| It would be nice if Google, when they threw you out, let you download a glob of your data. That would make the thing a lot less painful for most people. > Google told me for the first time that it reserves the right to “terminate your account at any time, for any reason, with or without notice.” No one reads the ToS / AUP, but this shows why it's a problem. It was not the first time Google told this guy; he was told in the legal documents that he agreed to when he signed up. Yes, Douglas Adams had it right. > "But Mr Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine months." > "Oh yes, well as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them, yesterday afternoon. You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them, had you? I mean, like actually telling anybody or anything." > "But the plans were on display ..." > "On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them." > "That's the display department." > "With a flashlight." > "Ah, well the lights had probably gone." > "So had the stairs." > "But look, you found the notice didn't you?" > "Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'." |