I think you've missed the bigger problem: Someone is wrong on the Internet!

Well with regards to
1) Kids are getting fatter, lazier, more sheltered, and less rounded. The best way to grow up is to run around and play and explore.
2) didn't realize i was debating.

Notice that your parents' generation said there was a problem with your generation as well. Unfortunately, things change. I think kids today would have just as much fun outside as we did if we showed them how to (and they do, just not as often as we did -- I can remember a lot of afternoons though where I had nothing to do because I wasn't allowed to play video games and spent much of the day bored -- sometimes outside gets boring too)... Maybe the problem is that parents today expect these things to be instinctual when in reality they were taught to us by our parents (and older cousins, etc.).

Computers have a lot of offer so it only makes sense that children (and adults) would want to get as much of it as possible. That's not to say that there aren't benefits to physical activity as well. Balance is best, but that's never as easy as it sounds.

If a person makes a statement on a.cc, and anyone who doesn't completely agree reads it, then it will be a debate at best, and a flame war at worst. That's why I like it.

If I thought you meant that, I'd flame you.

Any language whose code has to be generated by a program running in another language is all right by me.

Whitespace is in fact a reasonable language, it just implements everything as combinations of space, tab, and \n. That is, it has just as many functions as C or Perl or any other language meant for actual work, it just calls these in a weird way. To really qualify, a language has to have very few, or very limited or annoying, instructions.

Now print off a whitespace program and try and figure it out

Try to print perl off and understand it.

When I was young computers were expensive so I wrote programs on paper, and executed them on paper.

Coding on paper is for sissies, real hackers do it in their heads.

Thanks.
I should mention, I'm quite sure that, had the need ever arisen and assuming I'd be able to open the case and get at the chain, I'd have been able to figure it out.

As I said, I didn't think it was that great, but it's the best I could get. Better than the new generation of Mac laptops anyway. It's probably less new though, I've had the machine (and more importantly, the battery) for almost two years.
Six hours includes power management actions like dimming the screen and shutting down Firefox.

Yeah, I haven't fully tested just how long it'll last when running nothing but the desktop, on battery power. But I tested it a little.. the battery monitor itself estimates 3 hours max, at 500mhz, and doing absolutely nothing but updating the battery monitor I think at full bore, I'd get 1 hour, maybe 1.5.

If by 'fixed' you mean "pumped full of straw man arguments" then I agree.