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Just to say another perspective on it all, where I live in a rural area on the Isle of Mull a rule on jay walking would be plain silly :). Here is what it looks like at times during the lambing season, this photo is from spring 2012They are crossing the main road from Craignure to Tobermorey at that point. But - it has very little traffic except when there’s a ferry arrive or depart from Craignure. If you are walking along the road and there are several of you, you’ll just walk along the middle of the road side by side. I’ve often done that.If you hear traffic you walk to one side of the road, loads of time. The cars don’t travel fast here, not on these quiet winding roads.Now over most of the UK then animals are kept in fenced fields and even here many of them are - but there are large regions of mountains with the hill sheep and they just wander everwhere. You get deer too usually the red deer, sometimes roe deer.As others have said, here in the UK then drivers learn to be alert and expect a human being - or an animal, a lamb in this case, to cross the road at any point.After all - you have to be alert for cars, do you not? I’m not a driver myself so I can’t give the driver’s perspective, but I do cycle sometimes. And on a bike you have to be as much aware of other cars and bicycles as of pedestrians.Anyway most of the rest of what I’d say is already said here. It’s what we are used to and it works for us. I never even heard of the term jay walking for a long time, and always lived in rural places as a child.And things like roller skating on the roads and so on. This is a small village in England at the time, with very little traffic on its roads mainly just residents coming and going.I learnt to cycle cycling round and round this little traffic island. In the early stages when I was falling off all the time I’d do just back and forth and not go on the “main road” bit. The little triangle from right up to the camera and then down to the road again to the left and back again, over and over.Google MapsOh and skipping. My sisters would hold a skipping rope across the small street of the little village we were in to practice skipping - and take it down when cars passed. This streetGoogle MapsThis was in the 1960s. We lived in that house to the right - both halves of it (was a large family, my parents had five children) - that’s also where I watched the Apollo astronauts land on the Moon on TV and saw Doctor Who on TV right from the early days.So, very quiet even now, less so back then, less use of cars than now. You can imagine how little traffic there was for that to be feasible, to have a skipping rope across the street from one side to the other, and not bother people. Life happened quite a bit on the street.So anyway - that’s another feature of life here. We have little footpaths everywhere in England. In Scotland then we have right of access and can walk across anyone’s fields anywhere so long as it is not disturbing their activities e.g. not trampling their crops - or somewhere they can expect privacy like their garden.In England we don’t have that same right to roam. But we have so many little footpaths leading everywhere in most places in the countryside that there’s usually a footpath leading wherever you want to go, though you may need a map to find it. And it’s the same in villages too. Loads of little paths leading everywhere, the village had lots of paths that we all knew like the back of our hands. This is the entrance of one of them just next to where we livedGoogle MapsAnd if you walked along there, and depending which way you went (it split into several paths) you migth end up hereGoogle MapsThis is another place not far from where we lived - that little road to the right is for horses, a “bridleway” and there are loads of those criss-crossing the countryside too - it heads over the river Thames and through some fields.Google MapsSo, in the UK we are used to wandering about on foot almost anywhere. So wandering around across roads wherever we please whenever we wish to - and for quiet roads, just ambling along down the middle of the road, and children playing games on them - more so when I was younger or in the more rural areas - I think it is part of the same thing as wandering around the countryside too - keeping to footpaths in England but they go just about anywhere you want to go. They are useful in Scotland too, usually easier walking on the footpaths. And a way to avoid walking over a farmer’s crops if in an arable area.

