From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 24 15:13: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.primenet.com (smtp05.primenet.com [206.165.6.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE53737B722 for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 15:12:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp05.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA03201; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 16:12:33 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp05.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAnyaqmg; Fri Mar 24 16:12:23 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA09499; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 16:12:36 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200003242312.QAA09499@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: On "intelligent people" and "dangers to BSD" To: paul@originative.co.uk (Paul Richards) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 23:12:36 +0000 (GMT) Cc: rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in (Rahul Siddharthan), tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org (Arun Sharma), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <38DB8D34.1A750C81@originative.co.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Mar 24, 2000 03:43:48 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 > > So this doesn't really prevent legislators from enacting silly > > laws... only from persecuting people who did those things when > > they were legal. > > Ok, not the best example. I guess the handguns law is a better one since > it's now illegal to have a handgun in the UK even if you bought it > before the law changed. > > Everyone here who had one was required to hand them in when the law came > in to effect. Cool. Which enthicity are they going to try to eliminate, after they are sure they have them all? 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