1) Perhaps you could find some sort of way to carpool or even split a cab... what with the entire district having a reason to go there that same day. Not to mention political parties and volunteer groups all over the place running busses etc.

If only there were some sort of alternative like the ability to mail in a ballot... oh... wait. There is.

2) I agree with you gerrymandering ought to be criminal.

To be honest I don't know how I would feel but it is of little concern after the fact. I don't really fear death, I do not welcome it but I accept it as a part of reality. I do suppose it would help to mention I am a Buddhist and getting up there in age now so I have considered death in great detail and realized that I do not have to fear it. I may be a bit angry if you are trying to kill me but, for instance, in my youth I was in combat a number of times so you wouldn't be the first to try though it would be more personal in your case. So, would I care? Not enough to matter too much and I may try to stop it but I would accept it on my way out and not care one wit after the fact. I don't worry about an asteroid either. By the same token I don't do stupid stuff like drive drunk or not wear a seatbelt. I do not seek or desire death, it just is not all that scary or worrisome really. It is just another step, Bare minimum, belief systems aside, I will eventually return to the matter of the stars so, no, I guess I have an odd (perhaps even wrong) view of death? As I aged I became more comfortable with it instead of fearing it more.

I have a Republican governor... LePage... (Maine) He is busy starving the poors and taking away their other assistance while gutting DHHS it seems. I am pondering moving to Canada as I am of First Nation's heritage and thus have Canadian citizenship for quite some time now. I kid you not about the poor starving. He has also taken away their health care (I don't mind my taxation rate) for some reason. Starving and ill will be our growth industry here by year's end. I really wish I were kidding.

BBC. I'm ok with BBC

side note: Alex Vlachos is the head of something-or-the-other-VR-development at Valve and gave a fascinating presentation at GDC2015 which GDC Vault has kindly opened up viewing of for free. This is where parent's 90fps comment came from.

What I found particularly interesting was their use of interpolation combined with efficient stacking of GPU API calls in advance of the next V-Sync to ensure the GPU hits the frame sync immediately. Their pipelined architecture predicts 2 frames in advance, updates the predictions for the frames with the latest head-trajectory calculations right before dispatch, and can blah blah go watch the video. He's an entertaining personality, talks fast to keep you engaged, and covers the content quite efficiently. In fact, I'm going to go re-watch it right.

ugh its too hard to type what I was going to say

you shouldn't even need microbeads for facial skin exfoliation, acid masks are $15 for a bottle that lasts for like, a year. the acid dissolves the glue holding the dead layer of skin on, and then it slowly falls off. No exfoliation needed, just 5-10 minutes of applying the mask then rinse off.*

*I am a man. I looked into this as a means of regrowing/replacing skin that was damaged from acne when I was much much younger, so young in fact that I came up with my silly username

I'm kinda disappointed, the Crest 3D toothpaste in the blue tube was the first one that actually manages to maintain teeth whiteness for me

I do not wish to seem like an ass but, perhaps, you should not come back then? If you are displeased then, well, it seems logical that you would spend your time seeking somewhere that you are more comfortable and enjoy the content more so than you do here. Nobody is forcing you to enter the URL leading here (as far as I know) so you are the direct cause of your displeasure. Also, just to make sure that this is out there and not subject to debate, I am - by any stretch of the imagination - a leftist.

I do have some beliefs that I share with the left and I have some that I share with the real conservatives (not the insane folks on either side) so I self-identify as a Classic Libertarian. It is difficult to identify as such as the party has been co-opted by the right as a dumping ground for their ignorant and vocal idiots who are ashamed to identify themselves as Republicans. I, for example, strongly support gun rights but I also support Singly Payer Health Care. Single payer is cheaper in the long run and gun rights are a universal way to allow people to ensure their own safety. I do not, for instance, support government intrusion and think that things like DUI checkpoints and anti-drug laws are absurd. So I really run across the spectrum but the base of my beliefs are as minimal legislation as possible while ensuring the general safety of the populace.

I add the above paragraph to ensure that you do not think you are being replied to by a group-think leftist (or rightist) and that my political beliefs do not fit in here very well. I am, obviously, ASSuming that you're the same AC as the poster of comment #49727505. If you are not then, well, you can ignore much of this post. If you are then feel free to add additional information but, again, the root cause of your unhappiness is that you opt to continue going to a site that you dislike. To me that seems a lot like punching yourself in the face just so you can complain about the pain. It is highly illogical so perhaps I am missing something? Maybe you are a masochist? Maybe you are expecting the site to change (you are aware of the adage about insanity and doing the same thing over and over again expecting the results to be different, yes) in the interim? I agree that the site was better in the past but it is not so bad as to make me not return and I do not expect the site to change to meet my expectations, I just accept that it is different. There are still quality posts and valid educational comments that are of great benefit to me, I like learning new stuff, so I still return to mine the quality content but I don't allow myself to become disenchanted by the posts that lack quality, I just move along and accept that people are people and there is little I can do to alter that.

Yeah, TLDR but it seemed a good post to reply to and to air my thoughts on the subject. At times it does seem like it isn't worth returning but moving to a new thread about an obscure topic with only a few comments is often enough to remind me of the many benefits I have had from browsing /. in the past and will be rewarded with in the future. I find that winnowing out the chaff means that I can still find the same posting quality, though diluted, here if I maintain an open mind and don't hold people to my standards but, rather, accept them for who they are even though I don't agree with them. You are, of course, free to do as you want but that has been my solution and it has been effective for me.

Heart attacks do indeed come out of nowhere. You can have a good idea of the chances, but not whether or not one will happen. Mine sure surprised me. If it had been a more serious one, and I hadn't gotten prompt treatment, it could have killed me. People do die of single heart attacks.

No large species we know of, past or present, is as adaptable as we are, or able to survive in so many different places. I'd bet that the human species would survive any of the common 60-megayear ELEs. I don't know how many would survive, so the 6 billion might be accurate.

Heh... Wow? You said what I was thinking (quite literally almost all of it - though I only subscribed for a few years before I felt that the quality hadn't dropped so much as it had become diluted. Now I seldom comment except in rather rare occasions when I am feeling "chatty" or the subject is of great interest to me which is where we differ it seems. Other than those minor differences your post is so on target that I probably could have just typed, "THIS." However, if I am going to type THIS then I probably should add "Hitler" just to round things off and make sure all my bases are covered.

How in the hell did you reach that conclusion?

Also, on my screen, you posted at 11:39 AM and s.petry replied at 11:19 AM. So, from the information I have at hand - according to /. actually, they replied to your comment before you posted it. That, right there, is more interesting than your absurd conclusion.

On the other hand, all that energy for cooling has to come from somewhere. If it's fossil fuels, we're better off reducing it. I think insulation is a good idea, and it often makes economic sense.

For one thing, the Antarctic land ice has been melting, lowering the salinity near Antarctica, and making it easier for water to freeze.