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WCDT Strips 4026-4030 (17th to 21st June 2019)
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: shanejayell on 21 Jun 2019, 07:33 ---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....
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Piper Kerman got released in some donated men's clothes that didn't fit. The situation for AIs may be no better.
Roko is a superb person for May to have at her side right now. She is no longer law enforcement but she will still send all the "We're in the same tribe" signals to the parole officer and contribute Respectability. She probably also has some inside knowledge of how to work a law enforcement bureaucracy.
The charity should start advertising for donations! Dress for Success, and other charities reachable by Google, accept lightly used interview clothing to give ex-cons a start. I just donated a suit yesterday to a place like that. There have just got to be unused chassis in closets.
sitnspin:
--- 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.
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The English term is "constructive total loss" - or it was, back in the '70s, when my mother was working in an insurance office.
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Here we just say "totaled".
JimC:
Has the methods by which AIs pay for chassis been explored? Early characters had low functional chassis that seemed to be sort of consumer electronics pricing, and full body upgrades (Momo, Winslow) very expensive. I'm reminded of Anne McCaffrey's ship who sang series, where the major characters are human brains encapsulated in spaceships which come with a debt that seems normally to take decades to pay off and is described in story as almost indented servitude.
May doesn't seem to have had a humanoid body pre gaol and apparently gets a minimally functional one on release. Roko and Bubbles may have got one as part of their job, in which case perhaps there was a minimum contract period or something, but what about others?
Tova:
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 21 Jun 2019, 11:56 ---
--- 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.
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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 ---
Here we just say "totaled".
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And in Australia, it's a write-off.
TheEvilDog:
Same in Ireland, it'd be described as written off.
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