Spazis?

Mars will likely require the following infrastructure: space station in earth orbit, space station in lunar orbit, lunar base, space station in orbit around mars, and then a mars base. Like military operations, it's all really about logistics. Can we squeak in a direct recon flight, sure, but more serious stuff will require infrastructure.

Toss in some local acquisition and processing of resources at some point. Ex H2 O2 -- for air, water, and fuel.

A human on site is far more capable than a robot. A robot will have far greater endurance at a site. Which is better depends on the mission, the tasks to be done.

Also a big part of these missions is to develop and test the tech necessary for manned missions.

Frustration indexes have been used before in other customer facing industries, in particular to determine if users are being over served or under served. A certain level of dissatisfaction is expected, if it's too low then too many resources are being spent per user. Ie wasting money. Maximizing revenue often involves a non-zero frustration index. Seriously, service that is too good is sometimes considered a bad thing.

Not host OS based. There will likely be some trusted age verification service. Much like the various trusted certificates we already use on the web.

Have you previously entered a credit card into your apple account or apple wallet. That's probably all they need. It may be a non-issue for most adult apple users.

They probably want a current verified ID, with the current address and contact info that comes with that. Ie. Also 15, 18, and 21 years olds may be required to provide different levels of info.

Actually, academia and political appointments tend to work very different from NASA. So that's not quite an all other things being equal comparison.

Given domestic production levels and an interruption of international deliveries from Amazon, Bacon and Liquor prices must be sky rocketing.

NASA disagrees.
"For the first time in more than 50 years, astronauts on a NASA mission are bound to fly around the Moon after successfully completing a key burn of Orion’s main engine."
https://www.nasa.gov/news-rele...

I think we first need to be sure that the lawyers actually paid the penalty themselves, and not passed it on to the client as some sort of expense. And if not passed on to the client, ensure that the penalty is not a business expense they can deduct.

No, it more like "preponderance of the evidence". Which is certainly looser than "beyond a reasonable doubt", but far more than "more likely than not".

It's not quite that simple. One would need to establish that the AI has not learned general concepts from its training, rather that it is directly transforming the copyrighted source code. Like a human, an AI, will be able to learn concepts from copyrighted material and then be able to write their own unique implementations of those concepts. All of our data structures textbooks are copyrighted works, yet we are free to implement the concepts we have learned.

Better renewables than fossil fuels, but better Exxon than Putin. Hopefully Germany learned from that mistake.

Also, Exxon is an energy company, they will be happy to sell you renewable energy in the future, so you are likely not done with them.These energy companies just want to make money. While fossil fuels are the most profitable that will be their focus. However when renewables are more profitable these same energy companies will switch their focus to renewables. Its about the money, not the energy source that gets them that money.

Anyone charging hundreds of dollars per hour for their work had better damned well be doing it. Not only should they be sanctioned by the courts, but they should face criminal fraud charges. If the courts want to put a stop to this they had better get serious now and stop handing out slaps on the wrist. Multiply the sanctions by an order of magnitude and give opposing counsel a 30% finder's fee to encourage additional vigilance and it'll quickly stop.

Anyway, how is ol' Boris doing?

We had the good sense to not put him back in again. He's relegated to being some TV personality on crappy entertainment channels, not senile dictator in chief.