But MS isn't the only one to try that!

Problem gamblers are those that win big against the house. Then the house pulls out a contract on the bottom of the table that takes that contingency into account!

Well, this leads to all sorts of scenarios.
During the Reagan administration, the US would buy up blood supplies all over the world to see how the Soviets would react, and to start a war but be blameless. I think that Caesar came up with that concept first, to draw your enemies into a war, knowing that they might be ill equipped to fight it. You might add in a False Flag operation to get things heated. Leading up to the American Revolutionary War, the Boston Massacre was an attempt to draw young British troops to fire upon unarmed Colonists at the Custom's House where amongst the crowds there were paid agitators who got the crowds all stirred up and incited them to willing to take unnecessary risks themselves, so that the propaganda machine could rival up attitudes against the British.
Similarly, there are trading strategies like this, mostly in the form of pump and dump. You put in a massive buy order, hoping that that information gets out there and gets others to follow suit. Just before trading begins, you cancel your requests and sell into the roaring open. Sort of a gambit move.
In fighting, there are various tells, but you can gain ground by displaying false tells, baiting your enemy with misdirection! Knowing that others are looking for those signals, you can try to force their hand!

Lest their their sacrifices be in vain!

I once found a deed to my parent's house drawn up in 1976. Understanding it relied more on having read Shakespeare, given the archaic word choices. Later on, in the decade, there was a bill passed (in NY) to force legal documents to be written in common English understandable by an 8th grader. Don't know how much that affect things even in deeds. The first point that came to mind was that lawyers create work for other lawyers and to make sure that need them to double check everything that you do.
I visited Haiti. I learned that that the official language [especially in legal documents and communications with the government] of Haiti is French, while as most of the population speaks Creole and doesn't understand French well enough. One could laugh at that, but on the other hand, it is similar to this legalese predicament.
While living in Long Island, a Jewish family was always commenting on how teaching in Spanish was not right as it relied on tax dollars, and hindered assimilation. Later on, there was this story on 60-Minites about how Orange County had a huge population of Jewish kids who went to private Hebrew schools. However, the private schools did not have adequate accommodations for handicapped students as it was more expensive to do so. So the law makers created a subsection of school administration whose language of instruction was Hebrew. Now, Jewish kids go to a publicly funded Hebrew school system and no one talked about assimilation.
I had a friend who spoke Spanish at home. His mother was a Spanish professor. He always joked that he was an A student in Spanish! I spoke another language at home, but its curriculum was not being taught in my school district. I petitioned that my language be recognized as an official language so that I could get exempt from having to take one of the regular languages. That request was denied, but other kids could take credit for speaking Hebrew.

I have been doing this since 1970. Credit to Abby Hoffman, "Steal this Book" Whenever I fill out credit card statements, I misspell my own or illegibly write my name. I have done a search on other people with similar names and cross-forward mail. Call them up and make them change information about you. Look up your old driver's state of issue and change the address to someone else with a similar name. Mistype your SSN whenever asked. My phone is 8675309!

Well, probably because Sweden, Norway and most of Western Europe doesn't want them, unless they are well skilled. They are not wanted in the US anyway, but being a land of immigrants, it is easier to blend in than say France. For any society to graduate college major in fields are deemed essential, it takes a lot of money. The US wants those who have those skills, as often, they bring in 5X their salaries in returns to the companies that employ them. One the lower end of the economic rung, there is fierce opposition to entry because it is feared that they will take away job by undercutting the domestic workforce. The US wants capitalism for the workforce, but socialism for failing businesses [oil and airlines] and banks [especially hedge funds and those which took on too much debt]. Heads, I win, Tails, you lose philosophy.

