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GPS Tracking Device Beats Radar Gun in Court
MojoKid writes "According to a release issued by Rocky Mountain Tracking, an 18-year old man, Shaun Malone, was able to
successfully contest a speeding ticket in court using the data from a GPS device installed in his car. This wasn't just any old make-a-left-turn-100-feet-ahead-onto-Maple-Street GPS; this was a vehicle-tracking GPS device — the kind used by trucking fleets — or in this case, overprotective parents. The device was installed in Malone's car by his parents, and the press release makes no mention if the teenager knew that the device was installed in his vehicle at the time."
I have seen a GPS device, based on Windows Mobile, with two clocks! One was the GPS clock and the other the device (Pocket PC) clock. They functioned independitly of each other ( there was setting somewere that manually reset the device clock with GPS but was buried on the system settings...)
Kids aren't full grown adults and they shouldn't be treated as such.
They are, however, human beings and they should be treated as such.
You don't put a tracking chip in a human being. You put it in an animal. The kind of asshole who writes "I'd have my kids LoJacked" is just advertising what he really thinks of them.
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What if father really does know better? Honestly, I'd take a benevolent dictatorship over a "free" government. Look at the USA free government. Do you really feel that the citizen's best interests are being taken care of? Is that the reason those laws are made?
Most people care less about an abstract like "freedom" than they do quality of life. Look how many people in Iraq still wish Saddam was in power! It wasn't like he was even a good dictator, but there were many things that ran better and their own quality of life was better. I'm someone who is glad Saddam is gone, but there is an example of how many people just want a good life, not freedom.
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> Your arguments are filled with fallacies
I don't believe Marines are taught logic classes. In fact, it's probably frowned-upon, as it may interfere with them following some crazy orders.