Ain't that simple. "Bigger airplanes" assumes that the longer runways that can accommodate those larger planes aren't already maxed out. In the event that there is room to accommodate those planes, the airport has to account for new wake separation procedures. There's also the issue of whether the markets served by the airline are appropriate for larger planes. Finally, larger planes are in many (but not all) cases louder than smaller planes, and that results in environmental issues that are similar to those building new runways.

At best, "Bigger airplanes" is a stop-gap solution.

Exactly. Which means to increase capacity, you have to increase the number of landings and takeoffs per hour. That means a) new runways, or b) new airports. That's really difficult to do these days, hence my point.

Bay Area and LA-area airports are at or near capacity, and will be bursting at the seams in the next 15-20 years. Expanding capacity by adding new runways or building new airports will cost tens of billions of dollars (DIA cost $3 billion, and that was for building an airport in the middle of nowhere almost 20 years ago that handles less traffic than LAX does). Furthermore, air travel can be affected by weather (fog, thunderstorms, in CA's case) that doesn't affect rail

Transportation options are important, there is no single perfect mode.

And what does a gathering place for nerds and geeks have to do with the statement "a cultural difference where American black culture has a much lower opinion on average of nerdy endeavors as opposed to American white culture"? Especially when blacks also attend Comic-con as well as gatherings targeted toward blacks.

Yeah I got that, but what does that (and you're links) have to do with the assertion of "black culture" being "generally anti nerd"? Low achievement does not automatically mean 'not giving a shit about school.'

Than why bother singling out "black culture"?

Sure, but that's an economic problem, not a racial problem, it just happens to fall on racial lines. Attributing differences to "black culture" being "anti nerd" is an unsupported assertion.

Hint: I'm not the one that used Comic-Con as a citation.

Your first link talks about blacks living in single-parent homes, the second link talks about an achievement gap. Neither link supports the claim of blacks being "anti nerd".

Shifting back to the USA for a second, a literature review found that the primary negative effect of being in a single-parent household is the loss of the second income, and that when income is controlled for: "the association between negative outcomes and living in a single-parent home is often substantially reduced."

In terms urging "parents of under-achieving ethnic minority pupils to get more involved in their children's education" (your 2nd link), if you have the time, take a listen to this (again, US-centric) where Prof Harris mentions that there isn't much of a difference between the involvement of whites and blacks in their children's education, the problem is that blacks tend to be more punitive in their involvement rather than being helpful when children underachieve (e.g. "you got a 'C' so you're grounded" vs "you got a 'C', what do we have to do to help you perform better?")

That's true right now. It wasn't true 5, 10, 15, 20 years ago, which is what is impacting the current market for entrepreneurs.

Please explain.

Do you have a citation (preferably multiple citations) to back this up? Certainly there's Ogbu's oppositional culture hypothesis, but there is also a whole body of work (most recently this but I can point you several other works with consistent findings) that indicate a low opinion of nerds isn't isn't anymore prevalent among blacks than in American culture in general.

Soviet's pullout --> chaos in Afghanistan --> rise of Taliban --> subjugation of people --> alliance with AQ --> 1993 WTC bombing --> attempted Philippine Airline bombing --> 1998 embassy bombings --> Sep 11, 2001.

Sure it worked well for the Soviets, for us and a lot of innocent people in other countries, not so much.

Because that worked out so well...

The people in North Dakota aren't paying for tsunami monitoring in California, rather it's Californians who are paying for roads, schools, airports and tornado monitoring in North Dakota.http://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/10/20/1541224/ron-paul-suggests-axing-5-us-federal-departments-and-budgets#

I'm pretty sure the complaint is referring to steel studs which are common nowadays in new homes.

No. Safari (and what was to become Webkit) was announced at Job's 2003 Macworld keynote. The code was released the same day.

You are correct that the form of the changes was unusable according to KDE developers (which was soon rectified) but Apple contributed code from day 1 (actually, before day 1 in the case of JavaScriptCore.)