But it's not against the law. Or so the government says. It's illegal to weaponize diseases, but not illegal to alter them in a weaponized-like state to test defenses.

The real problem is that the security levels are lax. They are more design rules, not operational ones. You can design for any level and get a certification, but so long as the gear is working, if the processes and people don't work well, you'll end up with a significantly reduced actual safety level. Properly done, you end up with breaches being events like "meteor struck building, destroying air handling systems, and creating a large breach in the envelop" events. Triple redundant power isn't uncommon, but no amount of redundancy can ever be "100%". 100% is impossible. There's always the chance of something almost impossible happening. But when you are examining the chances of an airplane crashing on the building during a hurricane, and alien invasions for the most likely breaches, you are doing good.

Intelligently designed?

They aren't making biological weapons. They are weaponizing germs to then figure out how to protect against weaponized germs.

How do you test whether protections against biological weapons work, if you don't have access to those biological weapons?

Note, I'm not saying I like or support it, but I'm just stating the official line for how they get around bans on things. They claim to not be weaponizing it, as they are just trying to defeat weaponized versions.

In Minnesota? Insulated garage doors is $10 of styrofoam. And I've seen lots of detached garages, in warmer climes. But in the cold areas, people don't like to have to run outside to get something from the garage. Everyone would insulate the garage walls as if it were a house wall, and the door would be insulated with PS foam at a minimum.

Odd, in Alaska, nearly everyone had a heated garage. Though the difference between a garage at 55 and 75 is about $1000 a month, so they aren't kept toasty warm, they will still get the car out of -22 every 10 hours on work days.

Tesla looked at it and said "the costs of extending the warranty are likely low because the problems are low, so we can extend the warranty and still hit our warranty budget". The added press was, of course, considered, but they have been more reliable than people expected.

Depending on the performance you are looking for, 1/4 mile is sufficient.

Every American car I've owned, they've never made it to the end of the powertrain warranty before the transmission blew. Only 1 of the three was covered under warranty. The others were blamed on driver error or poor maintenance.

Reminds me of the Pentagon construction. When they re-built it, and strengthened it, the strongest part of the outside was the glass. A .50 cal would penetrate the multi-layer wall with lethal force, but wouldn't breach the windows. The asumption was any sniper would use visual sighting (as the multi-layer wall made any current scanning useless). So they'd prefer the window shot. In the 9/11 wreckage, they found intact glass panes, which was used as "proof" by the dumb that it wasn't an airplane crash.

What eveidence do you have that the PV panels would be weaker than the rest of the building, other than your experience with "glass" that consists of constantly dropping glass things while drunk and watching them break?

Have you ever had a banking account? That sentence means you'll see it in your account 10 a.m. the next day, maybe. It's not "same day" under anyone else's definition. The banks send the transfers into an escrow-like account that's cleared midnight. The receiving bank gets it at midnight, but most do sanity checking, and have a human the next morning "approve" the overnight transfers. Because it's possible that someone who knows the fraud rules could abuse them. It's happened to them before. If they have a fraud limit of $10,000, then those might get flawed, but 100,000 transfers at $9,999.99 wouldn't get caught. So they keep a human in the loop, rather than refining fraud filters.

Then, once they are approved by a human in the morning, they pop in the account sometime later that day. "Same business day" means "tomorrow" for the banks. This just proves your ignorance of banking.

The idea that companies will respond to search warrants and subpoenas is horrible. Accessory after the fact should be the default position.

I agree. What you label the price on the item is what you call it. If you say it's $9.20, then you can legally get no more than $9.20 for it. That you collect $0.80 extra and pass that through to the government is irrelevant to the price of the item. It's not yours. You don't deduct it as taxes paid. You didn't "pay" it. The buyer did.

What is the "price" of the item on the receipt you give the customer? $9.20 or $10?

Wow, you are as good with individual taxes as business taxes. No, there is no deduction for "owning" a home. There are some home related expenses which are deductible, but none for "owning" it.

Solar PV will work just fine for base load. Lack of understanding isn't a compelling argument against.

In 1900. The grid should be re-designed from scratch. If it can't handle loads, generation, and such it's not fit to be in use and should be replaced immediately.

Yes, a single tree branch can take out the power to 100,000,000 people. That's not "fragile" that's "negligent". By design.

The problem is that FICA, etc. is listed as an "employee" tax when talking to employees, and an employer tax when talking to employers.

Also, a small business owner does not "pay" sales tax. It collects sales tax paid by the end user, then passes it on to the "government". Counting that is a lie.

Also "the government" changes depending on the situation. Property taxes are paid to the local government (possibly state, in some places). Sales tax is "collected" for the local and state governments, and income taxes/FICA are paid to the feds.

So the question is, what was (business income tax)/(total gross revenue)*100%?

That's the number that's interesting to most people, and it's usually under 1%. The largest payer of corporate income tax last year was Exxon. They paid about 7% income tax (based on gross revenue, the way "people" are charged).