Having checked the stats... In 2007... children aged:
<1................... 57 drownings 1-4.................. 458 drownings (#1 rank of deaths by unintentional injury for 2007 in this age group) 5-9.................. 122 drownings apparently people get stupider as they age as opposed to smarter for a while... 10-14............... 102 15-19............... 630 and the numbers hover in the 300's/400's on up through all ages #1 cause of unintentional injuring causing death, all ages... Motor vehicle accidents... Drive safe. On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Tom C <caka...@gmail.com> wrote: > Having thought again after what you wrote Peter, I now feel there is no > solution that is enforceable for the problem. > > A technology based approach does not guarantee the problem still won't occur > the same way education does not guarantee it. > > Statistically I'd guess more children die from drowning in swimming pools > each year. > > (Not saying this is unimportant, which is the whole reason Paul wrote the > article.) > > Tom C > > On Jun 1, 2010 7:56 AM, "P. J. Alling" <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Boris, you equate my dislike of government control with a dislike of > technology? I can't even think of words about how wrong headed that is. > Your examples don't even make particular sense. We've gotten away from the > issue. > > Here is the contention. > > Parents are forgetting their toddlers in cars, who are then dying from > heat prostration. > > Your answer, force every person buying a car to have a special warning > device installed to remind parents that their child is in the car. > > My contention, is that this makes no sense. I didn't do an > exhaustive search but the numbers I was able to find suggest this is a very > rare occurrence. > (In the US this happened 27 times a year on average, for the last 10 > years, in a country with a populations over 300,000,000). > > I also believe that Government better have a pretty compelling > reason to force citizens to do anything, and this just doesn't rise to that > level, yes it's a tragedy, but it's in the realm of personal not public. > > You disagree but your main argument seems to be that Government > makes us to a lot of stupid things that cost money so what's just one more. > > I disagree and point out that there may even be an existing > technological solution that requires only a bit of effort on your part. > > You tell me I'm against technology? > > Boris, I love you man, but give me a break. > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBS... > > > > > -- > {\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 > Courier New;}} > \viewk... > > On 6/1/2010 1:35 AM, Boris Liberman wrote: >> >> On 5/31/2010 5:56 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: >>> >>> I won... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
