From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 24 12: 1:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78D1E37BB80 for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 12:01:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr09.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA25464; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 13:01:00 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAjSaqNX; Fri Mar 24 13:00:51 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA08331; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 13:00:56 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200003242000.NAA08331@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: On "intelligent people" and "dangers to BSD" To: tms2@mail.ptd.net (Thomas M. Sommers) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 20:00:56 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <38DAEAFF.A0FE5F3@mail.ptd.net> from "Thomas M. Sommers" at Mar 23, 2000 11:11:43 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > The reason this is so is that the US has a Constitutional > > premise that something which is not illegal can not be made > > illegal. This is called "ipos facto"; a loose translation > > is "a law after the fact". This is why you can own short > > That should be "ex post facto". You are correct. My Latin is rusty. Mea culpa! (8-)). It's been a while; I guess I should go reread the book "Macro Rehru Litho Phage"... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message