I should trust you?
The Wikipedia article has 36 references.
Where are your references for your theory?

There was plenty of generating capacity.
The crisis was created by market manipulation by Enron and others. They were able to manipulate the market because it was DE-regulated.
Now that we have better regulations in place, the market is working better.
From Wikipedia:
California had an installed generating capacity of 45GW. At the time of the blackouts, demand was 28GW. A demand supply gap was created by energy companies, mainly Enron, to create an artificial shortage. Energy traders took power plants offline for maintenance in days of peak demand to increase the price.[9][10] Traders were thus able to sell power at premium prices, sometimes up to a factor of 20 times its normal value. Because the state government had a cap on retail electricity charges, this market manipulation squeezed the industry's revenue margins, causing the bankruptcy of Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and near bankruptcy of Southern California Edison in early 2001.[11]
The financial crisis was possible because of partial deregulation legislation instituted in 1996 by the California Legislature (AB 1890) and Governor Pete Wilson. Enron took advantage of this deregulation and was involved in economic withholding and inflated price bidding in California's spot markets.[12]
The crisis cost between $40 to $45 billion.[13]

Lots of options:
http://www.ipfire.org/
ufw can be installed from apt-get (no gui)
ddwrt runs on many routers and has lots of features... don't need a full PC.

TFA is quoting about $500,000 a day for the HMAS Twoowoomba (and also the HMAS Success). I doubt much of that cost is for fuel. Most of it is bloated military "overhead".

As STUXNET has proven, you don't have to have a SCADA system connected to the Internet to get infected. STUXNET infected Windows machines which were used to program the SCADA system. Internet->Windows->SCADA. You only need to be connected once to get infected (kind of like STDs).

And as STUXNET shows, it's trivially easy to compromise Windows (all versions) and thereby compromise the SCACA system.

I don't believe that Iran's SCADA systems were connected to the Internet but were infected anyway by a compromised Windows machine (Stuxnet) which was used to transfer the program to the SCADA system.
From the Wikipedia STUXNET page: The reason for the discovery at this time is attributed to the virus accidentally spreading beyond its intended target (the Natanz plant) due to a programming error introduced in an update; this led to the worm spreading to an engineer's computer that had been connected to the centrifuges, and spreading further when the engineer returned home and connected his computer to the internet.

Has he stated that his donation to the 2008 initiative (6 years ago) was wrong?
Has he asked for forgiveness?

Most of the costs listed in the article are for aircraft and ships of the military and coast guard of several countries. It does cost a lot to build and man these ships but these costs are already budgeted and incurred. Much better to have these assets doing something useful like respond to an actual emergency than sit around idle or go on training missions or "good will tours" to show the flag.
I imagine the only extra cost attributable to this search is a bit more fuel.

Do you not see a difference?
I could go all Godwin on you and say that you think it's just fine that Hitler killed the Jews since we should "tolerate" his views on Jews.
Do you not see a difference between tolerating others beliefs and actively preventing others human rights because we don't like their beliefs?

"Thank you for the information but none of that really means anything. Donating to pat buchannon and ron paul? last I checked neither of them were anti gay"
Did your read these quotes???
Buchanan said in relation to the Aids outbreak that “our promiscuous homosexuals appear literally hell-bent on Satanism and suicide”. A a few years earlier he said “homosexuals have declared war on nature, and now nature is exacting an awful retribution”. and Linda Smith, who ran for senate in Washington state. McClintock opposes same-sex marriage; as does Smith, who has said that "homosexuality is a morally unfit inclination".
These people are ignorant bigots who are actively discriminating against others.

Eich has a long history of donating to candidates and causes which are intolerant of the beliefs of others. From The Guardian:
"Mozilla's controversial new CEO Brendan Eich made a string of donations to politicians on the fringe of the Republican party a decade before he donated $1,000 to the campaign against equal marriage in California.
Public records show that between 1991 and 1992, Eich donated a total of $1,000 to Pat Buchanan, then a rightwing Republican presidential candidate. In 1996 and 1998, Eich donated a total of $2,500 to Ron Paul, a maverick Republican congressman for Texas's 14th district."
"In 1990, a year before Eich’s first donation to his campaign, Buchanan said in relation to the Aids outbreak that “our promiscuous homosexuals appear literally hell-bent on Satanism and suicide”. A a few years earlie he said “homosexuals have declared war on nature, and now nature is exacting an awful retribution”.
“I agree with people who say it wasn't private, but it was personal,” he said of the donation in an interview on Wednesday.
"Eich's political donations also include money given to more mainstream candidates, such as California's Tom McClintock, to whom Eich donated $750 over the course of 2008, and Linda Smith, who ran for senate in Washington state. McClintock opposes same-sex marriage; as does Smith, who has said that "homosexuality is a morally unfit inclination".
On a personal note: Tom McClintock is my Representative in Congress and is without any redeeming qualities. A real zealot who personifies intolerance and loves to support government interference in the personal lives of individuals.
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