To all of us:<br /><br />Since moving to Brisbane from Sydney, I have met 4 American families that have migrated to Brisbane, Australia, some before September 11, some after. These 4 that I met were all through this forum. In all my years on this planet, I have never seen any nationality that hates their country of origin like these 4. I have mixed with all nationalities, eg Arabic, Italian, Maltese, German and so on. Although some of these people left their country because of turmoil, but they still love their country till today. But when it comes to the 4 yanks, one of which is a very close friend of mine, they despise their own country of origin. As they explained to me its becoming unbearable to live there and when you read things as what Dave put above you wonder why. Us in Australia here are a bit luckier, we haven't gone that mad yet!!! And myself, I am over 50 and will probably be dead in another 20-25 years time and won't be around to see this shit introduced into Australia.<br />This is what going to happen, I saw this on an independent channel: In England, they have perfected the face recognition software that they say recognises criminals in suspect areas. The problem is the same company is taking on new clients like the company you might work for and it just happens to be that you take a sickie and tell your boss you are too sick to go to work but the camera spots you in a shopping centre, looking very well and definitely not sick. This is an invasion of privacy and to hell with the boss.<br />Last week, on A Current Affair, they showed these latest cameras in Western Australian shopping centres, everywhere, in and out, car parks, along the side of the road and they say they are only used to catch thieves but what they don't tell you but was exposed, is these were used to catch you not stopping at the stop sign, speeding between pole 17 and pole 18, calculated speeds between two poles, so you are speeding. What next, honestly, in years to come, the best place to live will be in the middle of Australia, away from everyone. Thats if they don't stick a spy satellite above you. Thumbs down to all this pathetic technology.<br /><br />Phil <img border="0" title="" alt="[Mad]" src="images/icons/default/mad.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Mad]" src="images/icons/default/mad.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Mad]" src="images/icons/default/mad.gif" />