Ahhh....that meme is so tired. You do realize that wasn't a 'Windows' issue, but rather a crappily created application issue. IIRC, an input that allowed a zero (or null) value when it shouldn't have.
Or are you trying to assert that crappy applications can only be written for the Windows platform?

There are no justifiable wars.

Sometimes, "war" is thrust upon you. The obvious classic example is WWII.
The French/Belgians/Poles/Russians did not ask to be invaded. The Brits did not ask to be bombed.

Sometimes, your choices are reduced to only two.
1. Surrender and die
or
2. Fight back.
There is no #3. Wait, there was a #3, which Chamberlain tried first. Didn't work. So that leaves fight back or die.

Gerrymandering has been going on for decades (if not more). You're just now noticing?

"53% More Banning Incidents"

No, they're investigated 53% more requests. The linked article says nothing about how many were actually banned.
And the majority of requests were from parents or library patrons, not school districts or state/local govts.

49 cases. Is that idiocy? Are these idiots? Sure. But good grief....49 cases out of how many million kids and parents?

Alternate non-OTT headline - "0.002% of parents in the US have requested a book be banned in their local school library."
You could find a greater percentage of people complaining about just about anything.

Gives me chills when I see people talking about tech like it was a religion.

Walk by any Apple store.

The car could refuse to work if it doesn't receive a GPS signal that makes sense.

Like when you go into a tunnel.

Milton Keynes already did this with the Redways. Complete separate system of parts for bikes. Which, according to cycling expert John Franklin, turned out to be utter crap. Two decades of the Redway cycle paths in Milton Keynes.

"Small", and completely useless.
"Yo, Assad...we're going to blow up some of your stuff in 3 weeks." Launch, and destroy some runways and now empty buildings.

And it will continue to happen, no matter the technology.
Nuke, frak, solar panel production, high capacity battery production....some idiot middle manager will try to reduce costs at his level, and this is what we get.

Drop testing with the same gantry they've used since the 60's and Apollo. http://www.nasa.gov/centers/langley/news/factsheets/fs-2007-08-138-larc.html
Now named a National Historic Landmark.

Say I am John Q. Private. Can you give me a scenario where I might care that someone has this information?

A stalker, your spouses lawyer, just to name a couple.
It's not a case of 'what can they do', or 'I have nothing to hide', but rather a case of 'it should not be that easy'.

The article fails to mention what they intend to convert the CO2 into, or how much it will cost. Maybe the primary function of the company is to win government grants.

"Maybe"?

American beer has loads of carbonation and causes anger issues. European beer has less carbonation (and more flavour) causes less anger issues.

Clearly, you have never been to a European football/soccer game.

Google has said it's not going to allow advertising on Glass.

They also said 'no porn'.
That won't work either. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/24/google-glass-porn_n_3644321.html

Witness the crowdsourced identification of the Boston bombing dudes. Some poor dude was 'identified', and a semi-major newspaper picked it up..."Hey...that's the guy!"
Sucks to be him. Or you.