Upgrade to Qubes OS anyone? Having daily driven it on 10th and 13th gen- i7 stinkpads I am beyond satisfied with the performance/security tradeoff. For once in the preceeding score I actually feel somewhat secure again from state-level automated exploitation!

>or have the host openly acknowledge their commercial sponsors as an integral part of the presentation

NewPipe x SponsorBlock on the IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository will block ads and auto-skip sponsored segments!

I work for a voice and data cabling company...

Don't fix whats not broken. Cables rarely go bad. The rare occurrences can be fixed, but you really don't need to replace cable until it fails. Usually new standards come out faster than the cable will fail. As has been said, gigabit /CAN/ be run on Cat5e. Stop worrying.

Because ID10T's can install it. Its cross platform and easy to use. We use it to talk to my Cousin in Thailand or Korea. My Aunt and Uncle have it in Oregon. It is also able to punch through firewalls and NAT problems extremely well BECAUSE THEY USE SUPERNODES to connect the call.

Also here is a good "Whitepaper" on the skype protocall
http://arxiv.org/ftp/cs/papers/0412/0412017.pdf

more like 'Mainstream Republicans' == Neoconservatives && 'Mainstream Democrats' == Neoliberals.

Don't understand the vocab? look it up on Wikipedia