Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 20, 2015

I use an LG GS170; I don’t need a “smartphone,” because I prefer to be the smart one.

Must be an Apple phone

Nah. Corporate America would never be that honest.

Welcome to life after 1990……..

Have you read the latest Terms and Conditions from Adobe? Says you grant them access to your passwords.(Unless I read it wrong…)

What! No selling your soul to the devil?

Also, we can make you into a human cent-iPad.

This one’s a little too on the money for comfort

There is always the right to disagree.

OMG! That SO nails it! Oh, and I believe that the Devil himself must be Adobe’s primary stock holder.

Actually, Rat, it is better to read the Terms and Conditions and know that you are hosed than to embrace blissful ignorance and think you are safe and secure online.Nothing online is ever truly secure. Nothing.

you agree to be an organ donor in the event that one of our employees needs something you posess

That’s a surprisingly good translation of the average terms and conditions you have to agree to with almost every software purchase. It seems the writer knows a thing or two about legislation. If he fails as a cartoon writer I guess he could always try and be a lawyer or something similar.

Same goes for the IRS, but they don’t give you a choice about accepting.

Sisy, since “nothing online is ever truly secure,” then there’s no point in reading the Terms and Conditions anyhow.

The number one lie these days is: “I have read and agree to these terms and conditions.”

Was today’s cartoon ghosted by Richard Belzer (Sgt. Munch of "Law & Order: SVU)??

RAT is RIGHT! Just click “Accept” and be done with it.

I’m surprised Rat is not hungover, he had a late night party over at the rats house in ‘Heatcliff’.

I assumed panel 13 would just be “Accept”.

I try to always read the terms and conditions, but if they’re over 2 pages long, even I don’t bother.

who even reads the terms and conditions of anything?

more pratchett references. the bit in “good omens” by him and neil gaiman where crowley sends the terms and conditions that come with buying a computer and a note to those ruling below in hell “learn, guys, learn”

And still everyone clicks ‘accept’

I read those things once. Rat is correct.

All I do is click “Accept”

But then I’m pretty sure 99% people do. xxx

“p.s. – you are hosed.”

yep but we don’t care cause we got apps!!

I try to always read the terms and conditions along with the privacy statement. It doesn’t take too long once you learn how to skim through them for anything other than “don’t sue us”.

Finally—some corporate honesty.

This one made me laugh … mainly for the last two lines in the T&C.

Yep. That’s about the sum total of all EULAs and T&Cs.

Thing is, they rarely hold up in court.

I nearly always click “accept”

Here it is. It’s in the privacy Policy BTW… We understand that the security of your personal information is important. We provide reasonable administrative, technical, and physical security controls to protect your personal information. However, despite our efforts, no security controls are 100% effective and Adobe cannot ensure or warrant the security of your personal information.

Why did it show a mouse cursor on Rat’s phone?