How much do you think public transport actually costs the end user?
The worst price I could find doing some quick checks of major metro areas is $5/day in LA. The key is to get a pass instead of paying one-time fares. Most cities have 7-day passes, allowing unlimited rides for a limited amount of time.
Taxis, on the other hand, are that expensive. So maybe that's what you meant. Although, I'm not aware of any publicly owned taxi services (apart from ones for disabled/elderly that require registration).

Has no one actually played Donkey Kong? Those were from the original game as the icons for bonus points. They were Pauline's items that she tossed for Mario to pick up. If he were going to really flip that aspect, he should change the color/style on the umbrella, and maybe make the purse a lunch pail or something. But that's more sprite editing.

Usually when comparing two values, say 200 miles and 55 miles, you would point out how they're different. The way the quote was phrased, it sounds like they expected 200 track miles. It also sounds like they were trying to imply that Tesla were liars about the 200 mile range. Also, saying "we worked out" in one place, and when called on it saying that you didn't is kind of boderline.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/mar/05/top-gear-tesla-jeremy-clarkson among other sources which quote the episode in question.

I agree with everything here except for the 55 mile claim, because the full quote is:
"Although Tesla say it will do 200 miles, we worked out that on our track it would run out after just 55 miles and if it does run out, it is not a quick job to charge it up again."
Where the Top Gear guys compare track mileage to real-world mileage, but don't point out that that's what they are doing. It wasn't enough to form a libel case, but it was still dishonest on Top Gear's part.

No, but Top Gear claimed that they did. The full quote from the show is the issue.
"Although Tesla say it will do 200 miles, we worked out that on our track it would run out after just 55 miles and if it does run out, it is not a quick job to charge it up again."

Both of those are true statements, but Top Gear omitted the part where the 200 mile figure was for normal non-track use.

For most people Windows is just buy a PC and done.

I don't know what kind of magical Linux distros you've been using, but that has never been my experience on consumer grade hardware, every distro I've ever tried has had some oddball installer issue, usually related to either the network or video card. The short summary list of distros (less version information, since I don't remember) is: Linux from Scratch, Linux Mint, Ubuntu Linux, Slackware, Debian, Mandrake, Mandriva, and CentOS (so not very comprehensive).

The UK is about the size and density of New York + New Jersey + Pennsylvania. With the vast majority of access being through controlled ports. Both of those make black markets for guns difficult.
Contrast with Brazil, gun ownership is illegal for most private citizens (there's limited exceptions for certain things like armed guards). However, they are much higher on the list in your link than the U.S. One of the main reasons I've seen is that the large Amazon border allows guns to be smuggled in to drug cartels. How much of the Canadian and Mexican border do you think is sufficiently secured?

So back of the envelope math based on current die sizes, quoted thickness from the article (several hundred nanoscale layers) and $1600/troy oz price for Pt yields an added material cost of roughly $0.12/chip. So, cheaper than I was expecting.

Leptons, Quarks, and Gauge Bosons?

Except the pension thing is true, any company that can get rid of pensions has done so. 401K's are a very poor substitute.

They are still your property, but the police don't need a warrant unless it's within your curtilage, which if it needs to be collected it usually isn't.
The above statement does not take into account local laws, just what's protected in the U.S.A. by the 4th Amendment. It's also possible that you gave WM a key for your locked fence, and they need to enter in order to pick up the garbage, but that would be unusual in my experience.

I'm going to blow all my karma on this, but here goes.
I've been playing FPSes since Doom, and I've always felt that keyboard+mouse was an absolutely abysmal interface for that type of game. My problem was that there weren't really other options, but that changed with the advent of PC controllers designed after the PS/Xbox controllers. Shoulder buttons for strafing, independent joysticks for moving and looking, easy to use fire buttons, extra buttons available for things like weapon changes/macros. I refuse to go back to WASD hell.

I'd actually like to see the following as a system. The votes are tallied for each congressional district plus 2 extra for each state. So In Wisconsin, 3 districts would have voted Democrat, 5 Republican, and the 2 for state popular would go to the Democrat, a nicely split electoral vote. Of course, then they would be talking about the swing districts in addition to swing states. Since the swinginess of states would only be two votes, it would change where campaigns are conducted, not necessarily how.