You mean it could have been worse? There could have been any less accountability for those that drove and continue to drive our economy head first into the ground? It's possible to go below zero on this one?

Umm... could I explain the general relativity theory instead? It's easier.

It's some 80s game show, right?

The question "How much C++ do you have to know for an entry level job" can be answered. The question "how much X do you..." not.

How much you have to know for an $X level job depends on the job. The more people can do X, the higher the level will have to be. Chances are that you need to know a LOT more C++ for an entry level C++ developer job than you need to know about some obscure assembler or industry machine language for an entry level job in that area, simply because there will be far fewer people with the relevant skill set and hence far fewer applicants.

Supply and demand, people.

Actually, even if you consider all the cold facts consistent with evolution "no hard evidence", then the soft evidence for it is still infinitely more than for any god.

There are hundreds of religions. If one assumes there is only one true religion divulged by god, the others are made up by humans. So, it is possible for humans to invent a religion. Now, about that "real" one... . Does it really trump the theory of evolution?

Bert

Intelligent design... I mean, take a look at the platypus. When it comes to this, I can only imagine god and devil sitting in a bar drinking, and after a few cocktails god doodles on his napkin and the devil yelling "dare ya!"

I don't remember which pope said it, but I think it sums up the general sentiments of the European Christians:

"The Bible doesn't tell you how the heaven works. The Bible tells you how you can get there."

And that's basically the position the Christian churches took here in general. Also because the mere idea of promoting new-earth-creationism would make them lose members faster than they already do.

Of course we have our stupid people. We just don't let them run the country. If in Europe someone stands up and claims that his imaginary buddy made the world and that we should teach this nonsense to kids, we don't sit down with him and discuss his valuable input and his interesting idea because every opinion is valuable and everyone has the right to speak his mind and other PC bullshit. We'd tell him to shut the fuck up so he doesn't embarrass himself even more by acting like a complete tool.

Maybe that's the difference.

You settle at the coast, I settle at the hill. You enjoy your seaside real estate, I get to shoot you if you try to escape the climbing sea levels.

Deal?

And that wouldn't even have changed anything in the last election, Obama already proved that he's a better singer and entertainer than he'll ever be as president.

Can we just fuse them back into the "Democratic Republicans" and be done with the whole show every other year? It's getting tiresome and it's mostly a waste of money and TV airtime, and in general a huge insult to the collective intelligence of the US people.

Seriously. Why not change the whole election game to something like the American Idol election? Everyone can vote as often as they like, corporations get a mass text rebate so they don't lose their right to choose who's going to make their laws, and the money for the messages goes to a fund for nations with crippled economies. In other words, hand it to the IRS.

And the candidates don't have to lie to us about what they claim they'd do, they have to sing and dance for us so they at least entertain us instead of just making us mad.

Yeah, he sure was more presentable and internationally not as much a liability. Other than that, well, same bullshit in a differently colored wrapping.

How can blue shit smell worse than red shit? Just painting it in a different color doesn't change that it's still shit.

Odd. That was basically what we'd have wanted from her to be an option.