I think that what this study shows is only that the group that drink five cups of water were not stupid. They possibly concluded that the objective of the experiment was to test if they underperformed their decision making by preferring fast rewards and so this effectively acted like a warning that in the game they were going to play, fast rewards were a poor choice vs long-term rewards.
That could be the reason behind this change in GoDaddy terms of service notification email that I received yesterday:
"We recently made changes to the Universal Terms of Service Agreement affecting your Go Daddy products and services. These changes include, but are not limited to, the following:
Section 5 (Your Use of Go Daddy Content and User Content) and Section 6 (Go Daddy's Use of User Content)
We added language to clarify that the applicable provisions are not intended to and do not have the effect of transferring any ownership or licensed rights (including intellectual property rights) you may have in content posted to your hosted websites. ...."
There are rare cases of laws applied retroactively. But I believe they are always changes that can't damage anyone, only benefit them. So most probably this law doesn't apply retroactively and you're right... he's a hypocrite but you can't put him in jail.
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I think that what this study shows is only that the group that drink five cups of water were not stupid. They possibly concluded that the objective of the experiment was to test if they underperformed their decision making by preferring fast rewards and so this effectively acted like a warning that in the game they were going to play, fast rewards were a poor choice vs long-term rewards.
A warning that the other group didn't had.
Terms of Service change
That could be the reason behind this change in GoDaddy terms of service notification email that I received yesterday:
"We recently made changes to the Universal Terms of Service Agreement affecting your Go Daddy products and services. These changes include, but are not limited to, the following:
Section 5 (Your Use of Go Daddy Content and User Content) and Section 6 (Go Daddy's Use of User Content)
We added language to clarify that the applicable provisions are not intended to and do not have the effect of transferring any ownership or licensed rights (including intellectual property rights) you may have in content posted to your hosted websites. ...."
Re: now, now
There are rare cases of laws applied retroactively. But I believe they are always changes that can't damage anyone, only benefit them. So most probably this law doesn't apply retroactively and you're right... he's a hypocrite but you can't put him in jail.