From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 8 23:14:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (mta5.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AB3537B400 for ; Wed, 8 May 2002 23:14:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thinkpad770z.davidcamp.net ([216.103.90.137]) by mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built May 7 2001)) with SMTP id <0GVT00MNSYNU96@mta5.snfc21.pbi.net> for chat@freebsd.org; Wed, 08 May 2002 23:14:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 23:14:07 -0700 From: Dave Walton Subject: Re: another fortune candidate.. To: chat@freebsd.org Reply-To: dwalton@acm.org Message-id: <20020508231407.0b76c4fb.dwalton@acm.org> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.5) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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