It will take root in professional services (surgeons, architects, etc...) and if it never makes it into the consumer market for one reason or another (say privacy concerns) it matters not. Google glasses (or some variant) has it use and will remain.

GPA != intelligence and never has been. A "C" in organic chemistry shows more intellectual work and more capacity to do work than does receiving an "A" in basket weaving.

The real issue is that this will require investment in research and that means not making a profit in the next 3 years, which is about the duration of how far a CXO looks.

And yet money is being invested. How do you account for that?

use taxes != socialism. As a matter of fact Rand, Hayek, Rothbard and other proponents of free markets were also in favor of use taxes.

What's next? The government is going to tell us what to eat? Or force us to buy services or products we don't want?

So, then the definition of a free market only comes from it's detractors who come up with straw men definitions?

Free markets is not synonymous with anarchy. Believe it or not governments and courts ARE part of free markets, and the markets ARE supposed to pay for these government services through fees.

Black markets often exist because of government foolishness (banning alcohol) and sometimes because an action is prohibited due to use of force: ie sx slavery. Governments, from a free market perspective, exist to redress fraud and violence and not to enforce morality or use business transaction fees to set up a patron-client relationship with sections of the populace.

Anarchy != free markets.

NOBODY that's a proponent of free markets considers Black Markets to be models. Find where Menger or von Mises, or Hayek or Rothbard or Rand considered the black market to be something to emulate - a model, so to speak, of Free Markets.

Yes. The free market does sort it out. A fool and his money are soon parted.

What things, in your opinion, should the Republicans have supported? When President Walker (for example) does X (say back the Keystone Pipeline) would you expect the Democrats to fight that? Would you say that is proper? If so then shouldn't the Republicans fight Obama at every turn when Obama does something they disagree with?

Do you really believe this? Nobody will use their service and makes their company look like mud. Small businesses (and big ones) are very concerned about CC theft. They will not touch this product now.

Yeah for the dictatorship of the proletariat.. Nothing like a central authority telling you what to do. Just look to Mother Russian, Mao's China and the wonderful Kim leadership in Korea and see how socialism leads the way to freedom and person fulfillment.

So muslims don't go to war with each other?

While overpopulation is a problem it *has* certainly not a root cause of hunger and energy shortage, etc..

Re wind power - this will be easy to determine - what is the speed of the wind at different altitudes before and after the wind farm. If there is a major difference AND if wind farms become major fixtures on the landscape (meaning they cover a significant portion of an area's total acreage) then we have a problem.