The fact that it is a "religious" procedure is exactly what's being ridiculed in this post, but oh well.

And it is NOT medically beneficial. The only thing that was long established were the claims of it being beneficial, once actual scientific studies were done they overwhelmingly showed that it was completely without effect (except for the risk of complications coming from the procedure.

That is your opinion. I find the SC2 multiplayer really fucking amazing, as do millions of other people.

I'm pretty sure that this "everyone" you mean is confined to the same group of jerks who look down on people who "read" and, omg, those losers who actually post on uber-geek-loser sites like slashdot.

I sometimes can't decide whether comments like this are supposed to be funny (which they admittedly are) or whether they're an honest expression of deep self-loathing.

Well, cougar do pose a greater risk to family safety than most daddies.

Personally, I would have preferred Diane Wood as well. Kagan is too anti-civil rights and too pro-corporate for my taste.

But how a single episode of temporary nerves is supposed to indicate an incompetence to ask pertinent questions, I don't get.
I imagine rising to the position of Dean of Harvward Law School is one hellishly competitive endeavor that would require the amounts of assertiveness and competence a SCTOUS nominee should have.

I'm willing to discuss (and conceivably concede) the judge vs. lawyer point though: What exactly is it that a judge has to be able to do that a good lawyer/law professor doesn't?

This is of course not really worth replying to, but I'm feeling masochistic today, so:

- Kagan is the current Solicitor General of The US
- Kagan was the Dean of Law at Harvard

--> Now imagine having that on your CV and people telling you "Nah, that's not enough experience for us, sorry."

Really? You think we're unaware of the American-heavy story selection around here?

The point here is clearly that a purely political story is misplaced on /.

That said, I would love for somebody to analyse Kagan's positions on tech issues here (or provide some pointers to places doing that).

As spiegel.de, where I first read about Guenter Verheugens plans, says: "It's a nice idea, but 7 years too late, and your doing it for publicity only!" This commissions' term is nearly over (or at least close enough to being over for this plan to not have a rat's asses chance of being implemented while Guenter is still in office). Thus I can only agree with spiegel's assessment: Verheugen wants to go out with something attentiongrabbing (hereby accomplished) and those plans will be put back into a drawer once he leaves office.