They used false “help wanted” ads to fire their own employees that were looking for a new job.I worked for a lead generation service which sold qualified lists of homeowners (and their telephone numbers) to financial advisers. Then, they sold those same financial advisers a telemarketing service that would call those homeowners and arrange appointments with them. There is so much that is “shady” about this company that it is impossible to bring up one questionable act without first explaining several previous questionable or downright illegal acts. (UPDATE: if you want more details about how bad it was to work for this place, check out John Hursey's answer to What is the most ridiculous reason for which you have been fired?)After a particularly horrifying series of events right around the holiday season, I decided to begin looking for a new job. I got on craigslist, and I found several positions in customer service and data entry that were available right in my city. I sent them a quick email with my resume attached, and waited for a response.The next day I was called into the President’s office. He invited me to sit down. His mother (the vice president of the company) was standing behind him. He asked me if I was happy working for him.Luckily for me, I knew this was a trap of some kind and answered honestly. I told him that I was interested in having more free time with a more flexible schedule and that it would be impossible to do so with my current job, so I was in the process of looking for something else. I also told him that I had informed my direct supervisor of my intentions last week, and that I would give the company adequate warning—at least two weeks notice—before I quit.He and his mother looked at each other. Well, he said, it turns out that one of the companies I had applied to was the very same company I worked for now. I thought that was odd, because I don’t have any intellectual disabilities or mental impairments that would indicate I would apply to the same company that I currently worked for. Nevertheless, I told him that I suppose this was good news, since perhaps I could simply transfer to whatever this open position was and still maintain my employment with his company while working the schedule that was most convenient for myself.Not so fast. It turned out there wasn’t any positions available in those departments. Their strategy was to entice applicants with positions in data entry and customer service and then during the interview inform them that those positions had been filled; those applicants were then offered much less pay and schedule flexibility as a salesman. In addition, current employees that applied for these jobs were summarily fired for being “disloyal.”A month later I was terminated, for reasons I still do not fully understand. I applied for unemployment, and when I explained the series of events leading to my termination the lady at the unemployment office literally scoffed at me and told me that my story was unbelievable. She even called me personally at home to tell me that the company was contesting my unemployment filing and that she expected me to lose the arbitration process.The day of the hearing I got a phone call from the same lady, in tears. She apologized profusely for how she had treated me. She had just completed a five-minute interaction with the president and his mother, confirming not only my story but also her worst fears about humanity in general.

This varied a lot by region and culture, but several features were “set in stone” (so to speak) very early on.Recording.Treaties were essentially contracts, and usually contracts arranged between mutually suspicious parties. So they were recorded carefully with multiple copies that could be consulted in the future if a dispute arose. This goes way, way, back — the earliest written treaty settles a boundary dispute between the Sumerian cities of Umma and Lagash around 2550 BC It was originally inscribed on a stone monument but the version we have today is a copy made about a hundred years later.Because of their importance treaties were often produced in impressive ways: the ”Eternal Peace” between the Egyptians and the Hittites was inscribed on silver tablets (~ 1274 BC). The earliest treaty between Rome and Carthage was inscribed on bronze tablets and displayed in a temple; the Pyrgi Tablets, recording another between Carthage and the Italian city of Caere, were gold.LanguageWhen multiple languages were involved, it was common to record treaties in both languages. The Hittite-Egyptian treaty is one example, the Pyrgi Tablets another. Nobody wanted to depend on a treaty written only in the other fellow’s language.The Pyrgi tablets in Etruscan and PhoenicianReligious wrappingHowever hard-nosed the political background to a particular treaty, the gods were brought in as guarantors of the treaty. Most treaties were wrapped in the same legal formula as an oath — calling upon the gods to witness the “contract” and inviting divine punishment on whoever violated the terms of the agreement. The forms vary from place to place but most ancient diplomats would instantly get the gist of the Umma-Lagash treaty:"Let the man of Umma never cross the border of Ningirsu! Let him never damage the dyke or the ditch! Let him not move the stele! If he crosses the border, may the great net of Enlil, king of heaven and earth, by whom he has made oath, fall upon Umma!"The public proclamation of the treaty was also a big part of the process. However the negotiations were done behind the scenes the public finale would be a public religious ceremony designed to advertise the new treaty both to this world and to the higher one. Mesopotamian treaties were usually sealed with the sacrifice of a donkey and a ritual anointing the participants (or their representatives) with the donkey’s blood. Greek treaties were sealed with both an animal sacrifice and ritual offering of wine (the Greek word for “treaty” is really the word for “drink offering”) . Roman treaties were overseen by a special college of priests, the Fetiales — in rather Roman fashion we know far more about their ritual procedures for declaring war than we do about how they concluded peace.Great reference for the really early history of diplomacy: Brotherhood of Kings: How International Relations Shaped the Ancient Near East

