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Disclaimer, Liability & Copyright etc,
For pages pointing to this page, usually with this
graphic 
Some (but not necessarily all) of which may have been
authored at least in part by
The author usually avoids using HTML features that may annoy
or break for some etc. (Unless a paying customer wants a
particular feature).
Broken Links
- There's sometimes a few. If you report one: Thanks!
Please quote both the exact URL you were currently at, &
the one you were clicking on that failed as I have too many
servers & files to search
through otherwise.
Spelling & polite phraseology & Style Sheets etc ?
I have too many
pages to maintain all spellings & URL pointers &
phraseology to perfection.
Yes I could spell better, No I don't have time. Yes I have a
spell checker. Yes some of them are just typographic errors,
No they're not all typographic, some are genuine errors on my
part. Yes I speak foreign languages, No they don't all spell the same word quite the same, (& then there's
the permuted trade names similar to words in natural human
languages, to add more confusion. Yes I know how to spell
some errors here correctly.
As you doubtless don't want to pay me to spell check
all pages, don't waste time suggesting I do it.
Yes some things
could be phrased better,
No editing web pages is not the purpose of my
life, & I'm not paid to tweak non business
pages.
Web ornamental style ? : Same
answer applies.
Want more HTML features &/or style sheets etc ? Not from me, unless you want to be a
paying customer.
If you are not paying,
just be grateful I took the time to type
information at all !
Why did I write this ? Too many with nothing better to do
used to want to waste my time.
Grammar
Yes I know my written German gramar is poor.
If you are a native German speaker, you are welcome to send improvements.
You could also translate the public domain Majordomo
I read English
German & some French, etc. I see illogical inconsistencies
in what is `correct' English grammar, as well as
defects in German etc. Human languages are not designed,
but thrown together, & it shows.
I'm not motivated to spend time
learning illogical constructs. I look forward
to the growing global mass of future non native English speakers with similar attitude
ironing out illogical constructs in English, to improve the language.
Factual Corrections
Factual corrections are welcome, but please include the URL
(web reference) , as I have too many servers & files to search through otherwise. My email address
Legal Disclaimer
Concerning data in & under directories containing
my home page,
& organisation pages maintained for eg BIM, MECC, GEA etc,
- I make no recommendation for or against, & disclaim
liability for people, companies & organisations
referenced by URL or otherwise. Links are there because
they might be interesting or have some relevance to the
text. I might approve, deplore, or have no opinion of the
linked page (which content may have also changed
since).
- Occasionally you may even find a URL points to some
domain that's been sold to someone else with different
content. I disclaim that too. I also won't know to correct
it unless you Mail me
- I disclaim liability for local copies of information
provided by others, the local copy is merely for my
convenience. Go search for & read the original
yourself.
- If information is misleading, wrong, obsolete, etc please inform me.
I make no particular effort to maintain information, what
was once true may well no longer be etc, & vice versa.
It probably merely was thought to be true, when I wrote it,
or was sent it.
- NO I don't check everything I write or get sent. It
might be wrong or misleading, Check it yourself if you want
to rely on info.
- No I don't keep a log of old pages & changes. I
could do that on pages I was paid to write for customers, I
won't do it on stuff I write for free.
- Web server sites & associates are not liable for
information provided or referenced within my web directory
structures.
- I disclaim all liability for any wrong translations.
I'm a qualified
computer consultant, not a language professional.
- I disclaim all liability for information not being
available if servers crash, configurations break, power
failure, or other human or machine error. Data is made
available on a best effort basis, & is on multiple
redundancy servers, but if you want real reliability, you
must pay me for professional service.
- I disclaim any & all other possible &
conceivable & inconceivable responsibility !
- Some law court apparently
came up with a really foolish ruling
that URL pointers need to be disclaimed, else are
considered to be reccomending remote content as agreed with
by the source pointer.
Doubtless similar daft rulings have occurred in more than one country by now,
& hopefully been overturned by more sensible & more senior judges elsewhere.
