As far as I can tell, Windows 95 was the last Microsoft OS to support i386 (Win98 listed requirements call for i486, WinNT 4.x calls for Pentium, and so on).

True, but I think it's amazing they maintained backward-compatibility for this long, considering how far removed hardware architecture has gone compared to the 1980s.

It's not the federal government's job to protect individuals from their state. In fact, if individuals have a problem with their state, they can take it up in their STATE'S courts. Only if that fails does it get kicked up to the "highest court". As for your argument of a local majority trying to violate the Rights, could you cite an example where that succeeded?

Just like any other political party, you have extremes. My idea of a Libertarian candidate is one who would steer us away from being one giant state, back to the principles of being a Nation of States. Basically, the federal government should go back to dealing with foreign policies and interstate policies, and leave matters within the states to the states. Personally, I would like to see the states deal with drugs, education, and so on with the federal government only loosely coordinating matters between states. The way things are heading over the last 50-100 years, it almost makes me wonder why we bother with state governments anymore (yeah, not really).

Around 7th or 8th grade, we had a computer keyboarding and computer literacy class. I think I took both in 7th grade together, whereas they usually wanted students to complete keyboarding *before* computer literacy... I could two finger at that point faster than most of the others who'd completed keyboarding. It was what I would expect comp lit to be now -- the first semester focused on the history of computing, as well as the internals, all the way down to the bits and registers. The second semester was a somewhat limited computer math with BASIC programming. In high school, you could take a computer math course to learn logic and procedures in Pascal, followed by computer science which focused on real world problems. It was a very comprehensive course structure for its time, I thought. This was all in the early 90's. I have no idea what's taught now, but since I still run into waaay too many people who haven't a clue, I guess they dropped a lot of it.

Wouldn't surprise me at all if it begins here in Texas. I can't speak for all of Texas, of course -- it's a rather big state -- but, there are plenty of parts around here where we have a deep love of our freedoms. Many are grumbling about the slow erosion of personal freedom, and I'm waiting for the federal government to pass the wrong law or implement the wrong policy. It's bound to happen with the direction things are going.

According to the lubrication guides at my lube shop, it is. :P

Actually, I think it all depends on the person. In the case of my exwife, she HATED Star Trek when we first got together. However, when I was watching some season DVDs of Voyager, she slowly started watching more and more, until it became a nightly ritual to knock out some Trek before bed. After that, she moved on to DS9 (not so into it; Quark scared her lol), then TNG and Enterprise. To this day she's an avid Trekker, and has graduated to other scifi classics like Dr. Who. Others I've met started with DS9 or Enterprise. I suggest starting off with Episode 1 of whichever you choose, except TNG; start with maybe Season 3 of that one, as 1 and 2 are just too fucking cheezy overall... ;)

If I'm not mistaken, don't we already have at least one or two government agencies involved in information security? Why do we need to have more?

Was he installing using the GUI installer? Sure, it'll run XWindows with 4megs (it swaps a helluva lot), but when installing there's no virtual memory. Normally you'd run the text mode installer in such a limited environment. I'm fairly certain it installs with 4 megs.

seems to be great for finding television episodes. If you're looking for movies, zmovie.tv has been kind to me.

Unfortunately, not every child responds to taking things away. I've set up a progressive discipline process whereby I first take away her outside playtime. Usually this results in her throwing stuff around the living room and knocking things off the table, so I'll tell her no TV/dessert/whatever, which usually results in some sort of bigger fit, and me sending her to her room (if she's going to break stuff, she can break her own stuff). I usually have to haul her there myself, and block the doorway, and also make sure she doesn't try to break the door. I try to verbally calm her down, which usually does not work, and pretty much the only option left is a spanking. It used to be even worse than this, to the point that I had to hold her down until she calmed down (she has Asperger's Disorder), but an adjustment to her medicine (she's 7 now, and bigger than she used to be) seems to have helped bring her back closer to reality again. There's not much to take away from her, as she's broken everything in her room. She has a bed, a desk, a chair, and her dresser, each one with pieces missing, scratched, torn, or broken apart.

There's a difference between a spanking and an all out beating. When I have to spank my kids, first thing I do is step back and think...do I really need to do this? Am I calm enough? Sometimes I'm too upset, and I do a quick breathing exercise, re-evaluate the situation, and realize a simple "Ok, lets sit down and talk about this" works. Other times, like out and out disobedience (multiple times (room...ROOM...ROOM NOW!!)) it's just necessary. Watching the video reminded me a lot of my daughter, but I was horrified by the father's actions. I read in my local news that this incident was over freakin' file sharing. Really, dad? He could've taken the computer away, problem solved and hopefully lesson learned. At 16 years old, if she wasn't going to woman up and take her licks, he could have found another way to discipline. My daughter is 7... I can pick her up and bend her over my knee...I do NOT use a belt, and I do NOT use my full force. I can only imagine what his daughter's legs looked like. It's far too easy to cause damage with a belt, and she's lucky she didn't walk away from that beating with more than bruises.