Who isn't sick of those insipid legalese mumbo jumbo (Bullsh!t) disclaimers more and more litigation sensitive companies are requiring on all their email messages ? I am.. What a crock... To be legally binding, it would have to be agreed to by the reader before reading the message.

It may be legally privileged and/or confidential and is intended only for the use of the addressee(s).

Or it may not be, as my attorney noted. Correspondence between an attorney and his client is usually considered "legally privileged," but an e-mail from a Time Inc. wage slave to me? Not automatically. If the message is privileged or confidential, shouldn't Time Inc. let me know and not leave me dangling with the vague "may be" language? And when the disclaimer declares the message is "intended only for the use of the addressee(s)," to what "use" is it referring? Reading and burning it?

No addressee should forward, print, copy, or otherwise reproduce this message in any manner that would allow it to be viewed by any individual not originally listed as a recipient.

Note the operative word, "should." My attorney says this is nothing more than a request—only a fool would consider it a binding contract.

If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized disclosure, dissemination, distribution, copying or the taking of any action in reliance on the information herein is strictly prohibited.

My Samoan attorney says Time Inc. might have a case if the message contained a trade secret intended for a recipient other than me and I distributed it. But sending a confidential or valuable message via insecure e-mail is a funny way to preserve a secret. If Time Inc. wants to keep its communications safe, it should invest in some sort of encryption software that allows privileged readers to open the mail but prevents them from forwarding, printing, or otherwise duplicating it.

Ridiculous email legalese disclaimers

WASHINGTON, DC—John Ashcroft, the tough, no-nonsense U.S. attorney general famous for his refusal to take orders, was assigned a rookie trainee Tuesday.

"John's taking it well," President Bush said, introducing Ashcroft's new partner, Deputy Attorney General Nate N. Burnhard, to the press. "He threw a couple chairs around the office, and he broke the two-way mirror in the Department of Justice squad room, but I'm sure it won't be long before he comes around to the idea of showing Burnhard here the ropes. It's about time John came in from the cold and started playing along with the team."

Lone Wolf Ashcroft given rookie partner

Decius wrote:
] ] One of the nation's wealthiest towns will soon have
] ] cameras and computers running background checks on every
] ] car and driver that passes through.
]
] The license plate takes another step closer to it's destiny.

2000 US Census data puts the population of Malapan, FL at 320. Does that even qualify as a town? Seems more like a village...

I lived in FLA for nearly 20 yrs and never even heard of this town until I looked it up tonight. Somehow, I don't think this sleepy little town of paranoid and uptight Palm Beach County rich f*ckers will see that many cars to analyze.

RE: newsobserver.com - Florida town to use surveillance cameras

w1ld wrote:
] ] WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House voted Wednesday to lower
] ] taxes for some married couples, part of an election-year
] ] push to lock in some of President Bush's most popular tax
] ] cuts.
] ]
] ] The bill, passed 323-95, would permanently change three
] ] parts of tax law that cause some married couples to pay
] ] higher taxes than they would as single individuals and
] ] reduce their taxes $105 billion over the next decade.
] ] Some married couples face a tax increase next year if the
] ] changes expire as scheduled.
]
] Always letting the single working people pick up the tab.

How many of us pay full propery tax and have no kids in school or using social services?
Give all the tax breaks to the people whose demon spawn younguns use the govt services that taxes pay for.. Makes perfect sense to me - NOT!

RE: CNN.com - House passes tax cuts for married couples - Apr 28, 2004

bucy wrote:
] ] Voters in Inglewood, Calif., a racially diverse and
] ] economically struggling suburb of Los Angeles, soundly
] ] rejected on Tuesday a ballot initiative to permit
] ] construction of a Wal-Mart complex that would have
] ] exempted the 60-acre development from virtually all local
] ] oversight.
]
] Yay.

The same economic ideology that has made Wal Mart a retail giant is what has led to offshore outsourcing. The cheapest product almost always wins regardless of other factors.

Hey America, listen up... WHEN YOU PAY FOR QUALITY, YOU DO GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR! Just say no to Wal Mart and other corporate giants destroying the viability of small business.

RE: California Voters Reject Wal-Mart Initiative

DETROIT—With gas prices approaching $2 per gallon in some areas and gridlock on the rise, Detroit's three major automakers are stepping up development of their newest brainchild: the anger-powered car.
...
GM is currently developing two anger-powered cars, the entry-level Chevrolet Tantrum coupe and the larger, pricier Buick Umbrage. Ford has announced a multi-tiered move toward anger power, with plans to introduce anger/gasoline hybrid engines in the popular Lincoln Frown Car in 2006, to offer a de Sade option for its classic Mercury Gran Marquis in 2007, and to unveil a line of Acrimony family-sized cars and wagons in 2008. Daimler-Chrysler will resurrect the defunct Plymouth brand name with the reintroduction of the Plymouth Fury.

New Anger-Powered Cars May Revolutionize The Way We Drive

] "I'm glad I live in this luxurious burrow on the Knob
] and not in a dirty, smelly spider hole like a slob.
] When I come out I don't want to negotiate;
] But to just do my job and prognosticate.
]
] Today because my shadow I see,
] six more weeks of winter there will be."

Sounds like something Brian Doyle Murray might say....

Phil Says Expect 6 More Weeks of Winter!

...And it wasn't even in a southern state.

Kingston was 24 when he took LuAnn Kingston as his fourth wife in 1995. Family members say he has at least 17 children.

At a hearing in October, Kingston told the judge: "I had a relationship, a sexual relationship, with LuAnn for about four years. That relationship ended about four years ago."
...
Last year, Jeremy Kingston's uncle, David Ortell Kingston, was released from prison after serving four years for committing incest with a 16-year-old niece.

CNN | Man sentenced for marrying his 15-year-old cousin

[BEGIN RANT]
What's with this celeb and his adoring fans? He shows up late to court and holds a big party afterwards. The thing I really DON'T get is why these people so blindly yet vehemently support him. He is innocent until proven guilty but these nuts seemingly refuse to accept the possibility that he is a disturbed pedophilic freak? Does the idea of sexually molesting a child not completely offend the hell out of them?
I really don't get my fellow humans lately! WTF!!!
[/END RANT]

Simmering down now.

"You can tell he's just not that kind of guy," said 13-year-old Faith Donegan of Julian (San Diego County), who said she had been three times to Jackson's Neverland Ranch, where the alleged improprieties are to said to have taken place.

Jackson arraigned -- fans turn out to cheer

Always practice safe soup ? ? ?

LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- Seafood restaurant chain McCormick & Schmick's Monday settled a lawsuit brought by a California woman who said she suffered severe emotional distress after she discovered a condom in her clam chowder, a company spokesman said.
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Sultan, 48, said the trouble began February 26 when she and three companions sent their soup back to the kitchen to be reheated while dining at the Irvine, California, restaurant. Sultan said she was treated rudely by the waiter, and when she began eating the soup she encountered a chewy, rubbery object that she first thought was calamari or shrimp, she told local media. She spit the offending object into her napkin and discovered it was a rolled up condom, she said.

Condom-in-soup lawsuit settled