Mexico City lawmakers want to help newlyweds avoid the hassle of divorce by giving them an easy exit strategy: temporary marriage licenses.
Leftists in the city’s assembly — who have already riled conservatives by legalizing gay marriage — proposed a reform to the civil code this week that would allow couples to decide on the length of their commitment, opting out of a lifetime.
The minimum marriage contract would be for two years and could be renewed if the couple stays happy. The contracts would include provisions on how children and property would be handled if the couple splits.
“The proposal is, when the two-year period is up, if the relationship is not stable or harmonious, the contract simply ends,” said Leonel Luna, the Mexico City assemblyman who co-authored the bill. Luna says the proposed law is gaining support and he expects a vote by the end of this year.
The person who unlocks your iPad 2 will not have complete access to your iPad, but will be able to gain entrance to whatever you locked your iPad 2 on. If your iPad 2 went to sleep in Mail, Safari, Messages, Contacts, or Maps, you can imagine the sorts of personal information that can be viewed on your iPad. If you left your iPad 2 on its Home screen, the person can view which applications you have on your device, control media from the multitasking bar, but not much else.
Blizzard announced a new expansion pack to the World of Warcraft franchise at Blizzcon on Friday. Mists of Pandaria will incorporate many new changes, tweaks and features. A release date has not been announced.
The rumor mill is cranking out ‘news’ about the next-generation Xbox, codenamed Xbox Next (catchy name, no? ) Unnamed sources put the release right before the Christmas buying season 2013. Until then, you will just have to be satisfied with the old Xbox and new software.
“Few in the games business expect Xbox Next to be in stores before the holiday side of 2013 – this Christmas and the next will likely see Microsoft marketing software for Xbox 360”.
A shiv is a weapon crafted from the limited resources of a prisoner’s closed world. Crudely constructed from such things as spoons, shoelaces and upholstery tacks, shivs lie somewhere between the graceful and the grotesque. They’re primitive, too — like outsider art, but produced deep on the inside.
The individual parts that make up a shiv tend to be everyday objects, innocent things furtively reconstituted as lethal weapons. Each design choice is essential, but what’s particularly notable is that shivs, at their core, are not so much evocations of minimalism as they are symbols of survivalism. A shiv is all about masked utility: it’s an innocuous object with improbably toxic intent (whether used to attack others or to protect oneself…)
It looks like 3D is here to stay but, according to a recent survey, gamers don’s seem too keen to have it injected into their hobby of choice.
3D is in the title of Nintendo’s newest handheld, Sony is pushing the technology with the PlayStation 3 and rumors have begun circulating that the next Xbox console might incorporate it as well.
But, according to games comparison and marketplace guru Playr2.com, the (slight) majority of the masses don’t want to see it in their games.
