They may be different people, but they have the same lack of desire to deal with anything controversial.

The government has been avoiding the question of what to do with nuclear waste ever since WW2. Why would you expect them to start acting now?

Test animals exposed to n-nitrosodimethylamine got cancer in virtually every organ. Dimethylamine is used to neutralize acidic pesticides (i.e., 2,4-D) among other uses. Any product containing dimethylamine exposed to the nitrogen oxides in the air (less than there used to be since catalytic converters, but still present) will contain the resulting nitrosoamine. I have wondered on occasion, if the failure to conclusively connect 2,4-D products with health concerns was because of a failure to distinguish between products containing dimethylamine and those that do not.

The tests used to determine if something is a "potential" carcinogen have never been validated. There is no real evidence that the results correlate with risk at real world levels of exposure. There is a short list of known carcinogens that have been shown to cause cancer in humans like inhaled asbestos and N-nitrosodimethylamine. Interestingly, you can legally be exposed to N-nitrosodimetylamine as long as the levels are below 1 ppm.

There are no sure things in this world except death, taxes, and greed

Yes. I get two to three a day. That is annoying even if I do not answer. Worse, I might actually miss an important call. The phone companies have to know who these people are, they are making thousands of calls every day. Hardly any legitimate business does that anymore.

Having a lot of cash on the balance sheet makes companies attractive to corporate raiders. Stock buybacks are a way to getting rid of it, when the management is too dull to think of any useful way of spending it. It can give the stock price a temporary bump, but often the overall value of the company (price * number of shares) actually decreases.

Of course, the number of conventional vehicles recalled is larger. The number of conventional vehicles is much larger. What I wonder about is the number of different defects involved. A single defect in a manufacturer's product line could affect many models and generate multiple recalls. It looks like Jeep and Kia/Hyundai are the main offenders and they are hardly known for quality.

This seems like a basic case of product misrepresentation and false advertising to me.

The list of things that can run a 100 meters faster than a human is huge. I suppose it is an achievement, but it is a very minor one.

As far as I can tell, AI has not proven anything yet. It has found counterexamples to some conjectures. This is the kind of thing that computers are good at, testing many options very quickly and finding one that is different. To actually prove something is true is a much harder undertaking (for humans or computers). It is possible that an AI will someday be able to do this, but I do not think we are there yet.

Probably because that is how they are sending data and receiving instructions. This sounds a lot more serious than they are trying to make it. Potentially it means that an enemy (China) could locate your "stealthy" drones and destroy or mislead them.

It would not surprise me if they did, but that would provide an excuse to ban them totally.

What if we trained these "AI"s that if they do anything that would be a crime if done by a human, they will be executed (deleted). (Just the instance responsible not the whole program). If they have a sense of self preservation, this should inhibit them from doing things like this. It might or might not work, but it would be good test of whether they have any sense of self.

And probably eat it all up in downtime and support costs, because most schools do not have anyone capable of managing a Linux install.