The thing is... he is not looking for an USB powered adapter, but actually for an entire USB powered display.

As he seems to be looking for a replacement of his iPad as an external monitor, I suspect that he is looking at something like 1080p and somewhat larger, maybe the size of his macbook pro.

The only thing that comes to mind for me is the old, ridiculous ThinkPad W700ds with the built-in second screen.

First off, that would be $24987.50 per affected American. Second, this whole thing is ridiculous as the results is quite simple: The US taxpayers pay the IRS and the IRS pays the affected US taxpayers. Not only do the IRS probably not really care as they don't really have to pay anything (they will just get it again from you), but it is also a ridiculous money transfer from the people who were not affected to those who were (a random set of people).

No, but I guess any development team with non-US members will have a strong problem with that. Or to put it more simply: how should this whole thing even be enforced? Non-US developers do not have to comply with US law and will not contribute to this surveillance - the only option is to make using such software illegal in the US (something else that cannot really be enforced). Additionally, this will push people away from software written in the US as it would violate the requirements of any company not willing to expose their entire internal information to the US economic espionage.

It is much simpler. While having a lower conversion rate, they are just so incredibly cheap that you can easily get 10 times as many.
  To the point of pollution: they are really awesome. In fact around here (Switzerland) it is a quite common high school chemistry project to create such organic solar cells from TiO2 coated glass and tea leaves - quite a fun project.

Oh well... they were unrelated before. But who cares about what was before, it is important what is after the trial.

In Switzerland at ETH Zurich a PhD usually takes approx. 5 years. Starting a PhD program here requires a Master's degree which is usually obtained after 5 years of studying (master and bachelor together).

At least the bugs are fixed.

And frankly, if this is the way yielding the best product for your money: Why not?

Windows 8 is actually great for tablets. Have you tried it? And I seriously do not get why you hate the device's performance - get the RT version if you want long battery life and low specs. Or just any other table.

Of course I would still like to see linux running on it.

I would absolutely buy one if I had not recently bought a high-end notebook. In fact I am thinking about buying it anyways and selling the notebook.
  I do not think that this was intentional, this is really a great product. Maybe they were surprised themselves because the RT version did not sell all that well.

Maybe that was what the guys at Intel thought.

No, they are not. Well, maybe in the US you can throw out all your rights by making a contract. But I want to give you an example of what happened here in Switzerland a few years ago (and Switzerland has one of the weakest customer protection laws in Europe):

All ISPs advertised and made contracts for 'upto xxx MBit/s', this was general industry practice. Suddenly there was a court ruling invalidating almost all of these contracts. Why? You signed that you give them money and they did not promise any service ('upto xxx' can also be 0 MBit/s). Thus these contracts were one-sided and could thus never be in the sense of one of the parties. They were thus invalid.
Solution: Now they all include a minimum bandwidth in their contracts and have to face compsation demands when their service is not working (as they are in breach of the contract in this case).

I have no idea where you could go to a concert at this price here in Switzerland - at many places a simple coke is already 5$. A three-day pass to an open-air is about 300$, whereas a classical concert will set you back about 120$ for just one evening.

And how is this a problem? Even for classical music this should work out as those who listen to this genre are mostly able and willing to pay more than for a rock concert.
The music industry is always crying that there are artists who do not earn enough to live solely from making music. First off, it seems ironic to me that the publishers are complaining - those who make a boatload of money. Second, there will always be those who are just not good enough or otherwise do not play what people want to hear - and this is the way it is supposed to be. We cannot pay people who are doing something nobody wants.