michaelwills.com » Brave New World http://michaelwills.com Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:41:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 IMPORTANT NOTICE about changes to your policy http://michaelwills.com/2008/04/27/important-notice-about-changes-to-your-policy http://michaelwills.com/2008/04/27/important-notice-about-changes-to-your-policy#comments Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:28:53 +0000 admin http://michaelwills.com/?p=51

 


We just got our renewal to our State Farm homeowner’s policy, and like every year, there’s a rider with new exclusions of coverage.

I thought this one was ominous:

“This policy is revised to exclude coverage for loss arising out of nuclear reaction, radiation or radioactive contamination from any source, or any detonation of, or release of radiation from, any nuclear or radioactive device.”

So . . . we were covered for that up until now? If so, what has changed to make them decide to revise our policy?

I notice we also are now not covered for any loss due to the locomotive we (or anyone else) owns.

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Although flying drones have been around for a long time, according to this article in yesterday’s Washington Post, the use of them has increased fourfold since 2004, to 160,000 hours of flight time in 2006. But now we are getting closer to tiny, insect-like drones. Even weirder, scientists are experimenting with controlling actual insects using electrodes connected to their central nervous system (thus obviating the need for a power source). Is it a cockroach or is it Dick Cheney? Only your Orkin guy knows for sure.

Filed in my “The World I Didn’t Sign Up For” folder.

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