Is !! a safe way to convert to bool in C++?

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The argument of the ! operator and the first argument of the ternary operator are both implicitly converted to bool, so !! and ?: are IMO silly redundant decorations of the cast. I vote for 

b = (t != 0);

No implicit conversions.

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