We show that the theory of the partial ordering of recursively enumera
ble Turing degrees is undecidable and has uncountably many 1-types. In
contrast to the original proof of the former which used a very compli
cated 0''' argument our proof proceeds by a much simpler infinite inju
ry argument. Moreover, it combines with the permitting technique to ge
t similar results for any ideal of the r.e. degrees.