Re: DIS: 2830

2010-08-16 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > Followup: > > One important thing to consider is the difference between: > "I do X.  It may not work." > which disclaims the ability to X but not the attempt, versus: > "I may nor may not do X" > which disclaims the attempt/assertion that one i

Re: DIS: 2830

2010-08-16 Thread omd
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > Looking through all this, I think disclaimers should have no direct legal > effect other than to alert people that something might be wrong.  Then, if > a truthiness case is brought, an "honest" disclaimer about minor uncertainty > (or truly di

Re: DIS: 2830

2010-08-16 Thread Sean Hunt
On 08/16/2010 02:27 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: On Mon, 16 Aug 2010, omd wrote: So, what sort of disclaimers work? Looking through all this, I think disclaimers should have no direct legal effect other than to alert people that something might be wrong. Then, if a truthiness case is brought, an "h

Re: DIS: 2830

2010-08-16 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Mon, 16 Aug 2010, omd wrote: > > So, what sort of disclaimers work? > > Looking through all this, I think disclaimers should have no direct legal > effect other than to alert people that something might be wrong. Then, if > a truthiness case is bro

Re: DIS: 2830

2010-08-16 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010, omd wrote: > So, what sort of disclaimers work? Looking through all this, I think disclaimers should have no direct legal effect other than to alert people that something might be wrong. Then, if a truthiness case is brought, an "honest" disclaimer about minor uncertaint

DIS: 2830

2010-08-16 Thread omd
So, what sort of disclaimers work? The judgements of CFJs 1935, 1971, and 2227 imply that they can come after a message without trouble, and CFJ 1971 in particular that an excessively disclaimered message fails to provide any substantive information and so fails to take some actions; but here is a