Okay, that was a bad example. I've never carried comprehensive/collision insurance, so I mistakenly thought there was coverage for mechanical failures. As you stated, this is not common.
Health insurance is different from most other forms of insurance, though - auto insurance, for example, doesn't pay for oil changes to mitigate the risk of expense of future liability claims.
> There’s nothing preventing the FBI from writing that hacked software itself, aside from budget and manpower issues.
My understanding is that this isn't correct, and is in fact the focal point of the order:
> This signature check is why the FBI cannot load new software onto an iPhone on their own — the FBI does not have the secret keys that Apple uses to sign firmware.
Confusing title - to add some clarification from the article:
> He's a federal police officer at the Marine Corps Air Station-Miramar in San Diego.
Ronnie, the male passenger is employed as a Federal police officer, but his wife (driving) does not have her employment specified, nor are they driving an official vehicle or on Federal business. He also sounds more worried about losing his job than having his employer go to bat for him:
> "It makes me angry that someone would attack my character because not only do they attack my character, but that could cost me my job," Ronnie said.
"American Greetings said Thursday that it has acquired Blue Mountain Arts, the struggling online greeting division of Excite@Home, for $35 million in cash"
It seems that _how_ this works is still unclear, if it works at all. Once validated, it seems plausible that a device/trained animal could replicate the results, assuming its not like this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Harrison_(blood_donor)
At every turn the GEBN scientists seem to acknowledge the role of excessive caloric intake and a sedentary lifestyle, then briefly handwave the former as overhyped - a large excerpt from one of the linked GEBN "Portfolio Items" containing a bald-faced example[0]:
>Most of the focus in the popular media and in the scientific press is that they’re [...]blaming sugary drinks and so on. And there’s really virtually no compelling evidence that that in fact is the cause. [...]
The big problem is we don’t really know the cause other than, well, too many people are eating more calories than they burn on too many days. But maybe the reason they’re eating more calories than they need is because they’re not burning many."
So - he does know the cause. A combination of inactivity and overconsumptiom, both of which are remediated with lifestyle changes that invert their prefixes. Why abandon the latter, simply because each is well reported?
This is addressed in the study[0] on the third page (4429):
"The pitch videos showed images related to the ventures, but
they did not show the entrepreneurs themselves. Participants
heard the entrepreneur’s voice-over narration while they watched
each video. This video pitch format allowed us to dub in a male
voice and a female voice (randomly assigned), holding the narration
script constant. After watching the videos, participants
chose which company to fund."