From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 10 18:21:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hiwaay.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0821D37B556 for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 18:21:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt8-216-180-71-202.dialup.hiwaay.net [216.180.71.202]) by mail.hiwaay.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e3B1KYS03419; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 20:20:35 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA59059; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 20:20:32 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <200004110120.UAA59059@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Anatoly Vorobey Cc: chat@freebsd.org From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Legal Comprehension (was: Re: ksh ?) In-reply-to: Message from Anatoly Vorobey of "Mon, 10 Apr 2000 08:13:41 EDT." <20000410081341.A76278@sasami.jurai.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 20:20:32 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Anatoly Vorobey writes: > You, David Kelly, were spotted writing this on Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 10:58:02PM -0500: > > > > If I was Dictator Of The World I'd leave the President and Congress to > > do the dirty work but the first Order I'd impose would be, "You can > > pass no new law unless the President can score 70% on an exam based on > > that law." The simple idea being if a professional lawmaker doesn't > > understand 70% of the new law then there is no hope of a citizen ever > > understanding well enough to comply. > > But is the President a lawmaker? I thought he was a professional > law breaker^H^H^H^H^H^H^Henforcer and, err, vetoer... > > Maybe you should require the Congress to take the exam and the law > would only pass if >=70% members pass the exam... Great! Everyone living within the Beltline of Washington D.C. should be required to take the exam. If the class fails then not only does that law fall away but we'll hold a random drawing and throw out yet another law existing law until the Federal Code is weaned down to a comprehensible size. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message