Recording video is not illegal.

Recording audio IS illegal in California without the consent of all parties.

Since Meta glasses record audio by default, he likely broke the law.

Indeed. I can think of zero reasons to go to a physical bookstore to download an e-book.

The reason they expect seems to be "because you hate Amazon", but unfortunately, I don't hate Amazon. I'm a mostly happy customer.

Indeed. Expecting robot manufacturers to buy their software is silly.

Robots are designed with SW and HW closely coupled. No one is gonna design dexterous robot hands that can crack eggs and change diapers, and then, at the very end, go looking for software to make it work. That's absurd.

The biggest risk is that they don't exist yet.

What is an AP1200?

If you mean AP1000 , those take twenty years to build and cost 300% of the initial estimate.

What special snowflake needs does Birmingham have that makes it any different from the hundreds of other cities running off-the-shelf solutions?

Contractee: "We insist on a fixed price contract."
Contactor: "No problem. We agree."

One month later:

Contractee: "We need to make some small changes to the spec."
Contractor: "That's gonna cost ya."

You are confusing cause and effect. These projects are designed to fail, because failure is where the profit is.

They've been caught paying kickbacks for contracts.

That's how Gray Davis lost his job.

Larry didn't make $400B by being generous.

If you don't know how to do X, then how do you know who are "the right people" to do X?

Were any of the users actually paid what they were promised?

Were any users paid anything?

How dark?

#e0ac69 should be good enough, but maybe #c68642 just to be sure.

Also, these people were already in the pipeline before Trump was sworn in.

Is NASA doing anything useful?

Aren't they just trying to repeat what SpaceX has already done?

I vote to call them the Sardaukar.

That depends on how much I'm paid.

For enough money, I can tolerate almost anything.