Day: October 31, 2011

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Another example of the fallacy of Domestic Partnership

An article from an Ann Arbor news source reports that UofM may lose a percentage of it’s teaching staff if a stupid bill is signed into law.

The bill in question was proposed by Republican Rep. Dave Agema in an effort to save Michigan some money

His justification is;

“It is not the responsibility of taxpayers to support the roommates and unmarried partners of public employees,” Agema said in a statement. “Providing benefits in this way is not the role of the state, especially when tax dollars are in short supply and there are critical programs being affected by the decrease in revenue.”

It appears the representative is saying, If marriage between two consenting adults was permitted then he wouldn’t have introduced this bill

This law, if passed will also cut benefits for the children of domestic partners who are currently covered.

I love the hypocrisy.

Republicans like this will trot out the “We have to protect the Children” argument as long as it’s against same sex marriage. But in back room deals they’ll cut benefits to those same children without any twinge from their conscience.

This highlights again how Domestic Partnership is NOT the same as marriage, and demonstrates why same sex marriage must be made legal in this country. The only way for gay men and women to have parity in their rights is through marriage.

Everyone in this country must have equal rights or none of us will.

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Well I was worried about space…

I’ve reconciled myself to the loss of almost 6TB of data.

I’d been kinda worried that the drive was 80% full and was wondering what I was going to have to do to address that situation.

Should I buy another Array? Should I start dumping and backing up the stuff on this array that didn’t need to be out there?

Fate it seems had a far more direct solution.

After formatting and checking each drive preforming a variety of diagnostics and surface scans, some of them taking as long as 20 hours. The drive checks out fine. There is no explanation for the failure other than some act of the cyber gods.

So I’m waiting on the final check and then I’ll have a brand new clean drive to begin filling again. This time, I’m going to be a little less cavalier with the data and make sure that I have a better backup scheme.

On the negative side, I lost a lot of data. On the positive side I saved myself a lot of money. I’m not sure exactly how balanced the equation is. Since I’d gotten in the habit of scanning financial records and then shredding them. Most of that information was lost.

I’m also suspecting that I lost a lot of photos. I’m going to wait until the drive is done with it’s last check then start searching for the original files.

Lesson learned.

I think the CD/DVDRAM burner is going to be a busy little camper over the next few weeks.

Word of advice… have a couple of backups of your data. You’ll be glad you did.