HOW RANDOM IS RANDOM?

The answer to the question in the title is mosly, well, random.  I have a couple of examples that can make some kind of point.  Watch.  We all think that taxes are a systematic way of life.  That's because we have this idea that the system is fair and that everyone follows the rules if for no other reason than the fear of the IRS.

TAXES

But the fact of the matter is that there are a lot of random, would-be tax payers who do not fear the IRS.  They are the ones who pick and choose where they will spend their money according to the electro-chemical stimuli that they experience along the course of the day without the least care of how much the IRS would want of the money that they have just spent.  It's like throwing the money up in the air [see illustration] and deciding that what comes back down is meant to be kept and what stays up is meant for the IRS. Sounds pretty random, right?  The interesting thing is that the IRS itself is under the impression that it is a very systematic organization.  If it only knew.

Then there is the random act of trying to kill someone with a handgun.  We have all seen innumerable cinematic productions that really give us an idea of what is random and what is systematic.  Now what is sytematic and what is random here?  It appears that the system is not very consistent in its focus, so how could it by a greater positive that the random that actually hit the guy?  The one thing that is systematic is that the movie goer is sure that the good guy is going to win, blood guts and all.  You are saying to yourself that this is just humorous stuff because it happens in the movies.  Ha!  I got news for you.  Look at this picture, high falluting language and all.

Which error would you prefer to have in your life?  Go ahead, take your pick.  Look at that systematic error.  Sure looks good from afar, or if your cockeyed, but that doesn't seem to be something that I would want to be known for. You?  Man, what a great shot I am.  20 hits all in the diameter of a Thomas Jefferson quarter!  Hooo, weee.  I sure would hate to be the guy with the random error.  He ain't worth a pile of cow pie in the south 40.  Really?  I didn't think that there were goods, betters, and bests in errors?  I am rather sure that if Daniel Boone had a great talent  in either one of these errors, he would have been required to depend on someone else for his sustenance.  He would have been rather incapable of killing any supper living with either one of these errors.
So, whatever random means, I can assure you that I don't want any part of it.  Just give me systematic any day, but not erroneous systematic, puleeze!  I need correct, straight on systematic.  Don't you?