Ktria's Little World

I'm writing from a hotel room in Tampa - but a different hotel this time! Who says I don't have variety in my life? Anyway, to get onto the annoyingly slow wireless internet at this new hotel, I had to click through the usual disclaimer. Except that this time I actually read the disclaimer, because the following excerpt caught my eye:

In offering Internet access, Rapid Systems Inc, cannot guarantee that information found through the Internet is either accurate, authoritative, or factual. If you feel that information you have obtained via the Internet is inaccurate or offensive, we suggest you contact the original producer/distributor of that information.

Gasp! The Internet might lie to me! The Internet might offend me! And if either of these terrible things should happen, my first inclination would surely be to blame the obvious culprit: the company that administers the network for the hotel where I logged on to the Internet that brought me such trauma. Clearly they're the ones at fault here.

Because this disclaimer is here, it's entirely likely that this actually was somebody's thought process. That's what worries me.

The disclaimer also says that you can't download porn. Not that I was planning to, but I wonder what their justification is. It's legal (and anyway, there's a whole separate section that prohibits illegal activities). Does it put the ISP at risk in any way, technically or legally? Or is this just an extra layer of ass-covering? Your opinions...

Today what makes me happy is a Hyundai Sonata with a sunroof. I finally got a rental car that isn't a piece of crap!