Three different reasons given:

1. I have nothing to hide, so why not share everything with everyone?

2. My privacy settings are on, so it's okay.

3. I don't care, I want to keep in touch with my friends that live in the same dorm that I also text obsessively and eat every meal with.

My generation is as anti-privacy as they are anti-copyright; they hate the establishment but love giving said establishment all of their data.

Old? That's practically futuristic. The old parenting technique goes like this:

1. Send child to work in a coal mine.
2. There is no step two.

Good thing you cite motorists.org rather than some, you know, reputable source?

I'm not sure any domain of the form $someword.com is intrinsically valuable when you can just type $someword into your favorite search engine.

Everywhere in the usa. if you kill a pedestrian with your car , you are at fault, you get manslaughter charges.

O RLY?

"Vehicular manslaughter is a kind of misdemeanour manslaughter, which holds people liable for any death which occurs because of criminal negligence, or a violation of traffic safety laws. A common use of the vehicular manslaughter laws involves prosecution for a death caused by driving under the influence"

Driving legally is neither negligent nor a violation of traffic laws. Ergo, unless you were driving illegally - drunk, speeding, running a red light - it would absolutely NOT be manslaughter.

There seems to be a common misconception around here that if someone is killed, somebody must be guilty of something. But it isn't the case, and it's nothing to do with the judge's discretion or how cute the deceased is.

In short, if there was no intent to injure, no negligence and no recklessness there's no manslaughter. If you're driving within the law (license, sober, roadworthy vehicle etc) then an accident is basically an accident and that's it.

One, your assumption that people automatically want to get out of jury duty is unfounded. Some people have nothing better to do. Some are curious. Some might even have a sense of civic duty. I haven't done it myself but I've been told it's interesting.

Two, I'd rather have 12 dumb ones than one biased one - which is the system countries like France do.

Three, it still isn't the prosecutor who decides, which is what you asserted before.

Finally, anyone who writes crap like "leave your fate in a group" is in no position to call anyone dumb. Good day!

France? Have you ever been there? If anything GP's comments are an understatement.

While I do not know for certain that they were going at 200 mph it was certainly not much below that.

As I understand it there's a gentlemen's agreement among German car manufacturers to limit it to 155mph. While it's probably possible to mod the car to override it I'd be surprised if it's as common as you suggest.

"Now, more than half of us can't be above the median, but half of us can be better than the mean."

Fixed that for you.

1) You list China as a country with "ideal" healthcare?

No, the *map* showed China as country with *universal* healthcare.

A country where they inject formaldehyde into a baby if it's a second pregnancy?

I suspect they aren't trying to cure it of anything, so that'd be a social/political problem rather than a problem with the medical system.

if you're gonna hire someone, would you rather have one of your employees vouch for them, or have to rely solely on the impression you've gotten by chatting for an hour or two?

Probably depends on the employee. I've worked with utter assholes that were recommended by people already in the company.

Do you have a brother called Bobby?