The player’s client has to constantly send updates on the player’s location, and the server has to reply with a list of Pokemon that are within the player’s radius. Multiply that by millions of active players and you have a crapload of server activity. They could just send data about where all the nearby Pokemon are,…

$3900 gets you a same-year Porsche 944 in similar condition. I like the Scirocco, but don’t try to tell me it is a better deal than a real Porsche. RWD FTW.

It lets you look around. Essentially like having a spherical monitor around you. Perfect for racing games.

Why is that? I don’t remember any terribly negative posts recently...

You just described the internet.

Sweet hot-air intake. Is there a worse place to put an intake than that? Maybe next to the exhaust headers since the filter would catch on fire?

I think the missing piece is that you have to put the car in neutral and cut the engine while coasting to get the benefit. It is pretty easy to prove with math that maintaining the same speed uses the least energy.

Newer cars have better fuel injection systems that can detect low octane gas and retard timing so that lower grade gas will still work. It will cost you in power and fuel economy, but shouldn’t necessarily be bad for the engine.

Eh, the media editorializes the facts to influence your interpretation, but I wouldn’t say they outright lie in the face of evidence.

Baltimore is not wealthy, but is surrounded by very well-off counties. MD is a bit of an outlier since the wealthy counties are still largely liberal.

Only if you are on the throttle, which you probably shouldn’t be on the road. On a track, absolutely it is fantastic, but not for practical on-road driving in treacherous conditions.

Unless you understand it, no. AWD lets you accelerate faster in slippery conditions, it does almost nothing to help with stopping or turning, so you are just better able to get into trouble.

I don’t know. I think people tend to have an issue or two they care about most, and if that always aligns with a single party then they are willing to ignore other issues and stay with their ‘side’. I think a big reason for the divisiveness lately is that we assume people on the other side are total shills for their…

When speaking about generations, there will be plenty of examples of people not fitting the mold. It isn’t meant as a slight against you personally, and I take pride in not fitting the mold of my own generation. I could be way off on my assessment of WHY the Boomers do what they do, but the fact is, Boomers have been…

Yup. I was pretty moderate until Medicare Part B. At that point I realized that the Republicans were just as willing to spend money we don’t have as the Democrats are, all to placate their base of Boomers.

Is there any reason Vader couldn’t have had another child later in life?

They run a 10K, Luke comes in last and everyone laughs at him.

You are absolutely right, but the Boomers have been in control for a long time and have proven themselves to be incapable of voting for effective leaders. We finally have younger generations growing up that are large enough to start challenging them.

Vietnam is absolutely a big deal for those that went, but there wasn’t widespread hardship here at home for everyone else. I was referring to famine, rationing, and joblessness that was endured during the Great Depression and WW2.

Not enough Millennials vote to blame them for what the government is right now. Boomers are an overwhelming majority of actual voters. Now, the Millennials absolutely need to get out and vote, and every generation has its share of dumbasses, but the Boomers aren’t doing a very good job with the control they have.