Electric lawn mowers make less noise than gas-powered ones.

Airlines hire their pilots, train companies hire their conductors, etc. But Uber claims that their drivers are not employees, but rather independent contractors. If this is the case, then there is price-fixing.

Actually, "counterfeit medicine" is a euphemism for "generic drugs", i.e. drugs that have been manufactured and sold without paying the patent owners anything. Some drugs (especially for various types of cancer) cost more than $100,000 per treatment and some third-world countries produce their own local "generic" version of the drug, since they can't afford paying that much for saving just one life. The production costs for a drug sold for a six-figure sum are typically under $100. The "big pharma" try to prevent poor consumers from first-world countries from traveling to third-world countries and buy these drugs, this is all there is to it.

There's no global shortage of fresh water. There are huge untapped lakes and rivers. There are water shortages in some places where we need it for agriculture or human consumption. Oregon has a low population density, so I doubt they have any water shortages.

You are not pay only the actual cost of building the house, you must pay for the 200-feet yacht that the one-percenters get, too.

Everything that ran on Win7 will run on Win8 on x86 computers. Win8 will run on ARM chips, but only Metro app will work there.

I pay ~0.12 USD / 1 kWh (Romania/Eastern Europe).

Actually, the article does have a mistake: The Gran Sasso Mountains (where the Italian laboratory of Gran Sasso is located) are part of the Apennines, not the Alps, like the article says.

The Nobel committee said that human rights are a requirement of a peaceful world.

Actually, it seems that apples are a bit older: "The genera of Maloid Rosaceae radiated an estimated 48-50 million years ago (Campbell et al. 2007)" (Source)

A lot of corporations still use Windows XP or 2K as their standard OS.

During the election, about 95% of African-Americans voted for Barack Hussein Obama due solely to the color of his skin

It's the same percentage of the Afrian-Americans that voted for Clinton.

They entered the Chinese market in 2006, and, in less than four years, they reached to have 26% of the Chinese market, which, you should remember, is bigger (in numbers) than the US market.

I don't think it's fair to say they were beaten by Baidu.