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Posted by Stan Brown on 12/02/06 12:50
Fri, 01 Dec 2006 11:18:37 -0800 from dgates
<dgates@spamlinkline.com>:
> On Fri, 1 Dec 2006 03:53:35 -0500, Stan Brown
> <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
> >Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:17:01 -0800 from dgates
> ><dgates@spamlinkline.com>:
> >> At our house, we almost always have a few DVDs lying around on shelves
> >> -- both commercial DVDs and home-burned DVD+RW's. How seriously
> >> should we consider an emergency change in our DVD-handling policy?
> >
> >I don't get it. When the cases are possibly safer and certainly no
> >less safe, and putting them in the cases reduces clutter, why would
> >anyone ever *not* put them in the cases?
>
>
> Well, there's no good answer to that. It's like asking "Why not
> always wash dishes immediately after using them? Why ever leave them
> in the sink for a while?"
False analogy. A better analogy would be "why not leave them on the
table?" But even that's not quite on point because of course the food
on dishes gets more and more obnoxious with time.
Taking a disk out of the player and putting it down anywhere but in
the case is like picking up the supper dishes and taking them to the
bedroom. It's silly -- it's extra effort not less effort.
> The basic answer has to be: If it's harmless to leave the DVD out, why
> not? Why not form a stack of 5 or 10, then put them all away at once
> later?
Because it's not just the discs, it's the cases as well.
Anyway, when you take the disc out of the player it's in your hand
and has to go *somewhere*. Why on earth *not* put it in the case?
> The real question is: How do you convince people (who don't seem to be
> noticing any problems from leaving DVDs out) to always put them away
> immediately? (even if it means delaying their instant gratification
> while they possibly, gasp, travel to another room to find the correct
> case for it?
I don't get this either. Why *would* the case be in another room from
the player and the disc?
Sometimes I just don't understand people.
--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
DVD FAQ: http://dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html
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