Subject:
|
Re: Cheap American shot (Was: NEW Mindstorms set shown (with picture!))
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.starwars, lugnet.robotics
|
Date:
|
Sun, 30 Jan 2000 22:40:36 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
2572 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.starwars, Clint Rutkas writes:
> <snip>That's because in Europe (Eastern Europe at least) kids mature
> earlier. At
> age 14 or 15 they already have to pick what they want to do with their life,
> whether to go to middle school or job training. By the time they're 18,
> they
> can speak at least 2 if not 3 languages while some 18yr olds in the US can't
> even locate the US on the world map.</snip>
> <rant>
> <snipped>
This is becoming rather a silly thread. The simple fact is that Lego put a
lower 'age' on the Mindstorm sets in Germany. The reason, also simple. They
are as most companies, worried about product liability suits in the US, so put
a very (unacceptably) high minimum 'suggested age' on the sets in the US to
try to avoid any suggestion of young children being hurt by the sets. It is a
simple 'fact of life' about the US, and nothing to do with education or
relative intelligence...
Best Wishes
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
30 Messages in This Thread:
 
  
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
