For years windows guys have been telling me how backwards us *nix types were for reliance on the keyboard. Now suddenly to try pump Wndows 8, the keyboard is a great thing.

WTF? Windows 95 was an unstable pile of shit, bits of Windows for Workgroups glued on to a terrible Win32 implementation. It was a rickety disaster released at least a year too soon out of fear that OS/2 Warp might gain enough adoption to fuck up the precious OEM model necessary to Redmond's survival.

Even Windows 98 was semi dubious until SE2, and modules like Winsock were rewritten so they didn't barf with obscene regularity.

It's kind of sad how some guys fall so hard for inflatable vaginas.

The Republicans are taking care of Norquist's puppets. The rank and file realize the Tea Party isn't just a cancer on the GOP, it's a potentially fatal one. They realize all to clearly that the only thing that prevented a total loss in Washington was gerrymandering, and with the major demographic shifts occurring even in supposedly rock solid red states, they don't have that long to get their shit together. Norquist will soon be forgotten, Tea Party Representatives will either be detoxed or marginalized.

It may be too soon for GOP hopes for the 2014 midterms, but Norquist-style stupidity has to been by 2016.

And then when the first big hurricane, tornado or tsunami of Paul's presidency kills tens of thousands because NOAA has been wipes out, I'm sure you will feel proud of having put an ideological fruitcake in the White House.

1998 called and want their attack vector back.

Yup. Mine came with Windows 7 Starter. Had plenty of spare Windows XP Pro licenses kicking around, so through one of those on it. It's got a 1 gb of RAM and a reasonably okay hard drive, so XP runs very well. I suppose if I wanted to, I could throw Ubuntu or Debian on it, and probably get even a few additional horsepower, but I do have a need to run MS-Office, and it's a member of my AD network, so it's just easier to go XP.

I bought a used Acer Aspire 1 earlier this year on Ebay, and it's a great little machine. Not terribly fast, but for what I need; taking notes, reading documents, email and the like it does the job nicely. I bought a low-end Bluetooth keyboard for when I need to do a bit more typing or coding. Probably the best $150 I've ever spent.

When were the Libertarians ever not part of the Republican Party. They have long been American Conservatism's useful idiots.

Marxist AGW scientists?

#include <irony.h>

The brain of the man very likely was different than 99% of the rest of humans.

There's no way to know because he's dead, but there's certainly a body of evidence suggesting neurological differences between genius level mathemetic prodigies to suggest that a poor young man from an Indian village who literally taught himself 100 years worth of mathematics was in possession of cognitive abilities beyond the average person's.

The amount of grey matter is an obscenely crude way to measure intelligence. What I find interesting is your need to make the man average and ordinary. Does the possibility that some have greater cognitive capacity than others bother you?

I suspect that you're quite wrong. The man was a mathematical prodigy. I don't think it was a matter of choice at all, but rather some sort of unique wiring

Hey look! Someone has a "solution" to our economic problems that involves forced sterilization. How novel and original.

Come out my testicles or my kids' gonads with your reversible sterilization tweezers and I'll give you an irreversible brain injury.

I hope your family is planning on getting rid of their firearms soon.