I can't remember where I read this, probably at a TED talk by a NYU psychology prof. At one time, it was thought that left side is responsible for the analytic processing, while as the right side handles the creative tasks. That seems to have been discarded. What has reappeared in its place is that once side seems to be for dealing with planning and rationality. The other side seems to be for dealing with chaos and uncertainty. This seems to be an evolutionary need for the circumstances where an early mammal went out gathering food, counting the number of trees and thinking about the easiest approach to reach the food. And then, an incident occurred, where a mountain lion appeared out of the brush, and there was no time for planning and organizing, rather just required a reaction in the circumstances to avoid being killed or seriously injured.

Will cost more than $25B, especially if the right people get in power?
I wanted to study particle physics at SUNY StonyBrook in 1980. At that time, the US was on the verge of losing its status as the premiere place to do particle physics. I think the Brookehaven National Labs put out a propsal for the next generation particle collider called Isabelle (nicknamed Wasabella afterwards). I remember that at that time, that the proposal was lost. I remember that there was a strong proposal within the scientific community to restore that initiative, but it went nowhere. I spoke to a professor at that time, who said that it was time to get out of physics, especially for a college freshman. He recommended molecular biology, especially recombination DNA work. I didn't listen, but at least got into programming. BTW, this didn't pan out that great for the scientist who transplanted the phosphruse gene from deep sea jellyfish to other organisms, who Newsweek interviewed in 2006 while he was working as a clerk at Hertz Rental in Madison, AL.
Lately, I heard Neil Degrasse Tyson talk about his biggest surprise in the scientific community where he brought up this observation (the USA giving up on particle physics) and how the anti-intellectuals were taking over, especially the Southern Evangelicals and their Intelligent Design Curriculum, especially the initiative to downplay the role of evolution in high school biology books.

I wonder if you can sue the contact agency for breach of contract. After all, there are so many such suits around if things go the other way?

Well, we have now a society with the worst of capitalism and worst of socialism. Privatize the gains and socialize the gains. Worse, people are now thinking that that is a good idea! It is now called friction free capitalism!
The same is happening with the buying the corporate debts that companies incurred to buy back their own stock. Boeing took out debt $100B to pump up their stock price 4X, using low interest loans.
Or the bail out of the American investors in the Mexican oil pipelines in 2000!
Sort of like the comment by the 2008 Fed Reserve that we have to abandon capitalism in order to save it.
Sort of like fucking your way to virginity!

They will say money and power.
Open Sources is fine, but I would be pissed if I were to know that a lot of the software is being used by corporations who use it to avoid paying for licenses on such software. In the end, some company like RedHat sells themselves to IBM who end up using it for their back end processing. Great, but I think that those developers who contributed to it got short changed, even if they knew it was going to happen.
Similarly in drug research. Scientists work getting paid by the public from Federal Grants. If they develop something valuable, corporations take over the clinical trials to bring it to market, but never really paid all the upfront costs, especially for research that was not successful.
I wrote some OS software, but I have had people ask me to support it by adding features. I could, but my time is valuable and I would rather be doing other things, rather than "just" developing software. I am also interested in Astronomy, Mathematics, Physics, [Kant] Philosophy, Computational Neuroscience and developing my karate.

Says its a hoax?

Just a tactic to tide over the masses while he hands out $2.2T to bail out banks, oil companies, and airlines. Eventually, this money will be paid back as taxes will rise to recollect this in the future. While as you can say that the banks, oil and airlines will pay back their support, the problem is that a dollar today is not going to be worth a dollar years down the line.
The same thing happened with bailing out the banks in 2008. While as they paid back the loans with interest, the interest and terms were not based on a market rate. It has been argued that had they been based on a market rate, some of the banks would still be paying them back today! Tough shit, how many working families lost their house and savings, and received just a small bailout. Most of the financial aid given to people went directly to the banks, so that they could live in the house for three months longer, but most were foreclosed and evicted eventually. Many people are still living in squalor conditions today working without benefits as gig workers, while as [Regions] bankers threw themselves a party once they received their money. All this bailout did was allow banks more time to reorganize. After the reorg, the only segment of the economy that is making money was finance.

But my father thought it was stupid