Why would anyone pick UTF-16LE? All the disadvantages of UTF-8, none of the advantages. The only reason to use it is when dealing with legacy systems that used it.
Code point order would be somewhat decent, but even better is to use the user's chosen coallation order from their locale settings if possible.
The languages in a language menu should each be written in their own language. So German should be "Deutsch", English should be "English", Japanese should be "日本語", etc.
The Miracle on Morgan's Creek. I never liked it much, but my family did. Also The Princess Bride, but that's not obscure so it can't count here.
Music CDs or data? Music CDs have built-in error correction, data CDs don't. You can certainly extend the lifetime if they're stored in the dark in a cool, dry place (UV light, heat, and humidity all damage the dye that gets burned to encode them) but they're not reliable archival storage without error correction.
They don't last very long. About 5-10 years at most, and that's if you bought special archival burnable DVDs. If you depend on them for backups, you should check the integrity annually (always include a checksum like SHA256 with any backup archive).
That Wiki page is woefully incomplete, only covering the digital applications (and these days digital stuff is all done with FETs, not BJTs). Camenzind's Designing Analog Chips has quite a bit more info.
It's hard to control the exact area of the emitter diffusion in a BJT. Think of how an NPN transistor is made on an IC: there's some substrate that the collector gets connected to, then an area is masked off & the unmasked area is doped enough to make it a P-type silicon region. That doping process will have some variation in depth & the masking is never perfect, some will diffuse a bit past the edges of the mask, or not enough will diffuse in. Then another mask layer is applied, and N-dopant is added in the open space to form the emitter. That's also imperfect, on top of an already imperfect base. So the exact gain of transistors isn't well-controlled, even for a very well-controlled collector voltage.
Instead, IC makers can dope multiple smaller emitters in a bigger base region. Smaller doped regions are easier to control (less time for over-diffusion of the dopant) and having a bunch of them has an extra advantage: you can match the ratio of collectors to emitters from one transistor to the ratio of collectors to emitters of another, and variations in the area of any individual emitter will be a much smaller percentage of the total error since the errors of the different emitters will tend to cancel out.
Also, the high-current capability of a BJT is controlled by the emitter length, not the emitter area. Splitting an emitter into long strips can increase how much current a transistor can handle.
Similar things apply to the collector.
For SPICE modeling or building discrete versions of ICs, use multiple transistors in parallel.
Interesting way to draw them, but not particularly weird. Bipolar processes don't really control emitter:collector ratio very well, so gain often varies widely between two transistors even on the same IC. Having extra emitters (or extra collectors) lets the designer match the number of emitters on one transistor to the number of emitters on another, or create ratios between them. That allows for much more accurate gain matching (or gain ratio matching). There are lots of other tricks that can be done in ICs that aren't really available in discrete components. Camenzind's book "Designing Analog Chips" goes over quite a few of them.
Humans are apes, and therefore we're all ape furries. Since catgirls are girls, and girls are human, and humans are all ape furries, catgirls are furries.
Deniers won't care, they'll just say India is part of the conspiracy. As are the scientists using lasers to measure the distance of the moon with retroreflectors the Apollo missions left. As am I for doubting their bullshit. Etc.
And cap insurance profits & executive compensation instead of premiums. A cap on premiums makes insurance non-viable even for a non-profit if the risk is too high, while a cap in profits lets it be valued appropriately. The cap on executive compensation is needed because without that they'd raise premiums excessively & pay themselves the extra instead of accumulating that as company profit for their stock price.
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Of course they want to "own the libs". They believe people get more conservative as they age, so kids have to be libs. And they definitely want to be able to own & trade children!