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WCDT Strips 4026-4030 (17th to 21st June 2019)
Stoutfellow:
--- Quote from: cybersmurf on 21 Jun 2019, 07:12 ---There's an insurance term for that, in German it's "Totalschaden" - when repair costs exceed the value of the repaired thing. Insurances then will only pay the value of the thing at the time before the damage.
--- End quote ---
The English term is "constructive total loss" - or it was, back in the '70s, when my mother was working in an insurance office.
shanejayell:
You would think there would be a minimum standard for bodies you get on parole, or something. If only because the issues that might come up like, well, this case....
BenRG:
I get the feeling that this 'minimum standard' is terrifyingly low. Basically:
* Can move at a normal pace without falling apart;
* All joints work;
* Batteries hold enough charge to last at least 1 hour;
* All systems that consume resources are compatible with standard civilian supplies;
* Thermal regulation system is able to tolerate light work without bursting into flames;
* All omponents have a MTUTF (Mean Time Until Total Failure) of greater than 24 hours.
cybersmurf:
--- Quote from: Stoutfellow on 21 Jun 2019, 07:29 ---
--- Quote from: cybersmurf on 21 Jun 2019, 07:12 ---There's an insurance term for that, in German it's "Totalschaden" - when repair costs exceed the value of the repaired thing. Insurances then will only pay the value of the thing at the time before the damage.
--- End quote ---
The English term is "constructive total loss" - or it was, back in the '70s, when my mother was working in an insurance office.
--- End quote ---
Thank you, now I that term.
--- Quote from: BenRG on 21 Jun 2019, 07:48 ---I get the feeling that this 'minimum standard' is terrifyingly low. Basically:
* Can move at a normal pace without falling apart;
* All joints work;
* Batteries hold enough charge to last at least 1 hour;
* All systems that consume resources are compatible with standard civilian supplies;
* Thermal regulation system is able to tolerate light work without bursting into flames;
* All omponents have a MTUTF (Mean Time Until Total Failure) of greater than 24 hours.
--- End quote ---
- no immediate failures
- energy cell(s) hold enough charge for working a whole shift without recharging.
OldGoat:
It'll turn out to be a bureaucratic fuck-up.
She was supposed to get a brand new low-end body but a bandicoot being chased by a bird ran across the desktop and scattered two piles of forms. The card for a just delivered from the factory no-fancy-trim-but-very-reliable unit she was supposed to get slid behind a file cabinet (it's probably still there). The form for her consciousness build ended up on the top of one pile and the one for the POS frame she's in now was at the top of the other. The two got stapled together, May got downloaded into the pinchy-handed, Barbie-crotched, sans-nipples jalopy that was suitable for use only as a sentient department store manikin modeling coveralls, and, well, we know the rest.
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