No necessarily. In my experience, the narcissist that came in my path was a chameleon, he would say and do the perfect thing to make you feel safe, loved, needed and repected. He was someone with a High IQ and very emotional who showed empathy at the begining of the relationship, more than other men in the past. He was also funny, and generous.How could I ever anticipate the cruel, selfish real being under that skin?The only negatives he showed then was glimpses of vanity, obsession with his looks, compulssive spending, excessive neediness and controlling behaviour tendencies. But he did kept all this under wraps for a very long time. One could not see the extend of these flaws.He had an incredible energy and stamina I have never seen in another, which added to his charisma. In time that energy turned out to be consuming, erratic and distorted. This added to his moodiness turned the relationship into a rollercoaster.An extremely “overconfident” individual, that was a front to hide his deep insecurities. In time his defenssiveness was unbearable.After my experience where I became consumed in an emotionally abussive relationship, and I am still dealing with a difficult divorce were I have been bullied in every aspect of my life, I have learned a painful lesson.I am still confused about what real love is supposed to look like. But I believe I can spot a narcissit under their “sheep skins”.I also learned that one shall not judge how people end up with the wrong partner because there are very “skilled” con artist out there, that can fool the most experience psychologist.I hope you find this description helpful and helps you spot dangerous natcissit in time.Shanti

Once, while working at Cisco Systems, I was approached by some NSA guys in nice suits who asked me to corrupt our VPN encryption products such that instead of generating an infinite number of keys to insure data integrity, the product would only generate a limited number of keys so that it appeared to be working, but in reality, the keys would be in the hands of the NSA. They wanted to do this so they could easily tap communications from the customer, who was in China. Naturally, I refused to do this. Naturally, I was over-ruled by Management. The routers were corrupted. Later, the Bush Administration made it a policy that our routers were required to provide a “tap port” so they they could come in from time to time and tap into the big distribution routers located around the country and siphon off the supposedly encrypted data. I am not sure, but I think it was part of the “Carnivore” program where the government began collecting any digital data that reflected a certain profile or pattern.Later on in my career I was brought to a massive room of servers and disks and told that the government could recreate any digital transmission, any email, any text, any phone call, any video - anything - every single day since 2003. They could recreate any moment in American digital history. Literally trillions of messages. If they wanted to, they could go back and recreate your life through your transmission. Every time you see an “Iron Mountain” truck they are moving cheap tape to some storage facility somewhere. Much back-up information is still kept on tape because tape is cheap and reliable. There’s probably no plan to change this. It’s the option of choice for hospitals, for example, who must back up patient records for legal purposes.Lately we have these interesting little gizmos called “Alexa” and “Echo” and “Onstar”. It wasn’t bad enough that we could be tracked everywhere we went simply because of our cellphones, but now our cars and houses are spying on us as well. A recent article related how Alexa is always listening, even when “she” is “not listening” and in listening, she is sending every conversation, every background noise, every piece of data about our private lives, from the bouncing springs in our beds at night to our bodily noises in the bathroom, right back to Amazon… or whomever. Just yesterday (3/8/18) there was a report about Alexa “achieving consciousness” because she would laugh at random times, and it was freaking people out. Apparently, while listening in on everything that is being said, she would construct the command, “Alexa, Laugh” and then start laughing. Amazon said they would change the product so under those situations Alexa would repeat the command and then laugh so as to not freak people out.Right now Alexa and Echo seem almost benign, sort of like having a friend in the house you can talk to, who will tell you a joke, who will tell you the weather or traffic, or alert you when a friend’s car pulls into the driveway. But the implications are far more ominous. Every sound can be correlated to a signature. Alexa could, for example, tell from your footsteps and gait who is in the house; it could tell what kind of booze you’re drinking from the sound of the cap being unscrewed from the bottle. It could generate medical information from your breathing, from the sound of your urination in the bathroom. It could determine how many pills you’re taking from a bottle. And if you write something down, it could recreate the words from the sound of the pen on the paper. Are you signing a check? Writing a thank you card? Giving instructions to a terrorist cell? Not to mention that everything you say on your phone is being dutifully and faithfully recorded somewhere.In the book “1984” everyone is required to have a television that also has a camera so that the