I suspect the lead exposure from a 9m lead pipe buried in the front yard is significantly greater than the exposure from a few dozen solder joints (guessing 100mm, total?) in the house piping.

This is not the "first step." Other postings here suggest that the problem was recognized in 1989, re-recognized and understood in 2011, and that understanding was recorded in some kind of report. That report included some recommendations that were subsequently ignored.

The first step, the understanding, was the report, especially the recommendations in the report.

The second step, the cause of the failure, was the failure to implement the recommendations in the report.

Ergo, we have the understanding and the cause; by your suggestion, it's time for the third step, the blame. Yes?

Sigh. What could I know? I'm just another stupid American...

I've never seen a residential oven that was vented to the outdoors. All the oven exhaust, and all the heat, will wind up in the kitchen, regardless of the position of the oven door.
ISTR a saying: If your gas appliance isn't vented, you're living in the chimney.

230 was intended to encourage websites to moderate responsibly.

If the "tech companies" don't moderate (censor) at all, their website devolves into 4chan, their users become disgusted, and then the advertising dollars leave.

If the "tech companies" moderate (censor) too heavily, their users will become frustrated and leave for other websites, and then the advertising dollars leave.

Either way, websites can experiment with moderation, aiming to please the maximum audience with the perfect amount of moderation, all without fear of lawsuits.

Without 230, every website must choose to moderate (censor) or not. If they moderate, they become responsible for all content, and any mistakes. (And, given the tsunamis of postings to these websites, there will always be numerous oversights/mistakes.) Fear of legal jeopardy will drive such websites to become rivers of pablum, restricted to innocuous topics like diets, cupcake recipes, and cat pictures. Users that make controversial posts will draw lawsuits; such users will be promptly locked out. Mr. Trump doesn't understand that, without 230, Twitter would lock him out after one legally-questionable post. Alternatively, a website can choose zero moderation, immediately becoming another 4chan.

Or, we can have the situation we have today. 230 protects websites so they can moderate to please their audiences (that's you). If you don't like the moderation at InstaFaceTweet, you're free to switch to Parler or whatever. And if Parler does better moderation, more audience will flock there, and advertising dollars will follow.

Vote with your clicks.

In the late 1970s, I tried MINCE on CP/M, and the luxury of a screen editor versus a character editor (CP/M's ED.COM) was compelling. The ability to split the screen and edit two files at once was another huge advantage. In school, I used ex and vi, because Emacs wouldn't run on the 16-bit PDP-11/70 UNIX system at my university (UCSC's infamous UNIX B). In the 1990s, using 32-bit UNIX systems with serial terminals, I went back to Emacs because of the two-file split-screen capability and shell buffers.
Today I work from home, and use Emacs with dozens of files open simultaneously, multiple shell buffers, and often a debugger session. Etags makes it quick to find stuff in the work project, and my primitive ASCII-based Emacs sessions have a much lower bandwidth requirement than the usual VNC-style "screen sharing," a much better fit for my pitiful DSL internet connection, and mosh automagically re-connects me whenever I relight the company VPN. Works pretty well.
Emacs isn't perfect for me; I'm disappointed that my editor processes invariably start looping after a week or two, and the session needs to be killed and restarted.
All of the above probably makes me sound like another Emacs lunatic. I suppose that's fair, but I'm no zealot. You can use whatever editor/IDE you like; I won't lecture you about Emacs if you don't lecture me about your latest super-kewl IDE.
Bottom line, Emacs has a steep learning curve, but it's been worthwhile for me.

You're right. The fuel-efficiency came from adding fuel injection with an oxygen sensor. The catalysts in the converter can handle only limited amounts of pollutants; if the mixture is too rich or too lean, the exhaust will have an excess of unburned HC or NOx, and the catalysts won't be able to clean it up, and bad stuff(tm) escapes via the tailpipe. Modern cars sniff the exhaust coming out of the engine with an oxygen sensor, and use the data to fine-tune the mixture in real-time. The near-perfect mixture going into the engine keeps the NOx and unburned HC within some reasonable limits, enough that the catalytic converter can finish the job. The beneficial side-effect: since the engine is burning a nearly-perfect mixture at all times, fuel efficiency improved over previous-generation cars that lacked an oxygen sensor.

Will we get commonplace AR before, or after, the Year of the Linux Desktop?

That explains why private businesses don't offer pensions anymore.

The provided link is from the Bakersfield paper; that seems silly, as the original article is from the local paper, the Mercury News: https://www.mercurynews.com/20...
For the record, Agriculture uses 80% of California's developed water supply:
https://water.ca.gov/Programs/...
However, agriculture isn't really an issue here; the local water district
http://www.valleywater.org/
is mostly concerned with 1) supplying drinking water to various water retailers, who in turn distribute it throughout the Silicon Valley, and 2) flood control.

Oh, yeah. I think CP/M copied the "/option" convention from DEC's RSTS.

Sorry to be pedantic... IIRC, DOS file I/O primitives would accept either '\' or '/' as a path separator. COMMAND.COM was the issue; it would always interpret '/' as the beginning of a command-line option. If you were writing a command-line utility, it could employ "C:\path\to\my\file" or "C:/path/to/my/file". Actually, I think you could pass "C:/path\to/my\file" and that would still work. Yes, there was an internal variable inside DOS that recorded the option character; I think it was "SWITCHAR", and you could alter it in your environment (e.g. AUTOEXEC.BAT). Setting "SWITCHAR=-" meant that COMMAND.COM options now begin with '-', like UN*X. This took effect on the command-line, and inside .BAT files. But now your .BAT files are incompatible with everybody else's system...

Excerpted from your link (https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/health-and-medicine/article160786554.html):

"A large majority – 83 percent – of Medi-Cal enrollees are U.S. citizens, according to data from June 2014. The second largest proportion of enrollees, at 10 percent, are qualified noncitizens, a term for permanent residents, refugees, people granted asylum and others. Both citizens and qualified noncitizens are able to access the full scope of Medi-Cal benefits and services. Another 7 percent are undocumented and can only access emergency and pregnancy-related resources. "

I prefer "Christmasfaction."

The USA has been advertising itself as "The Land of the Free" for longer than anyone here has been alive. This marketing campaign has been very effective, allowing the USA to "brain-drain" most of the earth for generations. Other famous USA marketing slogans include:

"...with Liberty and Justice for All" in the USA Pledge of Allegiance.

"...your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free", inscribed on the Statue of Liberty.

"This Land is Your Land", from a popular folk song.

These slogans reflect long-held USA "core values", and make the USA appear more attractive to citizens of other countries. The resulting influx of immigrants has arguably made the USA a prosperous and powerful country:

      http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/02/06/why-7-companies-are-opposing-trump-travel-ban.html

IAAWAM (I Am A While American Male), and I believe it is in the long-term best interest of the USA to continue accepting immigrants of all colors. When, for the sake of expediency, the USA compromises its core values (e.g. immigration restrictions, tariffs, torture, religious discrimination, secret prisons, whatever), it sullies our international image, slowing immigration. Even if you ignore the "core values" stuff, overall, immigration has been a good business deal for the USA.

Edwin Land tried to do that by polarizing the headlights one way, and windshields another: http://www.polarization.com/land/land.html