Exactly.

Whence comes the assumption that there is only one competitor exploiting a monopoly?

Process Explorer. Not quite as integrated as you'd like, but it lets you search for any handle, including part of a filename, to see which process(es) are holding it.

Given that one of the first bombing targets in Iran which the US hit was a girls' school, and that got a lot of press, your comment goes beyond ignorant into wilfully ignorant and offensive.

It's not about hand-washing so much as not being exposed to the local microbiome. When I travelled in Latin America the advice was to soak vegetables in diluted iodine for at least 20 minutes before using them to make salad.

Putin is 73. Khamenei is 56, although apparently injured by the attack that killed his father.

Then you get USians complaining about the rest of the world freeloading and non-USians complaining that they're not getting paid.

Depends on the model. Wix (the Windows installer builder, not the website builder) has switched to a model whereby the source is always available for free but they charge for compiled binaries.

I assume my phone is less secure than my desktop, because it's less frequently updated and probably a preferential target.

the part where one side admits that Hamas and the Ayotallah are really the bad guys

That phrasing implies that their opponents are the good guys. Real life isn't as simple as fairytales aimed at pre-adolescent children. Hamas and Khamenei have both performed indefensible actions, and so have Netanyahu and Trump.

That's not how he tells it. He says he invented it after independently inventing insertion sort and realising that he wanted something subquadratic. He was "in college" in the sense that he was a postgraduate student. Mergesort had been published more than a decade before, but it had the disadvantage of not being in place.

Selling advertising.

And wildlife isn't having its circadian rhythms sufficiently disrupted by manmade lighting.

Bigger by what metric? Europe has more population and more land area than the USA.

I regularly have problems with .pptx but it's because it doesn't embed the fonts so layout frequently breaks when you move between computers.