The #1 cause of divorce is marriage.

The easiest way to end divorces is to end marriage.

The second-easiest way would be to make it a contract that is for a set term, renewable on mutual agreement - no agreement at renewal time, the contract (and marriage) simply expire. No messy divorce.

So here's the question - what "law" prevents two adults from making a marriage that auto-terminates if it isn't renewed every 5 years? It seems to me that a contract is a contract, and that this would be the way to go.

On the contrary, a good amount of women will divorce because they have found another guy who can give them a bigger ring or a 7 series instead of a 5 series BMW. Especially if the breadwinner gets a pink slip. This is often a hard learned lesson for most guys -- trust someone, then find out way too late that the spouse wasn't after one's heart, but just reaching past for the wallet.

Or maybe they got tired of adult men who can't even be bothered to change the roll of toilet paper - women do most of the housework in a marriage, even when both work.

Or maybe they got tired of the verbal or physical abuse - men are the vast majority of perps, women the vast majority of victims.

Nobody's perfect - but to imply that "a good amount of women" divorce because they are gold-diggers ignores some serious problems.

It depends on whether there was a marriage contract or not, and also when the assets (for example, the domain names) were acquired, as well as their purpose.

Domains that were acquired as a hobby and have no pecuniary value go with the person who is listed on the whois, unless that person was listed just for conveniences' sake - then they should go to the real owner.

Domains that have a financial value that were acquired before the marriage generally stay with the person who brought them into the marriage, same as other assets generally (YMMV, of course, depending on local laws, etc).

Domains that are worth $$$ that were acquired during the marriage in the course of business stay with the business. So, it's all about how each party is compensated for their contribution to the business. Does one party buy the other out, or just get a share of the business itself if it's a multi-million-buck operation (not likely)?

WARNING: Many places have special laws concerning copyrights staying with the original author even if the material was created during a marriage (it does not become part of the "partnership" assets)! The question rarely came up in previous decades, so most divorce lawyers are totally clueless about this.

Domains - the name listed in whois is the owner of record.

Hosting - the name listed on the account. The other party should get their own hosting account (any pre-paid hosting should be pro-rated at 50% to the other party).

email -for each PAID email account, the name listed on the account is the owner. For freemail accounts, you don't "own" them anyway, so each of you just get a new account already - it's not like it costs anything - then set the auto-responder in the freemail account to give both your new email addresses, then give the account login info to someone in trust who will change the secondary contact info and login to something random. Or give it to the kids (if any).

data - you each own your own data, as per copyright. Whoever created the original data, they own the rights to the backups as well. Be nice - share anything that the other person is in, such as pictures, since they also have a right to those. Exceptions: "intimate" pictures - give them to the person who is in the picture and destroy any other copies - don't you even think of "sharing" those without permission, and you'll end up with a police record, same as Libby [last name redacted]'s ex boyfriend did when he "shared them" with her parents, grandparents, etc.

social media - why is this a problem? Social media accounts are not "property" and you do not "own" them, as per your contract with whatever provider you're using. If this is about a "family" account, each of you create an account under your own name, post a note on the family account pointing to the new accounts, then as part of the agreement the family account is either nuked, or given to a 3rd party in trust who changes the contact information and password, then deactivates it.

It's a divorce - the two biggest words are move on. None of the stuff listed above is worth fighting over 99.999% of the time.

On the "6 media giants", it's actually an improvement over when it was just the "big 3" - nbc, cbs, and abc, controlling pretty much everything on tv. The cable cos. changed that balance permanently. The net will change it even more over time.

Radio - do people even listen to radio any more? Maybe in their cars, but I'd think the days of having the radio on "in the background" at work or at home are pretty much over. One of the reasons we saw so much consolidation in radio was because audiences were dropping. Who wants to listen to 20 minutes of ads per hour?

Now what's interesting is that they've also begun posting his restaurant tabs, etc. - stuff that we normally don't get to see. The guy has expensive tastes when it's on the public's dime.

Another interesting point is that he's apparently engaging in fraud - the limit for expenses w/o receipts for a meal is $81, and he claims the limit every day.

It just clutters up with small rectangles when you've got more than 5 windows open

Maybe you need something bigger than 640x480? :-)

... stop telling me how I should run my computer by trying to lock me in to their "vision."

The "vision thing" didn't work out in the dot-com bust, and it's not working out for Unity, or Chromebooks, or anything else. When it gets to the point that Apple and Microsoft are starting to look more open, "Open Source" has a problem.

And why not, instead of indexing, and then having to wade through a ton of useless results, just use symlinks, as I proposed elsewhere. A flat system, not hierarchal, would work just fine for most people, give all the advantages of indexing, and could even be automated. Stuffing everything into a database is not always the best solution.

This way, the actual storage location of the original is irrelevant (by extension, it doesn't even need to be on the same machine).

All indexing content did was kick the can down the road a ways - people are going to continue to accumulate data, and the solution that worked fine for a 1gb drive isn't going to work for a 10tb storage array - and that's where we're headed over the next 5 to 10 years.

there's no reason this won't work better, and it's not "hierarchy-bound". To the contrary, it's not just flat, but unlike your indexing solution, it works wherever in the world the data is stored.