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[Drex]

That article is 15 years old, but afaik the major tenets of contract law haven't really changed since then, or else people would actually get somewhere when they got shut the hell down by online entities for violating ToSs that they didn't read.

Would be pretty easy for the bank to argue it was a unilateral mistake and have the contract thrown out. No reasonable person would agree to offer a line of credit with those terms. It's pretty clear they misunderstood what they were signing.

[Chun Liroy]

Would be pretty easy for the bank to argue it was a unilateral mistake and have the contract thrown out. No reasonable person would agree to offer a line of credit with those terms. It's pretty clear they misunderstood what they were signing.

Well maybe they should have read it first. If that was the case, than literally anyone can say that to get out of a contract.

[Drex]

Well maybe they should have read it first. If that was the case, than literally anyone can say that to get out of a contract.

The standard is reasonableness and is applied far more often to the average person than to a business. Not sure why you would want to change a standard that typically defends normal people. Also protects people from retarded EULAs.

The point is that you can't just be all tldr, you have to compare it to similar contracts and prove it's far too ridiculous to be enforced. In this case it would hard to even call it a contract since there is literally no compensation for the bank.

Not that it matters because it's Russia, where they solve shit with gladiator battles or whatever.

[Ksandra]

The standard is reasonableness and is applied far more often to the average person than to a business. Not sure why you would want to change a standard that typically defends normal people. Also protects people from retarded EULAs.

The point is that you can't just be all tldr, you have to compare it to similar contracts and prove it's far too ridiculous to be enforced. In this case it would hard to even call it a contract since there is literally no compensation for the bank.

Not that it matters because it's Russia, where they solve shit with gladiator battles or whatever.

But then, say someone gave a different offer but with a better rate + higher limit, that's still reasonable they could get away with it then right?

[myreality]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/10/world/...html?hpt=hp_t1

Twin baby girls rescued as China maternity hospital trafficking probe continues

Police in China have rescued twin baby girls allegedly sold by a maternity doctor, bringing the number of infants recovered from the suspected trafficking ring to three, state media reported.
They are to return them to their parents Saturday.
The provincial government in Shaanxi, northwest China, announced the twin's rescue Thursday, the state-run China Daily reported. The parents, mother Wang Yanyan and father Qi Kunfeng, of Dongcheng village, Fuping County, were scheduled to reunite with their children Saturday.
Police had earlier recovered a baby boy allegedly sold by the same obstetrician to traffickers, and reunited him with his parents Monday.
Chinese newborn, allegedly sold by doctor, is returned to parents
The doctor allegedly at the center of the scandal is Zhang Shuxia, deputy director of the maternity department of the Fuping County Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital, reported state-run CCTV.

Since news of the scandal broke, police have received reports of 55 similar cases from local residents, including 26 cases pointing to Zhang, China Daily reported. Police launched investigations into five of the reported cases, and Zhang was detained on suspicion of human trafficking.
The parents of the allegedly trafficked twins told CNN that after Wang gave birth at the hospital on May 29, Zhang convinced them to give up the children, telling them that the girls had serious health issues.
"The doctor was pretending to be very anxious, telling me that my babies have congenital problems. She said the twins would be brain damaged or paralyzed," Wang said.
The couple never saw their children after the birth, they said.
"I insisted on seeing the babies, but she wouldn't let me," said Wang. They trusted Zhang. "I never suspected that she was selling my babies, because she was a family friend," she said.
The twins' father, Qi, told CNN that the loss of the children had a profound impact on the couple.
"Every night for two months my wife would cry, and she couldn't eat from worry."
Of Zhang, his former friend, he said: "I think she is evil. She is a terrible person."
"We trusted her so much. How could she be so cruel to sell our babies?"
First baby returned
Authorities returned the first rescued baby Monday to his parents, who were overcome by emotion. Its identity was confirmed through DNA testing. As family members wept, the parents knelt to thank police for recovering their son, the state-run China Daily reported.
Fuping County authorities said Zhang sold the baby boy for 21,600 yuan ($3,527) on July 17, the day after he was born. The baby was then sold two more times in ten days' time.
Police said Zhang told the child's parents, Dong Shanshan and Lai Guofeng, that their son had contracted syphilis through the mother, and convinced them to surrender the boy into her care, reported the state-run People's Daily.
But the mother subsequently tested negative for syphilis and grew suspicious. She went to the police. The infant was found Sunday in a good condition in a town in neighboring Henan Province.
Most of the affected families hailed from the same village as Zhang and her mother, CCTV reported.
Zhang made false claims that the children had serious ailments, from heart problems and cerebral palsy to missing genitals, to convince parents to part with their babies.
Officials sacked
Another couple from the area told CCTV Zhang had convinced them to give up their baby son at the hospital in 2008, after telling them shortly after the birth that the infant had stopped breathing.
"The whole delivery was around 10 minutes, natural birth. And then she came out and told me that the baby wasn't breathing," recalled Dong Pengfei, the father. "I was overwhelmed by that time, and I didn't have second thoughts. But after that I've been thinking why she would refer to it as a 'kid' if it wasn't breathing."
"I couldn't stop crying ever since I gave birth to my boy," his wife told CCTV. "I feel like crying when I see kids from other families."
Two government officials and three hospital officials have sacked over the scandal, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency. China's state health commission has called for severe punishment for those involved.
A CNN crew was tailed by officials and told to stay away from local residents while reporting the storry