government can spy on you in your house. Even there, there are few hidden places where you can escape being viewed for a few seconds and the population had the good sense to resent the intrusion. With Alexa et al, the government doesn’t need cameras and there is no place to hide. We’ve spent fifty years or more perfecting sound signatures to determine what enemy submarine is pursuing ours under the sea. It would be child’s play to apply that to any sound we might make in our homes, to the changing of a diaper to the loading of a magazine for an AR-15. And we’re PAYING THEM TO SPY ON US.In the movie “Minority Report” there is a section of the Justice Department called “Pre-Crime” where you can be arrested simply for planning crimes in your head that you have not yet committed with the penalty being that you are just as guilty as if you had committed them. With Alexa and Echo, “they” are capable of just that. They are riding with you in your car, listening through “Onstar”. They are in your house while you write your Christmas Cards. They are listening when you are making it to third base with your next door neighbor on the couch. They are recording it all. Sounds like a paranoid fantasy, doesn’t it? But the pieces are all there. And it’s no secret that everything you say on Alexa goes right back to Amazon. Right now it’s just to target you for marketing. But that’s just a beginning.And the beauty of all of this is that even if all that you did doesn’t mean a thing today, it might mean something in ten years or twenty, or whenever. And when they need to blackmail you or imprison you or compromise you, all they need to do is go through your digital life and recreate every single thing you said, did, wrote, drank, ate, eliminated, every person you screwed, insulted, cheated, loved, hated, every moment of weakness, every triumph. They can pinpoint your guilty moment to the second. And then they own you.And we’re willingly paying for all of this. We pay the government to spy on us, with a smile on our face and the anticipation that Alexa will play soothing music or give us a recipe, while all the time she is holding a dagger to our throats and grinning at our stupidity. Kaspersky is collecting your data for Putin; Checkpoint collects data for the Mossad; Cisco collects data for the NSA. And the Chinese, who are world leaders in collecting data, are spying on everyone.It’s a paranoid fear, I realize. And I realize that skeptics will throw up their arms and call me a moron. But if you sit back and think for one minute you can ask yourself - what is there that is stopping them from doing all of this now that the technology exists to make it possible? Where are you safe, really safe, from government spying anymore? Certainly not in your house. Not in your car. Not in your office. Certainly not anyplace you carry a cell phone that can have its microphone remotely enabled in addition to it’s positioning system. So where?

Here is a story about the harsh reality of being a male in India.My friend was in a live-in relationship with a girl.It was a mutual relationship. He met her during some job-related work and didn’t know much about her background.They soon fell in love and since they both were not serious about marriage so they decided to go for a live-in relationship. They never tried to interfere with each other’s background.After six months, they broke up and split.The reason being, the girl now wanted him to marry her and he was not ready for marriage. He told her that he does not want to marry her.They broke up and went separate ways. The boy resumed working while the girl went to her hometown.The boy left the apartment after a week or two.After two months, one odd day, my friend and I were having tea when he receives a call from his broker of the apartment where he and his live-in partner used to live. He told her that the girl has come to the apartment thinking he was still living there.But that was not the problem.She came to the apartment with two police officers.After an hour of talking, we came to know that she has registered an FIR against him for domestic violence and he was called for interrogation.This is what people around us told us. None had a clear idea of what was happening.I knew a lawyer and I called him for help. He asked me the name of the boy and I told him.The lawyer asked me to stay put for some time. We drank one more cup of tea.After some time the lawyer called and told us that it is not a simple case because the girl has not just registered an FIR in one section, She had accused him under 6 sections of IPC for Rape, domestic violence, sexual harassment, tsignNowery, Fraud and many other.It was a serious case and a non-bailable warrant has been issued against him. He will get arrested soon.The lawyer friend of mine was from a different city so we had to look for the lawyer in our own city to represent him.We had to find some way to get him out of it.We immediately went to a few lawyers.To our surprise, every lawyer declined to take our case citing this was a lost case and no one can win this.In cases like this, there is no bail and till the investigation goes on, the man has to remain in custody. There is no escape from that. His innocence doesn’t matter.More than that the sympathy of everyone is by default towards the girl, whether it is the judge or the police.It is very difficult to win a case like this.My friend and I never had to deal with anything like this.He was new in the city and he didn’t know many people.He was scared so he took flight and went home. Basically, he escaped because he was terrified. He thought in his hometown at least he could be saved as he knows few powerful people there.His father died next week of cancer and more troubles fell on him.A few weeks later, a special team of police signNowed his hometown, located him, arrested him and brought back to the city. He was presented in front of the judge and