Steal the watch, pawn it, hire a hooker.

"Other smart watches have been hard to navigate, "

Heck, even "normal" watches are hard to navigate. This is what could get me interested in the Apple Watch.

"free software will have a great competitive advantage."

There's not even motivation to get enough labor to look for security bugs in free software, let alone for deliberate misfeatures. To get it done you'll have to pay someone to do it, and then you'll have a competitive advantage if you have done it with non-free software.

So you have only two anecdotes, only one of which has even the potential to be a failure of the system, and you're ready to throw the whole thing out?

... which is already refuted in the abstract, since they measured BMI at the beginning of the study not the end.

"Fiat money also has no real value"

Even in the worst case, the value of fiat money is backed by a) the willingness of the issuing government to accept payments in that currency in lieu of using their monopoly of force to take your possessions, b) the willingness of the issuing government to prosecute as a criminal theft the appropriation of another's fiat money, and c) the effort individuals are willing to expend in stealing.

Nobody is going to entrust their data to Microsoft US if one day it turns out they can't get your data back from whatever foreign country they shipped it off to.

Irrelevant. Microsoft US already stipulated that they could aces the records.

Would you be willing to pay Microsoft US to store you data if one day they could say "whoops, we gave it to Microsoft Ireland and now it is illegal to get it back. Here's your bill"?

Irrelevant. The US court isn't ordering Microsoft Ireland to do anything, it is ordering Microsoft US. If Microsoft US can't get it back from Microsoft Ireland that is not the US court's problem.

Why should it tolerate a multi-national corporation getting itself into a situation where observing the laws of one nation put it violation of another?

No individual country has an obligation to make it easy or hard for a multi-national corporation to comply with the laws of multiple countries simultaneously. That is a responsibility the corporation took on when it entered business in multiple countries.

"When a company says that they'll protect your data, can they really speak for every one of the employees or contractors they hire?"

Who else can they be speaking for? A company is not a person in the sense that it cannot do anything. Only its employees and contractors can do anything.

"Sorry, mate, but if this is too difficult for you, you shouldn't BE setting up SSL sites."

It is in our interest that everyone else have secure setups. We have no means of stopping people from setting up SSL so we might as well help them do it right.

" they have no jurisdiction over a seller residing outside of their own borders"

This was not your original point, which is why I did not address it before you made it.

"That is why you are legally required to pay sales tax on all interstate purchases for which sales tax was not otherwise collected.

You do do that, right?"

Of course not: I was smart enough to move to a state without sales tax.

"a quarter of the state the feds have given to Indian reservations"

This is an interesting use of the word "given".