haha, under what president was the EPA created? and the Clean Air Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, the Environmental Pesticide Control Act, and the Endangered Species Act become law? DDT banned? why Tricky Dicky Richard Nixon, of course.

HW Bush made Clean Air Act tougher and that reduced acid rain and smog at the time

  Obama is for fracking, some key Democrats just pulled support for anti-fracking laws, Obama allowed starting drilling in sensitive arctic areas, Obama caved in and didn't allow new smog/ozone levels as being too expensive on industry (even though Bush in 2008 made tough new ground level ozone/smog standards)

You're not very tech savvy if you mention "grep", that utility has been in various operating systems since 1973. MS-DOS 2.x called it FGREP or FIND depending on version. Macs have grep.

I did zero work having Linux Mint recognize my NVIDIA card, sound system, wireless....maybe you should research a system's support for Linux rather than plopping it on something (usually full of cheap "win-devices")

and I can think of a certain group of American Democrats who despite whatever noises they make at the end of the day are equally mega-corporate bitches same as the Republicans. Obama and 90% of Democrats in Congress for starters....

a more reasonable assumption would be use in parts of the world that don't know all of a chemical's properties. You would not be able to produce a list of ozone harmful chemicals from memory either

Exactly, "Linux on the Desktop" is called Chrome or Android and the "desktop" is wherever we are instead of a jumble of wires connected to a monitor. Desktops are a shrinking niche market. Otherwise Ubuntu or the like are great for desktops and laptops. Better than Windows in many respects. I haven't had problems like in the past for half a decade or more.

I think it'd be a combination of the two - sure, the top three gents would still control the thing, but if GOOG dropped to $0.01 (assuming they weren't delisted first), then they'd have nothing but existing cash reserves to draw from, plus any patent royalties and alternate non-site-related sources of income. That in turn would dry up in a few years (not quite "decades") just from operational costs alone.

Nothing you have said reinforces your mistaken notion that MHz ever measured performance. I've already shown that is not true even between Intel processors. You only believe an urban legend, a myth, a falsehood was true. Those of us who did measure performance of machine over the past four decades used benchmarks.

eating poop can definitely make you lose weight.....by catching cholera or similar

what an absurd statement to make without researching it. Of course plenty of reputable doctors question the existence of this imagined "disease"

Comparing condition of someone apathetic to a boring task to them jack up on amphetamines and claiming that proves something is just laughable.

It does not exist, it is an excuse, and a source of income to big pharmy and big healthcare.

what if we say "every business day", so divide your number by 3. HA!

yes read the article, just saying principles not new and plenty of other ways to "bug" a room without entering. good ol' parabolic microphones can listen through walls from outside at over fifty meters range

you make excuses, emergency patching can be done quickly and not blindly. At my employer we tested and patched heartbleed on an emergency basis two days after it was announced, evaluating over two hundred servers and patching where necessary.

been done for decades using laser on window or hard surface in room by law enforcement and others

You forgot the most important reason. They are trying to degrade a competitor's service in order to promote their own. Both Comcast and Verizon compete directly with Netflix. Last night I was able to watch Verizon channels on my tablet just fine, but Netflix wasn't working at all.

Funny.... My Netflix was actually throttled pretty badly last night by Verizon and I was wondering what Netflix did to piss off Verizon. Now I guess I have the answer.