I (do Not!) Accept

By Christian Exenberger

How often do we skip over terms and conditions we see on websites, and accept them without a second look? Well that's fine, it's a choice we make, a very risky choice. We trust the lawyers not to put anything funny in there, anything that could turn around and bite us. We trust that there are those around us who understand better than we do, and take the time to read the terms and conditions, and hopefully warn us that there is something in there that might not be safe to accept.
And sometimes, the website lawyers try to take the choice away from us, and try to force us to accept things we might not want to accept, just because they said so, just because we happened to click the wrong link.
This is a very fictitious story, a reductio ad absurdum, about very real terms and conditions encountered on a real website. This is a warning by someone who may not understand better, but does bother to read, even if it sometimes is just a quick skim.
The "terms and conditions" quoted in this story are based on real terms and conditions, which I have encountered on real internet websites. They have been rewritten and modified slightly to avoid copyright infringements, while trying to retain the intended meaning. If you recognize them to be similar to something you have published in the terms and conditions on your website, then... seriously, shame on you. You really should have left the "you did because I said you did" mentality on the junior school playing fields.
Everything else is fictitious.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Exenberger
• Release date: Jul 28, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370571437

Christian Exenberger

Christian Exenberger was born in South Africa, where he has lived for most of his life; except for a few of his early years, when he was very young and couldn't even count yet, and lived in Austria. He moved to Australia in 2016, where he lives near the sea with his wife and children, and where he was able to ditch the drudgery of work for a while, and indulge his ambitions to write.His lifelong passion for science-fiction began early in life, around the time when he was learning to count, and when the buzz of the first moon landing was still fresh in the world's memory. He grew up on a diet of Asimov, Clarke, Price and L'Amour; Sci-fi, adventure, and shooting bad guys at noon.Christian would probably have become a scientist if he wasn't such a dreamer. But every interesting fact he learned, held the potential to take him on an adventure, somewhere deep into his daydreams. And when the lessons were boring he was sure to be M.I.A as well. He still wonders how many of his teachers, who barely noticed the attentive, well behaved boy sitting quietly in the front row, realised that they might as well have marked him absent most of the time.So he became a software developer, a curse which has kept him too busy to spend much time writing... until now. His style is hardcore science fiction, taking a few small liberties with the science for the sake of the fiction.Christian writes near future science fiction, which seems as though it would be nearly possible to achieve with technology as it currently is. Nearly, but not quite. He also enjoys throwing some erotica into the mix, whenever it's appropriate to the story while trying to bring the reader into the character's point of view, to experience the story from the character's point of view.Christian's first full-length novel, The Gantry, released in July 2016, started life in 2001. Written in the gaps between job, wife and kids, it finally had the words "The end" added to its pages in 2012. Four years later, after long hours of arduous polishing, Christian has turned it into something someone might actually want to read.

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I (do not!) Accept

By Christian Exenberger

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I do not accept

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I (do not!) Accept

A short reductio ad absurdum by Christian Exenberger

The terms and conditions