Does government certs mean backdoors?

No. The government has to certify the system before it can be used on government networks.

This is so companies can sell compliant RHEL7-based solutions to military and other government organizations.

Those are orthogonal concepts ;-)

Buy it used on Ebay and save a lot. But I think that Ubuntu touch has some qualities that make cost irrelevant.

This is a useless advice as there is no accountability/testing for these claims.... you cannot even be sure what kind of fish that you are buying nowadays (organic is even harder to prove). DNA testing would solve that, but the FDA apparently don't have the budget. For example: https://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/one-third-fish... .

That's where the "research" bit comes in. Take that report to your fish-monger[1] and ask him about it. If he has a strong opinion about it he's probably a keeper. If not, ditch him and get your fish from somewhere else. Again, check online vendors.

1: Here's a direct link to the actual report so you don't come off as someone who gets his information from tabloid newspapers: http://oceana.org/sites/default/files/Fishy_Business_updated...

Wolfenstein definitely started it but Doom was so much better. Modem to modem connections was great. OT: Comcast is having some real issues today.

use a different browser? (if this is allowed)

Using a different browser (technically, a different rendering engine) is not allowed on the iPhone. There are alternative browsers like Chrome, but they use the iPhone Safari rendering engine and serve merely to sync your bookmarks and whatnot with your other Chrome bookmarks and provide a slightly different UI.

Also, electric cars can be powered by coal, nuclear, hydroelectric, etc... or whatever the grid is powered by.

0 for me also, and I had a Nexus 4 for a while... they must ask a question about enabling this feature.

once your funds are in, you can instantly exchange between crypto-currencies

Credit card charge-back? It used to work.