I often make the mistake that people are as smart and as sensible as I am.

The original question was "If I want to be a developer is a Liberal Arts degree better than a CS degree.

The simple truth is even if someone has worked on a FOSS project you just don't know if they actually understand Computer Science. They might be completely self taught and know as much as someone with a CS degree or they may just know how to hack code.
A good code hacker might do fine but struggle with a race condition in multi threaded code or may not even know what a hash table is. Someone with a degree should know how to deal with both as would someone that did a good job at self educating.
So yes experience can trump a degree but I did say "Two people fresh out of college." So yea that is what I said.

BTW in College I did take class in critical thinking. I did very well in the class. In fact I got an A.

I wish that they had ported the FreeBSD userland. I am think FreeNAS with ZFS on Minix as a killer NAS solution.

But In Idaho, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, and even parts of Washington, Oregon, and California lakes and the sea can be a good distance from the fires or rare.
Also in the western parts of the US salt in the soil is a real issue.
Like I said, they can scoop on the sea but they prefer to use lakes. They have to spend a lot of time and fresh water to wash down after they scoop from a salt water source.
Of course in the Med you also tend to have calmer sea states than the west coast of the US.

That works great where you have a lake near the fire. ALso they really avoid using sea water. Salt water can cause issues. The planes are designed to do it but it is avoided when possible. Not only that but dumping salt water on the land in the west is also not the best thing for post fire recovery.

The US Constitution was an open declaration of treason against the Crown, which at the time controlled the most powerful military the world had ever seen. It was signed by farmers, lawyers, and doctors who had little in the way of protection against that army and little chance of surviving the fight. To say it was anything less than a suicide pact is absurd. The fact that few alive in this country today have their intestinal fortitude speaks volumes to why we're in decline. They had balls. Somewhere along the way, we lost them.

And if you don't think voting leads to people dying, you aren't paying attention.

Careful what you wish for. With the current generation, you might end up with iWar instead.