Yes true. I was not implying what could be legally enforceable in a contract, but what would legally constitute a contract to begin with.

Case law is full of examples where a contract is completely void if it was not read and signed under the full understanding and normal method of entering a contract. That is to say I can't simply write even legally enforceable text such as "By signing below you agree that I may contact you for advertising purposes" on a receipt for a hammer you just purchased. Even though reading and signing a statement like that is legally enforceable, it needs to be a contract separate from any other function such as signing a credit transaction, signing for a parcel, or hitting like.

The only way a contract is enforceable is if it's separate, hence the tick boxes allowing opt-in or opt-out for advertising and other "commercial material" when filling out forms not related to you wanting to get said advertising.

Erm there's a lot of Asians who would like to say something about your example. Mind you I'm a massive fan of Sashimi, Sushi, Steak Tartare, quite often I also eat it with ... salad. Yes unbelievable I know. I have no idea how I'm still alive either.

We can eat almost anything RAW though I agree about the rice part. RAW rice digests as well as nuts and corn, which is to say it doesn't at all. That said as for my cat, why the hell would you feed a cat RAW rice? If you cat has a stomach virus you're supposed to feed it cooked rice. I'm not sure you'd even get a cat to eat rice without cooking it in chicken stock. Oh and you live in some weird area if you think wild Apples aren't edible. Sure they don't weigh 100g like the one from the shop but have you ever thought of just eating two of them?

Your comment not only doesn't make sense, it actually goes against common dietary advice. Go eat some salad, or better yet join the latest health food craze and buy a juicer and make raw vegetable juice. It's delicious and nutritious. Except for kale, juiced or not juiced that tastes like shit, I don't care how good it is supposed to be for you.

The problem is that life doesn't happen. How do you form a spontaneous meetup? I don't live in a country town. There could be 30 of my friends at my local shopping centre all day and I wouldn't bump into any of them. There's some 40 cafes within 2km of here, about 4 different cinemas, two of which are megaplexes and will show popular movies every 1 hour, hell even on the more esoteric side there's 3 bowling alleys within that 2km radius as well.

The modern world is massive and we are spread thin. I tend to let life happen too and I end up with constant exchanges afterwards like
"Yeah we went to see Captain America."
"Oh really? We saw it at the same time but at %other shopping centre%."

The whole point of the world of information sharing is to get people together so that life can happen. I would say it's been probably about a year since I last bumped into someone randomly and changed plans so we could have a quick coffee or spend the afternoon together.

I got one of those from my local ISP. They overcharged me 20c when I left them for a better deal elsewhere. I'm malevolently not cashing it. They send me a monthly reminder that my account is in the positive asking me for my details to refund. They way I figure it would have cost them over $10 already in mailing me the reminder letters.

I can't agree with your view on the digestive system. Yes it's complex, but there are many animals out there with far more complex digestive systems yet with very little tolerance to diet changes.

We can survive on only meat, only vegetables, we can consume dairy or cut it out of our diets completely. We're the only animals which eat rice and can digest it as well (feed rice to a cat to clear out it's digestive tract, it looks the same when it comes out as when it goes in).

It may be complex but there's very little out there which we can put in our mouths from which our digestive system can't extract even some minor nutritional value.

Hmmm single and 20-40 would qualify for healthcare card, new start allowance, and food coupons even if I didn't have public housing. Of interest is that we have a rental property we are currently tenanting with jobless person who is in the exact predicament you're describing. Male, 35, no job, no savings, yet never behind on his rent and as far as I know they are still alive. Now things may be different in America where people are genuinely in a bad place, but there's no excuse for it in many countries.

It's a free world. If you want to drink yourself to death on the street go for it. You have every opportunity including free counselling sessions to break out of your cycle. Just don't expect me to drop another dollar in your empty grande starbucks cup.

Signed? Actually no. It's only signed if if I tick a box saying I've read it before I hit like. Simply hitting "like" can not imply that I've done anything. Even a casual litigant wouldn't be deterred by this. Sounds more like a bored legal team had nothing to do on a Friday afternoon.

As opposed to $40 for an action figure that requires no building at all and often has arguably less features / playability than LEGO?

The homeless have a right to drink. They do not have a right to empathy.

Tell me again why a homeless person (who qualifies for a healthcare card and thus free trips to the doctor and insanely discounted drugs in my country) would buy a $50 bottle of scotch every other day for his pain rather than spend $5 on drugs that will last them all week.

They can drink as much as they want. Just don't expect me to fund it with my lunch money.

With the amount of social security many countries doll out the only reason homeless people are homeless is because they want to be, not because they have no opportunities.

Did you just really say there's nothing inherently wrong with an OS other than it's single most visible user facing component?

You would do wise to remember your history.

In that case a group of engineers recommended no launch. Their management backed them. NASA strongarmed the resulting discussion. The engineers made it known to both Thiokol and their customer / end user NASA that they oppose the launch. There's not a heck of a lot more they could do other than run into mission control guns a blazing to stop the launch.

From what I can gather in this case the engineers appeared to engage in a cover-up, quite the opposite from vocally speaking up as in the Challenger case.

If you think change management isn't a fundamental responsibility that needs to be upheld then that's a scary connotation. Yes in this case the part got fixed. No it wasn't sufficient on their behalf, it wasn't in-line with what anyone would consider typical engineering practice (where's the mountain of documentation detailing the change?), and it wasn't sufficient resulting in people getting hurt.

Wow we went from handling a call-out to ruining an employee's life.

I'm not sure what you have going on in your head, but it doesn't have any resemblance to reality.

Except there's no involuntary unemployed engineers. Why not open the career section of the paper and just see how in demand mechanical and electrical engineers are. In the height of the GFC they were in demand, and now they are still in demand. Stop comparing this situation to some unskilled labourer you're not helping your arguement.

You're making excuses for someone who acted against the ethics of the profession. Just remember that next time your children go to the doctor and don't get the right treatment because of budget cuts and management. (See what I did there? Think of the children!) Oh what? The oaths can apply to one profession but not the other? Please.

I don't think so. Ethical does not mean "thou shall not kill". Am I working on a device intended on killing others, or am I working on a device intended on saving our own?

I think the word ethical here is a bit of a catch. Ethical doesn't necessarily mean a religious following of one's beliefs, but rather the code of ethics I signed are based around the tenants of demonstrating integrity, practising competently, exercising leadership, and promoting sustainability. Part of exercising leadership is that you can not sign your rights away to non engineers. Where I live this is actually covered under law. I as a registered engineer can't have a manager sign away liability for something I know is not safe, I can only sign that away to another engineer, and only to another engineer who is competent in understanding what is being signed (practising competently).

I know not every country holds the engineering profession to this high standard but the way I see it, even if in this case the engineers in question fixed the problem, they helped sweep it under the rug for management and I have no problem with them being grilled in a public forum for it.

There's a reason for this. The button on the stereo doesn't move. In fact I can mute the stereo without even moving my hands, just push the button on the steering wheel using my thumb. Even on the old bomb car we have here using a stereo is intuitive. I have tactile feedback that can tell me which button I'm pressing and when I've pressed it without ever taking my eyes off the road. I'd also wager that your typical car has less buttons, or even less total functions than there are letters in the alphabet.

Now please tell me why you think that this is comparable distraction.