andrel wrote:
> On 30-5-2009 20:00, Chambers wrote:
>> 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.

According to the news, all kinds of people do things we know they aren't 
capable of.  That doesn't stop us from trying to regulate said activities :)

> 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.

In my opinion, said grown ups shouldn't be allowed to do things they 
haven't demonstrated an ability to handle :)

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On 1-6-2009 5:25, Chambers wrote:

> In my opinion, said grown ups shouldn't be allowed to do things they 
> haven't demonstrated an ability to handle :)

I think that would have a bootstrap problem.

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Patrick Elliott <sel### [at] npgcablecom> wrote:
> If I had a choice, I would use something like 
> a slim case, with a door on it, rather than the thing we have now.

  Also, the case doesn't have to be square. UMDs have more the right idea.

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Warp wrote:
> Patrick Elliott <sel### [at] npgcablecom> wrote:
>> If I had a choice, I would use something like 
>> a slim case, with a door on it, rather than the thing we have now.
> 
>   Also, the case doesn't have to be square. UMDs have more the right idea.

Technically, the cases aren't square or you could put them in sideways. :-)

What's a UMD?

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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> What's a UMD?

  I could have expected this type of question from Andrew, not from you.
Your google-fu failed this time, it seems?-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Media_Disc

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Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> What's a UMD?
> 
>   I could have expected this type of question from Andrew, not from you.
> Your google-fu failed this time, it seems?-)

Yes. All I got was university of <mumble> in Dublin. :-)

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Media_Disc

Thanks!

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"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
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> Patrick Elliott <sel### [at] npgcablecom> wrote:

> > If I had a choice, I would use something like
> > a slim case, with a door on it, rather than the thing we have now.

>   Also, the case doesn't have to be square. UMDs have more the right idea.

There's nothing wrong with a box form. UDO, IMO, is the right idea.

Another major advantage of a protective casing is the ability to have two
recording surfaces per disk (laserdisks notwithstanding).

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On Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:51:00 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> Warp wrote:
>> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>>> What's a UMD?
>> 
>>   I could have expected this type of question from Andrew, not from
>>   you.
>> Your google-fu failed this time, it seems?-)
> 
> Yes. All I got was university of <mumble> in Dublin. :-)

University of Minnesota - Duluth. :-)

Or University of Maryland.

Jim

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Jim Henderson wrote:
> University of Minnesota - Duluth. :-)

Yeah yeah. I forgot what I found the instant it wasn't the right thing. :-)


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On Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:04:04 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> University of Minnesota - Duluth. :-)
> 
> Yeah yeah. I forgot what I found the instant it wasn't the right thing.
> :-)

LOL.....I hate when that happens. :-)

Jim

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Orchid XP v8 wrote:

> Oh, right.
> 
> Well, if you have children around, you just have to accept that anything 
> remotely valuable *will* be destroyed, and there is nothing you can do 
> about it. I've seen plenty of VHS tapes destroyed by children - and 
> they're are armour-plated!
> 

Toddler hasn't destroyed anything yet ... :)

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Orchid XP v8 wrote:

> 
> Eat them?
> 

My son is cutting molars. He chews on everything. It's just like having 
a puppy around. For this reason, I don't usually hand him CD's DVD's or 
Blu-Ray's.

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Orchid XP v8 wrote:

> 
> As I said note... What the **** do they make the actual disk out of? 
> Because man, it's unbreakable! They should make shopping bags out of 
> that stuff!!
> 

Polycarbonate.

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Mike Raiford wrote:

> My son is cutting molars. He chews on everything. It's just like having 
> a puppy around. For this reason, I don't usually hand him CD's DVD's or 
> Blu-Ray's.

LOL!

I remember a little girl named Daisy. The thing she liked best to chew 
was... her mum, actually. Weird.

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Orchid XP v8 wrote:

> 
> No no - the floppy plastic bit inside a floppy disk. Seriously, I don't 
> know what kind of plastic it is, but... well *you* try ripping one!! o_O
> 

Probably acetate or polyester film.

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Orchid XP v8 wrote:

> I remember a little girl named Daisy. The thing she liked best to chew 
> was... her mum, actually. Weird.

Ouch! Toddler teeth are sharp! (Don't ask me how I know.. Lesson 
learned: don't feel for teeth coming in...)

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>> I remember a little girl named Daisy. The thing she liked best to chew 
>> was... her mum, actually. Weird.
> 
> Ouch! Toddler teeth are sharp! (Don't ask me how I know.. Lesson 
> learned: don't feel for teeth coming in...)

Her mum has a double-chin, and Daisy liked to chew on it.

Apparently if she wakes up before mum, she stands there and picks up the 
contents of her cot and throws them at the bed, one by one. If that 
doesn't wake mum up and she runs out of things to throw, she starts crying.

Pretty random stuff, eh?

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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> 
> Her mum has a double-chin, and Daisy liked to chew on it.
> 

That brings about a rather disturbing mental image..

> Apparently if she wakes up before mum, she stands there and picks up the 
> contents of her cot and throws them at the bed, one by one. If that 
> doesn't wake mum up and she runs out of things to throw, she starts crying.
> 
> Pretty random stuff, eh?
> 

Nice ...

Our boy will happily stand in his crib after he wakes up until someone 
comes in to check on him. We're not quite ready to move him to a "real" 
  bed that he can get out of. Once he has a bit of sense, and we put him 
in a regular bed, I'm sure we'll have some interesting mornings and 
bedtimes.

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Mike Raiford wrote:
> Polycarbonate.

Isn't that just a fancy word for plastic?

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On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:02:24 -0700, Chambers wrote:

> Mike Raiford wrote:
>> Polycarbonate.
> 
> Isn't that just a fancy word for plastic?

It's a rather specific type of plastic.  You can laminate polycarbonate 
to make bulletproof (bullet-resistant) glass, but you can't really do 
that with plastic water bottles.

Jim

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