That sounds like a reasonable system. You just need to add destruction-of-evidence charges, or at least a court presumption that whoever destroyed the evidence did so to their benefit, and hence, the other party's sworn testimony should be used in place of the evidence.
In other words, if the police fail to retain evidence collected, assume that whatever the other party swears was captured is true.
If the police don't like it, they can retain the evidence.
Depending on your local law, you can likely use a common-law relationship to force companies to treat you as spouses when you desire. However, this whole area of law is complicated since companies may attempt to redefine common-law or spousal relationships to suit their own needs.
More complicated is the johnandmelinda@ type email addresses and other stupidity that less-techie types do without realizing how annoying this is to everyone else.
After 1-2 rounds of emailing "John" with a "Hey John, want to do $something on $differentdate instead of $originaldate" and getting back a "Sorry hun, John isn't home, this is Melinda" and never getting a reply from John at all, you simply cease interacting with either of them because together they're too stupid to be worth it.
However, it's not always feasible to drop such a joint asset immediately since it can take time to figure out all the places an email address is used.
More complicated is what to do with a shared account (Twitter or similar?) that might have followers or other assets that cannot be divided, and therefore has value beyond it's name. I'd argue that the answer is to simply dissolve such accounts completely, since the entity that created it no longer exists, but that's not always practical either.
While true, copyright is harder to implicitly transfer without compensation.
Complicating matters further is the fact that the library of data potentially contains data created before and after marriage, and assets held prior to the marriage are a bit more complicated to divide up.
Not only that, but if you plan your life around the possibility that a divorce might happen, you might just deal with your bullshit before it hits the divorce-is-better-than-this level.
Which part? I say that "no study has actually managed to link them" (which is partially true, one study did, but it turns out the guy just made it up)
As far as autism rates for those who are or are not vaccinated, I had something in my Instapaper history about it. It wasn't a formal "lets not vaccinate some people and see what happens", but rather, just a study-after-the-fact of people who were vaccinated late or not at all that found that the autism rates were statistically similar.
You are absolutely correct! I was originally looking at some stats in the 4.something range from 2002 but found a newer stat that was 5.5 and didn't proofread.
My point is that if you only look locally, it's not out there to say "I don't see this as a threat".
People are very poor judges of threats in general though; look at all the people who are afraid to fly, and instead take a far more dangerous drive.
While there needs to be a balance that avoids the creation of a nanny-state, things like vaccines are bigger than individual risks and people need to look outside their own ignorant small-minded viewpoint.
In fairness to these idiots, they're "nearly extinct" because we don't see such diseases anymore. The why is the important part, and it's simple: herd immunity.
The biggest joke of it all is this: Even of vaccines do cause the things people guess that they might, you're still better off getting vaccinated.
With Autism rates up around the 5.5 in 1,000 range (that's under half a percentage), even if every single autism case is caused by vaccines, you're still better off getting vaccinated and taking a tiny chance of autism over order-of-magnitude greater odds of dying in an epidemic when once hits your area thanks to the loss of herd immunity that generally keeps us protected.
This ignores the fact that autism rates for those who are vs are not vaccinated seem to work out to be the same, and that no study has actually managed to link vaccines with autism.
I completely fail to see how they'd manage to undercut every single existing PC/component manufacturer out there.
If nothing else, they'd be able to buy and build in bulk, without adding a ton of parts that aren't needed for their particular design. They also could aim to be revenue neutral, making up the difference in game sales.
Or at least queue the patches automatically as part of the download bundle rather than not even starting the patch download process until the user is ready and waiting.
So, your digital records will be intact and accessible following the fire or flood?
That's another good point I'd forgotten to make, thanks! Electronic records can be trivially copied, backed up, stored off site, etc whereas paper records really cannot.
Oh, I see. You stored it safely in the "cloud".
With a trusted provider that is completely immune to breaches.
Assuming a targetted attack, your home computer isn't immune to breaches either, nor are the boxes in your basement. Assuming an attack wasn't targetted, cloud providers are bigger targets, but the odds of your particular data being stolen and somehow exploited are similar to someone randomly targetting you individually; negligible. This is quite different from situations where an account database is hacked and the information for thousands of people are cleanly filed in a consistent usable format.
I also discovered this thing called "encryption" the allows me to safely store data too important to trust to Evernote type services.
