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Comment Re:good (Score 1) 341

Ah, the old Creationist argument! Fascinating to see it used for such a stupid purpose! To wit:

Sayeth Duane Gish, noted 6-day Creationist, in multiple debates: "So chimpanzees and humans are 99% genetically similar, so we must be related? Well, guess what! Watermelons and humans are made of 90% water, so does that mean I'm related to a watermelon?"

Seriously, if you can't see exactly what separates Humans from chimps, then maybe you have the intellectual capacity of a chimp.

Comment Re:Free as in (Score 2) 50

Why is this even an article? The local brewcraft shop down the street has dozens of great recipes, and they will even make one up for you on the spot when you order the ingredients for a 5-gallon batch of beer. They have a small area where you can grab a copy of many of their past recipes for beer as you walk out the door. Big deal. It's my understanding this is quite common. Why is this an article again?

Comment Re:Early adopters (Score 4, Insightful) 154

"This would be most useful for flipped classrooms [wikipedia.org] so the teacher does not need to return to the desktop dashboard between helping students, but can go from student-to-student-to-student. "

Or...and I know this is a shocking concept...the students could raise their hands when they need assistance?

This is what the OP meant by a solution in search of a problem.

Comment Re:Early adopters (Score 1, Troll) 154

No one owns your information, least of all you. It's publicly accessible information that Joe Schmuckatelli lives at 1234 Schmuckatelli Lane. Dig a little further and you find out that Mr. Schmucklatelli went to a certain high school in a certain town. You don't own this information, and neither do they. They just aggregate it and make it easily available. What's wrong with that?

Comment No. (Score 4, Insightful) 237

It will not. It's much cheaper to take public transportation in most cities; the only time it would make sense would be on longer trips, because you are saving alot of time by taking Lyft or Uber, but you sure the hell aren't saving money.

And it's much easier to find a cab in San Francisco nowadays, not only because they are having to compete with rideshares, but they actually will notice you now when you wave a hand. So why not take a cab instead of Uber and Lyft?

Comment Re:Great! More hipster hate. (Score 1, Insightful) 176

And so you think hipsters, as you define them, are unaware of why those things are cool at one time? or are you just pulling this out of your ass?

Do you realize that David Lee Roth's "Just a Gigolo" was a remake of a 1929 song by Irving Ceasar? So all those people who loved the remake in the 80's were just ignorant and being "ironic" for liking the song without know the original context?

And the original Irving Cesar version was a remake of an Austrian song, "Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo", composed in 1928 in Vienna by Leonello Casucci. So all those "hipsters" in 1929 who liked the remake were too cool for their own good for liking a song without knowing the original context?

This is the stupidity of the anti-hipster "movement". Virtually everything put out these days is a rehash, remake, or takes something from something that came before it. Liking those things without knowing the original "context" of it doesn't make you less of a person, or more importantly, worthy of ridicule.

Comment Re:Great! More hipster hate. (Score 5, Insightful) 176

I'm 41 with a gigantic oustache. I work in tech, live in San Francisco, like craft beer, and bike to work, all things associated with being a hipster (except my age). I don't define myself around my consumption habits; I just am. I like to bike. I like to drink craft beer. I like working in tech, and my facial hair rocks. It's the idiots out there like you who feel it's necessary to label folks different than themselves as " empty soulless yuppie shitheads." If you think that having a mustache or liking craft beer is what makes a person a shithead, then you are part of the problem.

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