I use a different one, but the principle is sound and it works great; no Adblock needed. One change I'd make to yours is to uncomment some lines, like these:

#127.0.0.1 google-analytics.com # breaks some sites
#127.0.0.1 ssl.google-analytics.com
#127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.l.google.com

So it "breaks some sites". Haven't noticed that myself, and don't care if it does.

Both refugees and migrants want to find a place where they are safe, can build decent lives, and can provide for their families. Exactly like you would, under comparable circumstances. This idea that they should have no preferences about where they might best do these things is more than a little bizarre (but typical of the dehumanization by many people of others they perceive to be unlike themselves). "Gee, honey, it's a shame that we lost our home and you and the kids are going to be tortured and starved, but Hognoxious says it just wouldn't be right to try moving the family to a better place." This would make them fools in addition to being migrants or refugees. Whether they can satisfy those preferences is another matter, of course.

Nevertheless, if you were considering an investment (or a job) in that company, it's something that you might want to look at before making your decision.

Maybe they practice good personal hygiene with the facilities that are available to them. That alone is no reason to kick them out.

Are they really? The very same people? That's quite an accusation, coming from the very same person who bombed the hell out of Iraq.

I'm non-Muslim and have friends who are Muslim. This may come as a shock, but they are not all the same, any more than all conservative Christians are ignorant xenophobes. They're not all ignorant xenophobes, right?

I don't think I got the point of that sentence either. Does the 747 have a lot of cubic inches, and is this what made it great? Or are good ol' American cubic inches better than those cubic centimeters that everyone else uses?

Correct. Even if you specify your subgroups beforehand in the experimental design, you still need to modify your interpretation of statistical significance (downward) to account for the consideration of multiple hypotheses. If you're going on a fishing expedition by identifying subgroups post hoc, then you ideally need to base this correction on the potentially large number of conceivable subgroups that are available to be drawn. It's very hard to achieve real significance under those circumstances. On the other hand, you might find a subgroup result suggestive and conduct a separate follow-on study to test it independently; that's perfectly legitimate.

A lot of people are still running Windows XP (and earlier) for much the same reason. It works as well as it ever did for them (not considering the security issues), they've acclimated to it, and who knows what may go wrong with an update? Will their old familiar apps still work, or will they have to shell out hundreds of $$ to update those too?

Unfortunately true. It causes most people a great deal of anxiety to acknowledge there's a problem and that there are things they can do to mitigate it, because that means they have to learn about those things, which they fear will be outside their experience and abilities. As long as they're in the same boat as their friends and family, they feel the safety of numbers and can ignore the issue. The FUD mantra against Linux has always been that you have to be an elite geek to install and use it; of course that's nonsense but people believe it. It creates a lot of fear and trepidation that they'll be in over their heads if they even try, and so they don't.

It can't possibly be a nuisance because it's technology? What if we use equally advanced/recent technology to shoot them down? Then only a luddite would let them hover overhead unmolested.

I have no knowledge of the particulars in this case, but lobbying isn't even really necessary. It's often just the revolving door: The procurement people on the government side now have very lucrative careers in the private sector to look forward to, and that is something you can never get by going with the open source solution. But who knows, maybe this time they did make the call purely on its technical merits.

Here we go... A relatively routine law enforcement matter is going to become a political pseudo-scandal. Scientists are evil and corrupt, so how can we trust them about climate change or evolution? Perhaps the drugs were being made at Obama's personal request. Why else would Lamar Smith be taking and interest?

I've had a very good experience with this one. I'm accustomed to it now, so using someone else's computer without it (or similar) feels like swimming in a shark-infested pool with turds floating in front of my face.

That's a benefit, not a drawback. You'll come out ahead money-wise inside a year, and your router will be under your control.