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  1. Re:His sign on Kansas Anti-Creationism Professor Resigns · · Score: 1

    What makes you think I think that humanities courses are devoid of content?

    I seriously don't understand what you're getting at. Just because a professor was friendly and not "all business", he's not professional?

    I'm saying that throwing ideas in the 'fat faces' of his students is unprofessional, not that professors should be dry and boring.

  2. Re:His sign on Kansas Anti-Creationism Professor Resigns · · Score: 1

    Nothin' fancy. State school in Texas. I had some mediocre profs, and some superb ones.

  3. Re:...And what are the US's legal limitations? on The New Air Force Mission? · · Score: 1

    What's your point? Do you seriously think that the President is going to get arrested for breaking a treaty?

  4. Re:Not quite on Kansas Anti-Creationism Professor Resigns · · Score: 1

    If you don't understand why atheism is not required of scientists, I don't think you've got the mental horsepower to be a good scientist.

  5. Re:It depends upon the Church. on Kansas Anti-Creationism Professor Resigns · · Score: 1

    You have a poor understanding of the New Covenant. You're not alone. Lots of fundies have the same problem.

  6. Re:Religious Violence on Kansas Anti-Creationism Professor Resigns · · Score: 1

    "religious leaders and their respective communities should actually teach what god and jesus intended .. compassion and forgiveness"

    All the religious leaders that I know, respect, and have long-standing personal relationships with do exactly that. They just don't get any press.

    "the leaders of the religious community have failed miserably to actually relay the teachings of their religion."

    You were listening to the wrong ones.

  7. Re:You don't get it either. on Kansas Anti-Creationism Professor Resigns · · Score: 1

    "Supposing something like that happened, might not you also resign?"

    Nope. I'd shoot 'em.

  8. Re:His sign on Kansas Anti-Creationism Professor Resigns · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Having an opinion that you can't express cogently and professionally is not useful for a college professor.

  9. Re:...And what are the US's legal limitations? on The New Air Force Mission? · · Score: 1

    Uh huh. I can really see the Justice Department indicting the President for treaty violations.

    The key root word of "enforcement" is FORCE. If there's no force, there's no enforcement.

    International law is just words on paper.

  10. Re:Gone on Woz Says Big Software Doesn't Work · · Score: 1

    Search box. Top of the screen. Type name of song. Song appears in window.

    I really don't understand what your issue is here. Double click on a song, iTunes plays it. If the ID3 tag is broken, fix it. iTunes automagically files it, and you don't have to care about file structure anymore.

    There is no bad.

  11. Re:Squeezebox rocks! on Review of the Squeezebox · · Score: 1

    That wasn't my point. My point is, faulty hardware is the responsibility of the manufacturer to fix, not for the customer to break out a soldering iron.

  12. Re:...And what are the US's legal limitations? on The New Air Force Mission? · · Score: 1

    "the treaty has the same force as any other law in the United States."

    Really? Who enforces those treaties? I know who enforces US law within the US (however capriciously and inconsistently), and I know who attempts to enforce US law outside the US, but who enforces these treaties inside the US?

  13. Re:Don't Worry on The New Air Force Mission? · · Score: 1

    Then explain the Joint Strike Fighter and F-22 programs to me. Seriously...I'm listening.

  14. Re:The Answer.... on The New Air Force Mission? · · Score: 1

    Umm, Sun Tzu talked about information warfare, and he was more than 15 years ago.

  15. Re:Legal Limitations?? on The New Air Force Mission? · · Score: 1

    Slashdot is an organization?

  16. Re:How about . . . on Tulane University to Reduce Engineering School · · Score: 1

    My undergrad advisor in the aerospace program at UT let me sign up for three lab sections in a single semester. He was an evil old bastard. That semester sucked a LOT.

    However, all three of the (very attractive) women in my class were in my lab group for one of those classes. That wasn't so bad.

  17. Re:ads? on Review of the Squeezebox · · Score: 1

    Way to take one for the team. Here's a cookie. (*)

  18. Re:Squeezebox rocks! on Review of the Squeezebox · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be better if they didn't build faulty hardware in the first place?

    "Hey, that's not a manufacturing defect! Just solder in this capacitor, and it'll work fine!"

    Uh, no.

  19. Re:Patents Limit Innovation on Creative To Defend Interface Patent Rights · · Score: 1

    "Societies don't have rights. Individuals have rights."

    Uh huh. And by what natural right do you prevent me from creating anything, even if you've created it first?

    IP law is not about natural rights.

  20. Re:Gone on Woz Says Big Software Doesn't Work · · Score: 1

    Why would you want to "work with files"? I just want to listen to music. Whatever works for you, I suppose...

  21. Re:Gone on Woz Says Big Software Doesn't Work · · Score: 1

    Uh, OK, I didn't say "Windows Media Player sucks", I said "I don't like Winamp's media library". I also dislike filtering through millions of skins to find one that a) works and b) doesn't make my eyeballs bleed.

    I don't really care very much about "more featureful". iTunes does what I want it to do, reliably and unobtrusively. Why would I switch back to Winamp, particularly since it doesn't work very well on my Powerbook?

  22. Re:Who cares? Should I? on Woz Says Big Software Doesn't Work · · Score: 1

    That's a pretty narrow viewpoint. I know somebody who wrote a 50,000 word novel last month for NaNoWriMo. I don't think he's got a vision of publishing it, but he just wanted to write it to see if he could.

    People climb mountains and build airplanes for the sheer joy of it, not because they think they're going to get rich doing it.

  23. Re:Refeshing change... on Woz Says Big Software Doesn't Work · · Score: 1

    Seems like it's working OK for them. How's it working for you?

  24. Re:Gone on Woz Says Big Software Doesn't Work · · Score: 1

    Winamp's media library blows goats compared to iTunes' database. The user interface could stab me in the face randomly, but I'd keep coming back because I never, ever have to care about what folder my music is stored in. I run a query, build a playlist, and it doesn't matter where the tracks are...it just works.

    That's a killer feature. Oh yeah, and I have an iPod, so it's a no-brainer. YMMV.

  25. Re:Enough power on Antispyware Shootout · · Score: 1

    Turning bolts with wrenches is for sissies. Be a real man and use your teeth.