You can also get progress by making sure people pay their fair share by refusing to let them externalize costs.

I wonder whether the road wear depends more on the weight of the vehicle, or the PSI of the pressure the vehicle puts on the roads?

That is, a heavy car with fat, low-pressure tires vs a lighter car, but with narrow, high-pressure tires for fuel economy. Which is worse for the roads?

Well the $60K figure isn't fair- that's the (low end) cost of a Tesla, which is a genuinely nice car, something you might compare to a BMW. They also sell several electric cars in the $20k-$30k range - they're about as comfortable and safe as any other car in the price range.

Oh come on, people will take their entire family out in a car all the time. A family of six really does need either a van or an SUV.

And renting an SUV is expensive. It's not really an option to do that regularly.

SUVs aren't necessarily the huge behemoths they once were. The current big fad in SUV's is small crossovers. For example, the top-selling car in the US is the Honda CRV, an "SUV" that's something like a hatchback Civic with raised suspension. It gets 29mpg, which isn't too bad at all. There's a large number of these SUVs that get mileage in the upper 20s/gallon.

Right when Baby Sittin' Boogie was about to go public domain!

Personally, the only mobile site I find unusable is Slashdot's.

These extra's aren't really required, but things like the cost of private tutors, of having a computer at home, of doing after-school sports, of school supplies...certainly if you didn't pay a dime you could still fully attend school. But these outside expenditures do help students.

Oh come on, there were about 500 scapegoats for Columbine, and a "pro-jock, anti-nerd bias" was definitely one of them. Simplifying it to that is just more of the same old shit.

Well to be fair, the local school actually kind of sucks already. I wouldn't let my kid go to a 6/10 school, anyway, and I'm no richie-rich.

In California, schools get equal public funding, it's not derived from local property taxes. On the other hand, rich school districts can expect to earn more in private fundraising, and can more realistically require students to pay for "outside resources" like money for field trips, a computer, etc...

97% of the difference between good schools and bad schools is family background (education, income levels, parent availability). If the student bodies of a poor school and a rich school exchanged campuses/teachers, there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the educational results of the students would remain basically unchanged.

I basically agree, but I'm not sure I understand the relevance.

I am a ham radio operator, I have a significantly higher chance of survival than the rest.

Yeah, keep rationalizing your weird 1970s hobby, nerd.

There is about a one in a billion chance that it will save your life (I really think this is a realistic figure), and you put a large amount of time/expense into it. Imagine if you put that amount of time/money into, say, a health club membership. Or extra doctor visits. Or healthier food. A safer car. This would have a much larger chance of actually having anything to do with how long you live.

> No content from Eps 1-3.

This is a complaint?

The market has already decided, and that's why the FM band is being closed.

Of course there will always be s few stragglers, the way some people (myself included) still shoot pictures with film. In this case, the public has an interest in the underutilized radio frequency, so instead of entertaining the stragglers, they open up the frequencies to people who will use them.