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tymen1 · #11 (**permalink**) 06-13-2009, 10:58 AM

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Originally Posted by phil838

Did the Aborigines get the same type of treatment in Australia that the Native Americans got here in the States?

Worse!!

In Tasmania they killed them all deliberately!!

The men were imprisoned and put to death.
The women raped.

The "stolen generation was then created - children slighly halfcast taken from their mothers, raised elsewhere, never to see their true parents again.

It is such an international disgrace that last year our Prime Minister gave a public national apology for the treatment of the Aboriginal race.

I personally find the Aboriginal people to be very loving and pure in heart.
I get on with them like a house on fire.

They understand this country better than anyone else and are truely adapted to it.

If I had to cross a desert on foot, I would not choose an African to guide me.
I would choose an Aboriginal.
They are without doubt, the worlds best desert crossers.

o990l6mh · #12 (**permalink**) 06-13-2009, 12:19 PM

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Originally Posted by phil838

I usually agree with you on forex matters, so now we finally have something to disagree about!

The no blood, no poverty aspect is what defines Star Trek. It's a more optimistic outlook for the future. Where would you rather live, the Star Trek universe, or the Star Wars universe?

I am a crazy fan though... I'm the type of nerd that actually goes to those Star Trek Conventions.

Any why in the world was the bridge all new and sparkly while engineering looked like a dilapidated oil refinery??

Yeah, you're right about the optimistic future view.

I've always interpreted Vulcans as the human ideal. But as we see in Star Trek their focus on logic and deeply buried emotions put them at a disadvantage to humans when truly creative and out of box thinking is needed.

Since humans are the same in Star Trek as they are today when emotions and rationality is concerned, it has always bothered me that their world should be so clean and good. I guess I just don't believe that the world of men can ever become such a place as long as our cave men genes live inside us.

For my part I'd like to recommend Battlestar Galactica. Quite possibly the best series I've ever seen. That's the kind of future (or past to spoil the plot) I imagine humans may be destined for.

Technology keeps pushing forward but human inner development lags behind. That's my view although I hope to be proven wrong.

Czar · #13 (**permalink**) 06-13-2009, 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by mastergunner99

Somedays I wish I could manage my life as I do a trade.

Pity there aren't any trend-lines to draw in a marriage.

Or a Fibonacci retracement for the workplace.

And how the heck do I figure out where to place the stop loss on friendships?

You rox!

Clint · #14 (**permalink**) 06-13-2009, 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by o990l6mh

I've always interpreted Vulcans as the human ideal. But as we see in Star Trek their focus on logic and deeply buried emotions put them at a disadvantage to humans when truly creative and out of box thinking is needed.

I agree.

But, I think Spock would be a GREAT forex trader!

o990l6mh · #15 (**permalink**) 06-13-2009, 08:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Clint

I agree.

But, I think Spock would be a GREAT forex trader!

Although I can't recall seeing anything about it in Star Trek, I'm sure that all Vulcans have been banned from all casinos on Earth.

And most likely the NFA has passed an anti-Vulcan rule as well