>While on the subject of age, Mike is coming from an obviously selfish perspective. Isn't he about 18 or so? There is a reason the founding fathers framed our Constitution so that a person must be at least 35 to run for president. With most, age brings wisdom. It's a continual process of learning and the older you get the more you should know. Enlightening an 18 year old on that point is nearly impossible though. I know my dad went from being an absolute idiot when I was 16 to a genius when I hit 21. I am still amazed that I was able to teach him so much in those few short years!< VBG >

One thing I'd like to clarify: John said Mike's coming from an "obviously selfish perspective." I don't see Mike as a selfish kid -- far from it, as most kids his age aren't hanging out on technical forums giving excellent programming advice for free! But I do think that people in their late teens/early twenties tend to have more of a selfish attitude--as in a youthful ignorance <S>.

When I was in school studying the Constitution and learning that presidents need to be at least 35, I thought, "Why so old?" Now that I'm 38, I'm thinking "Shouldn't the president be older than 35?" (Though Strom Thurmond's kinda pushing the upper limit, there...)

Of course, I'd have better luck teaching pigs to sing than enlightening the average young adult to that fact <G>. But, in another decade or two, Mike's gonna be thinking we were all GENIUSES!!! :)

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