lucy24 - 3:39 am on Mar 13, 2013 (gmt 0)

Edit: Overlapping Leo here-- see timestamps!

In a perfect world, you wouldn't have to retrofit your entire home, adding a new type of lock to every single opening, including ones that have worked perfectly for years and would not have been due for maintenance for another decade. Fine for those of y'all who do it all with an Include file.

I just detoured to look at pinterest's Terms of Service page. They do something that is-- in principle-- very helpful: alongside each dense paragraph is a smaller one headed "More simply put". So you can home in on the bits that interest you. Would be nicer of course if some of the "simply put" passages weren't simplified to the point of insulting the reader's intelligence.

Oh, wait. Our target audience is middle-aged housewives, right? They're dumb anyway, so nobody will ever notice.

For example:

More simply put: If you post your content on Pinterest, it still belongs to you but we can show it to people and others can re-pin it. More simply put: Copies of content shared with others may remain even after you delete the content from your account. More simply put: We respect copyrights. You should, too.

The adjoining full paragraph contains two separate links, both marked in red "copyright policy" although inexplicably one leads to /copyright * while the other leads to /trademark.

I really hope nobody hereabouts has the brazen gall to object to this third-party link:

[about.pinterest.com...]

Is it just me, or is their logo just too 1958 for words? Matter of fact, I think I've got that font. Wonder if they'll stomp on me if I use it.


* Some folks may be amused to note that although the link says "/copyright" without trailing slash, the page you end up on is "/copyright/" with trailing slash.