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I hate to be mean to those of you who know how to follow some basic common sense rules, but if i don't spell these out, then some idiot will break them and I won't have a leg to stand on. Users of this web site must agree to specific terms in order to be granted access to this site, whether under a registered account or anonymously. Here is a summary:

1. You may not use this site in any way that violates the law or is illegal. Specifically:
    
1. You may not use this site in a way that is intended to circumvent the security measures of this site, or in a way that inhibits others' equal access to it (e.g. distributed denial of service, crashing the site and/or server)
    
2. You may not submit any comments to this site which are intimidating or defamatory towards myself, my family, my business, or my associates - or that would be considered to be threatening by a reasonable person.
    
3. You are my personal guest only until I say otherwise. Please be aware that you are accessing information systems operating from within my personal home. Therefore, any breach of these terms shall be considered an act of both online and real trespassing.
    
2. You may not use this site to post advertisements or to promote yourself, a web site, or any business. A specific exemption is given to those who post links to specific posts in this blog (trackbacks), and those who wish to post links to specific articles or pages on external web sites that are relevent to the content of a specific blog posting on this site.
    
3. You acknowledge that all content submitted to this site in its posts, comments, or contact pages becomes my personal property, that such submissions are not the property of any third party, and that you relinquish any copyright claims to such submissions.
    
4. You may not, without the prior and explicit consent of the site owners, use this web site to seek or obtain information that:
    
1. may be used in decisions regarding present or future employment of any person who has contributed to this site in any way, including commenters
    
2. or, may be used for the surveilance of any individual as part of any criminal, civil, or private investigation, except as explicitly allowed by law.
    
5. In addition to any demonstrably actual damages that are caused by a violation of these terms, you agree that you are liable to monetary damages of $1,000 per each speicifc occurance of such violation.
    
6. I reserve the right to remove any comment or posting that I feel violates these terms.
   
7. In any instance if I should either choose not to endforce or fail to enforce my rights under any section of these terms, it shall neither be construed as a waiver of these terms in whole or in part for any other instance, nor shall it be construed as a waiver of the instance in question.
   
8. I reserve the right to amend or change these terms at any time and without notice to past or current members or visitors to this web site. It is the obligation of the member or visitor to periodically check these terms. By using this site, you acknowledge that you have read and understand these terms as they are posted.