The odd question I have.. How is it that massive amount 1000lb explosives is planted with nobody noticing it for so long?

Seeing as it's enough to level everything within a 1 mile radius; that is rather extreme and scary if any of that has been sitting nearby for so long. We could be looking at a surprise disaster any month or day weeks or years from now then...

Surely there would have been an effort to survey the damage after a bombing, and an unexploded thing larger than a car shouldn't have been overlooked by an aerial examination and thorough search of the spaces surrounding populated areas.

everybody who ever spent their lives making weapons wasted their time.

An naive and arrogant point of view at best. We live in a world where a person merely crossing the street is subject to being ambushed by rapist gangs who are impossible to negotiate with, and the international relations between some countries are just as bad, way more complicated, And only well-informed officials and strategists can give an idea on how to keep us free country citizens safe, but one thing is clear: Good Weapons are always necessary. More efficient higher tech weapons allow for a better result most of the time, especially when destroying opposing military equipment with fewer human casualties on both sides. Weapons serve as both a means of destroying equipment, and weapons and weapons manufacturing facilities are also targets to be destroyed. And at least so long as facilities and not people are targeted - the toll of war involves fewer lives and more money being lost in that equation.

  As a person living in a free country and reaping the benefits of living in a free country: You also have a duty in the defense of that society by being a citizen that is an inherent part of the social contract which has allowed and continues to allow free countries to even exist in the first place and not be automatically conquered by whichever conquerer is strongest and most ruthless at the time. If the needs of the defense of our society requires going to war, then the duty of All citizens, even you is to contribute your part. Whether that ends up as by being pressed into military service through drafts, etc, building weapons, contributing special skills if you have any that are demanded by your country, Or by just by paying income taxes.. None of that is a wasted endeavor by those contributing, And you have your very life to thank for the efforts of people making weapons.

Considering many of the weapons people spent their time on making saved countless millions of innocent lives. It's a very real possibility many of us would not have been born if not for the effort in the development of certain weapons. Despite it is true that usage of weapons in war comes at a human cost, and we face a grave risk of demise at the hands of the ultimate weapons of mass destruction. Better tactical weapons in many areas that more accurately accomplish military objectives (Destruction of opposing military infrastructure, As-opposed to people) also reduce collateral loss of life.

However, as mere engineers or tech workers. We are not actually involved in making nor equipped to have a great understanding in the decisions about when and if war on our country's part is an obvious necessity; Nor are we sufficient experts in strategy to know the right path -- that is a matter for our generals, and commander, etc, to debate the complexities of our predicament at a given time.

World War II, and the US involvement in Europe was obviously necessary, and now we can recognize that retrospectively. But at the time that was not obvious whatsoever to the public. Indeed the US entry to WW II was very late and probably cost 40 million lives that could likely have been saved with much earlier preparation and entry to war.

Well windows 10 is over 10 years old by now, you can't maintain sw forever 10 years is not bad

What is wrong with you?

Raw data is here: Department of labor raw data
Here is a paper on the topic
1. Expand "Disclosure Data"
2. Scroll down to "OFLC Programs and Disclosures"
3. Row titled "Prevailing Wage"
4. Download PW_Worksites_FY2025_Q3_new_form.xlsx
You can filter by job, location, and employer name. I just filtered by SOC_TITLE containing "Software" and the range is from 47,424 to 226,158, avg = 131,800.

Also: H1-B visa applications by employer.
The top are: Amazon, Google, JP Morgan Chase, Tata consulting, Apple, Cisco, Oracle, Deloitte, Walmart

enterprises will move out of the US and then these tariffs will not apply.
Then those enterprises will: (1) Be subject to tax consequences for expatriating.
And (2) Now all the enterprise's products sold to US consumers will be tariffed, so long as their operation is outside the US.
It's just trading a small set of tariffs on remote labor for a much larger tariff expense, and it won't be fiscally responsible for the enterprise to exit the US in that case.

