Utterances of the EU/US/other bureaucrats/politicians are labelled as such, why shouldn't AI get credit where credit is due?

Slightly less silly, at what level of human intervention should AI be credited? It's been years, but IIRC, MS-Word gives a green underline for wording it considers ungainly. Does this count as AI?

As I understand it, AI runs with what you give it. What happens if you steer it alot, say more than once every sentence? And check references!

Strong passwords are only advisable/required where the cost of wrong guesses is low. If the pwd hashes are weak/available, then the cost is just a few hundred CPU cycles. Tiny. If the cost is lockout after 3 wrong (like ATMs eating cards), it is huge. Ditto for being shot by a sentry. I favor progressive login delays, limited to avoid DoS. Anyone who fails to consider the cost of wrong guesses does not understand passwds.

Even more important is having the minimum number of engines firing! Apparently they were not dissatisfied fir 6 out or would have aborted earlier.

Exactly right. Training a NN is entirely analogous to human learning, modulo racism against electronics. But what evidence do you have that the Oz.govt wouldn't ban human learning if they could? :)

Are they sure the explosive bolts fired correctly to separate the stages? This is critical on any multistage.

Residence is one thing, but frankly I trust the Google Mobility (Android) location data much more as an indicator of activity.

6.9 MPa is 1000psi -- sounds like a read-across from similar earth material, not tested sample. Furthermore, it looks like one of those made-up numbers. Actual intact basalt is much higher but de-rated for defects.

As for tunnelling, the bores are circular so material is in compression where fissures are less relevant.

Yes. I considered the basalt has zero usable structural tensile strength due to fissures. Not sure if tensile strength of rock is allowed in civil engineering calculations. A fair bit may be there, but is it reliable?

Yes, aluminum (or steel if you can find iron) pressure-vessels would be quite usable for things like entrances and connectors. Regolith as deadweight would not need fusing beyond structural irregularities and the internal gas-tight membrane.

You can see my attempt at math. If someone calcs 10m, then they are assuming some sort of tensile strength for basalt and neglect to mention the diameter (10m?). I assumed basalt has zero tensile strength due to fissures, and was only deadweight (compressive strength) in which case loose regolith also counts.

I was assuming some kind of liner to eliminate leaks through fissures. If you mean as full pressure retaining (hoop-stress), the aluminum will have to be approx 0.1% thick of the tube diameter. So 1.2" for a 100ft tube. That's alot of aluminium.

I doubt the math works for anything approaching normal human tolerances -- 14.7psia (101kPaa) at sea level. All that area makes alot of force to resist. If lunar regolith/basalt has a density ~2 in the 1/6 gravity, the tube will have to have least 100ft (30m) of cover over the top. And that's with zero safety factor, but humans are OK with less pressure, say 10psia so that give some safety factor. Much lower pressures might be OK with oxygen masks.

The US Constitution unequivocally grants the federal govt the power to levy "duties, imposts and excises". Necessarily included are powers of inspection to adminster such. The NSA is just operating a modern(?) Customs House. Now, copying and retaining data is a whole separate question of copyright violation.

This "survey" (test) was likely designed as most multiple-choice questionnaires are: to maximize failure. There are lots of tactics in the test-setter's arsenal, far beyond the obvious "score a debatably incorrect answer as correct".

Setting fair multiple-choice quizzes is incredibly hard work even with filtering pilots. I know, I've tried and ultimately been disappointed.

Just another version of the "Long Con" (see wiki). Nice portrayed in "The Sting". Now more profitable because multiple long-cons can be run concurrently with electronic communications the norm.