths suspected. 1st death in the U.S.A. has been confirmed. NHS in the U.K. just ordered millions of facemasks claiming that pandemic seemed inevitable. :)

Re: hypothetically speaking, if Bush was to run a 3rd term, how many votes would he g Because 25% of Americans are retards, and if they want to vote for George W. Bush that's fine with the GOP.

I believe that capitalism would work much better if concepts such as inheritence were relegated to our feudal past. Each person should be given a set amount of money upon attaining majority and left to make the best of it. But, in the real world, I think a free market with an extensive...