And many fruit juices are quite acidic as well.

The only good news is that they *finally* updated the mini ... which means we'll finally be getting new hardware to replace our xserves.

Unfortunately, they also determined that unless you have a SMT rework kit, you're not installing more RAM in it. You're also not going to be able to put a bigger disk in it without voiding the warranty.

They're making guesses about the future just like everyone else.

While throwing millions of dollars of marketing horsepower at it to make it as likely as possible that people will clamor what they sell, regardless of the engineering and other deficits present in the product. If Microsoft's marketing people were half as good as Apple's, there might not be an Apple anymore.

At least you had grass. Do you know how hard it is to get anything done when all you have to work with is a primordial subatomic particle soup?

it has various problems with similar-looking glyphs that are easily mistaken for one another

Boy, isn't that the truth. Helvetica looks pretty good to me, but it's annoying (especially in technical documentation) when you can't distinguish a lower case 'L' from an upper case "I".

Still not fixed, four and a half hours later...

Sure - they could be used in the implementation of RFC 1149.

I think he means be a reporter for the article, THEN be a pundit in the replies. B-)

If they enforced that, we'd never see any Bennett Haselton's Walls O' Text (tm).

I mentioned elsewhere in this thread that I'm in Canada. Here's it is an iron clad arrangement. Our lawyer drew up our wills accordingly, our accountant handles our taxes accordingly. No benefit here.

"If you give us the password and let us prove you're innocent we'll let you go. If there's anything in there that would prove you guilty we'll reduce the sentence. If you don't give us the password and we have to crack the encryption ourselves and we find out you're guilty, you're going away for a very long time."

"Additionally, if you don't give us the password, you're going to sit in jail for contempt of court until you change your mind."

If we split up we would have to go through the same process for custody and asset disposal & disbursements. It's a legally binding thing here.

The three of us walking around as a happy family is a public statement of commitment, no? When we were at Walking with Dinosaurs yesterday morning, no one questioned any papers or marital status. In fact there were thousands of people there, certainly a more truly public statement than hand-picked relatives & friends who feel compelled to show up for a plate of free food and booze.

It would cost time and money for something none of us care about. We'd rather spend our money on winter family holidays or finish off the new kitchen or new pool deck or just put extra into our daughter's education fund (which is appreciable already).

Not arguing, just pointing out that people have different priorities.

So what you're saying is that everyone considers you married already, so effectively you are.

In essence, yes. The key is that the government recognizes it for taxation and other family matters. In our province here in .CA in 2014 marriage would be an expense with no payoff. We'd be better off blowing that money on lottery tickets.

Perhaps in your jurisdiction, not ours. We asked about it ages ago when we were dealing with our lawyer for our wills and our accountant for our income taxes.

Forgot to include this link: Common Law marriage in Canada