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  1. Re:Wrong objective on An Instructo-Geek Reviews The 4-Hour Chef · · Score: 1

    A proper "cookbook for geeks" wouldn't have complete recipes, it would have a bunch of examples of techniques - here's how to make a roux, here's how to make that into a white sauce, you can do a bunch of stuff to that white sauce now like make it a cheese sauce, that kind of thing.

    Julia Child, Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle already wrote that book.

  2. Re:"Dry wine"? on An Instructo-Geek Reviews The 4-Hour Chef · · Score: 1

    It reminds me of some research I read about how the totally inept (5th percentile) are so bad at something they don't realize it and think they're okay and have more confidence than the 50th percentile.

    This? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

  3. Re:First clue. on An Instructo-Geek Reviews The 4-Hour Chef · · Score: 1

    > protective layer of carbonized fat adhereing to it
      protective layer of polymerized fat adhereing to it

    There, fixed that for you.

  4. Re:Humility? on New Pope Selected · · Score: 1

    You seek to deny homosexuals the option of marriage because they are gay, but don't seek to deny heterosexuals the option of marriage because they are no gay, on the basis of your religious beliefs.
    That is bigoted. It fits the definition exactly.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigotry

  5. Re:Humility? on New Pope Selected · · Score: 1

    If he thunk hard enough, he'd be an atheist.

  6. Re:Humility? on New Pope Selected · · Score: 1

    This is Slashdot.

  7. Re:Humility? on New Pope Selected · · Score: 1

    Both beliefs are incompatible with reality. Relativism between two false beliefs is moot.

  8. Re:So what religion does he belong to? on New Pope Selected · · Score: 1

    They always had a fancier building that the Methodists over the road.

    The only thing that will outlive the church is the roof maintenance fund for the church.

  9. Re:Haters Gonna Hate on New Pope Selected · · Score: 1

    There never was a covenant. The covenant is crazy talk.

  10. Re:Haters Gonna Hate on New Pope Selected · · Score: 1

    Good one!

  11. Re:So.... on New Pope Selected · · Score: 1

    It's possible to be wrong for a really long time that way.

  12. Re:So.... on New Pope Selected · · Score: 1

    The danger in this is when a modernizer takes on the appearance of a conservative so successfully that he gets promoted to Pope. Then he goes all liberal on them and appoints hippies. It's probably one of the Malcom Gladwell tipping point things.

  13. Re:So.... on New Pope Selected · · Score: 1

    Just because they can change slowly, it doesn't mean they should.

  14. Re:OMG the Last Pope EVAR!!!!!!!1 on New Pope Selected · · Score: 1

    My mother does. But she's on a different continent and presumably in bed by now.
    It's always handy having a classics scholar in the family.

  15. Re:OMG the Last Pope EVAR!!!!!!!1 on New Pope Selected · · Score: 1

    But he may have has a very great friend in Rome called Bigus Dickus.

  16. Re:OMG the Last Pope EVAR!!!!!!!1 on New Pope Selected · · Score: 1

    The last time I checked, there was a bloody big Muslim dome on top of that rock, and some well armed men on the entrances.
    The food in Jerusalem is awesome though.

  17. Re:Humility? on New Pope Selected · · Score: 1

    >logical fail.
    >Whether you agree or disagree, you can be humble and have those beliefs.

    But you can't be humble and exercise those beliefs.

    I'm arrogant, but at least I admit it.

  18. Re:Humility? on New Pope Selected · · Score: 1

    It's an existential problem. God doesn't exist.

  19. Re:Humility? on New Pope Selected · · Score: 1

    I didn't get up in arms about anything. It critiqued the semantics of the article.

    What makes you think I'm a liberal?

  20. Re:Humility? on New Pope Selected · · Score: 1

    I ride a bicycle to work and cook for both myself and my family. Can I be pope?

  21. Re:Humility? on New Pope Selected · · Score: 1

    Yes. That's exactly what I meant. People read a lot into things.

  22. Re:Humility? on New Pope Selected · · Score: 1

    I didn't mention molestation. Where did you get that from?

    The truth is boring, but the still the truth. Bigotry is bigotry. These things are simple. People's thoughts are muddled by tradition.

  23. Re:Humility? on New Pope Selected · · Score: 1

    I'm against homosexual marriage

    Yes. It's more generally known as being a bigot.

  24. Re:So what religion does he belong to? on New Pope Selected · · Score: 1

    What if you run linux on a mac, running emacs in vi mode?

  25. Re:Haters Gonna Hate on New Pope Selected · · Score: 1

    I don't feel threatened. I'm just prattling around on Slashdot when I'm supposed to be working. If you want to see me write stuff I care about, start a cryptography discussion.