Guinness and sewage

I only had to choose a country and enter a birthdate. No provacy policy, etc. I very easily found that Guinness is reported to be made with (surprise!) barley, hops, water, and yeast.

Are you saying there was NO:

"Yes, I'm happy with your terms and conditions and privacy policy"

Now why would you make such an inflamatory and completely baseless statement.

Good for you, I'm sure the site has lots of info.

The questionaire is very simple (for most of us) and asks three very basic questions. Pick any date above the age of 18 and any country. I chose to be born in 1960 and from Angola. They are asking about age to be sure nobody under 18 enters. No big deal.

Well, if you want to learn about their (not there) product then you have a simple choice: Click yes as most of us do and move on. Or if you have a low threshold of pleasure wade through all of that stuff. If you are concerned about cookies being placed on your pc just clear the cookies and cache after visiting.

So what. The (not teh) Heineken site is a completely different company. But guess what - they are dropping cookies onto your pc too. If you don't want to sign on to Guiness then don't. Hey look buckwheat, the Heineken site asks for age as well. Why are you not concerned about that question.

Personally I think Guiness is one of the better brewers sites, with a lot of information about the product and several screensavers and wallpaper.

ObPeeve: Guinness, not Guiness.

Yup...my misspelling.

I enjoy a bar towel that says "Don't Forget Your Guinnless" Not sure, but I think it was part of an advertising campaign.

Then you are agreeing to whatever is there on their site; Guinness' site that is. See I got the right spelling. And the apostrophe in the right place.

But you left off the trailing "s" -- it is canonically and categorically "Guinness's", whatever your normal practice with sibilant genitives.

Brendan

categorically "Guinness's",

Is that how they do it. Thomas' English Muffins is used as seen here. Gramatically it can be done either way.

When I scan through the two links all I find are the usual boilerplate terms and conditions of usage. What is there about the language that you find so distasteful. Or do you find it difficult to read/scan stuff like that quickly.

I'm not particularly concerned about terms and conditions imposed by a major company like Guiness since I don't plan on doing anything illegal. I'm not particularly concerned that they might drop a few cookies on my pc since I clear that stuff regularly anyway.

Your lack of concern in this instance is probably justified.

HOWEVER, I ALWAYS make it a practice to read evey word of agreements before agreeing with them.

Those who don't may get spyware such as ke-loggers.

And I'm not alone.

Pretty time consuming to be reading the same boilerplate over and over....you must hit one or two websites a day.

Anyone who surfs the net should run at least two of the big spyware killer programs regularly. Most of that stuff does little more than slow your machine down, but I kill it once a week.

I use AdAware and Spybot

It is less then twice a month that I need to read thru and agree to WWW/company polices.

Who cares. Budweiser is the BEST !!!