actually earth had the "sharks" with birdlike beaks. Earth had a crap-load of weird-ass creatures in the long long ago.

So? Nearly impossible things happen all the time given a sufficiently large sample.

Not really. if current measures are accurate, and there is a 99.9999 chance of a miss, more measures are 99.9999% likely to support that miss and only 0.0001% likely to contradict it.

Its not quite as simple as that, but its not anywhere near 50/50 like you suggest.

over 5 orders of magnitude is as close to "almost certain" as science gets.

Hence this post.

Pretty sure you replied to the wrong post.

I'm not sure the math on that will work out.

From the perspective of personal income, we need an average taxation rate of around 27% to balance the federal budget.

And what happens when you transfer money from one account to another? You "receive" the money, so does that mean you get taxed?

Social services are not a zero sum game.

Free market health care is NOT the most economically efficient.

A free market only functions when both parties have approximately equal negotiating power, are fully informed and not under threat.

By its nature, healthcare decisions are almost always made under threat of a cost to ones health or life, and since the alternative is to die, the victim...patient has no negotiating power.

It is if you park near the focus point of one of the parabolic death ray buildings.

The patches for these issues are intentionally withheld from their products until you encounter them, many of them have existed and have patches for them for several years. Its intentionally crippled code.

What the fuck are you talking about?

Not entirely true these days.

decompiling any code will not inspire confidence. Decompilation doesn't necessarily reproduce the original code.

As opposed to Oracle error codes that are documented as "Please contact Oracle support", for shit they know about and have a patch ready for but they have you over the coals and want to extort a couple hundred grand from you.