The whole needing F-22s if we ever get into a conventional war with a Great Power thing is a canard. Great Powers have nuclear weapons, so conventional wars aren't possible; we send in F-22s and 8 hours later half the planet is glass.

Conventional fighting these days is done against guys hiding in caves in third-world countries, and the F-22 does precisely nothing to help in those scenarios.

Any transition offer that involves subjecting oneself to Oracle's pricing plans can accurately be described as being up shit creek.

$20 million+ rollouts for Peoplesoft systems on University campuses are the norm, not the exception. Their salesforce hooks in clueless upper management with tales of little customization and off-the-shelf savings, and then comes the roll-out consulting costs and news that any use of Peoplesoft for financials requires highly complex, site-specific customization at exorbitant consulting fees.

Data migration from the old mainframe systems always turns into a nightmare, cost overruns are legion, political pressure to meet deadlines causes internal staff to rack up huge overtime at huge cost, Oracle licensing runs well into 7 figure territory, etc, etc

This money was gone the second they selected a Peoplesoft "solution", management just didn't know it at the time

Unix influences. Notice that they're networking related; Windows used BSD's TCP/IP stack for a long time

Who reads newspapers?

Old People

What group is most likely to bother to read some long boring public notice and have enough free time and spare outrage to make any noise about it?

Old People

Where do you put things you don't want Old People to find?

The Internet

Twitter is essentially an SMS aggregation and redistribution tool. SMS is limited to 140 character messages. I do not think you understand the meaning of the word "arbitrary".

...or their arable land was, say, destroyed by the Three Gorges Dam project, which has displaced millions of people