... evolution. That wasn't all that hard, was it?

Small errors leads to metabolisms that weren't just more resistant to oxygen (remember that it's a nasty poison to anything that's not used to it), but that could acutally use it to generate energy (in fact, more efficiently than by anaerobic metabolism). That opened up whole new habitats. Exponential growth ensues.

A German company solved this exact problem years ago, when trying to find a way to reconstruct documents of the former East German Staatssicherheit that had been shredded.

Oh, and they're not dealing 10000 pieces various documents, they're dealing with 10000 bags full of pieces of shredded documents. Crowd-source that.

... beats HAL9000s insanity with pure, unadulterated malice.

So, nothing evil ever came from a male computer, either.

Anyone who has mastered FTL travel will be impossible to stop.

In fact, anyone who has mastered somewhat directed inter-stellar travel, even at sub-lightspeed, will be impossible to stop.

If they've mastered accelerating physical objects to even a significant fraction of c, then they could wipe us out before we even know about them just by slamming an object (any object) into any point on the earth.

No significant fraction of c necessary at all. All "they" would need is a space rock of sufficient size (which our solar system has plenty of), a large enough thruster, a few decades, and an "out of the sun" trajectory so we have no idea what's coming.

... sound more like a list of fun things to do (which most kids will find irresistible).

Originally beer became popular because the alcohol in it protected you from the nasty stuff in the the water from wells and rivers.

Err ... no. Even todays' 5% alcohol stuff doesn't disinfect anything, and what they brewed hundreds of years ago without todays heavily cultured yeasts didn't even reach 5%.

However, making beer involves boiling the water used in brewing, which does indeed kill off most of the bad things in the water.

So ... they're marketing an intentional, crippling flaw in the product as a "feature"? Way to go. This beats marketing unintentional bugs as "hidden features" a thousand times over.

... is mandatory, and the laws after the first are by no means optional.

We're not in the 1980s or 1990s anymore, when monitors, especially large ones, would cost thousands of dollars.

Simple calculation: A monitors costs, what, $250? And now consider that it might save the developer just one or two minutes each day that he'd otherwise spend on switching between windows, resizing them, getting reoriented, etc. The extra monitor will pay for itself in a few months.

It's basically available everywhere, and has much less correlation (in place and time) than solar power, which means that you need smaller areas than for solar power to even out the variance of each producer. Hydropower and geothermal power are nice, but only feasible if your country hit a geographical or geological jackpot.