The legalese pages

["McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>]

As noted in another thread, it's become common to 
open a product package and find that there are no 
actual instructions, just a painfully thick brochure or 
booklet containing endless cautions and warnings and 
disclaimers. Often in multiple translations.

The first thing most people do is toss that aside. Some 
of us old farts flip through the pages, not quite believing 
that that many trees were destroyed to make a book 
of absolutely, utterly, and completely no value to me 
(the person who purchased and will use the product)...
then we toss it aside. 

So my questions to tecwhirl are: do any of you have a 
hand in those abominations? Or is it all the legal 
department? 

Other than that one archetypical "engineer" in his 
well-worn lab coat and his (it's always a he) bottle-bottom 
eyeglasses - or a lawyer - does anybody know anybody 
who EVER reads that stuff?   Ever? 

Have courts not yet caught on that nobody ever sees all 
those warnings, so they have no value other than as 
an item on a checklist? 

Is there anything on record stating or implying that even 
one of those dense little packets of non-information has 
ever saved anyone from insult or injury, since they became 
so common-place?   

Google snickered at me when I asked... 

 - kevin
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