Greenpeace is a prime example of an organisation that doesn't know when to quit.

As some point Greenpeace actually reached it's targets. Instead of throwing a celebration party and disbanding, they started looking for new targets, regardless of whether they actually made sense; Greenpeace's unwritten goal became the continued existence of Greenpeace itself.

Did this 3 sigma rule also exist when Newton created his theories?

I don't know how warm it'll be in two weeks.
I can reasonably predict it'll be warmer in the summer and colder in the winter though, which is more than two weeks away.

You do realize the sales rep was probably being honest?

Math.
Lots of people have no problem using the fact that they're ignorant of math as an argument against those that do.
"Oh, I'm not good at math so I can't check your fancy calculations, but what your are saying just doesn't make any sense.".

Which only tells us they're patched now, it doesn't tell them how much time the site was vulnerable.

I take value in writing correctly (my native tongue is Dutch, not English, in case anybody finds errors).
But language is not something defined by laws; it is alive, changing and evolving all the time.
I may enjoy writing following proper grammar rules, but that's just my personal preference and just because I like it, doesn't mean everybody should do so.
If the text written using this method can be read as easy and fast as text written according to the rules, what really is the problem?

Reality of projects budgets 101:
If you give the correct high estimate, they won't give you the money.
If you give the fake low estimate, they will give you the money and pay extra later on because they're already invested.
Especially if budgets have to compete, they will most likely be too low.
When budgets are that high, nobody controlling investments really has a grasp of the value of the money.

I have some basic understanding on a non-physicist level of what quantum physics is all about, the weirdness that is involved with it and how it scales to the world I can see, but this I simply cannot fathom.

How can quantum fluctuations occur in absolute nothingness?

So if I suspect the MAFIAA of widespread invasion of privacy, the ISP's will give me their home addresses?

Yes you can and indeed the owner of the car would not be responsible.
If anybody steals your car and hits somebody, you won't be liable.
If you yourself are both owner and driver though...

I think Skoda or Dacia or whatever car brand you drive is not liable for damage caused by the owners or drivers of their cars either.

Exactly, you'd better pick a profession with an actual future in it, like patent clerk or something.

Auch! Don't have comeback to that, do you?
Probably mostly because there isn't a single argument to respond to, but still...
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Indeed. Bring on the overworked doctor to cut me open!

0 in 5 is statistically about right, considering 6.6% of nurses in the US are men.
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