Post #130,736
12/14/03 7:48:12 PM
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You cannot sign away your rights in a contract.
If you choose to honor such a clause in a contract, it's your own damned fault.
Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #130,742
12/14/03 8:23:17 PM
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Yes you can
We sign away rights all the time.
We accept a job based on drugs tests which invade our privacy.
We trade off a promise to "behave" when entering a sporting event.
We promse not to sue when a puck crushed our skull.
While I don't KNOW if this is an enforcable contact, I'm pretty sure the cost of the lawyers will be greater than the home value.
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Post #130,743
12/14/03 8:30:27 PM
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Re: Yes you can
The important question is not about if this is consitutional - it is, who would want to live like that? What good is a constitution written for people who don't care about it?
Even the idea of a "gated community" seems too much for me.
-drl
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Post #130,753
12/14/03 9:41:53 PM
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Sadly
you are given two choices in a job, sign the unfair contract or lose your job.
You should have seen the contract that lawyers had us sign. I could not understand 75% of it.
"Lady I only speak two languages, English and Bad English!" - Corbin Dallas "The Fifth Element"
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Post #130,792
12/15/03 8:46:34 AM
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A judge told me this.
Regarding a waiver for participating in sporting events.
Waiving rights isn't legally enforcable.
Not that people don't sign waivers all the time, and then abide by them.
You don't have to, however.
Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #130,794
12/15/03 9:06:05 AM
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so you got off?
stick a spork in it.
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Post #130,799
12/15/03 10:11:16 AM
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A close friend's Dad...
He wouldn't let his son sign anything without reading it himself - and he laughed at the waiver and explained things to us. Took a long boring while, IIRC.
He said unequivocably that waivers of rights are not worth the paper they were printed on - that rights cannot be waived.
So far as things like privacy goes, of course, there is no 'right' in the first place. Apparently, this got started a long time ago, when people tried to enforce contracts restricting the right to vote.
Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #130,747
12/14/03 9:02:54 PM
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Sure you can.
Join the Army. It's easy.
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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