Part of the problem is the paleo enthusiasts and other fad diets are that they don't have the courtesy to test these things on their own, which can end up influencing the food supply for the rest of us. Full fat content yogurt can be nigh impossible to find in some places because of years of preaching about the dangers of fat.

OF course, if you are tracking everyone, how the hell are you going to keep track of a few measly criminals?

Don't worry, while they may have lost track of serious criminals, silly criminals are still being closely monitored.

Not that so much as being a hacker doesn't make you have magical powers.

They also didn't write the standard. IEEE did. What CSIRO did was develop some key elements, although it's not clear whether or not anybody involved in the creation of Wi-fi even looked at their research.

How about we export the politicians that sell our rights away instead? Violent crime is the lowest it's been in decades, and national security is just an excuse to maintain the power structure.

Or, we could just have much shorter shifts and less time working. We could have one person working in a household, and have them only work one short shift a week.

To be fair, the overwhelming majority of economists could be replaced by the dice in a standard d20 system, so the fear isn't without a basis.

Found that. When you said amusingly terrible, I thought you meant it in the sense of every powerpoint presentation being terrible, but that might have been the worst powerpoint presentation I've ever seen. That was just painfully bad.

Has there been any indication that newspapers and such are going to publish full scripts or anything like that? They might report on leaked scripts and torrents containing said scripts, but that's not what a newspaper is going to be interested in.

The CIA and NSA are bosom buddies who only withhold information from each other when there's an actual threat. But if it's just an ordinary citizen, they'll be more than happy to double-team you.

Most businesses fail in general, so claiming that most businesses fail due to too much competition is sort of a moot point.

Regarding your examples:
x86: I'm pretty sure that Intel had a great deal of legal control of that market, and they've certainly not been shy of anti-competitive techniques.
mom-and-pop computer stores: I believe they were displaced largely by websites like NewEgg and TigerDirect, as the model they have allows them to undercut them and in many ways be more convenient.
donut franchises: There's not a shortage of donut shops, and I've seen a decent number of indie donut shops
mobile devs: that was basically the same niche as websites and flash games, neither of which has ever been a particularly reliable method of making a living.

That the diversity of a market doesn't always increase doesn't mean that there is an inevitable and irreversible race to the bottom. A market only has a limited carrying capacity, and when it exceeds that, there will be some degree of pruning. That doesn't mean that the population is doomed, though.

We have an unhealthy societal perspective regarding alcohol, which you are indicating right there in your post. The drinking done by these people is probably not causing a great deal of harm, but we have an unprecedented level of access to cameras and semi-permanent communications. Therefore, this otherwise healthy activity can have harmful effects on your career or personal life.

I don't see how this is more making war with fire than firearms.

Both the term 'ponce' and the USS Ponce are named after Juan Ponce De Leon. He's just perceived a bit differently in different places.