Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 14:43:08 +0530 (IST) From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Arun Sharma <adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: On "intelligent people" and "dangers to BSD" Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0003241440260.6944-100000@theory3.physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <38DAD704.997B6B61@originative.co.uk>
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> > In one word: tyranny. > > This happens all the time in the UK these days. You'd be amazed what > suddenly becomes illegal all of a sudden, one of the most farcical was a > law banning the consumption of T-bone steaks. I think what Terry means is not that you can't ban consumption of T-bone steaks, but you can't arrest someone for consuming a T-bone steak before the law came into effect. So this doesn't really prevent legislators from enacting silly laws... only from persecuting people who did those things when they were legal. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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