MS SQL is a better product, all around. Both as an engine, and the management UI. The integrated security features, integrated XML support, and of course the GIS functions.

But it costs money.

Cost benefit, dude. That's all there is to it.

Global warming is trivially demonstrated. The globe used to be cooler. Now it is warmer. That was easy.

And there's tons of Contact synching apps in the market. Pick one.

Or just using IMAP. Which works just fine.

Also opens up the possibility to optimize for specific ARM processors at runtime, or install time.

Yeah. As has been said, the community promise has nothing to do with Novell.

"but the extra time required to really get a FreeBSD box tuned will come back in spades through performance and stability metrics. You'll get more out of the hardware, be that virtual or physical, than you will on a generic Linux binary installation.'"

Prove it.

Sure. I'd care to hear it. If anything you just said was correct. But it's not.

"Questioning" evolution isn't science. Presenting evidence and tests to counter specific claims made by evolution would be. And scientists do that. Creationists try, and fail, a lot.

This is simple. Teaching about science and logic is okay, teaching about religion is not. When science and logic contradict religion, teaching that they do, isn't a problem. The position isn't to disparage religion, it's to teach science and logic. That religion is disparaged by that automatically is only religion's fault.