receiving somewhat less than $70M is still generally much better than receiving all of $0.
That depends on how you define "somewhat less" as -70M is less than 70M
If this ape is a person then who is responsible for his care and feeding? Normally, an adult person is responsible for their own care and feeding including any required payment.
Will he be on the dole?
Dole, Chiquita. Any brand would work really.
If your tax money went to SpaceX, it would convert them into a government-sponsored institution and would be doomed to be plagued by inefficiencies that do not exist in the purely private sector.
Only true if taxes are the only source of initial capital outlay and income for SpaceX.
Taxes would be paid to SpaceX as agreed-to remuneration according to a contract offered by the government and won through competition by SpaceX. Seeing as SpaceX is a private concern created with private capital which competes for contracts against other competitors not only on contracts with the US space program but also others, your statement fails on that basis.
Strat
Next, I guess we'll see, It's A Wonderful Life Transformer Terminator.
"Every time a bell rings, I'll be back." *transforms into a pickup truck and drives through the wall*
Don't worry, there is a solution. Name all storms Johnny, then they'll just burn us to death.
That's cosmic, man. Cosmic rays, that is.
"we do not show a breakdown of drives per manufacturer, model, or vintagedue to the proprietary nature of these data". I'm not sure exactly what that means.
Perhaps part of their discount is tied to a deal to provide exclusive data of failure rates to the manufacturers? Same effect as buying silence, but seemingly more legit.
"No matter where you go, there you are..." -- Buckaroo Banzai
