On 30-5-2009 20:00, Chambers wrote:
> andrel wrote:
>> Try a child of your own or a grandchild.
> 
> If they're not old enough to handle it without breaking it, then they're 
> not old enough to handle it.
> 
> We don't let kids drive cars, use guns, or any number of other things 
> because it's understood that they aren't capable of doing so 
> responsibly.  

Read the news, kids do drive, fire guns order on ebay and do all sort of 
other things that we know they aren't capable of. Somehow they have a 
different opinion.

 > It's the same with optical disks; if you let them handle
> your optical disks, when you *know* they aren't capable of doing so, 
> then don't complain when they break them.

I wasn't complaining. Anyway as a theory it is sort of right. In 
practice there is only a limited storage space available above 2m and 
even that is not safe if you haven't bolted down your chairs and tables. 
Kids tend to surprise you with finding solutions to problems that you 
hadn't even though of (both s & p).
Note also that the idea of raising a kid is to try to let them learn 
things. Not letting them handle disks until they can will result in them 
never being able, so that is not an option. As a matter of fact we all 
know grown ups that in your scheme should be forbidden to handle them.

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