Well come to think of it maybe I was a bit callous in my assesement of
Australian ingenuity.
**I would use the term: 'Moronic'.
The question is: If we can invent these things why the hell are we
running
such huge trade deficits?
**Because we are breeding a nation of morons. Just look at your own posts.
You are symptomatic of what is wrong with this country. You have barely
enough intelligence to put your underwear on first every morning. There
are a host of other problems too.
* Our goverments (Labor and Liberal) cannnot and will not think past the
next election. As a consequence, realy big, important things don't happen
in this country.
* Labor and Liberal are both beholding to big business influences and,
therefore, will not act to preserve the future of the nation, as a whole,
but only to protect business interests.
* Company CEOs and other officers are paid obscene amounts of money, to
ensure short term gains for their companies. As a result, the real value
of many large and important companies is gradually eroded.
* In most parts of Asia (Korea, Japan, Taiwan, et al) company directors
are paid relatively small amounts of money, whilst the people who do real
work are relatively well paid. I recall reading that one major Japanese
manufacturer paid its top engineers more than all the members of the borad
of directors.
* Australian companies pay lip service to R&D, preferring instead, to buy
technology from elsewhere.
Thanks for this link. It is quite an interesting product to say the
least.
**[SIGH] You're not getting any smarter, are you?