Actually these disclaimers are worth exactly as much as the paper they are (not) written on. You can't make people correct your mistakes, simple as that. In my limited understanding of legalspeak you "don't have a contract" and as such are not obliged to do anything the sender of said email wants you to do.

Speaking of which, shrink-wrap licenses are illegal in most of the world outside the US (and maybe even there, what do I know), since you can't agree to a (one-sided) contract you haven't seen yet.

If they force you to comply you just send them a bill. Don't ask if they want to pay a bill, they didn't ask you if you want to delete mail not meant for you, right? Either they back out of the (non-)contract and you can post their misdirected email on any website you like, or they pay, acknowledging that they had a contract with you. Win-win :)

Anyway, I think the fun *really* starts with spam containing legal disclaimers.

I think I don't need to tell you that I am not a lawyer since it is so obvious, so at least you're getting away without *that* disclaimer :)

The rapture happened long ago. In fact, the book of revelation has so many references to Rome at the time it was written, and how *that* world would end. And I think we all agree Rome isn't "in this world" anymore.

So all these people predicting the rapture are actually trying to mislead us, which in itself is one of the capital sins (reference to the occupation of politician totally intended :P), and are not to be listened to or followed.

So don't worry, be happy, you can't change anything anyway at this point of time.

We have a 3G, not a 3Gs you insensitive clod! We can't upgrade to 4.3 because Steve said no.

Seriously, my 3G is at 4.2.1 and will stay there forever. iTunes (which I *do* use, because I have both music from CDs, podcasts and my calendar on that phone) upgraded my phone to 4.0 without asking much - well, ok, it threatened that I wouldn't get any security updates for it if I insisted on keeping on using 3.1.3.

So my iPhone 3G is now a Windows98 PC force-upgraded to XP, or have you seen any security fixes for 98 around lately? *That* is what those not having upgraded to 4.x are missing, mostly, because all the new-fangled stuff needs a 3Gs or 4, so you won't see much of that anyway. And, as I said, since 4.3 we don't even get those security updates. Actually I'd be very surprised if the 3G gets a Locationgate fix.

Which is exactly why my next phone will *not* be a fscking iPhone. Thanks for the (slightly rotten) fish and so on, but Android is looking better every day.

In other news, I hear Apple is making more than half its revenue with the iPhone and iPad product lines. If stuff like this isn't fixed I'd be very surprised if their rise continues.

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Ha!

Mama don't like no bass players playing... (so I wouldn't be too concerned about what Mama likes :P)

I'd like my paycheck to be paid in units of life support for me and my family. For example one full day of work = two days of food, accomodation, preset denomination of luxuries, healthcare etc.

Yes, I know it sounds unfair to my employer should I get sick, but he gets to use me, my knowledge and my time when I'm not and could be doing something else.

Just don't call me a communist, because I'm not; and while you're at it don't call what they had/have in the eastern block or what's left of it communism, because it simply wasn't, isn't and won't be. And it's not the system I'd like to endorse, it's actually just 19th century capitalism with a twist.

What, you mean you don't measure in pints, pounds and furlongs? What are you, medieval? Here, have this fine open standard that includes the binary definitions of all Microsoft Word versions since 1.0 for MS-DOS. Hooray for free/open standards.

Ehm....

1, 1, 1, 1, 0.9, 1, 1, 1, 1 you insensitive clod!

you WHAT? :P

Actually (about that link of yours, which links to twitter's behaviour towards the term tweet) a fellow named Bobby Day might have a word or two to say about prior art. Well, except he's been dead for a while...

Rockin' robin (tweet, tweet, tweet) :P

You seem to have misunderstood the origins of copyright. It was never meant to give the creator compensation, what copyright was all about was censorship by control of distribution (therefore "copy", not "creation").

Just pointing out the obvious historicalities :)

Can't wait to tell my wife - "You know, they found out sitting down all day makes you die sooner - I think I'll lie down for the rest of the day".

No, seriously (or rather a bit more serious, but not really), life is lethal. Nobody has ever survived life. Think about it...

... for everything else, there are blockers - flashblocker, adblockers etc. pp.

Let me add that I think Flash deserves to die, amongst other things because they make several of the other choices in this poll even possible. And Silverlight is certainly not the way to kill it - same shit, new wrapping.