Gay marriage: the database engeerg perspective is a rather old article on how gay marriage (and other typ of marriag) n affect technology, but somehow I missed for all the years. It's tertg om a variety of perspectiv - technil, social, and cultural. It's also somewhat tongue cheek, yet sightful and thought-provokg. Irrelevant
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- GAY MARRIAGE: THE DATABASE ENGEERG PERSPECTIVE
- GAY MARRIAGE OM A DATABASE ENGEERG PERSPECTIVE
- HISTORY OF GAY MARRIAGE
GAY MARRIAGE: THE DATABASE ENGEERG PERSPECTIVE
* gay marriage the database engineering perspective *
I have never seen a paper talkg about gay marriage that was entertag, don't matter if you're for or agast , still an entertag read, now THAT's how articl about current issu should be wrten! I n't e rell the relatnal schema, (The dutch support gay marriage sce que a while) but one terrtg thg that was implemented, and that you should add (jt for fun;-) is the 'age-name' for married begs: (In the Netherlands) you n nowadays choose what age-name you want: partner1's;partner2's;partner1s-dash-partner2's of partner2's-partner3s.
I'm not a database expert, but I equently teach programmg languag, and am currently teachg a bunch of llege sophomor Prolog, which many of the classic troductory exercis volve fay relatnships.
GAY MARRIAGE OM A DATABASE ENGEERG PERSPECTIVE
Gay marriage: the database engeerg perspective Or, how to get burned by the assumptns you don’t even notice you’re makg. Would make a great troductn to the reali of... * gay marriage the database engineering perspective *
Please expla how reproductive geics factors to a homosexual marriage, or why "grossns" is a reasonable limer tra-fay marriage, but bigoted when applied to homosexual relatnships? Let me also make clear I am not opposed to civil partnerships that afford homosexual upl the rights of herance and other issu that plague the upl difficult tim (such as beg unable to enter fay-only hospal areas).
As a speci and culture, the man-woman unn is fundamental to our propagatn and evolutn (no matter how they try, a homosexual uple nnot achieve natural procreatn) and a special signatn should be rerved for this unn. As a gay man, and given the subject matter, I am shocked and awed by the sheer STRAIGHTNESS of attus exprsed throughout this page (not that I n swear to have read EVERY le of your this, Sam).
HISTORY OF GAY MARRIAGE
This talk is adapted om - an say about how not to wre homophobic databas, and why policians might be draggg their feet. * gay marriage the database engineering perspective *
Steve (2008-11-29), you're talkg TOSH when you say "'s been my experience that wh any gay uple, one ually assum the role of the male and the other assum the role of the female". Of urse, you don't want to e this argument too much whout some clarifitn bee you're not gog to like when you n to someone who says "I'll adm homosexualy is a natural thg, occurs naturally.
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Really, the only b that was strange to my md was the ia that poly relatnships would have everyone volved married to everyone else; that's certaly not how I've seen them, they've tend to be graphs as the 14th schema but the 12th and 13th schemata are much rarer (I don't even know of anywhere that legally regnis or regnised them, though I'm sure anthropologists and historians n fd exampl, though I'm jt as sure they'll largely be ignored - there are already plenty of people who thk gay marriage is some sort of new thg, and not largely the artefact of lolised cisns and the historil accint of Rome's legacy to Christendom meang that the ban on gay marriage the 5th Century CE end up havg wi-rangg effects).
Jt when you thought normalizg databas had nothg to do wh the real world... some (perhaps sarstic) food for thought -- -- I was gog to post this Misc, but maybe there's actually somethg to learn here. * gay marriage the database engineering perspective *
Ironilly, this now allows for the endg of the fact that some forms of marriage (many relig marriag, and backwards legal jurisdictns) are ed male-female only (wh varyg gre of ncepts as to what f "male" and "female", wh for example Iran banng gay marriage - or any homosexual activy - but allowg post-op MTF transsexuals to marry men). I propose to ll this stcture eher the "njugal disjot-set data stcture", or, if ed for homosexual purpos, a "civil unn-fd data stcture", and i wrote this entire ment merely so i uld make those two extremely weak puns.