• (nodebb)

    This should only be possible in November.

    In civilised countries, the correct month is October.

  • (nodebb)

    The funny thing about Terms & Agreements is that they are in most countries no legally binding. And additionally in most countries laws top whatever you write in a contract, so even if they would be presented in advance, most sections would not be legally binding (companies are simply often way to lazy to adjust them even tho they know those terms are not legally binding).

    So yeah, that screenshot is pretty representative of it doesn't matter what you select (in most cases).

  • NoLand (unregistered)

    Andorra's conquest of most of Europe and Asia was quite a remarkable event. To this day we still don't know how Germany and Spain werte able to resist.

  • (nodebb) in reply to MaxiTB

    in most countries laws top whatever you write in a contract

    Any country that doesn't insist on that is somewhere nobody (outside of rapacious company managers) should want to live.

  • Labasta (unregistered) in reply to NoLand

    Spain was neutral, and Germany had nothing Andorra wanted.

  • rosuav (unregistered)

    France is dead! Long live France.

  • Anonymous') OR 1=1; DROP TABLE wtf; -- (unregistered) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic

    In civilised countries, the correct month is October.

    And then there's Australia and New Zealand, who get the extra hour in April. Well, only certain parts of Australia. I guess that makes them uncivilised? Everyone always forgets about the southern hemisphere. (They do spell that word with an 's', as it happens.)

  • Barry Margolin (github) in reply to MaxiTB

    The new season of "Black Mirror" dropped yesterday. Episode 1 "Joan is Awful" is a cautionary tale of what can happen if you don't read them and they're binding.

    And even if you don't care about this legal aspect, it's just an incredibly fun episode, with lots of meta stuff.

  • (nodebb) in reply to Barry Margolin

    Haha, yeah, I said most countries. Obviously there are a few countries where you can literally sign away your intestines and it would be legal.

  • (nodebb) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic

    You would be surprised. I heard there are countries where companies call their customers and clients consumers. Can you imagine that? Consumers are object that have to swallow whatever you throw at them. I wouldn't want to live in a country like that :-)

  • (nodebb) in reply to MaxiTB

    well, no, I wouldn't want to live in such a country either. Happily, the country where I live calls customers "clients", meaning both customers and clients, and ...

  • (nodebb) in reply to Anonymous') OR 1=1; DROP TABLE wtf; --

    Oops. You're not wrong about forgetting the Southern Hemisphere, for which I apologise.

  • Unimportant Background (unregistered)

    Can we talk about Unai U.'s great taste in socks? Or am I the only one?

  • (nodebb) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic

    ApologiZe. :))

  • (nodebb)

    Oh no, I have an upcoming trip to France. Is that going to be one of these new "flights to nowhere"?

  • (nodebb)

    The Apple Watch thing has happened to me. Traveling from Europe to America. For example, depart Istanbul 1:45 PM (GMT+3) land in Atlanta 12 hours later at 6:45 PM (GMT-4). The phone (and watch) connects to the local tower and changes to the "current" time. When that happens, your "day" according to the Apple Watch ends 31 hours after it started.

  • (nodebb) in reply to Mr. TA

    No. I apologiSe. You might apologiZe, but I don't.

  • Erik (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous') OR 1=1; DROP TABLE wtf; --

    "Everyone always forgets about the southern hemisphere."

    Most people always? OK, at a push. Everyone some of the time? OK, at a push.

    Everyone, always? If that was really true, then you would have not mentioned it this time ... :D

  • superluser (unregistered) in reply to rosuav

    I mean, technically this is the fifth French Republic, so there are 4 Frances that no longer exist, plus all the kingdoms & empires that went in between the republics

  • DeeKay (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous') OR 1=1; DROP TABLE wtf; --

    Yes, they do always forget about us poor souls in the southern hemisphere.

    In the DVD bonus features for the movie "Independence Day", there was a mocked CNN style news bulletin about the alien invasion that had the caption "Southern Hemisphere not affected". Go figure.

  • Labasta (unregistered) in reply to DeeKay

    Ever since H.G. Wells documented what happened when the Martians tried to invade Britain and they all went down with the famous British cold and flu, to which the locals are so accustomed as to be practically immune, aliens seem exclusively to attack the US.

    This may be because they have heard the Americans are pushovers.

    If that's so, then it's probably going to be the case that in future the aliens are going to try their luck with Russia.

  • (nodebb) in reply to jledet

    One could well argue that when time-zones are crossed, "day" is not well defined.

  • markm (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous') OR 1=1; DROP TABLE wtf; --
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