From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 9 1:11:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.zer0.org (klapaucius.zer0.org [204.152.186.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 574D337B412 for ; Thu, 9 May 2002 01:11:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail1.zer0.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B5F58239A0B; Thu, 9 May 2002 01:11:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 01:11:05 -0700 From: Gregory Sutter To: Dave Walton Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: another fortune candidate.. Message-ID: <20020509081105.GJ582@klapaucius.zer0.org> References: <20020508231407.0b76c4fb.dwalton@acm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="C7Ke/meiCZutM6I/" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020508231407.0b76c4fb.dwalton@acm.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Organization: Zer0 X-Purpose: For great justice! Mail-Copies-To: poster X-Message-Flag: Ditch this virus-ridden Outlook crap and get a real mailer! 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 --C7Ke/meiCZutM6I/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2002-05-08 23:14 -0700, Dave Walton wrote: > 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... >=20 > 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 I like that one; it's interesting and still seems quite relevant. It's got my approval, FWIW, assuming it's formatted a bit better when committed. :) Greg --=20 Gregory S. Sutter "Software is like sex; it's better mailto:gsutter@zer0.org when it's free." -- Linus Torvalds http://www.zer0.org/~gsutter/=20 hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net/0x845DFEDD --C7Ke/meiCZutM6I/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: '' iD8DBQE82i8ZIBUx1YRd/t0RAg5jAJ0cK5cADLsdjbZfLPJ5Yiw46Llw3QCeLyq+ UKTFu6AwxAyvsP4iEYpSbHU= =B3kD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --C7Ke/meiCZutM6I/-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message