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i promise that none of you hate DOMA as much as i do right now. my work computer crashed at 11.30pm. and then i stared at all the bits of paper and realised i had no idea where to put any of them and suffered a terminal no fucks error and went home.

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As to the rest. Human are expendable slaves; computers are fragile and have to be protected.
And, in the most serious point of the entire comment, many programmers would willingly build a system where a single button is able to cope with child-rearing lesbians who have lived in multiple states, while requiring many buttons pushes for more common cases. Managers exist to enforce the behaviour you observe. There will be a Dilbert strip or an XKCD cartoon that makes this opaque.