Strange that the link did not intrigue you enough into landing the following URL (obtainable through the URL you sent) :
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_School_District/6:Curriculum,_Conclusion

A very big part of success in sciences is concentration and focus. While this kid may or may not know the subject, he/she was spoiling the learning environment for others. Such a person should be home schooled. If they are wunderkinds, the experience would help them grow faster than the coursework can make them. If not, good riddance.

Curiouser and curiouser. Please supply those numbers since the famous court case did establish that any such regulations on textbooks would violate the establishment clause. While it is conceivable that certain biology teachers in red states experience some social ostracism for teaching evolution in science class, there are no regulations of the sort you speak of. At least AFAIK.

I am not necessarily in favor of calling out the cops, but an example sometimes has to be made. If this kid is more interested in texting than in the math, then he/she should be chucked out of the school and be home schooled.

I do not understand the reference to creationist nonsense. Or do you folks imagine that every county in the US is like Dover, PA (the people there had the good sense to finally get rid of the neanderthals in any case) ?

Had this been another country, one more serious about education, and parenting, this character would have been given an immediate failing grade and forced to repeat. But this is America, and we molly coddle our kids, who generally end up laying an egg when it comes to technical topics in high school.

'nuff said.

... shoutcast ?

Pandora is a crippled app that does not even support the full power of shoutcast, which has been around for years.

Moonlight will always be at least one version behind the latest and greatest silverlight version in terms of features. And that will be dependent on Microsoft's latest game plan. Linux distros will be extremely stupid to fall for this de Icaza maneuver.

Linux for light tasks and windows for heavier ones ?? Yeah, right.

One man's pork is another man's infrastructure spending. What Republicans want is 100% tax cuts. Tax cuts (from the evidence of the last few times we have tried this) do not return as much in terms of economic activity as infrastructure spending does (the comparison is $1.02 vs $2.10 per dollar spent). And that totally ignores the modern reality of globalized economic interactions.

More damningly, since there is not much manufacturing left in the US, whatever money you choose to spend out of the tax cut goes straight to the Chinese or whichever third world hellhole the greedy US corporations are importing that week. Tax cuts made perfect sense before this age of globalization. Now, we are simply stimulating the Chinese economy while borrowing money from them. So, the Chinese get to see their economy boosted by each US tax cut plus they get to earn interest on whatever was spent by the US federal government. Can't think of too many deals sweeter than that one.

The current stimulus bill is utterly misguided. 100% of it should have gone to infrastructure spending (the stuff you like to call pork) with an explicit buy American clause (otherwise any stimulus would again flow to China). If we are going to borrow money and get deeper into debt, we might as well spend it on boosting our competitiveness and creating new future industries rather than giving a double fillip to the Chinese economy.

Of course. However, that has little to do with what we are talking about.

The Democrats have always been in the pocket of RIAA/MPAA/Hollywood types. Look up Hillary Rosen if you have any doubts. Republicans have scr*w*d up the country but on this issue, they have always been a better alternative. Not because they are more moral or anything, but because they are not as beholden to the Hollywood set.

It shouldn't be surprising that I had little issue with the second part of your response.

Given the general dumbing down of our political discourse, recent events, and the active hatred that exists between the left and the right wings of the two respective major political parties, I doubt that the population even has the foggiest idea of what freedom means.