Wow, this is really cool: [link]
Yeah. I love things like that, that reveal what the brain is really up to....
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Dec 16, 2010 8:32:45 am PST #11527 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Zenkitty - Dec 16, 2010 8:34:56 am PST #11528 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Middleman
Grapes of Wrath! My Little Pony! Flowers for Algernon! Guns of Navarone! I need to watch that and take notes.
It's been snowing all morning here. I slid twice coming back from the grocery. Deceptively pretty snow, with icy evil underneath.
Jessica - Dec 16, 2010 8:35:30 am PST #11529 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Dang - DH just had to pay $200 out of pocket for his DTaP booster! It hadn't even occured to me that insurance wouldn't cover a vaccine, but I now understand why most adults aren't up to date on their pertussis vaccinations.
Still, that's fucked up. Vaccinating adults for pertussis SAVES BABIES' LIVES. Are all insurance companies run by Wolfram & Hart?
Dana - Dec 16, 2010 8:41:13 am PST #11530 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
If I didn't have a department meeting at 3, I would be so tempted to go home.
Jesse - Dec 16, 2010 8:41:54 am PST #11531 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
My boss, Citibank, and my dead cell phone can all kiss my ass, FYI.
meara - Dec 16, 2010 8:43:36 am PST #11532 of 30001
That's odd, Jessica! I mean, not that I disbelieve (it's totally the shitty-insurance-company thing to do) but it's also one of the things supposed to be (when??) covered by the new Obamacare, I think--vaccinations...
Jessica - Dec 16, 2010 8:47:50 am PST #11533 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
We're going to try sending the bill in ourselves just on the off chance we can get reimbursed, but his doctor's office seemed pretty sure it wasn't covered.
sarameg - Dec 16, 2010 8:50:32 am PST #11534 of 30001
I can tell my coworker is a recent child of Texas. She just declared she was stranded until the plows come through. I don't think we even have an inch of snow. Half? Plows on this road this early?
I'm still sort of blinking at her. She's only been here a couple years, though. But she also tried to drive in the Feb blizzard. Blinking.
Zenkitty - Dec 16, 2010 8:51:13 am PST #11535 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Are all insurance companies run by Wolfram & Hart?
Yes. Having worked for an insurance company, and for a company that was contracted to pay (or deny) medical claims, and dealt with more insurance companies than I care to remember, I feel comfortable saying, yes they are.
Gudanov - Dec 16, 2010 8:54:16 am PST #11536 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
One of the weird things about our insurance is that it costs us more to go the clinic at Walgreens than to go to our doctor. But it costs the insurance about half as much if we go to the clinic. Incentive fail.