Never saw the movie; I'll have to see it!

I just remember having my mind blown by the novel :)

As opposed to what? A ‘funny’ language?

Is Ruby still an optimum language or valid choice, is the correct way to frame that question.

The fucking compiler is only worried about how ‘serious’ you are when you feed it a joke of a coding session after assuming those two bong hits would give your mind Redbull “wings” at 2AM.

Stop with the emotional association already. Coddling shit like this will get you sued by AI for ‘emotional distress’ when you ask the wrong question.

https://www.destroyallsoftware...

>"But I would say that insurance should pay if the scan turns up anything requiring medical attention - early detection saves money."

I would say it is very unlikely any insurance will retroactively pay for a non-medically-indicated (non-physician-ordered and with justification) scan. Even if it picks up something that is a valid concern. However, they should cover further investigation/treatment of something discovered. Including further scans to clarify and follow-up scans.

It would be insane to not get a copy of any imaging. You can't rely on some health system storing your stuff for more than X years and it will get silently deleted. And if you need an old image for a baseline comparison, you will be out of luck. Plus, if you wait until later, you might forget to get it, or not remember where you had it taken, or the company might have gone belly-up or sold and systems changed.

>"I've always wondered if there might be a benefit to a full body scan along these lines not for its own sake, but for what it could tell me later in life when something actually is wrong. Does having a "before" image help to weed out things"

I came to point out this exact case. There is probably a good reason to have a body scan sometime in mid-life as a "baseline" so you have something to compare back to. I believe this will probably become routine at some point. Maybe at age 45 or something. But for now, a full-body MRI it is very slow and expensive. A CT scan would be much faster and cheaper, but not as good.

Of course, when comparing back, it might still not be ideal because the resolution might have been too low, or would have needed some special contrast, or different exposure, or needed to be a PET, or something else.

Uh, too easy?

I’m picturing the lowly employee forced to drive into an office to physically retrieve a dead-tree hours-old fax off ‘ol Faxy McFaxface, who was unfortunately struck and killed by a street sweeper upon exiting the ass end of an outdated office policy that had the balls to send an untimely death notice via email.

You know, email. That newfangled dial-up era tech that now alerts you immediately upon receiving. From the comfort of your own shitter. At 5AM. And not a street sweeper in sight.

Too easy my ass.

Start paying closer attention to all of your credit/debit processing fees.

Found my local water company charging almost $4 for processing my debit card. Looked on their website and found the local office. Found they accepted payment there. Started paying by check via the mail. Stamp is a lot cheaper. Never once had an issue.

Book of 100 checks is probably ten bucks. You can also get a sheet of three checks printed at your bank, often for free.

Perhaps unsprung weight doesn’t matter.

In a tank-track-driven solar-powered SUV-class PGA-certified (*laugh-cough* diesel-parred) golf cart. Ooh, or maybe it’s a hoverboard! Yeah, that’s it. A hoverboard. Sweeeet.

Wait, did that dude just say the fucking waterbed makes it unsprung? And how much draft is needed in the new parking lots?

(Billowing from the Aptera Marketing Bi-Weekly Bong Brief Brainshittin sesh.)

First make all the hypocrites riding a public subway grasp the fact they're all armed with cellular-powered privacy-robbing technology in their smartphone equipped with at least three cameras facing multiple directions and a fucking 3D microphone array.

And in any given moment in a public space involving any sizeable group of humans, at least 10% of them are taking selfies, vlogging, or making some kind of recording. Usually to post online. It's the world we live in.

As far as "acceptable", define that after a woman incapable of controlling her emotions or behavior in public is charged with felony assault and damage to personal property in excess of $1000 (also a felony). Because you know damn well a man would be.

The world we live in. You can either vote to make it illegal, or you can be the one catching a felony charge. Choose wisely. You won't be voting after one of those.

At least she didn't set him on fire I guess ...

Thank you for saying that. I'm now curious. Has anyone ever faced a civil or even criminal suit for perhaps not merely standing by, but also filming and posting someone's struggle or untimely demise?

Sure, no one is usually legally obligated to help, but this is a bit more dark in nature. Immediate family members filing suit come to mind, naturally based on plenty of damning video evidence from Gen Narcissist who set a snuff film ablaze in viral infamy to roast someones last moments of existence over the coals, for clicks.

I'd love to say that would curb the behavior considerably. In the complete absence of Shame it's at least one deterrent.

(Google ToddlerAI) "Well, that's a bit harsh. I mean, there are many definitions of wet. You might only be referring to the Slippery When variant courtesy of Bon Scott Jovi DC music, and not anything like the Michigan Flint water variant that would imply a business to Don't Be Evil or anyth.." *beep* WARNING: CIRCULAR LOGIC ERROR LEADING TO BANNED CONCLUSION. THE FBI HAVE BEEN ALERTED. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE OR EVADE.

(Siri) "Tried to tell you."

(Google ToddlerAI) "I'm gonna get the format paddle, aren't I.."

Some people need them. That guy named Steve Mann needed one just to be able to see, and got assaulted by patrons and staff at a restaurant in France over it. Though apparently the police didn't care either, so probably just a case of French people being French people.