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Re:Chinese economy overtakes the U.S.’s to become the largest by Tyrannosaurs on Friday December 05, 2014 @05:43AM (#8703785)
Interestingly if you put in the cliche American free market priorities (jobs, income high, safety, work life balance, environment low, everything else in the middle) the US does come out top (as opposed to high but not top on a more even measure).

The same things seems to happen if you put in the sort of priorities other countries are generally believed to hold (so put in the environment, satisfaction, work life balance and so on and the Scandinavian countries leap to the top).

So if there is any truth in the cliches, countries do seem to optimise for what is important to them. Which I guess is what you'd hope happened.

As an aside there doesn't seem to be too much you can do to stop Australia being a great place to live - they don't have a slider for "Deadly animals".

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Re:Chinese economy overtakes the U.S.’s to become the largest by vince_refiti on Friday December 05, 2014 @06:32AM (#8703966)
The deadly animals in Australia are the same everywhere - people. The wildlife does far, far less damage.
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Re:Chinese economy overtakes the U.S.’s to become the largest by sneak on Friday December 05, 2014 @05:47AM (#8703803)
Government surveillance would be a good slider. Commonwealth countries are notoriously short on protections for things like that.
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Re:Chinese economy overtakes the U.S.’s to become the largest by danieltillett on Friday December 05, 2014 @06:12AM (#8703892)
As an Australian the thing that makes Australia a great place to live is the same that makes it suck - distance. It does have California's weather without the risk of earthquakes which is hard to beat :)
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Re:Chinese economy overtakes the U.S.’s to become the largest by pm90 on Friday December 05, 2014 @09:21AM (#8704578)
But does it have California's Jobs? :)
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Re:Chinese economy overtakes the U.S.’s to become the largest by Dewie on Friday December 05, 2014 @11:55AM (#8705449)
I don't know of anyone called Steve Jobs in Australia, no.
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Re:Chinese economy overtakes the U.S.’s to become the largest by berelig on Friday December 05, 2014 @09:48AM (#8704747)
What about drop bears?
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Re:Chinese economy overtakes the U.S.’s to become the largest by vorg on Friday December 05, 2014 @05:57AM (#8703834)
> Australia being a great place to live - they don't have a slider for "Deadly animals"

Australia has poisonous snakes and America has grizzly bears -- only New Zealand can claim no deadly animals.

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Re:Chinese economy overtakes the U.S.’s to become the largest by Tyrannosaurs on Friday December 05, 2014 @09:04AM (#8704493)
Australia also has crocodiles, box jelly fish, sharks, lethal spiders...

I don't think that I'm imagining that Australia has more species of lethal animals than any other country.

EDIT: Just to be clear, I'm not saying Australia isn't a great place to live. I've only been to Melbourne and then only for three weeks but it seemed great. There are just lots of things which can kill you there (though the Australian's have naturally got very good at stopping that happening).

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Re:Chinese economy overtakes the U.S.’s to become the largest by danieltillett on Friday December 05, 2014 @06:14AM (#8703897)
Obviously you have never met a drunk kiwi.
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Re:Chinese economy overtakes the U.S.’s to become the largest by seanmcdirmid on Friday December 05, 2014 @08:00AM (#8704259)
Kiwi fruit are actually from northern China and weren't introduced to New Zealand until the 20th century.
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Re:Chinese economy overtakes the U.S.’s to become the largest by tokenizerrr on Friday December 05, 2014 @08:22AM (#8704341)
Kiwi is slang for New Zealanders[1]. It is also a bird native to New Zealand[2].

[1]: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Kiwi&defid=20...

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi

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Re:Chinese economy overtakes the U.S.’s to become the largest by lostcolony on Friday December 05, 2014 @08:27AM (#8704359)
Not sure if that's just compounding the joke, but if not - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi
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Re:Chinese economy overtakes the U.S.’s to become the largest by seanmcdirmid on Friday December 05, 2014 @08:33PM (#8707998)
The submission was about China, not New Zealand, so forgive me for being a bit bemused.
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Re:Chinese economy overtakes the U.S.’s to become the largest by will_work4tears on Friday December 05, 2014 @08:59AM (#8704475)
Grizzly bears don't hide in relatively short grass and are very rare and limited to certain areas, and nor does America have spiders that bite your ass when you are trying to poo. Well, we might, but they aren't deadly.
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Re:Chinese economy overtakes the U.S.’s to become the largest by halflings on Friday December 05, 2014 @05:50AM (#8703819)
Their health index seems... unreliable.

http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/topics/health/

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Re:Chinese economy overtakes the U.S.’s to become the largest by BrianEatWorld on Friday December 05, 2014 @10:30AM (#8704968)
Any deficiency in the "Deadly Animal" slider is easily balanced by the massive surplus on their "Ute Availability" slider.
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