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That has no affect on this tracking.

mine was 4.5 miles off

The telecoms need to be made "dumb pipe[s]" in the US before we start worrying about Google.

How are they "hostile to sites where the data originates" when Google is the primary driver of traffic to those sites?

Search engines have improved. Bing, DDG, Yahoo are all better than Altavista. But none of them are as good as Google. That being said, no entity is above criticism. The monopoly criticism just doesn't fit though, unless we're redefining what that word means.

How far would IBM or Microsoft or Apple have gotten without patents?

It has always been strange for me to understand Google search as a monopoly. First, there are competitors. Second, it's free (yes, I know you pay with data). Third, you can use the internet without using any of Google's services (except adsense, I suppose). How is Google's search a monopoly when it's the user who is deciding they prefer it to Bing or Duck Duck Go or Yahoo? Perhaps my understanding of monopoly is incomplete because this makes no sense to me.

Government spends money with more accountability and with more efficacy than charities do.

Yes. A lot of media critiques try to discern bias in the content. However, bias exists prior to that. What and who is covered is bias. Ignoring a topic could be bias not how the topic is covered.

Disregarding context in a narrow focus image, how can you differentiate between male and female nipples?

I agree with everything you are stating except that IMs can't replace email anymore than email can be 100% secure. Apples and oranges.