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Since @Remy asked for it, here is my angry, poorly thought out response to the contents of this article:
#FRIST
Bold, all caps, and large text. You can't get much angrier than that.
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"I'm Not Married to the Idea"
Of course not. It's going to take a while for that ridiculous opinion to open up marriage to abstract thought.
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6/10 not enough misspellings and "1"s.
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We're waiting … [image]
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[quote=remy]WHAAAAARRRGARBL[/quote]
i see remy's been taking rant lessons from me. :-D
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Things change. Get used to it. Be happy that you don't have to design a database for a hybrid polygamous marriage with any number of parties of either sex, or who haven't decided yet what sex they are.
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FTFY
;-)
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You are making a fundamental, mistaken, buttsumption about the quantitative value of "frist". As such an activity / motivation is intently competitive, successful application disenfranchise everybody else of even making the attempt. A spokesperson for the "I want to be frist" movement was quoted as saying "...that this is considered to be bad because it denies the opportunity of our members and deincentivises them to contribute...". It is expected that a Kangaroo Court Ruling, soon to be issued, will require that "frist" can no longer be used (anybody caught doing so, or promoting its continued use, will be severely punished). Therefore, all instances of it, past present and future, MUST be replaced with "Also Frist".
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The most appropriate use of a cornify link ever!!!
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Here in Massachusetts, back in 2004, it took a while (a few weeks) to get the forms and software changed. But the town clerks muddled through. Some clerks messed around with Acrobat to change the forms. Others used wite-out. The municipalities with electronic records (yeah, I know, not all of them, why would people of Puritan colonial heritage spend money on expensive stuff like servers when a shoebox does the job perfectly well?) waited to punch in the licenses until their software was fixed.
Some ministers and JPs were asked to re-do some licenses on the new forms just so they would be perfect.
I don't think our town clerks (the ones who issue marriage licenses) saw this change coming as clearly as people could have in 2015.
The only problem: "Party A" and "Party B" ? There HAS to be a more elegant way to word it.
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[edit - the following post resulted from reading @OllieJones post above, it isn't complete OT]
Progress, isn't it wonderful? What would now be nice is to find a way to stop the continuing misstatement that there are different human "races" (since the Neanderthals and Denisovans, and possibly the hobbits, died out there has been only one human race which only developed color variations a few thousand years ago) without at the same time being unable to record the bad things done by people who think that there is more than one human race (and that they belong to the important bit.)
It seems to me wrong that people are forced to categorise themselves in order to stand up against the people who want to categorise them. How do you force police forces to record the evidence that they are discriminating against black people, without allowing them to pretend that there is a real difference here which justifies their behavior?
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There is and has long been:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u8AgUXPpLM
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The software changes are all just jiggery pokery ..and applesauce. A. Scalia
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Coming soon!
http://www.kxlh.com/story/29450937/montana-polygamist-family-applies-for-marriage-license
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OH MY GOD THAT WOULD SO TOTALLY HAVE AN IMPACT ON MY LIFE IF THEY GET MARRIED.
Oh wait, it won't. Fuck off.
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You forgot the tax-related side of marriage.
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I'm...not sure why you felt the need to share that, but thanks!
Now you're just being hurtful.
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Party On & Party Off !!
I'm calling dips on Party On !
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Well that's simple to solve. Just take the tax privileges away from all marriages.
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What! Even the arranged ones?
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Nah, that's fine I guess. As long as they breed, I suppose.
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Good idea, but doesn't go far enough. Let's create public orphanages and put all the kids in there.
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Pfft, orphanages? So that the bastards could just sit around doing nothing? Gulags is where it's at.
Filed under: not sure what is being argued anymore, but whatever
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I certainly wasn't implying that. Never that.
I don't know. If there was an argument, it was you. I don't recall arguing.
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Argument = discussion with vehemence
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You've highlighted the next problem in database design without even realizing it. No... not polygamous marriage, that's not going to happen.
I'm talking about your outdated Victorian view of sex being an either/or concept.
In the future sex will be multiple choice with the ability to select multiple options as well as a fillintheblank other type.
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Why? Will there ever be any other options than "Yes" or "No"?
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"Not with you!"
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This obsession with recording everything is why data breaches are so damaging. If you've already determined that anyone can marry anyone else, why do you care about the gender of the involved parties? The license should simply have some way to identify each person, not a description of them.
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See, now I'm just waiting for this to appear on the marriage certificate: "Party On: Wayne" "Party Off: Garth"
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You plan to use a
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There's a Mr. Huxley on the phone looking for you. He says he wants royalties.
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The Romanian approach?
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This post identifies itself as Frist!
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"Not tonight, dear. I have a headache. Why not go and watch some porn?"
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Didn't the Soviets effectively experiment with that in the 20s and 30s? That is, raise all the children communally, rather than in familes?
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If so, that wouldn't have been the dumbest thing they tried.
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I've read that they flirted--briefly--with eliminating marriage altogether. People could just have sex with whoever they wanted, since if someone got pregnant, they would just put the kid in the creche with the rest of them. Supposedly the women complained in large numbers after less than a year and the idea was scrapped.
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They tried it on the kibbutzim in Israel too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbutz_communal_child_rearing_and_collective_education
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Are you a :barrier: to love.
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Don't be a gender-temporal-normative bigot.
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Come on, @boomzilla. You know the rules, and so do I *wiiink*
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If it's a microaggression for me to flirt with a lesbian. Is it a microaggression for a gay guy to flirt with me?
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Microagressions are for pussies.
Macroaggression is where it's at ;)
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As a white man, being visible is a microaggression.
So, I'd like to apologize for offending people for my level of success, which is, not being quite as poor as the rest of my family.
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We already have a thread for that shit.
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Is that... rounded corners? Fucking hell.
Filed under: i guess it's more organic and human