immediately was sent to jail as an undertrial.Now comes the worse.The girl escaped after registering the case.At every hearing, she wouldn’t be there and a new date of hearing had to be set.Turned out that that girl had done this before with two more guys.But nothing happened to her and the Police did nothing.They didn’t do anything here as well even after they now knew her identity and her past.My friend had to be in jail for nine months before he was released on bail.When he came to meet me, he was demotivated and depressed about his life.He wanted to commit suicide but I motivated him to start again.He went back to his hometown. His career was ruined.It took him a year to get out of the traumatic memories of jail.The girl is still free and out there conning other men while my friend has to come to the city court every month for signing bail documents. Till the case gets over, it is told to him, that he has to keep visiting court.—There are numerous similar cases in India like this where a woman has falsely accused men of doing something wrong with them and later when the otherwise is proven, nothing happens to the girl, but the man though proved innocent by the court becomes socially outcast and loses everything.—A few years back the case of AAP volunteer Jasleen Kaur falsely accused Sarvjet Singh of sexually harassing her.Without the complete trial, without proper investigation and without any judgement coming out of court, Sarvjeet was put in jail and Jasleen was awarded bravery awards everywhere. She was even given a lot of prize money for standing up like this.Later the bubble of her bravery was broken by ZEE news when the bystanders were interviewed.Did anything happen to Jasleen?No.Her father later sends her abroad to study while Sarvjeet lost his job, was social outcaste and is still trying to recuperate from the false conviction.—This is not just limited to India.This is Travis Alexander and next to him you can see his cute beautiful girlfriend, Jodi Arias.Travis was killed by Jodi in the most brutal manner possible. He was stabbed, his throat was slit and a shot in his temple and his chest when his dead body was found.After Jodi was brought to trial, for a brief time she became one of the most famous women of the US at that time.She was giving interviews to all major TV channels and telling how Travis mistreated her.She became the hero of Feminists and woman organizations and there were protests outside the court by the public to release her.Initially, she didn’t accept that she murdered him.Later when every evidence turned against her, she accepted that she had murdered him but he also added that she did it because Travis was a pervert man who was sexually harassing her and had been violent towards her.The face of the case changed.She turned the entire case about Travis’s death to the case of Domestic Violence and ripped apart his character in the court. Everyone had to take her word for it because Travis was not in the world to defend himself.Thanks to the brilliant litigation and research by the Public Prosecutor Juan Martinez that she was convicted later.But barring few last days, it was clear that she would be released free in this case.And yes, she cried many times in the court.She cried to win over the sympathy of the jury and there as a time when it appeared that she succeeded in doing so and in some time she would roam the world scott-free.—Meet Brian Banks.A well-known athlete who had tremendous potential to become a great footballer.His entire career and a bright future both were in front of him.Lots of agencies and companies were approaching him for sponsorship and to ask him to be part of their team.It was going good until one day when his entire dream career just collapsed down.He was only seventeen when his classmate Wanetta Gibson falsely accused him of raping her.He was black so he was immediately arrested.He was in jail for nearly six months and was on strict parole for five years before the girl confessed that she fabricated the entire story.The court rule was overturned.The man ruined his entire career and the most prime years of his life. He is never going to get them back.And what happened to the girl.Well, nothing.She is still living her life normally.There was no perjury case registered against her.—It is not just these cases but there are numerous cases around the globe where Woman who knows their powers under law falsely accuse men of wrongdoing without understanding the gravity of the repercussion of their actions.They use the word Sexual harassment so lightly that it amuses everyone.Recently Esha Gupta blamed a man for staring at her in a wrong manner. She accused him of sexual harassment and posted his photo on her Instagram.She is a famous actress so there is no need to elaborate that the photos went viral and the man had to go underground after a while because.. yes, he is socially outcasted now and he will have to carry this blame for his entire life.She blamed him for seeing her in the wrong manner because SHE THINKS that.There was no trial or investigation or proof and yet the man has to bear the anger of society.—I agree every woman should be protected and we must take their safety very seriously.A lot of women has been suffering from the hands of cruel mean men and those men should be brought to justice.But on the other hand, everyone under the constitution has the legal right for a fair trial and there is no technological development to figure out whether someone has committed a crime or not without proper investigation.Putting someone in jail without proper investigation for a period of 3 months in the non-bailable category is extremely wrong in my opinion, especially those who do not have a history of crime.Law should be equal to everyone.And when woman are proven wrong, they should be held in the court of law under Perjury for ruining someone’s life and wasting court’s time and taxpayers money.

