NDAs are only for things that are not public. An NDA for a product under development makes sense. An NDA for a released product makes no sense.

You missed the most obvious choice: they don't think like a criminal, and have no idea what lengths a criminal will go to, or the tools they will use, to break in.

There is no other area in life where an ordinary person is expected or required to act like a complete paranoid, but that is exactly what is expected by you.

The problem is not users, the problem is that passwords are a crappy way to protect something.

Yes, but if they had an NDA they should be suing for breaking the NDA, not theft of trade secrets.

How can you claim something is a trade secret if you show it to others? If you want to keep your design proprietary, patent it.

Because you can ALREADY choose to do business or not depending on arbitrary made-up criterion. You CAN'T currently do it based on religion (or race, color, national origin, etc). Don't want to serve someone based on how they are dressed? Your right. Only want to serve people of a certain income level? Your right.

It says commercial buildings.

How do you figure? A second cover isn't free, in fact it could be quite expensive. However, if the second cover is doing something else, like generating electricity, that offsets the cost. Then you have two benefits, electricity and a cooler house. My house was shaded by a large tree. When we lost the tree the second story was much hotter. That tree was our second cover, and it made a lot of difference.

Do commercial buildings in France have pitched roofs, or are they flat like in the US?

Biogradable, whether defined by the goverment or not, has a specific meaning. If a substance can be broken down by an organism (fungi or bacteria) it is biodegradable. If a substance can be broken down under 'natural' conditions it is compostable, which is not the same thing.

I don't know how this guy stores his poncho, but chances are it has not been subjected to the bacteria or fungus needed to break it down. That in no way implies 'lying' by the manufacturer, just that the guy doesn't know what biodegradable means.

Biodegradable does not mean that something will be gone in a few years. Biodegradable means that certain fungi or bacteria break it apart. If you keep it away from those things it will never biodegrade.

No, it isn't. Boxen means related to the boxwood tree. Boxes is the plural of box. Boxen is only used by people who want to sound smarter than they are.

Medallions only cost $1,000,000 because of this thing called 'surge pricing'. It is a perfectly legimate business practice according to Uber and its defenders. See, the theory is, if the price goes up that high then more people will be willing to sell their medallions, and that is better for everyone. The fact that you can't afford a ride (oops, medallion) at that rate is immaterial.

The 'market based solutions' you are so in love with were the norm in the past, and they failed miserably. It is why we have the system we have now. It turns out people did not want so damn many taxis on the street that traffic didn't move, taxis running over people to get to a fare because they had to compete with each other, rates that changed at the drivers whim, no accountability, drivers squeezing the most out of each fare because it was unlikely they would get another, etc.

That was Britain, not the US

I do not agree in the slightest that your ability to be safe (get out of town in an emergency) should be determined solely by your ability to pay. Maybe we should also let the firefighters decide they don't really want to work today, so if you have a fire we will only work if you pay us extra.