Comment Re:Intelligent (Score 2, Funny) 205
"Think about what it was doing while you weren't watching. Think about it!!!"
Well, it does have 4 right hands. That leaves 4 left hands to type with.
"Think about what it was doing while you weren't watching. Think about it!!!"
Well, it does have 4 right hands. That leaves 4 left hands to type with.
Lawyers should be barred from using any and all phrases that mean something different in the court than they do in normal speech.
And wording such a ban so that it cannot be gamed, loopholed, or turned on its ass - without using legalese - would be an interesting exercise.
BTW, IANAL, and I am making this all up as I go along. I bet its pretty close to correct. Of course, any and all of it could be flat out wrong.
OK, now take that back into context with this agreement. "Please list any and all sites" has no additional meaning than "Please list all sites", right? This isn't a declaration of fact, it's a request.
Its a demand to be complied with. Lets say you have ten accounts, but one of them carries some legal prohibition on revealing it (setting aside the larger problems with the whole idea, we're being fine-print pedantic here...). If you can show that you are not required to provide that one account, "list all..." by itself means that you can now list none and be in full compliance. "Any and all" means that you still have to list the other nine. In other words, it is the legal way of saying don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good, just in case the demand for "all" becomes invalidated.
What does the phrase "any and all" add that the word "all" lacks by itself?
"All your base are belong to us" legally implies that if even one base is found to not belong to us, then it is possible that none of them do - the statement is false in its entirety. "Any and all of your base belong to us" means that if we accidentally let one of your bases slip through our fingers, the remainder still belong to us. To a lawyer, internet memes are full of loopholes and thus not binding.
by decomposing things to be simpler, you don't need open source.
Let's see.... you could meet a beautiful girl and fall madly in love and have sex for free for the rest of your life...
Or... you could meet Ray the Pimp and pay $50 bucks for a night with his "best" girl, Grizelda. She even has most of her teeth!
And then you find out at the last minute that she'll sell you condoms for $200 each. No, the one in your wallet is not "compatible".
On the other hand, Steve himself is a good candidate for the title "America's Asshole". I'm all for anyone with financial clout standing up to Obama and congress, but the enemy of my enemy is not automatically my friend.
I've noticed several design suggestions in your code.