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> waive liability Fun fact: There's no such thing as "waiving liablity" in the US. Those papers you sign are nothing more than a placebo deterrence. Companies

• kevin_b_er 10y ago
  You can wait your right to sue in a court of law. You will instead go to a sham court where the "judge" is only paid if the company still wants them to be an arbiter and the results are secret. You may want to look up "mandatory binding arbitration" for its ability to stop lawsuits. You may also note the Supreme Court of the United States of America has already decided that no meeting of the minds was necessary to lose your right to the courts.
• dragonwriter 10y ago
  > Fun fact: There's no such thing as "waiving liablity" in the US. That's technically true (you disclaim liability or waive the right to recover for particular torts), but substantively false. > Companies can be, and are, sued regardless every day. There are limits on what liability can be signed away, and certainly many go beyond that, and certainly there are disputes over whether the requirements for others to be effect are met which results in lawsuits where that is a threshold issue. But it is not the case that signing away the right to collect on certain claims generally has no legal effect in the US, even though it might not always have the full effect it would seem from the text viewed in isolation.