Depravity at its finest.

[Owainn]

LOL eww...

[Tajin]

Scary bit at the end too. But then again China.

[Ksandra]

Scary bit at the end too. But then again China.

scary enough, people try to do that here, too. Just hospitals have become super pro in preventing that. It's gotten to the point a lot of them don't even allow the baby out of the mother's room anymore.

[Tajin]

Meant the cnn bit
Main story is just nuke them from orbit.jpg

[Acevalefor]

scary enough, people try to do that here, too. Just hospitals have become super pro in preventing that. It's gotten to the point a lot of them don't even allow the baby out of the mother's room anymore.

It was like this with or last child. The only way the baby could leave the room was with either mother or father and at least one nurse present. We could not leave the maternity wing though and it is a locked wing with check-in requirements to even get past the front desk. Kind of overkill but it is a result of a child abduction from that hospital a few years ago.

RE: CNN being tailed; I wonder what the reasoning is for forbidding journalists from speaking to locals.

[Xantavia]

Hooray tennessee

Tennessee judge orders parents to change their son's name from Messiah to Martin, because 'only Jesus Christ earned that title

Family went to court because they couldn't decide on what to use as a last name, the judge forced a change of the kid's first name because they area christian community and it might upset some people.

[moogleFC]

I don't think the bank can get away with the "i didn't read it" argument in the US. That hasn't worked for millions of consumers.

[Vuitton]

God help all the Jesus kids that move into that town. Not to mention all of the Muhammeds.

[Kerberoz]

http://www.wptv.com//dpp/news/nation...eps-Gods-tears

People pray at tree outside St. Johns Cathedral in Fresno, California, say tree weeps God's tears

FRESNO, California -- - As the mid-day sun beat down, a group of parishioners huddled under a tree looking for shade, but seeking a miracle.

Rosemarie Navarro, a parishioner at a Fresno, California Catholic Church says, "I said my prayer and asked the Lord to give me a miracle cause I'm really, really sick."

Navarro counts herself among the believers, a small but growing group that thinks the liquid dripping from this Crape Myrtle tree is the tears of God.

Parishioner Maria Ybarra says, "When you say ‘glory be to God in Jesus name’ the tree starts throwing out more water."

On close inspection, arborist Jon Reelhorn agrees, something is falling from the tree in front of St. Johns Cathedral. But it isn't water.

"The aphides will suck the sap, the sap goes through the aphid and then it is a honey dew excrement from the aphid and it gets so heavy in the summertime that it will drip down," Reelhorn says.

He also found another tree dripping across the street.

[Qalbert]

holy shit lol

[SephYuyX]

And these are the idiots that give everyone else a bad name. I hope they enjoyed bathing in piss.

[Kuya]

Nah, this shit is par the course for xtians

[Xno Kappa]

Watch it give them cancer.

[Callisto]

That tree's the bee's pees

[Eurell]

holy shit lol

gdi lol