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Haha that's brilliant. An expansion of the classic "yes, but would you want them to crash twice a day?"

Now maybe computer users would be smarter if we required them to get a license before they were allowed to use them.

The there would be less users, less programs written, and dzone would not exists, because there would be like 10.000 programmers in the world :)

And what about the game industry?. "No, you are not allowed to touch a computer until you are 18 years old and get a license" Says the father.

Being from 1995, this is hardly a "fresh link" -- more of a "classic" -- and it's not particularly developer-related. But I enjoyed it anyway. The overblown, overhyped 1990s PC revolution left much of the public with way more computer than they are equipped to handle, unrealistic expectations, and poor understanding. It was a mistake to sell the computer as the new TV, and we paid for it in the form of time and frustration wasted on people who bought computers because "everyone is doing it" and had no idea what they were getting into, and mountains of processing power sitting around in people's living rooms being underutilized. This makes for a funny and realistic illustration of the experience that no doubt thousands of us had on the road to becoming the developers we are today, working support lines and/or being the default computer-fix-it-guy for dozens of relatives and acquaintances.