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Re:How Typography Can Save Your Life by sz4kerto on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @02:39AM (#11720194)
> Look familiar? Blame typewriters and stubborn lawyers

(Under an excerpt from a legal disclaimer.) I think legal disclaimers are written in all caps exactly to make understanding more difficult, while still conveying the 'I told you' feeling.

Re:How Typography Can Save Your Life by Tomte on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @02:44AM (#11720214)
No, they are written in all caps, because lawyers think that it is a necessary component of the "conspicuous" requirement of the Uniform Commercial Code, and nobody feels strongly enough about it to really test it in court and risk damaging oneself.
Re:How Typography Can Save Your Life by sundvor on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @03:02AM (#11720273)
I thought they were written in all caps to lower the probability of anyone actually ever reading them.
Re:How Typography Can Save Your Life by Tomte on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @03:25AM (#11720332)
You not only simply repeated what the grandparent was saying, but you also didn't engage what I wrote in any meaningful way.

This kind of "cute" comments is killing this site.

Re:How Typography Can Save Your Life by sundvor on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @04:56AM (#11720615)
Fair point; my apologies.
Re:How Typography Can Save Your Life by kqr on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @05:08AM (#11720656)
Contrary to popular belief, companies do not want people to misuse their products or break their license agreement simply because they didn't understand the implications of it.

A happy customer is a returning customer.

A customer accidentally breaking an agreement is not a happy customer.

Re:How Typography Can Save Your Life by WorldMaker on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @11:28AM (#11722617)
There are many, many industries (not just lawyers) that decided touch typing with intermittent shift pressing was hard and found it much easier to just type everything ever in all caps for all eternity. That still comes up anytime you mention removing the caps lock key from keyboards: all the people that do a lot of typing and hate the shift key.

Ask someone that works health care records about it sometime.