<story><title>George Hotz cancels his Tesla Autopilot-like ‘comma one’</title><url>https://electrek.co/2016/10/28/george-hotz-cancels-his-tesla-autopilot-like-comma-one-after-request-from-nhtsa/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phasmantistes</author><text>I love this paragraph of the Request:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The singular includes the plural; the plural includes the singular. The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter genders; and the neuter gender includes the masculine and feminine genders. &amp;quot;And&amp;quot; as well as &amp;quot;or&amp;quot; shall be construed either disjunctively or conjunctively, to bring within scope of this Special Order all responses that might otherwise be construed to be outside the scope. &amp;quot;Each&amp;quot; shall be construed to include &amp;quot;every&amp;quot;, and &amp;quot;every&amp;quot; shall be construed to include &amp;quot;each&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;Any&amp;quot; shall be construed to include &amp;quot;all&amp;quot;, and &amp;quot;all&amp;quot; shall be construed to include &amp;quot;any&amp;quot;. The use of a verb in any tense shall be construed as the use of the verb in a past or present tense, whenever necessary to bring within the scope of the document requests all responses which might otherwise be construed to be outside its scope.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve seen similar paragraphs on other legal documents, but this is the most thorough I&amp;#x27;ve seen. It&amp;#x27;s basically just a huge middle finger to all (any?) armchair lawyers who want to weasel out of the order.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AceJohnny2</author><text>See also RFC 2119 that disambiguates the meaning of &amp;quot;must&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;shall&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;may&amp;quot; and others in specs. It&amp;#x27;s because of that RFC that you often see those words in caps in a spec.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ietf.org&amp;#x2F;rfc&amp;#x2F;rfc2119.txt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ietf.org&amp;#x2F;rfc&amp;#x2F;rfc2119.txt&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>George Hotz cancels his Tesla Autopilot-like ‘comma one’</title><url>https://electrek.co/2016/10/28/george-hotz-cancels-his-tesla-autopilot-like-comma-one-after-request-from-nhtsa/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phasmantistes</author><text>I love this paragraph of the Request:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The singular includes the plural; the plural includes the singular. The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter genders; and the neuter gender includes the masculine and feminine genders. &amp;quot;And&amp;quot; as well as &amp;quot;or&amp;quot; shall be construed either disjunctively or conjunctively, to bring within scope of this Special Order all responses that might otherwise be construed to be outside the scope. &amp;quot;Each&amp;quot; shall be construed to include &amp;quot;every&amp;quot;, and &amp;quot;every&amp;quot; shall be construed to include &amp;quot;each&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;Any&amp;quot; shall be construed to include &amp;quot;all&amp;quot;, and &amp;quot;all&amp;quot; shall be construed to include &amp;quot;any&amp;quot;. The use of a verb in any tense shall be construed as the use of the verb in a past or present tense, whenever necessary to bring within the scope of the document requests all responses which might otherwise be construed to be outside its scope.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve seen similar paragraphs on other legal documents, but this is the most thorough I&amp;#x27;ve seen. It&amp;#x27;s basically just a huge middle finger to all (any?) armchair lawyers who want to weasel out of the order.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Yup, that is the &amp;quot;don&amp;#x27;t try to wiggle out of this with some thin reasoning about scope&amp;quot; paragraph.</text></comment>