They probably meant CSVs.

People who can't maintain safe following distances shouldn't be driving--but we have tech that can react very quickly to the guy ahead of you braking, in case you don't. People who don't check for children children behind their rear tires before they back out of the driveway shouldn't be driving--but we have rear-view cameras. People who can't stay in their lane shouldn't be driving, but we have lane assist...etc...etc.

I don't see how it's _needed_. Depends on the tasks. I guess I kinda see it as rooftop solar...if it's bright and everyone has extra, cool, they can sell it back to the grid and (in a perfect world) electricity is cheaper overall. If it's cloudy, you still need the electricity, so you get it from somewhere else.

Alternately maybe they're just mining bitcoins, so crunching numbers means extra cash but it's not mission critical to everyone.

Probably standards on what minimum temp they heat offices/workshops to.

So change the dynamic a bit. Six episodes is a good amount of time to bring closure to that adversarial relationship that never really happened properly in the original show. In the end, Scully finally believes, and they set up a hook for the next generation / next iteration of the show with new blood. Could work.

So don't run it in the summer. I'm guessing you pay for the original hardware, and they pay for the energy bill to run it--so it's a decent upfront cost, but great savings for you long-term. If they don't heavily subsidize the original purchase, you don't get any benefit or harm from owning it without using it, and they don't get any benefit or harm from you having it in your house but turned off. It doesn't need to be user serviceable so they can really go all out in trying to spillproof it. In the end, the actual hardware is still user owned though.

At this point I don't think it's a reference to how it operates, exactly. I think it's more a callback to the Star Wars missile defense project in the Reagan era, or at least that's how it would resonate with people who followed politics back then.

Wish I could vote you up. The purpose of these organizations are for the industry to SELF-police and self-categorize. It's not supposed to be hostile to the gaming industry, it's a way for them to collaboratively set categories for the benefit of the consumer (and themselves by avoiding media firestorms, but really, having labels is good). The alternative is each publishing house having their own proprietary scale...yeah, that won't be confusing at all. I'm betting Rockstar isn't the only super-violent-game maker to be represented.

Remember way back when ratings were new, and Apogee rushed to cram extra viscera into Rise of the Triad so they could claim the most violent rating? Those were the days.

The only times I've needed to show ID in the last couple years was...getting a new job, opening a new bank account, and buying alcohol. Hell of a lot of people don't do any of those for several years in a row, and also don't drive.

You're right, because Atlanta is so rural and has so little mass transit that getting to the DMV might be impossible...

This is less of a problem in Georgia than it is in Texas--and just because people DID pay for their IDs, doesn't mean they should have NEEDED to.

It seems like turnout is lowest among the disgruntled, not the uninformed. Basically the only group likely to effect a change.

It's one hell of a way to start breaking out of the two party system, isn't it? Force someone into the booth who hates both major parties, and instead of voting for Mickey Mouse, maybe they'll pick a different guy who's actually on the ballot. All it takes is the tiniest, slimmest name recognition for the candidate or their party, and a lot of hate for the big guys.

You get around it by making ID freely provided by the government, and find a way to help people who live hours away from the nearest DMV (rural Texas or Alaska for example). It costs something around twenty bucks to get a photo ID card, so requiring ID is de facto charging a fee to vote; many elderly people, homemakers, or disabled who don't work don't have up-to-date IDs because they've never needed them, and these are often the same people where paying for government ID, let alone securing transportation to a licensing facility, might mean not having money for rent. Gas for a trip to the nearby large town can be one hell of an expense.

If the government says "everyone must have ID", the government must provide it free of charge. Otherwise it's a forced tax just like the Obamacare opt-out fee, and Republicans don't like that, do they? Add a service where if your town is more than X distance from the nearest licensing facility, they'll send out some kind of licensemobile to photograph and print on-site once a year or so, that would cover nearly everybody. It still sucks if you lose all your ID in a fire, or if you're homeless and have lost your documents, but it's about as close as you can get.

For the record, I live in Washington state where almost everyone votes by mail. It doesn't require ID because there's no way to do it, and we don't have rampant fraud, so clearly ID isn't a 100% necessary requirement for a sane voting system. What's the problem?

Humor someone who's been out of the loop even longer: What's the advantage of making a game natively 64-bit, aside from addressing ridiculous amounts of RAM? Actually these days, maybe that is enough reason...is that it?

Well, the obvious reason to back a project is so that it gets made at all. Nothing's stopping you from pulling your pledge once it hits the winning amount (unless it would bring it back under like 24 hours before the end). If you want to buy a game cheap and you don't care about new stretch goals, then by all means skip the kickstarter experience and you'll be better off. Higher tiers are pretty much never worth it--as a purchase--unless you really want the exclusive T-shirt or an NPC named after you or whatever. Otherwise just treat it the same as public TV/radio funding drives.