Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 23:14:07 -0700 From: Dave Walton <dwalton@acm.org> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: another fortune candidate.. Message-ID: <20020508231407.0b76c4fb.dwalton@acm.org>
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With this sudden spurt of fortune submissions, I figure I might as well toss out a quote I recently came across and rather like. It seems quite relevent to a number of recent legal developments... There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or a corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back, for their private benefit. -- Robert A. Heinlein, "Life-Line", 1939 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Walton dwalton@acm.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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