I had never heard of "microagression" before this article. That tumblr blog has plenty of whiny lulz, thanks!

Sounds like he just watched Prometheus.

As long as the weather on the island of Islay stays the same so the flavour of Laphroaig never changes, the rest doesn't matter

Don't tell the UK meteorlogical Office this. The trick to getting those TFLOPs on those 480,000 6502 CPUs is that Cray benchmarked them all with nothing but NOP instructions.

I was missing my MojoKid/HotHarware clickbait.
Thanks!

A token based system vs. direct access to my personal data and bank account? I'll take Apple Pay, thanks.

I'll say. I was 23 when in seventh grade.

" Do you know how many terrorists that wanted to kill me I have come face to face with? 0.

Remove the "I have come face to face with" and that answer will certainly not be zero.

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 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

We're in Canada and considered common-law: there are no extra legal protections the paper offers. When we were drawing up our wills, our lawyer said as much. Our life insurance has each other as the beneficiary, our wills are the same. If we ever split up, it's off to the lawyers to divide up assets and work on custody.

When we file our yearly taxes we check off the relevant box for 'marital status' (or whatever it asks) for common-law partnerships and do income splitting to minimize the tax hit. Our accountant said there was no difference in having the paper or not for us. My lady is a professional and known as her own name. So. if we ever did get hitched, she would keep her name. No hyphenating, etc. Fine by me.

So what are the benefits? Neither of us see any.