Those 100k$ may become "H1-B loans, to be reimbursed by the employee

How would that work? These are employees, and the application fee is the employer's liability to the government. An Employer generally cannot make an employee assume expenses that are for the employer's benefit. Even those expenses an employer can make the employee pay cannot exceed their wages such that an employee is paid below minimum wage. Any kind of attempt to extract the costs of the fee out of the employee would be fraud.

fill a 100k job with an h1-b worker and only pay them 50k, it's still back to profit after 2 years

That one is actually illegal. The minimum on a H-1B salary is $60,000. But there is an additional requirement that the
salary has to be at or higher than the prevailing wage for the job in question.

But even if they manage to illegally pay only 60k a year... The 100k fee divided by the 3 year term still amounts
to 33k a year. And 33k plus 60k is $93,000.

And that's before thinking of all the other extra compliance costs involved in hiring H-1B.

I still buy DVDs for my collection (although not on eBay, I buy mine mostly from a big charity book sale that also sells DVDs and things)

Much cheaper to buy the entire series of Breaking Bad that way than to buy a new whole-series box set or watch it on streaming. Same with some other TV series I picked up. And all the James Bond films (although I still haven't found For Your Eyes Only locally)

These guys eventually become employers in our economy and pay a lot of tax.
A H-1B is not the path to that as far as I know. The H-1B lasts for 3 years and can be extended 3 more. After that 6 years the H-1B cannot be renewed, and they're forced back to their own country for a minimum of 1 year anyway.

The only way to stay in the US and become an employer is to get a greencard instead of a H-1B in the first place; or to apply for a permanent residency to change from a H1B to a resident based on major eligibility criteria. The 100K fee is probably not very much for the people who would actually meet that eligibility criteria, and you would still be willing to deal with the fee for the opportunity.

What this will do, is that newly graduated STEM masters and PhD will go back to their home country and we lose out on top talents.
You are assuming newly graduated STEM masters are top talents. I am not sure that has been evidenced. Top talents are people who have demonstrated abilities and expertise in their fields. They don't put you at the top of anything after graduating from a few years' worth of coursework. There is some book knowledge and background you should have to succeed in an engineering field, but skills are acquired on the job, and a classroom is only the starting point.

In theory it could, but Trump is bound to create tariffs for this as well.

If your company or management are in the US, then you are importing labor or services from overseas. Trump can set a tarriff on the fair market value of that work being performed overseas by non-US workers multiplied by the number of hours.

If you move your company overseas to avoid that tariff, then your customers in the US will pay a tariffs on your products or services instead, whatever you are selling.

I own a Samsung fridge but its a nice simple dumb fridge that does one thing and one thing only, keeping my stuff cold.

The Vacation movies are a staple in my house. Clark's breakdown rants are some of the funniest moments ever put to film.

I'm pretty sure the OP just meant that Microsoft is finally going triple-E on themselves, and Teams will be the first victim.

That's mostly the fault of SEO. When a subject can be nicely written up in a paragraph or two, SEO gaming insists you break it down into neatly organized "sections" that are filled with banal nonsense that nobody in their right mind would ever want to read just so that it shows up somewhere north of page fifty on Google's search. Now that they've got enough of the Internet playing that game, they'll offer the "solution" of fucking with the data they've been pushing people to shit up with nonsense for most of the last couple decades and try to summarize it into what we were looking for to begin with, and probably what the original author of the content meant to post before their shitty fucking Wordpress SEO suggestions told them it needed to be re-spamified into "What is a lawn mower? Where did lawn mowers come from? Why do people need lawn mowers? What options does one have when purchasing lawn mowers? How to spend family time with your lawn mower. Teaching your children lawn mower safety. How many lawn mowers will fit in Yankees Stadium?" when all we really wanted to see was a parts list for our model of lawn mower. Fuck SEO, fuck Wordpress for gaming SEO, and fuck Google for finally admitting we need to simplify the web again, but insisting that only their shit-ass hallucinating crack-addled tween AI can do it.