Posted by dgates on 12/01/06 19:18

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?"

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? Of course, that's "IF it's harmless..."

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?

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