Usually as their bosses. Senior management being corporate politicians and bullshitters themselves, seem to be attracted to subordinates that copy them. People wonder why so many companies seem to be badly run. It is because management is made of people who talk a good game not people who really know what they are doing.

The point was to know that he would be at home and meeting with several other high officials. They not only killed him, but several of his most important subordinates. For all of that, decapitation strikes rarely work in practice. There is almost always someone waiting to take the old leader's place and it is rarely someone less radical. Khamenei appears to have been a weak leader. There is always the danger he will be replaced by someone more effective.

Even they seem to have limits, although they sometimes seem to be trying to be the worst court since Taney and the Dred Scott decision.

The part that says Trump is king. I know you have not seen it. It must be in the microprint somewhere. At least he seems to think so.

In my experience, large complexes owned by corporations with many properties (which are the ones likely to use AI) have fixed contracts with extensive legal language that covers almost anything you can think of. The opportunity for an AI to make binding promises or offer deals seems to me to be very limited. The real issue would arise when you have a maintenance issue or something similar and there is no one to speak to, because the AI doesn't care.

If it is done under an agreement with the manufacturer, it is not jailbreaking. I

Actually, very few people care. Most people cannot be troubled to learn about the history of twenty years ago, much less thousands. It is a matter for specialists, not the general public and most of the general public would happily see them disappear. Also, I am not convinced that anyone (or at least anyone who can read) will still be living in a thousand years given the way our "civilization" is trending.

Given that we cannot read material stored in various electronic formats even 50 years ago, this seems like a reasonable doubt. Is there really that much material worth archiving anyway? If you want to last forever, engrave it stone or stainless steel in a human readable format. Then remember that 1,000 years from now, almost no one will care, it anyone is around to read it at all.

There does not seem to be a moderation for sad but too likely true.

Actually, at least in the US this it is not true anymore that you only get an MRI if you have a problem. There are all these people selling "whole body MRIs" with the claim that they will find your problems (particularly but not limited to cancer) before you have any symptoms. Since virtually everyone has something or several things unusual show up (see above), there has been a large increase in people seeking care for what mostly turns out to be nothing significant.

Because the British government was considered stable and people believed that they would continue to pay forever. If the issuer defaults, you are out of luck.

I owned some of those series E bonds when I was young. They made a great birthday present and helped put me through college. Governments can do that because people assume (not always correctly) that they are eternal. Eventually the government decided they were a bad investment and stopped the interest, so you had to cash them in. It only works if you are sure that you can redeem the principle when you need it. If a company sold such a bond, you would likely lose some or all of your money if they go bankrupt. Bond holders get paid before stockholders, but that only applies if there is money to be distributed.

Exactly. Conservationists should not be worrying about honeybees any more than they should about soybeans. It is the native pollinators that are at risk. The causes of their decline are much less clear.

Honeybees are critical for a large part of our agriculture. Their decline has been traced to pesticide resistant mites than carry diseases that can devastate colonies. There are no other miticides approved for use in bee hives in the US. In other words, none of this has anything to do with conservation. It is all about commercial agriculture and regulatory barriers. It should be easy enough to get an emergency approval for alternative miticides, if people can get moving and file the paperwork. Then conservationists can go back to actually worrying about conservation issues.

I guess a trillion dollars is not what it used to be.