Not everyone trusts the cloud, but to me, I've balanced the risk vs the rewards and am comfortable with where my data is stored. You are certainly free to choose differently, if so, you might consider copying your data to a removeable drive and placing it somewhere safe (in a $25 fire safe at a friend's house, safe deposit box, in your desk at work, etc)
I've had a couple of minor floods over the years, and had destroyed paper. I've yet to lose a single electronically filed document since I started having files worth worrying about (which would probably be from the days of my first tax return)
Scan everything, toss it in a box unsorted, with nothing but the start and end dates written on the boxes.
99.whatever% of the time the electronic copy's searchability will win, usually having information matters more than having the original paper. For those few situations where you need the paper, the electronic copy's "created on" date tells you which box it's in.
Seriously. It is much, much harder to keep records electronically than to throw the pieces of paper into a file cabinet and forget about it. This is well documented.
True. Equally well documented is how much easier it is to index paper by multiple keys, as well as rapidly resort and search file cabinets. Oh wait, no, that's electronically stored documents.
Seriously, storing paper is a ton easier and it works for many purposes. Until you move, or have a fire, or your basement floods, or you need a copy of that letter you received from your insurance company 18-24 months ago confirming a change to your home because they're now claiming they weren't informed you're using natural gas instead of electric heat and are declining a $250,000 insurance claim after the aforementioned fire.
But sure, paper is easier to throw into a file cabinet and forget about.
I find the simplicity of it to be just amazing. Everything is where I'd expect, nearly everything is done the way that makes sense, and it doesn't get in my way.
When I have run into problems, I've had a surprising amount of help without the "Why are you running Linux if you don't understand/that/?" arrogance that is so common in certain Linux areas.
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Except that photo stream only uploads via wifi, not 3G.
Whoever set the process in motion, as well as everyone who could have reasonably been expected to know that the evidence should be retained.
That sounds like a reasonable system. You just need to add destruction-of-evidence charges, or at least a court presumption that whoever destroyed the evidence did so to their benefit, and hence, the other party's sworn testimony should be used in place of the evidence.
In other words, if the police fail to retain evidence collected, assume that whatever the other party swears was captured is true.
If the police don't like it, they can retain the evidence.
These are all wifi-only solutions though, not 3G capable options.
Depending on your local law, you can likely use a common-law relationship to force companies to treat you as spouses when you desire. However, this whole area of law is complicated since companies may attempt to redefine common-law or spousal relationships to suit their own needs.
More complicated is the johnandmelinda@ type email addresses and other stupidity that less-techie types do without realizing how annoying this is to everyone else.
After 1-2 rounds of emailing "John" with a "Hey John, want to do $something on $differentdate instead of $originaldate" and getting back a "Sorry hun, John isn't home, this is Melinda" and never getting a reply from John at all, you simply cease interacting with either of them because together they're too stupid to be worth it.
However, it's not always feasible to drop such a joint asset immediately since it can take time to figure out all the places an email address is used.
More complicated is what to do with a shared account (Twitter or similar?) that might have followers or other assets that cannot be divided, and therefore has value beyond it's name. I'd argue that the answer is to simply dissolve such accounts completely, since the entity that created it no longer exists, but that's not always practical either.
While true, copyright is harder to implicitly transfer without compensation.
Complicating matters further is the fact that the library of data potentially contains data created before and after marriage, and assets held prior to the marriage are a bit more complicated to divide up.
Not only that, but if you plan your life around the possibility that a divorce might happen, you might just deal with your bullshit before it hits the divorce-is-better-than-this level.
Or maybe that's just me.
"pre-nap isn't defined yet". In fairness, that is entirely different from a prenuptial agreement.
Which part? I say that "no study has actually managed to link them" (which is partially true, one study did, but it turns out the guy just made it up)
As far as autism rates for those who are or are not vaccinated, I had something in my Instapaper history about it. It wasn't a formal "lets not vaccinate some people and see what happens", but rather, just a study-after-the-fact of people who were vaccinated late or not at all that found that the autism rates were statistically similar.
You are absolutely correct! I was originally looking at some stats in the 4.something range from 2002 but found a newer stat that was 5.5 and didn't proofread.
You are absolutely correct. I updated the stat when I found stats that were a couple years more recent.
My point is that if you only look locally, it's not out there to say "I don't see this as a threat".
