Do you also speak for all parents in third world nations? How about parents in the middle east whose lives are defined by war and/or oppression? Are your kids representative of children the world over?

Or are you just thinking about yourself?

In fact, I think you've made the original poster's point pretty successfully.

The only unselfish parents are those who adopt.

Plus we learn more from our failures than from our successes.

When we don't try at all we learn nothing.

Just when you think something so ridiculous wouldn't work

1. Find a news story which is putting the government on the brink of declaring martial law
2. Issue an anonymous press release claiming responsibility with a ludicrously simple "mistake" which attributes authorship to the target

Then the only way to solve the problem is with a mass "I am Spartacus" defense.

Word processors did a better job than typewriters. Typewriters did a better job than pens. The new technologies improved use over the old ones.

A smart phone is not better at making clear continuous phonecalls than a landline. An ipad is not better at web browsing than a desktop. Neither gadget is a better camera, graphing calculator, alarm clock, dictionary, pen, translator, text input device, audio player, video player, or battery than any of its traditional counterparts.

The only thing going for the gadgets is that they are highly mobile, however there are big trade-offs. It's harder to do just about anything and therefore it encourages the user to be passive in every interaction. It also allows us to be disrupted and disrupt others at any time or place. It also makes it very easy to fragment our attention. A whole generation is growing up taking all this negative conditioning for granted; it's just a way of life.

If you consider the rest of the world as "anyone" then yes.

The azerty keyboard layout requires either shift or caps lock to make numbers. Entering numbers beyond a phone number or two is miserable without caps lock.

Additionally some programming languages and conventions use caps.

After you "borrow" billions of dollars from taxpayers you kind of have a responsibility to use your second chance wisely.

They have a proven track record of running a business which cannot support itself.

It's already hard enough to get people around you to take responsibility for getting help in an emergency. SMS is NOT guaranteed delivery. I occasionally receive text messages that were sent to me 4, 6, 9 hours earlier.

911 will follow up on phone calls even if there's no speaking or a hangup.

Here's an idea for people in a situation where they are able to text but not to place a phone call: text someone who can make a phone call and cares enough about your welfare to bother.