The problem is that a half-hour after you move into one of these houses, you want to move into another.

I'll take my chances with the traitors, thanks anyway.

because only the press has the power to form public opinion.

Are you sure about that?

I'm pretty sure we've seen lots of cases where public opinion was formed in spite of "the press".

When you have a "press" that is either owned outright by corporations or heavily subsidized by corporations (like public media in the US), you're only going to see certain types of opinions. However, I know for a fact that there is a growing number of people with opinions that run counter to the corporatist/oligarch agenda. It's not enough to make a change yet, but it's getting more and more like a dense, dry forest in wildfire season. It's not on fire...yet. But it wouldn't take much.

As any Linux user can tell you, the problem's with the drivers.

Here in Austin, bicycle travel is subsidized to ridiculous degrees

By the federal government?

He's not a mime. He walks around downtown Atlanta wearing a wedding gown or a tutu.

There was a parade last Sunday with like a thousand guys like that.

They are a public nuisance with the same rights we afford assholes like myself and yourself.

Mimes are people, my friend.

Sort of. Though I'm not exactly sure if the right to free speech covers pantomiming being behind bars in a very small imaginary cell with a very sad face.

and the ocean (much like the oil from the BP spill) is taking care of itself.

Yeah, right? And how do we know that millions of gallons of crude oil and millions of tons of plastic aren't good for the ocean?

Bam! Got you there, right? You don't hear that from your so-called "scientists", amirite? Probably, carbon dioxide plus plastic and crude oil are combining with gamma rays from space to make us healthier! And smarter! At least some of us, that is. But not Al Gore, who is fat.

The operating system will look and work differently based on hardware type.

God, I should hope so.

Remember, sending up this satellite might just help us learn that AGW is not a problem, proving that you were right all along.

Don't be mad at Science. Someday, your incomplete in freshman physics will not matter any more.

If my feet are cold, that means I can't possibly have a fever. Fact.

It's "reign" because everybody's watching Game of Thrones.

why is it so evil to just use them as the primary mode of transportation?

"Evil"? You're arguing with a ghost now. There's nothing evil about roads or about cars or about mass transit. They are all modes of transport that are built or subsidized by the commons in order to serve people.

Any human institution can only be measured by how well it serves people. You seem angry at mass transit for some reason. Maybe because it doesn't serve you. But that's not the yardstick for decisions made by societies. Not how well it serves you but how well it serves us.

forced to use expensive, limiting, and impersonal transportation methods.

Mass transit, at least in my city, costs less (including "subsidies") per mile traveled than cars. And "impersonal"? Is that the problem here, that you can't hang your fuzzy dice and truck nuts on your friendly neighborhood transit car? Is this about you being behind the wheel of your own personal 3000 lb turbo-charged locomotive, the way God intended?

The good news is that nobody cares what you drive. But communities have to work. And more people in the US now live in cities than in rural areas. This is not because of the gummint, but because that's the way business likes it. Lots of consumers and lots of workers in one place.

But I'm still trying to wrap my head around "impersonal". I can't imagine anything more "impersonal" than the millions of Toyota Camry lookalikes and mommy SUV's clogging up the nation's roadways, each with one person behind the wheel. Each better than a ton of refined oil-burning, hydrocarbon-belching steel and plastic, just so that one person can get the average 6.2 miles that they queue up to crawl each day. I'll have to remember "impersonal". At least my bike has multicolored streamers coming out of the handlebars, and an officially licensed Chicago White Sox banner flying above so one of the Camry clones doesn't run me over because the driver is too busy texting to notice the fool passing them by on the recumbent bike.

In most of the world the cars and the fuel is taxed enough to not only cover their own costs (roads etc.) but also feed into other parts of the big government sinkhole.

Not even close. Does fuel tax cover the costs of the health problems from pollution? They haven't even touched the costs to society from the decades where gasoline had lead in it and the crime and social problems that caused.

At best, fuel taxes cover the costs of resurfacing a few roads. It doesn't touch new construction of infrastructure.

On the other hand, if you take my town as an example, the mass transit system has allowed many corporations to bring their facilities here because we have an educated workforce who can get to work without having to drive. Not in every location, but in major cities, the subsidies of mass transit pays for themselves many times over.

Cars actually generate revenue. They're taxed very heavily and generate more revenue from those taxes then is spent on cars. A large portion of the gas tax for example is diverted for buses, bicycle roads, etc.

The revenue generated by cars does not make a dent in the external costs of automobile travel.

Everywhere in the US, in every county of every state, automobile travel is subsidized by governments from the town all the way up to the federal gov't.