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It's called rescission. An insurance company will go through a patient file with a fine tooth comb after a cancer diagnosis (for example), and find the smallest of errors and call it fraud. That gives them reason to deny your claim AND cancel your policy. One insurance company did it a lot with breast cancer patients.

The ACA has effectively put a stop to this practice. Now, if an insurance company wants to cancel your plan for fraud, they better have a fucking good reason (more than just a misspelled name or other typo). I'm sure they've found loopholes around the law, but it's not as bad as it used to be.

That's the problem with for-profit insurance companies. They lose money on those big claims, so they'll make whatever excuse they can to avoid paying them.

/rant

Navy vet here. Everything C420sailor said is true. But I'd like to add that being at sea, for the most part, is very routine-oriented. I was enlisted and worked in the engineering department (as an electrician), so my experience probably differed a little. We basically worked a fairly "normal" workday, stood watches (4 hours long, the worst being midnight-4am), watch TV, etc. We also did a lot of drills, like firefighting and GQ (General quarters).

I was on the USS Peleliu.

Edit: As far as food goes, it isn't too bad. We had a pretty wide variety. Officers pretty much eat what enlisted do. Those who eat really well are the chief petty officers (the senior enlisted). They pay extra for their food and get to choose the menu. Getting invited to eat with them is a big deal, even among officers. The chiefs generally have 15+ years in the Navy under their belt and get much-deserved respect.

He's pretty much giving Marvel free advertising/promotion/marketing for free. So they have nothing to lose. It's more money in their pocket.

Autoland.

I think most modern airliners can pretty much fly themselves these days. If I had a choice though, I'd probably want to be in the cockpit of an Airbus if I was the one being told how to land. I've read, but cannot confirm, that Airbus aircraft are a little more pilot friendly than Boeing, and onboard computers do much of the flying.

I'm not a pilot so I cannot confirm. I could be wrong.

When landing on a carrier, what arresting cable do you aim for (out of the 4) to be considered a perfect landing? How are your landings graded and how much competition is there among pilots?

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