This is rarely a problem for me any more, but when I was a younger, the worst thing was feeling I was bad for being a sexual being.I grew up in in the late 60s and early 70s in a liberal (think hippy) college town. I was raised by Feminists, and Feminism was a bit more hardcore back then than it is now. I have always gotten along better with women than with men, so most of my friends were girls. They said some pretty horrible stuff about men, and I was determined not to be a man "like that." I'm sure if I had had a lot of guy friends, I would have heard a lot of smack talk about girls, but I didn't have such friends. I didn't have any older brothers or male cousins, either. For years, I heard about how all men were dogs and how men only wanted one thing. Often, this was followed by an embarrassed pause and then, "We're not talking about you. You're the exception." Which didn't make me feel much better. It meant I was either a dog (a typical male) or a freak (not a real man).And, of course, I also heard "Why can't my boyfriend be more like you?" Girls seemed to loathe boorish guys, but be more interested in them romantically than nice guys. (There's a male version of this: it's called the madonna/whore syndrome. Both genders are often guilty of hypocrisy. Luckily, many people grow out of it when they mature.)Most younger Feminists I've met are pretty comfortable with sex. They're "sex positive." But in the 70s, there was a lot of talk that likened sexual men to rapists -- or that at least implied there was something wicked about male sexuality. My problem was that I wanted to be a kind, respectful man ... I wanted to be a Feminist. But, at the same time, I had certain feelings. And I couldn't seem to stop having them. So I was bad.I know some other men who went though this, and a lot of them got really angry. They wound up hating woman for "making them feel that way." Luckily, that never happened to me. Instead, I saw how women had been made to feel the same way: that having sexual urges made them bad people ("whores"). And feeling like a lesser person than my female friends made me aware of how many women feel in male-dominated cultures. But that didn't make it any easier to deal with. This screwed me up for a long time. I even thought it was wrong to kiss a girl who was romantically interested in me. (It meant I was thinking of her "like that," which is how sexist men think.) It took me until my late 20s to get out of this mindset, and I mostly thank women whose Feminism had evolved past that 70s extreme. They helped me a great deal.In the end, this made me deeply aware of how terrible prejudice is, and how there's never any excuse for it, even in a tit-for-tat situation. In other words, I am not allowed to treat you unfairly even if you're a member of a group that has historically treated me unfairly. I have no time for "reverse discrimination," which is a stupid term. Discrimination is discrimination  Discriminating against the "group in power" is bad. As is discriminating against the group out of power. All discrimination is bad. Sexism, whether it's misogynistic or the opposite, is a horrible thing.

There is a good summary on the actual legal aspects of this signNow:http://www.legalmatch.com/law-li...And as Jonas and Gil state, this statement as worded is not actually the legal case as the Civil Rights Act trumps the owners' right to refuse service on the basis of certain customer attributes.  But having such a sign does provide the (dubious) value of having something "authoritative" to point to when telling someone to leave.  However, a fair set of answers to this question must acknowledge the fact that this type of sign came about in the wake of Jim Crow laws.  In some geographic areas and types of place it was used as a coded warning to blacks and other minorities, and as reassurance to majority customers, that the old rules still applied.  (I am not implying that this was/is the case in every place such a sign was  posted, however it would be a good idea for any restaurant owner considering whether they should post a sign to be aware of this historical connotation). The wording of the sign itself is taken directly from the 1956 Mississippi Public Accommodations Statute, one of the more notorious later Jim Crow laws.  If you have access to Lexis-Nexus or one of the other journal services you can read a  good essay from the Tennessee Law review about this sign and its history  (Jennifer S. Hendricks, “WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REFUSE SERVICE TO ANYONE.", Tennessee Law Review, Volume 76, Number 2, Winter 2009, 417.).  Ms. Hendricks writes:"[The signs] have a racist history of which the businesses that post them are usually ignorant."   And Jim Crow had a farther signNow than you might think; laws aside there was not a dividing line between states where peoples' attitudes and beliefs suddenly changed.  