People are very poor judges of threats in general though; look at all the people who are afraid to fly, and instead take a far more dangerous drive.
While there needs to be a balance that avoids the creation of a nanny-state, things like vaccines are bigger than individual risks and people need to look outside their own ignorant small-minded viewpoint.
In fairness to these idiots, they're "nearly extinct" because we don't see such diseases anymore. The why is the important part, and it's simple: herd immunity.
The biggest joke of it all is this: Even of vaccines do cause the things people guess that they might, you're still better off getting vaccinated.
With Autism rates up around the 5.5 in 1,000 range (that's under half a percentage), even if every single autism case is caused by vaccines, you're still better off getting vaccinated and taking a tiny chance of autism over order-of-magnitude greater odds of dying in an epidemic when once hits your area thanks to the loss of herd immunity that generally keeps us protected.
This ignores the fact that autism rates for those who are vs are not vaccinated seem to work out to be the same, and that no study has actually managed to link vaccines with autism.
You've got that backwards, chickenpox tends to be most severe when an adult becomes infected.
I completely fail to see how they'd manage to undercut every single existing PC/component manufacturer out there.
If nothing else, they'd be able to buy and build in bulk, without adding a ton of parts that aren't needed for their particular design. They also could aim to be revenue neutral, making up the difference in game sales.
Or at least queue the patches automatically as part of the download bundle rather than not even starting the patch download process until the user is ready and waiting.
Loving the "Troll" mods to this comment, have people not read that the US is trolling Twitter and denying entry based on obvious jokes?
There are days you see this five times before breakfast ... and yet no killings, no nothing.
It's called "freedom of religion". Muslims demand it from others, like the west, so why do they get to do this ?
It's called "hypocrisy" and it's a staple in most major religions.
Probably a good idea not to be a foreigner in Malaysia then.
Or to plan to visit the US.
So, your digital records will be intact and accessible following the fire or flood?
That's another good point I'd forgotten to make, thanks! Electronic records can be trivially copied, backed up, stored off site, etc whereas paper records really cannot.
Oh, I see. You stored it safely in the "cloud".
With a trusted provider that is completely immune to breaches.
Assuming a targetted attack, your home computer isn't immune to breaches either, nor are the boxes in your basement. Assuming an attack wasn't targetted, cloud providers are bigger targets, but the odds of your particular data being stolen and somehow exploited are similar to someone randomly targetting you individually; negligible. This is quite different from situations where an account database is hacked and the information for thousands of people are cleanly filed in a consistent usable format.
I also discovered this thing called "encryption" the allows me to safely store data too important to trust to Evernote type services.
Not everyone trusts the cloud, but to me, I've balanced the risk vs the rewards and am comfortable with where my data is stored. You are certainly free to choose differently, if so, you might consider copying your data to a removeable drive and placing it somewhere safe (in a $25 fire safe at a friend's house, safe deposit box, in your desk at work, etc)
I've had a couple of minor floods over the years, and had destroyed paper. I've yet to lose a single electronically filed document since I started having files worth worrying about (which would probably be from the days of my first tax return)
Scan everything, toss it in a box unsorted, with nothing but the start and end dates written on the boxes.
99.whatever% of the time the electronic copy's searchability will win, usually having information matters more than having the original paper. For those few situations where you need the paper, the electronic copy's "created on" date tells you which box it's in.
Seriously. It is much, much harder to keep records electronically than to throw the pieces of paper into a file cabinet and forget about it. This is well documented.
True. Equally well documented is how much easier it is to index paper by multiple keys, as well as rapidly resort and search file cabinets. Oh wait, no, that's electronically stored documents.
Seriously, storing paper is a ton easier and it works for many purposes. Until you move, or have a fire, or your basement floods, or you need a copy of that letter you received from your insurance company 18-24 months ago confirming a change to your home because they're now claiming they weren't informed you're using natural gas instead of electric heat and are declining a $250,000 insurance claim after the aforementioned fire.
But sure, paper is easier to throw into a file cabinet and forget about.
I find the simplicity of it to be just amazing. Everything is where I'd expect, nearly everything is done the way that makes sense, and it doesn't get in my way.
When I have run into problems, I've had a surprising amount of help without the "Why are you running Linux if you don't understand /that/?" arrogance that is so common in certain Linux areas.