Made a huge difference to RF interference to my ham shack. the number of "birdies" from crap in the home went down to nothing so I could pull in signals that were closer to the noise floor a lot easier.

Sounds like either all the sources of the birdies are in that now-shielded room or all of your ham antennas are in that room.

my country would prosecute me for communicating internationally with someone who lives under a repressive regime

AFAIK, there is no country that prosecutes licensed Amateur Radio Operators for communicating with Amateurs in any other country, regardless of their government. If a government permits the Amateur Radio Service as part of their telecommunications policy at all, then those Amateurs can communicate with any other Amateur anywhere, provided the other Amateur is duly licensed in his or her respective country. (I have been licensed as VE3OAT since 1983.)

,,, and mocked by a future human and his 2 robot friends

And his dog. Don't forget the boy's dog.

Stay home. Buy online.

... and be tracked by Google and other companies' cookies.

Since HAARP has HF, VHF and UHF, and not satellite microwave systems, ...

Given the very high transmitting power of HAARP, I don't think they have to transmit on the receiving frequency of the "target" receiver, or even in the same frequency band, or anywhere near that part of the radio spectrum for that matter, in order to cause serious damage to the electronic circuits of the target system. .

Perhaps you're confused by "300% of" as opposed to "increased 300%"? - it's a 200% increase, or 300% of the original value.

You're right, that is exactly what happened. Silly me!

This bidding war was costly to Google, which is now paying 300% of what they used to,

Ahh ... $300 million is NOT 300% of $100 million. (I will refrain from my usual rant about journalists trying to use statistics.)

Gee, if M-S would only discover and use W3C standards, no one would have to use special browser hacks to make their websites work in any variety of different browsers.