From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 24 1:38: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E76B737B68F for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 01:37:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 35262 invoked from network); 24 Mar 2000 09:13:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO theory3.physics.iisc.ernet.in) (rsidd@144.16.71.158) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 24 Mar 2000 09:13:09 -0000 Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 14:43:08 +0530 (IST) From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Paul Richards Cc: Terry Lambert , Arun Sharma , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: On "intelligent people" and "dangers to BSD" In-Reply-To: <38DAD704.997B6B61@originative.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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