Most Summer days, my parents (or grandparents) rarely knew where I was from mid-morning until dinner. And, that was in Detroit! Maybe they were just hoping I wouldn't come back!?!

As for free range parenting being "almost considered a crime"... http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

Yeah, because our friends are very knowledgeable about the ways of the world. Seriously, WTF can you learn from reading books. You sure as shit can't catch up on the latest Facebook/YouTube/Selfie/Cat video...Wattevah!!!

So, under UK law, who can grant authorization?

This is the most clueless post I've seen here. You've clearly never done any R&D, or worked on a serious (multi-million dollar) engineering project. Come back if you care, and do so w/o posting as AC.

This can't possibly be true. If it were...

For Democrats: Congress would be full of rocket scientists by now.

For Republicans: Obama would be a Republican by now.

You're not even close to the worst. http://apps.who.int/gho/data/v...

Why is this a problem? Fine them at their parents rate, and let the parent deal with punishing their kid.

As if speeding is the major cause of accidents. Clue: It isn't. It is however a major source of revenue for the majority of local police forces across the U.S. Take those fines away, and start issuing community service summons, and we might just start seeing police targeting dangerous drivers instead of eating donuts while they wait for their radar guns to buzz.

I'm all for community service punishments. It would keep the police from utilizing speed traps for revenue, as well as applying equal punishment across all socio-ecomomic statuses.

Unless you're talking about the extremely wealthy, everyone is in that position, not just the "Lower-income".

Unfortunately, no. But in all of the discussions I have with people regarding privacy, few outside of Slashdot seem to care. Maybe I'm working from a bad data set, but can you think of any examples where people raised enough stink about privacy to actually get changes enacted? I'm all for fighting the good fight, but I won't don't believe in swimming against the tide.

Do you really think they give a shit, when 99%+ will not care, and the overall impact still is in their favor? Or, when all of the other rental companies pile on, and you have no other options, will you boycott them all?

For the record, I'm against this move, and would likely stick electrical tape over any camera.

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Ditto. We had a guy from "Baaston", who was talking about throwing a "potty" at the end of basic. It took us a few seconds to realize he didn't mean throw a toilet.

So, we're supposed to get excited because it has water? It has virtually no atmosphere. And from Wikipedia, the temperature never gets above 152K (that's -186F). Which of those two factors is going to allow for the evolution of any life form?