Capt. Cooley - Slashdot User

Comment Re:You are clueless if you claim such a thing (Score 1) 1131

by Capt. Cooley on Wednesday April 21, 2010 @02:04PM (#31927364) Attached to: Extremists Warn <em>South Park</em> Creators Over Muhammad In a Bear Suit

You really think that Al Queda is motivated by religion more than politics? You might want to look at Middle Eastern history since the formation of the Ottoman Empire and focus on the role of Islam over that period (up until today). AFAIK, I've never even heard that Al Queda wants to impose a caliphate world order, and if they've ever said that I have a hard time believing they are actually working towards that.

Comment Re:Bizarrre (Score 1) 1721

by Capt. Cooley on Friday October 09, 2009 @11:53AM (#29694143) Attached to: Barack Obama Wins the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize

I'm distant geographically from the guy but really I don't thing he's done enough to deserve this.

Comment Re:For what? (Score 1) 1721

by Capt. Cooley on Friday October 09, 2009 @11:48AM (#29694043) Attached to: Barack Obama Wins the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize

that was terrible, and should be modded through the roof

Comment Re:Waitaminute. Didn't we just bomb (Score 1) 1721

by Capt. Cooley on Friday October 09, 2009 @11:44AM (#29693955) Attached to: Barack Obama Wins the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize

You surely don't mean before the invasion, do you? He wasn't elected to the Senate until after the invasion, around the time when it was 'cool' to be against it.

Comment Re:For being the opposite of Bush (Score 1) 1721

by Capt. Cooley on Friday October 09, 2009 @11:34AM (#29693777) Attached to: Barack Obama Wins the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize

>And instead of just saying "congratulations" and moving on, they have to keep gripping about how undeserved it is. Trying to tear down the award because it makes them look bad.

You're joking, right? People are still just waking up to this news, it literally just happened, and this is the first wave of reactions.

Try again in a few months.

Comment Re:For being the opposite of Bush (Score 1) 1721

by Capt. Cooley on Friday October 09, 2009 @11:30AM (#29693709) Attached to: Barack Obama Wins the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize

He didn't say 'majority of Muslim believers', he said 'Muslim religious authorities'. They aren't the same thing. It's more like Popes and Bishops than Protestantism, where every congregation is unique, even if Islam isn't very structured (like Catholicism is) at the moment.

Comment Re:Missing option: shift (Score 1) 939

by Capt. Cooley on Saturday October 03, 2009 @12:48AM (#29624269) Attached to: The Most Useless Key On My Keyboard Is...

the parent should be modded +5 funny, easily.

Comment Obvious omission (Score 3, Insightful) 103

by Capt. Cooley on Tuesday August 11, 2009 @12:33AM (#29019565) Attached to: How Famous OS Logos Got Started

Why not discuss the Apple apple logo and how it changed from Newton to rainbow colors to it's current stark white? IMO the most interesting logo story...

Comment Re:Nice business model (Score 2, Insightful) 57

by Capt. Cooley on Saturday July 18, 2009 @01:44AM (#28738523) Attached to: <em>Rock Band</em> To Allow Independent Artists To Add Their Own Songs

the artists still get recognition, though, from having their songs available in the game. and if the song gets popular enough, that can translate into itunes and amazon mp3 downloads, and possibly into album sales.

Comment High end Electronics (Score 1) 396

by Capt. Cooley on Monday July 13, 2009 @05:14AM (#28673737) Attached to: My toy collection is ...

All my toys these days are high end electronics.

Comment Re:What if we take away too much wind? (Score 1) 867

by Capt. Cooley on Monday June 22, 2009 @11:17PM (#28434033) Attached to: Wind Could Provide 100% of World Energy Needs

I'm really sorry, but you tried too hard.
I mean, my sarcasm detector just exploded on my desk, and it wasn't even plugged in to anything.

Comment Re:Freeze and play dead? (Score 1) 803

by Capt. Cooley on Monday June 08, 2009 @02:32AM (#28247663) Attached to: How Do You Greet an Extraterrestrial?

Author's name is Harry Turtledove, for those interested.

I greatly enjoyed what I could find of his books at my local library.

Comment Re:Mirror (Score 1) 167

by Capt. Cooley on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @01:36PM (#28198343) Attached to: Secret US List of Civil Nuclear Sites Released

thanks, this is actually the only reason I went to the comments, to find a link to the actual doc.

Cue the Dept. of Homeland Security in three... two...

Comment Re:Release should be fine (Score 1) 410

by Capt. Cooley on Wednesday May 27, 2009 @01:48PM (#28112429) Attached to: Zune HD Unveiled, Set For Fall Release

I'm happy about this, it sounds like Microsoft is finally getting it's act together with this new Zune. If they can actually get all their apps and features together in one place, and the browser works even half decently, it looks like it'll be a good value.

Journal Journal: Why High School didn't Prepare me for University Math

Journal by Capt. Cooley on Sunday May 17, 2009 @08:00PM

Before college math teaches a specific number of problems and how to solve them, the mathematical tools (the theorems, definitions, etc) are incidental to the lesson and don't get much class time devoted to just understanding how they work. Most theorems are broken down to one equation that is memorized for tests. College math, on the other hand, teaches a set of tools and how and when to use them. Logically this makes sense. High schools are designed to produce factory workers that solve th

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