All of those points are valid, they just aren't dollar-signs.
Although, the time one can be debated if you are staying in the business-center of a large metropolitan area (a very specific case). Then traffic will usually negate any time savings from a car, especially if there is rail as opposed to buses.

The reason why the Constitution had to be amended is that the Fuller court (incorrectly) decided that whether income was from property or not determined whether it was a direct tax or duty. Prior to this ruling it was understood that an income tax was always a duty and not a direct tax, so did not have to be apportioned. The 16th amendment doesn't create the income tax, it just says that the income tax doesn't have to be apportioned even if under the Fuller interpretation it would be a direct tax.

The case is explicitly about holding the phone in your hand while using it.

The argument in this case (which is an appeals case) is over how broad the law is, and whether it applies.

Some choice statements from the judge:

The judge also addresses section 23123.5 which makes it illegal to text (specifically) on a wireless communications device. He indicates that he thinks this was passed to catch non-cellphones, not because the previous section was limited to listening and talking. Throughout he uses some of the legislative notes as context (I think incorrectly - specifically there is a note for 23123.5 by the author of both sections that indicates he believed the first section is only enforceable when holding a cellphone up to your ear, and the second section was added to catch people using devices in a different way). In the end he says that someone should probably bring it up to the legislature if they think 23123 is too broad and 23123.5 is too narrow in illogical ways.

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.