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By his senior year of high school, Parker was earning more than $80,000 a year through various projects, enough to convince his parents to allow him to skip college and pursue a career as an entrepreneur. He won the Virginia state computer science fair for developing a web crawler, and was recruited by the CIA. While still in high school, he interned for Mark Pincus (the CEO of Zynga) at Pincus's Washington, DC startup FreeLoader. Consequently, towards the end of Parker's senior year at Chantilly, he was mostly writing code and starting companies. While there, Parker wrote a letter to the school administration and persuaded them to count the time he spent coding in the computer lab as a foreign language class. Parker attended Oakton High School in Fairfax County, Virginia for two years before transferring to Chantilly High School in 1996 for his junior and senior years. Since Parker was under 18, he was sentenced to community service. Because his IP address was exposed, FBI agents tracked down the 16-year-old. One night, while hacking into the network of a Fortune 500 company, Parker was unable to log out after his father confiscated his computer keyboard. Parker's father, who put his family before his entrepreneurial dreams, told Parker, "if you are going to take risks, take them early before you have a family." In his teens, Parker's hobbies were hacking and programming.

When Parker was seven, his father taught him how to program on an Atari 800. government oceanographer and chief scientist at NOAA. Parker was born in Herndon, Virginia, to Diane Parker, a TV advertising broker, and Bruce Parker, a U.S.

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The price we pay for using the road shouldn’t be death or serious injury. Instead of saying, “our road toll stands at 150", let’s say "150 lives lost on Victorian roads”. The fact is we’re talking about people who have died. If we accept this 'road toll' as the price of a rural lifestyle or getting from A to B, another 2,500 people will die in the next 10 years and 50,000 people will be hospitalised with serious and life changing injuries. These are not just numbers, they are people - someone’s child, mother, father, sister, brother, friend or colleague. By reducing people’s lives to a number, it makes it easier for the community to feel distanced from the issue. Road toll wording also has the effect of dehumanising road trauma. A toll is the price we pay for using something - with toll roads, for example, it’s a few dollars. The problem with talking about 'road toll' is that it implies that road trauma is an acceptable cost of having roads.

View data integrated on a map Why the change from calling it 'Road Toll' to 'Lives Lost'? Level of urbanisation Level of urbanisation Calendar year to midnight 4 November 2021