us use a precious button on our home page to get you here. At first, we thought

the lawyers were a real pain. But then we read the page. What a Netwakening!

It’s really important stuff. We took the legalese the lawyers wrote and translated it

into readable English. So be a smart net head and read the stuff on this page. It

could prevent you from hearing from our lawyers, or worse yet, from really nasty

people, like prosecutors.

Here’s the deal:

We run this site so that people like you (and people you like) can use it for

personal entertainment, information, education, communication, and

cybergratification. So go ahead and browse around all you like. You can even

download stuff from the site but only for noncommercial, personal use. If you do,

though, don’t fool around with the copyright and other notices all over the stuff.

They’re there for a really good reason.

And don’t even think about distributing,

modifying, transmitting, reusing, re-posting, or anything else uncool with any of

the stuff, including the text, images, audio, and video, for public or commercial

purposes unless we give you written permission. And it’s not likely we will.

If you visit our site, you’re also legally obligated to [read: stuck with] the terms

and conditions listed below and any other law or regulation that applies to the

site, the Internet, the World Wide Web, or Lincoln, NE. You shouldn’t access or

browse the site if you have any problem with that, because once you start,

there’s no turning back — you are bound by [read: stuck with] the terms and

conditions.

So here’s the scoop on our Top Ten Rules for Cybersurfers who hang out on our

site:

1. For everyone’s sake, just assume that everything on the site is copyrighted

unless we say it’s not. So you can’t use the stuff except how we say you can on

this page or anywhere else on the site without our written permission. And like

we said before, it’s not likely we’ll give you permission anyway. In fact, even if we

wanted to, the lawyers are likely to veto any deal anyway. So it’s better you don’t

even ask.

2. While we try to include accurate stuff on the site, we’re not promising you it’s

accurate. In fact, we’re not promising you anything except fun and entertainment.

So if you use stuff on the site, you’re using it at your own risk. Don’t call us if

there’s a problem because we assume no liability or responsibility for errors or

omissions on the site.

3. We and anybody else who helped us create, produce, or deliver the site are

not liable for any damages you suffer when you use it. In particular, the lawyers

want you to know that our disclaimer includes “direct, incidental, consequential,

indirect, or punitive damages arising out of your access to, or use of, the site.

Without limiting the foregoing, everything on the site is provided to you ‘AS IS’

WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED,

INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THEIMPLIED WARRANTIES OF

MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON

INFRINGEMENT.

Please note that some jurisdictions may not allow the exclusion of implied

warranties, so some of the above exclusions may not apply to you. Check your

local laws for any restrictions or limitations regarding the exclusion of implied

warranties. ” Ugh! What a mouthful from the mouthpieces. We put all of that in

quotes because we couldn’t figure out any other way to say it that the lawyers

would accept. But here’s the bottom line — we’re not responsible if you’re

browsing around and the site damages you or your computer or infects it with

any nasty viruses. We sure hope that doesn’t happen, but if it does, don’t call us.

4. If you don’t want the world to know something, don’t post in on the site in any

bulletin board or anyplace else. That’s because anything you disclose to us is

ours. That’s right — ours. So we can do anything we want with the stuff you post.

We can reproduce it, disclose it, transmit it, publish it, broadcast it, and post it

someplace else. We can even send it to your mother (as soon as we find her

address). Not only that, we can even use any ideas, concepts, know-how, or

techniques you post any way we want to, including, developing, manufacturing

and marketing products or other stuff using the information you post.

5. Pictures of people or places shown on the site are either our property or

someone else’s property we’re using with their permission. No matter what, it’s

definitely not your property. You or any of your net-friends can’t use it unless we

said you could on this page or somewhere else on the site. And guess what —

we won’t say yes. So be careful, Bunky, because unauthorized use may violate

all sorts of nasty laws. Be smart, keep the stuff you download to yourself.

6. There are also a lot of trademarks, logos, and service marks on the site that

either we own or we’re using with someone else’s permission. So don’t think you

have any kind of license or right to use them, because you don’t and we’re not

about to give you one. If you don’t leave them alone and mess with our

trademarks, logos and service marks on our site, we’ll probably go ballistic, so

will the companies that own the other trademarks, logos and service marks. That

means that we’re likely to sue you or to ask a prosecutor to come after you for

messing around with our property or the property of others.

7. You’ll probably notice we’ve linked our site to lots of others. While that’s cool, it

doesn’t mean we’ve looked at all those sites, much less checked them out

periodically to see what’s going on. So don’t blame us if some site you link to is

bad or has stuff on it that offends you or your pets. Go ahead and link, but

remember, you’re doing it at your risk.

8. That brings us to what you do on our own site. While we occasionally listen in

on chat groups, or look at the posting in our discussion groups or on our bulletin

boards, we take no responsibility and assume no liability for the content of those

locations or for any mistakes, defamation, libel, slander, omissions, falsehoods,

obscenity, pornography, or profanity you might encounter when you visit such

places on our site.

And don’t be stupid by posting or transmitting any unlawful,

threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory,

pornographic, nasty, mean, or profane material or any material that law

enforcement types may consider a criminal offense, get someone in court on a

civil lawsuit, or for that matter violate any law — anywhere, anytime.

While we certainly respect your privacy, we have no choice but to fully cooperate

with any law enforcement authorities or court which might ask us who might have

posted nasty stuff on our site.

9. Software that we use on this Site is protected by all sorts of patriotic U.S. laws.

Because of that, you can’t download or send the software to anyone in the

vacation travel spots of Cuba, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Iran, Syria, or any other

country where United States has embargoed goods; or (get this) to anyone on

the United States Treasury Department’s list of Specially Designated Nationals,

the U.S. Commerce Department’s Table of Deny Orders, or the FBI’s Most

Wanted Internet Creeps List (just kidding on the last one). As if that were not

tough enough, if you live in or are a national of any of those lovely places, you’re

not even supposed to be reading this page, so beat it!