It would be an even bigger mistake if they did not bring enough air. Seriously-- you can't even breathe without that stuff and junk.

This part you got right.

Being aware of signs of trouble is a necessary part of what a good parent does. This particular technology is not a babysitting technology, such as TV (or invisible fencing?), that implies parental neglect or shirking of responsibility. This is probably worse, in that it involves clandestine monitoring, implying that you are suspicious of people you love. Neither provides a solid foundation for a relationship, but there is a distinction.

Sounds like a cheesy anti-smoking commercial, but I completely agree with the statement. Resorting to spying, snooping, or any type of deception will just damage your relationship because it means you mistrust your children. You should trust your children, but that does not mean you let them do anything they want without oversight or supervision. You trust them to make good decisions, but you keep an eye on them to help them when they don't.

My thoughts exactly.

• Have Better Teeth?
• Harass Baton Twirlers?
• Head-Butt Tinkerbell?

This one may be better: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_1-9-2010-12-30-3

That's your uncle talking.

Or, how about the reward is that you acted responsibly, doing what you thought was the right thing. Can't that be enough?

"The only reward of virtue is virtue." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's a great TED talk on the intelligence of crows.

I once worked at a fish processing plant in Soldotna AK (the good old "slime line"). One of my jobs was to wade into a big vat of fish guts looking for king salmon heads that were inadvertently discarded. I could barely move around in there because it was up to my thighs. I did not find a single one.

I have always read it as The Featured Article. Maybe I'm new here.

In Soviet Russia, bridge crosses you!

It's kinda like I accidentally colondotted your karma.

I'm sorry...I just accidentally modded this as Overrated. I meant to mod as Funny. I was laughing and my mouse jiggled at the wrong moment... I will comment to hopefully remove my mod.

You evidently don't know how big the Moon is, or how much momentum is in its orbit around the Earth. Indeed, the Moon doesn't quite orbit the Earth, but rather the Moon and the Earth orbit one another around a center quite a ways away from the Earth's center. Or you just don't know how much energy can be produced by a nuke plant - a very tiny amount compared to what's needed to push the Moon out of orbit into the Earth in any appreciable amount of time.

But if you want to keep carrying on about some fact free paranoia, that's your business. Lunacy, but your business.