Tuesday, December 04, 2012

Insurance And Drones

Busy and productive day.  The insurance broker, Tom M., came over about noon.  Very nice guy, very informative, and I switched from Horizon Something-or-other to Horizon Something-else-or other.  Difference in cost?  Close to fifteen hundred a year for the former and exactly zero for the latter. There are some negatives, such as having to be "in network" and higher co-pays, but they don't outweigh the advantages--essentially, same coverage and overall, much less cost.  Also, as Tom pointed out, if I have that two hundred plus a month diverted into a savings account, I can draw on that to pay any higher amounts.  Yes, indeedy, Tom, and I visited good old Ocean First shortly after he left and arranged to do exactly that.   
Spent most of the rest of the day tweaking the two Breeze articles and sending them, plus the three pictures, to Mike and Regina to check.  Annoyingly, I first sent to someone with the same e-mail address, but I had neglected to add the numbers after the name.  Heard back from the person, apologized, and re-sent.
Red Hats luncheon today.  
WIDER:  Here's an interesting little tidbit:
"Apple Inc., which has received over $9 million in Pentagon contracts in recent years, has rejected from its App Store, and therefore from all iPhones...Drones+, an application that shows no depictions of the carnage of war...(but) simply adds a location to a map every time a drone strike is reported in the media and added to a database maintained by the U.K.’s Bureau of Investigative Journalism."
It seems wrong and unfair to mention "Pentagon contracts," cuz that suggests there's some kind of collusion between the corporation and the war machine.  Didn't the saintly Steve Jobs (rest in peace) found the company?  So it wouldn't do anything so immoral as supporting overseas slaughter, now, would it?  Here's the link:
http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=6750

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