Such a ruling is farcical idiocy, it could kill the web,
local pointers have no control of changing remote content,
expiring domains then bought by random advertisers of objectionable
or illegal products & services (it's happened to me too,
I once found by chance, one of my computer science links had become a porn
site,
as domain owner had not paid renewal fee I guess, & domain had then been bought by
some porn outfit),
plus many web authors have no time to thoroughly check
remote content which may only contain some limited relevance, depending on views of writer & reader,
plus web pages writers like me have better things to do in life, unpaid,
than constantly check where all their links point.
Readers are lucky when URLs exist at all, when writers have even bothered to write a page in the first place, let alone adding links; readers
can always use a search engine instead/ as well if they
want (though one wonders if judges emitting daft rulings
realise search engines too work
by cruising & pre indexing links, under automatic criteria,
Not with human intelligence), or use a public library censored
perhaps by your local government, & paid for perhaps by your taxes,
if you want to be `protected' by the `Nanny knows best' state ;-).
- I hereby formally disclaim all my URLs ! Any content
the far end of click-able links may interest you, or may be
stuff you, I or both of us think inappropriate wrong, or
offensive, or criminal. Neither of us will know until we
look again, as the owner may have changed it. Stupid that
some lawyers & judges want the blatantly obvious stated
else they'll assume what they choose to be most bone headed
damaging to web authors !
- Note I deliberately haven't said which courts in which
countries, to avoid those courts possibly considering if
they can get me for holding them in contempt.
One can only hope foolish rulings get over ruled, but that costs yet more legal fees for someone.
- I disclaim all recommendation of all my URLs, and every
site I point to, even other parts of my own. The pointers
are merely there because the remote content may or may
not have some relevance or accuracy to pointing
section, but I can't guarantee all content is up to date.
In fact, more accurately, I can guarantee some is Not up to
date.
- My views are mine, (unless I've changed them & not updated my text),
my views don't represent my employers, customers, fellow drinkers, neighbours or their dogs. ie use common sense.
- These pages are not legally definitive, offers of contract etc.
- 170+ Foreign National & Unenforceable Legal Systems
? or 1 international Copyright convention ?
Some aggressive money grubbers at a map service in
Germany, claim that even setting a URL pointer to part of
their site is not allowed & a breach of copyright.
Doubtless there are similar fools elsewhere also claiming
black is white. What German, British, American & Chinese etc
law might say or not say about
such a claim I don't know, but most except Germans
operating in Germany won't even care. It won't have any
relation to eg how Australians constructing a tour guide
web site of Europe might see their Australian law. The web
is full of idiots who seem to think their petty national
law is of wide relevance to others, when it's not. Another
petty national example: the USA's aggressive Millennium act.
No relevance outside the USA. The World Wide Web is global,
any web page on earth can point at any other web page on
the planet, served from any point on the planet, edited by
any national (or stateless person) from any other country
on the planet, or in international waters. Get the drift ?!
What thus concerns many, me included is to respect
International Copyright conventions.
- Many jurisdictions assert no contract exists until
money changes hands. No web reader has ever paid me any
money for what I write (except corporate pages paid for by
companies) , & I expect never will, & I owe no
responsibility to anyone to create or maintain accurate
information I personally choose to publish unpaid, (though
I do welcome factual corrections).
- Legal venue is Tunbridge Wells, England, United Kingdom
of Great Britain & Northern Ireland.
Copyright Of Web Pages Pointing To This Page
- Copyright Julian H. Stacey, Munich 1995, '96, '97,
'98, '99, 2000, 01, 02, 03, 04 & 05.
Applies to all pages that bear a URL pointer to this
statement, (EG: most pages accessed from below a ~jhs/ or
berklix URL + some others.) Copyright also for pages where
the data is in a subdirectory, but I've written or generated
the holding directory or index etc.
- I will likely grant any copy request free of charge, but
I do not formally grant the information to the public domain.
In particular, I would be unhappy with wholesale theft for
competitive sites etc, or people misusing my resume for other
than the intended purpose (encouraging job offers
), I would of course object to my data being twisted out of
context, or misrepresented etc.
- Other than that I'm not trying to withhold anything,
clearly the information is there to be accessed.
- If in doubt, mail me.
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