As long as other nations can purchase this, then NSA, CIA and our general intelligence community should be able to access that without a warrant.
Now, as far requiring it for DoJ/FBI/local police/etc... GREAT.

The first two points seem dubious to me, but the third one seems insane. I may be misinterpreting again, but are you seriously saying that you think that the EU will declare itself a nation-state, abrogate the constitutions of all of its current member states, and introduce a state religion which somehow satisfies the respectively Catholic, Protestant, and fiercely secular inclinations of all of them? You also seem to be fundamentally misinformed about the current situation. Of the four largest countries in the EU, one has secularism enshrined in its constitution, two recognise a special relationship with the Catholic church but explicitly say that it's not the state religion, and the fourth has freedom of religion. The UK was an outlier.

In many European kingdoms, only the royally observed church, depending on the state, that could be the Catholic or Anglican or Protestant (although in the recent history, others can apply for delegated privilege as well) has authority to commit a couple to marriage which will then be recognized by the state in lieu of a civil procedure.

"Many"? There are seven kingdoms in Europe. In Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands no church wedding is legally binding. In Denmark it seems that any registered church can conduct legally binding weddings. In the UK the Anglican church has special privileges: ministers of other denominations used to train as sub-registrars to be allowed to essentially include a civil wedding in their religious weddings, but IIRC that began to be restricted a decade or two ago. Norway and Sweden are the other two, and while their "royally observed" churches can conduct legal weddings it's not clear to me whether they have a monopoly. So it's somewhere between 1/7 and 3/7, which seems a bit few to qualify as "many".

They are NOT using AI to go after wealthy payers. They are using AI to figure out who to look which has a high probability to cheating the system. The fact that they are wealthy has NOTHING to do with it.

I find it interesting that the woke are the ones that scream about words having meaning/power, but then turn right around and screw with things like this BS.
I say go after these a55holes that are trying to hide paying their taxes.
But even better would be to re-write our taxes so that they are fair and near impossible for someone to cheat at.

First off, I said, bad title:

No Consent or ppl in that.

Secondly, adding "without consent" does not mean that it is a particular person's image, but could still require consent by someone else to create a totally fake one (which would be horrible, yet, governments do such BS).

The default result? Dude, in what century are you living?

It is images of OTTHER PEOPLE, not just images.

That is pretty much what JPL did.

This is why I believe first manned mission to mars should require staying at least 10-16 years. Hate to say it, but canary in a coal mine. As to these samples, I would think that most microbes on mars are already here. Still I would prefer that extreme caution used and collect these earth or even lunar orbit, and test at iSS.

Offering up a competition to do this is not the way to go. Why? Because a JPL designed approach was already offered up and this is why we are looking at $8-11B to deliver in 15 years.

Need a prize approach in a set of objectives are listed and variable-level prize rewarded based on ranking. Get it done first, and you get $$$, with second getting $. Finally, upon successful return of Up to 1/2 of the samples, they get $ 3B/1B. Finally, limit this to 2-3 groups register for this.

With this approach, it will likely have SX and BO as entities, but it may also produce a 3rd group. This way, a great deal of infrastructure gets quickly developed and will be reused later for Martian/lunar/asteroids missions.

Hopefully, no federal $ is going into this. Or perhaps federals SHOULD produce some $, but require that all of the cells be made in america, with american, if not western elements.

There are some songs, particularly ballads, which have beautiful poetic lyrics that enhance and are enhanced by the music. Not the most hodiern examples, but Cruz de navajas by Mecano or Un beso y una flor by Nino Bravo fall into that category for me. There are other songs where I wish I didn't understand the lyrics because I enjoy the music and the meaning of the lyrics detracts from it. Without giving specific examples because I want to avoid earworms, there are some where I think it's the songwriter's intent to be disgusting as a way of carving a niche among rebellious teenagers. And then there's a third category of songs which are great either way: for example, there's a lot of Sabaton's oeuvre which I'm equally happy to listen to in English or Swedish.

Seriously, some of it, esp. the early stuff is interesting. A lot of words, poetry. Now? Just junk with a lot of cuss words esp the n-word, and is just garbage.

A Spanish exchange partner once asked me to translate Wonderwall by Oasis. I can calque it, but I'm not entirely sure whether "You're my wonderwall" is supposed to have an objective meaning.

There is plenty of work for an aerospace engineer outside of manufacturing. Maintenance for example. Or accident investigation.