...and wouldn't it be nice to get something in return for our tax dollars? Other than billion-dollar ballrooms and pointless wars, I mean?

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Do they need cover to reject anything? In my projects, I reserve the right to reject anything, for any reason, solely on the grounds that they are my projects, and if someone doesn't like it, they can fork off (their own repository).

Lets put it like this: You have to compare 80 years of biography to find out. Right now, people dying did not experience the Great Depression and the Second World War, which gives them a large boost compared to people living 10 years early. We might see the effect of Microplastic in 50 years time.

Without a hostage there is no ransom!

If you actually find anyone doing that in the real world, you should point and laugh until they get angry.

Let's figure it out together:

test.c: In function 'main':
test.c:5:14: error: expected expression before ';' token
    5 | int x = 1+;

Apparently, Oneplus is a syntax error.

LEO is used for most satellites because it's by far the cheapest orbit, which you can easily reach with a two stage rocket. Everything above LEO needs much bigger rockets and is thus much more expensive to reach.

Kilowatt-hours are also used in countries which use the Metric System. And the S.I. units don't use camel case. It's kilowatt and Megajoules, albeit the abbreviations are kW and MJ.

Additionally, diesel generators need regular diesel transport, while a solar+battery installation, once in place, does not require outside resources. You could even transport solar panels and batteries with a motorcycle along a foot path, which is much more complicated with a diesel generator. And a solar+battery installation is easily scalable, while a diesel generator is not.

I can get a 2 kWh battery here around for 300 EUR (after taxes), and Hawaii will subsidize the same capacity with $400? I should buy a container full of them and ship them to Hawaii immediately.

Without support, T-Mobile probably won't be entitled to patch any of the inevitable future critical security vulnerabilities found in VMware's software.

Yes, yes, yes. Thing is, there was a clear lack of urgency here. The timelines you cite are for your case, and whatever requirements, budgets and deadlines you suffer. T-Mobile made a bad bet in 2008, and the writing has been on the wall for years now, and viable alternatives have been available at least as long. Were T-Mobile competently managed, they certainly had the means to meet the necessary deadlines. Instead, they made yet another bad bet trying to litigate against pirates.

The correct bet today is container orchestration and open-source based virtualization tools that aren't at the mercy of inveterate rent seekers. There are many ways to skin these cats, and the fact that T-Mobile has slouched into its current unfortunate position is entirely T-Mobile's fault.

Also, the argument that only "two calls" where made and, therefore, a team of 20 people is somehow ridiculous is specious. Support contracts at this scale involve far more than picking up a phone during business hours, and Broadcom will have absolutely no difficulty poking that argument full of holes.

Given the recent track record of lunar probes crashing and/or landing ass side up, the odds of success for this rush job are not good.

Are you sure about that "biological" thing? Most of them look like Stepford Wives.