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> Look familiar? Blame typewriters and stubborn lawyers (Under an excerpt from a legal disclaimer.) I think legal disclaimers are written in all caps exactly t

> Look familiar? Blame typewriters and stubborn lawyers (Under an excerpt from a legal disclaimer.) I think legal disclaimers are written in all caps exactly to make understanding more difficult, while still conveying the 'I told you' feeling.

Tomte 10y ago
No, they are written in all caps, because lawyers think that it is a necessary component of the "conspicuous" requirement of the Uniform Commercial Code, and nobody feels strongly enough about it to really test it in court and risk damaging oneself.
- sundvor 10y ago
  I thought they were written in all caps to lower the probability of anyone actually ever reading them.
  - Tomte 10y ago
    You not only simply repeated what the grandparent was saying, but you also didn't engage what I wrote in any meaningful way. This kind of "cute" comments is killing this site.
    - sundvor 10y ago
      Fair point; my apologies.
kqr 10y ago
Contrary to popular belief, companies do not want people to misuse their products or break their license agreement simply because they didn't understand the implications of it. A happy customer is a returning customer. A customer accidentally breaking an agreement is not a happy customer.
WorldMaker 10y ago
There are many, many industries (not just lawyers) that decided touch typing with intermittent shift pressing was hard and found it much easier to just type everything ever in all caps for all eternity. That still comes up anytime you mention removing the caps lock key from keyboards: all the people that do a lot of typing and hate the shift key. Ask someone that works health care records about it sometime.