[mythtv-users] DPMS and televisions; some useful ideas and a question

Mark L. Cukier mark at pemicro.com
Tue Mar 8 19:12:07 UTC 2005


Isn't this topic better suited to the child-rearing list? :-) I find 300 
on-topic messages per day is enough for me....

- Mark

Brian J. Murrell wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 12:01 -0700, Shawn Willden wrote:
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>>I responded privately to this in some detail.  Publicly I'll just say 
>>that while this suggestion is good in theory, and certainly something we 
>>attempt to do, anyone who has raised a few children understands that 
>>teaching them responsibility is a long, arduous process, and that 
>>they'll fail at it innumerable times along the way.
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>You don't need to tell me and my children that.  :-)  But you have to
>attempt at every possible chance.  Consistency is the secret.  Teaching
>them responsibility only some of the time only confuses them.
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>>I prefer not to have my new TV a casualty of their failures,
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>Fair enough, but it's also inconsistent to let them fall back on "well
>it will turn itself off in a few minutes".
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