And if the inevitable happens, does it need to give consent?

When life gives you lemons...

Demand to see life's manager.

Keep in mind an unencrypted /boot partition still leaves you open to an evil maid attack. I'm not really paranoid (or interesting) enough that I feel the need to take measures to prevent those kinds of attacks, but your situation may differ.

Usually prefaced by "We value your privacy".

No. Fuck you... You only care about your own morbidly obese bottom line, and there is a law obligating you to ask/extort/trick us into consenting.

My first foray on the internet was AltaVista, at a friends' pc with dialup connection. Still gives me a nostalgic feeling to think about that moment when the realization of all the opportunities kicked in.

Putting my clothes in the washer and watching my shirts overtake my shorts on each turn.

Also depends on if there's 'mens briea'

And then accidentally copy/pasting the failed attempt code snippets of the OP describing the situation.

That wasn't part of the assignment. ;)

*kernel

Sure would make you look bad if rectally inserted cotton balls turn out to be a 100% cancer cure.