Small Print?

Black Swan

Everything today seems to have a document attached with lines and lines of obscure small print written by some solicitor/attorney/lawyer (Insurance policies, software user agreements, disclaimers, etc., etc.). By signing, clicking, whatever, "You agree to this and that..." and "hold them harmless in the event" that your computer blows up, a freak typhoon takes away your house, or an old spy satellite fails to completely burn up on reentry from space and flattens your car.

Do you read the small print? Do you really understand it? Remember that during the Clinton sex scandal in the USA congressional and legal professionals argued over the meaning of the word "is" for 6 months?

Comments?

cance

no,

next question.:)

Archeron

Never read them, although I should. I've been burnt badly on bad terms for bank loans because of not reading the dreaded small print.

Timing of this thread makes me shudder, I just signed up to a new mobile phone company yesterday, and signed three forms without reading them. Whoops.

gucci

NO!



To be honest i didnt read most of the actual large print in your post





gucci is not part of gucci ltd clothing and cannot be held responsibly for his actions

jhegarty

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Red Hand

After briefly consulting with my lawyers, no. That goes for the discalimer I clicked on to get online in this computor cafe, the disclaimer I clicked on to join boards.ie (I think!), and vast tracts of my old work contract/landlord agreement.

To be honest, all the above have never had any significance for me in real terms. It's not like I was signing my life away in some Mephitopholean agreement.

Ruu_Old

Not normally, on my mortgage and immigration stuff I did*.




*Batteries not included

imeatingchips

Sure they even have small print on the radio now... blah mortgage blah loans blah etc. then squez into arsé end of the ad in about 1 second "regulatedbytheirishfinacialservicesregulatoryauthority".

AlmightyCushion

Only when it's something very important like financial stuff but even then I lose interest quite quickly. On EULA and the like never.

Jesus Wept

No sometimes option? No atari jaguar option??

WTF is this

You're slipping b!ue.

FunkZ

cance wrote:

no,

next question.:)

Okay, okay, now question 2...

Have you ever been sexually active with a goat?

Random

*post subject to change at any time for any reason.

MooseJam

I bet nobody in the world has read the windows license agreement except the person who wrote it and a few laywers

Rabies

LazyFingers wrote:

Have you ever been sexually active with a goat?

Yes, but then my hamster got jealous.


The only small print I read is financial/insurance agreements or visa processing forms.
Everything else, rarely if ever.

jor el

jhegarty wrote:

Possible penalties for early withdrawal.

That's not what yore ma said last night... Badum, tish!

MooseJam wrote:

I bet nobody in the world has read the windows license agreement except the person who wrote it and a few laywers

No real people no, but some tech journalists did spot some interesting changes in the EULA for Vista. http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=156 Seems now, even with a retail licence, you can only transfer it once.

I never read small print, even for important things like Bank loans and credit cards etc. I should, but I just couldn't be bothered, and I probably wouldn't understand half the jargon they normally use anyway.

cance

LazyFingers wrote:

Okay, okay, now question 2...

Have you ever been sexually active with a goat?

a goat you say, do sheep count?

Black Swan

The-Rigger wrote:

No sometimes option? No atari jaguar option??

WTF is this

You're slipping b!ue.

Aaaahhhhh, ye caught me Rig! Must out-on-the-town a bit too much lately, and coming to boards half asleep and hung over? Ha!

FunkZ

cance wrote:

a goat you say, do sheep count?

Of course they do... as long as they belong on Gods green Earth!

Fratton Fred

as a private individual, you are protected by the unfair terms act http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/2000/en/si/0307.html which is part of european law.

still a good idea to read them, to make sure you don't get caught though

Kojak

I never read any print, be it big or small.