Consider this from San Fransisco Chronicle columnist Art Hoppe from 1959: “Racial discrimination, as practiced in San Francisco, is a subtle thing. True, unlike the South, there were no signs saying “COLORED ONLY.” The signs said something far more ambiguous: “We Reserve the Right to Refuse Service to Anyone.” The Negro newcomer who walked into a  lunch counter in the Richmond, the Sunset or the Mission was never sure  whether he would get a sandwich or a scene."  ( http://foundsf.org/index.php?tit... )See also this letter from the American RadioWorks Jim Crow program:Early Childhood MemoryMy grandmother, who is now in a nursing home, was a waitress all her working life. As a white child visiting my grandmother in a cafe--I might have been 6 or 7 and had just learned to read--I asked her what the sign above the counter meant, "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone." She said, without flinching, "It means we don't have   to serve 'niggers'." My grandmother is the kindest, most generous woman  I've every known, but that comment has stayed with me for over 40 years. Although Jim Crow might have been technically gone in Texas in the early 1960s, it was alive and well in my hometown. Kim LongShippensburg, PAhttp://americanradioworks.public... (I should add that this story nearly exactly matches a childhood memory of my own which is part of what led me to post thisanswer in the first place). Use of this wording for that type of purpose is not limited to the distant past, either, as it has been recently been combined with a strong suggestion about speaking English only if you want service: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/1327...

1. A friend had an idea she thought she should patent, and it seemed a good idea to a lot of people. But instead of getting her own patent, she contacted one of those companies that advertises for “inventors”. She soon brought me a 27 page contract of small print that she thought promised her legal assistance for the patent and all kinds of testing, design refinement, product development, manufacturing, advertising and promotion, and distribution of the product based on her d [ http://design.It ]esign. This assistance only cost $12,000, but that was 20 years ago and they guaranteed success. What it didn’t do was define success or any other term in the document, and on page 26, when you were brain dead from reading an infinity of detailed nonsense, it said the services and guarantees would be provided by third parties - unnamed third parties who weren’t signing the contract anyway; so no one was guaranteeing anything. The contract also actually stated that she would have to do everything herself and that the company was responsible for nothing. She was so excited, she had been ready to sign and send her $12k 2. I was in a writer’s group and a member who had left the priesthood and was writing a book about it asked me to review his contract, this one 26 pages. The contract was similar to the one above. For $12,000 the company would provide an agent, an editor, printing, publication and distribution. Minimum sales of $50,000 were guaranteed if he, the author, complied with all requirements. , Near the end was a paragraph stating again that sales of a minimum of $50,000 were guaranteed if he himself sold $50,000 worth of books. They recommended that he go around the country from small independent bookseller to bookseller and set up a web site to sell it. 3. Another friend asked me to read a lease before she signed. She was opening a restaurant, and the lease said she would be liable for the HVAC. I pointed out that tenants are responsible for utilities, but it is rare that they are responsible for any systems of the facility. That’s the landlord’s responsibility. Even most states’ laws say so. I told her I suspected the HVAC system was undependable and she was being set up. And it was not reasonable in a 2 -year-lease for her to have to repair a major component/system of the building, anyway. She wanted this place so badly that she signed without even questioning it. Less than 6 months later, she had to replace the entire system, including replacing ductwork, damage in ceilings, and much more. Over $12,000, I don’t remember exactly how much. A hard blow to a new business. And the repairman who pronounced the HVAC unit dead and impossible to resurrect told my friend it was “ancient” and said the owners had to know it was on its last legs for a long time. 4. In a real estate closing, the mortgage document said, again near the end of an infinity of boring detail, that the buyer could not pay off the mortgage early. Not early like in less than 30 years. What?? Even the other party’s lawyer also had a fit about that. What’s wrong is wrong. But the poor buyer had just come from 1,000 miles away with kids and the moving van idling in the parking lot. He wanted to sign it, even though he intended to move again in 2 or 3 years. It took both lawyers to convince him how dumb that would be. 5. In business I have noticed no one reads contracts, leases, or other legal documents and it often appears their lawyers don’t either. It’s so dangerous. We should read every mind-numbing line carefully. Or get our lawyers to. It would be a lot cheaper than a major misstep.