If the kid is old enough to understand what GPS is, and you turn that alarm off, then it's not spying.

OTOH if they then leave the thing on, you probably don't need them to wear it.

Simpler to bug their cellphone, I would have thought...

Puppet-phobia doesn't seem silly at all to me. It sounds as if the kid's Uncanny Valley is in a slightly different place, is all.

The bravest thing I've ever witnessed was when a butterfly-phobic friend dared herself to walk through a butterfly zoo with me. Okay, she left nail tracks all down my arm, but she did it!

(I'm mildly stinging-insect-phobic. But, isn't that sensible?)

It is a repost, I'm afraid, although IMO a really good one.

According to Wikipedia they taste of whatever they've been eating. So you could get food poisoning off of this one. Plus, they're an endangered specie, so the point is sort of moot.

Running away and hiding.

I think maybe Hiroshima proved e=mc2.

It's a drillbit, part of the forerunner to our giant mining and tunelling machines. It's for mining soft cheese.

Here in the UK we would be horrified if the government did such a thing.

Of course, we don't have the money in the treasury to do it, but... :)

My opinion on the matter: It's obviously not a good idea. But, do I have the smarts to know what bad thing will happen if we don't do it? No, I don't.

Overall, though, colour me "suspicious".

This works fine if you assume that the things politicians say are in some way linked to how they behave in office.

Which, of course, is 101% true.

Forgive me, but an advertising company did this and got a design award for it. In what way is this "guerilla"?

I read to my daughter every night, and more times than not, our cat will turn up to listen.

I've no idea what she (the cat!) gets from the experience, other than her obvious pleasure at the sound of my voice.

It is odd, though, that she seems more likely to turn up when we read a story with cats in it...

I completely fail to see the point of making crossing the road illegal. Here in the UK you're free to cross any road wherever you like -- apart from a motorway, which pedestrians aren't allowed anywhere near.

What is the rationale behind this law? That crossing the road is dangerous and so should be illegal? Is jumping off a cliff illegal? Hitting yourself over the head with a wooden mallet? Sticking you finger in an electric socket? No. We know that these things are dangerous without a law banning them.
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Edwardian bicycle helmet former?

I don't see why internet dating would be any worse than dating via snailmail, for example -- which people did before the internet arrived.

Not that either is necessarily a good idea, you understand; it's just that, whether it's a good idea or not, it's not a new one.

He's not the only living WW1 veteran. You just need to look outside the US. So someone was sloppy here.

I live in the UK, and I pay £1.07 / litre. I make that $9.68 a gallon. *Now*.

Think of yourselves as lucky, folks. You get cheap gas over there.