Can you provide a reference for "receding glaciers ... exposing Viking settlements"? All the historical documentation of Vikings referred only two Greenland settlements -- the Eastern ad Western settlements. You can look at Googlemaps images of the sites for the Western and Eastern Settlements:
 
  Eastern settlement area, and Eastern settlement map
  Western settlement area, and Western settlement map.
 
Just for reference, here is a zoom of the area of the Brattahlid and Gardar farms (two of the largest/richest farms), and a zoom of the Sandnes farm area from the Western settlement.

Want more? How about on the ground photos of the ruins?
Gardar ruins
Bratthlid ruins
Hvalsey church

They are a long way from receding glaciers, and quite green in summer. So again, at least some reference for these newly discovered Viking settlements that were underneath glaciers would be appreciated, because otherwise I'll just have to assume you are making shit up.

Because destructive operations (like close) should be kept separated from non-destructive ones (like maximise/minimise). NeXT (and by inheritance WindowMaker) get this right. Fortunately most window managers also make it easy enough to change, which I usually do.

How someone who shies away from writing some simple javascript against well defined and well documented interfaces can call themselves a "power user" is beyond me.

Functionality changed. Some things were removed and replaced with other ways of doing things. There still exist perfectly good and very powerful ways to extend the system to do whatever you want if you are an expert user (I despair to think that "knowledge of javascript" now qualifies one as an "expert user"); in fact far more ability to customise has been exposed -- there was little you could do to make some things happen in GNOME2 without hacking around in the C -- with pretty nice javascript bindings for, well, pretty much anything you could want to do. Quit whining and actually customise your system. Or is a text editor instead of a pointy-clicky interface too daunting for a "power user" like yourself?

Yes, I mean DBUS. It has nice bindings for many languages, but python works well enough for simple scripting. Here are some simple examples to get you started, but it should be easy to write some scripts and have FVWM2 call those to populate whatever you need populated.

The standards for people calling themselves "power users" really seems to have dropped. The people I think of as power users would have no problem hacking together a nice custom FVWM2 configuration that integrates all the GNOME3 libraries (including the internal notification and messaging systems -- they do have nice exposed interfaces after all) and applications while giving them exactly the custom experience they desire. I mean GNOME3 is pretty damn modular and broken into a myriad of different libraries and components after all; it's just the shell that they've stuck on top as gloss that lacks some customidability. But no, these days people that call themselves "power users" seem to run scared at the mere mention of hand-writing their own FVWM2 or xmonad configuration from scratch; or indeed, of bothering to actually have to get their hands dirty to create a custom environment at all. Today "power users" need to be able to "customise" their environment via pretty GUIs and checkboxes. Heck, I've heard people calling themselves power users who called GConf complicated.

Look, there's still plenty of extensive customisation and configurability inherent in these systems, they just require you actually be a power user and know what the hell you're doing, and not be scared of getting your hands a little messy and stepping outside pretty candy coated "configuration" utilities.

You do realise Ctrl-Alt-up/down work for desktop switching in GNOME3? In fact, while being very mouse focussed in some ways, they have shortcut alternatives for almost everything, and you can drive GNOME3 surprisingly easily and efficiently from keyboard only.

The only reason you can equate the two lengths x+5 and 2x-3 is if they are in fact equal. They are only equal if the diagonals of a rhombus bisect one another. This was one of the multiple choice answers available. It may help if you actually bother to read the question properly.

Sounds exactly like how they teach mathematics. And, indeed, many other subjects. It's par for the course -- get over it. The real problem is that the teachers tasked with teaching this stuff often have little or no real knowledge and appreciation for the subject themselves (I recall reading that well under 50% of math teachers in California were actually qualified to teach math) so they do it by rote grind from a textbook because that's all they've got.

In GConf set desktop/gnome/interface/gtk-key-theme to Emacs and you'll have standard UNIX keybindings in all GTK apps. I presume other options, such as Vi exist, but I've never tried them (I'm an Emacs user). This has worked, without change, in every version on GNOME I've used since 2.0. Yes, it's in GConf, but it isn't hard to find if you bother to look, and they've never messed with it.

I always wondered what devout free market libertarians actually think the world would be like in a purely "let the consumer vote with their dollar" approach.

I imagine it something like this: you would wake up at 5:00 in the morning and start checking the internet and newspapers for any and all scraps of information about companies you may purchase products from. Perhaps your fruit suppliers are now using unethical labour practices (it's up to you the consumer to police that and stop buying from them of course). Perhaps its been found that your lunch meat supplier is occasionally a little lax in their packaging plants and there is potentially contaminated meat out there (we can't give the government powers to regulate that sort of thing). You'll probably also have to check in on any and all processed foods you might want to buy -- it's not like they will publish their ingredients (or if they do, there's no reason to assume they aren't just lying) -- who knows, maybe your favourite brand of peanut butter has realised that lacing their product with opium for that extra addictive quality really helps sales.

Of course you can't just do a casual read to find these things out; large companies with plenty of money can run effective disinformation campaigns in the mainstream media, or otherwise cover up such incidents. You'll have to dig deep through pages of personal consumer reports, spot and ignore the paid industry shills, and so on.

You'll probably be done with that around midday -- presuming you do it every morning to keep up to date and are fairly practiced and know where to hunt down the right information. Now it's time to work on the second order issues: are companies you wish to buy from aiding, funding, abetting, or buying from any companies you have deemed unethical, or inappropriate to support? This is, of course, a bigger task again. Not only do you have the problems tracking down information as before, you have an order of magnitude more companies to work through, and complex supply chains (which you can be sure will use all sorts of subsidiaries, front companies, and other misdirections) to dig through. If you're lucky you might get done all of that before midnight.

That leaves you just enough time to go to bed safe in the knowledge that you are using the money you no longer have the time to earn to make informed consumer choices buying products that you no longer have the time to purchase. And even better, you get to do it all again tomorrow.

Fun, fun fun.