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I tutor high school kids in the evenings in math and science. I just returned from a session with a 12 year old.
At the end he was telling me a story about a friend of his that had a GPS unit that allowed the government to track him. I said, "Huh, GPS just tells you your position. It's not a transmitter."
He: "Yes it is, it has a transmitter that tells other people where you are."
Me: "No, it's just a receiver that picks up satellite signals."
He: "No, if you have a GPS unit, it tells the government exactly where you are."
Me: "Why would the government need to know exactly where you are?"
He: "The police need to know, in case you commit a crime."
Me: "So everybody who has a GPS unit is being tracked by the police?"
He: "Yep"
I agree that kids today are much more conservative than they used to be, maybe more conservative than ever before in this country.
And that probably means that they'll be even more conservative as they get older . . . . . .
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