From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Oct 9 17:40:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C13A37B405 for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 17:40:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA13479; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 02:40:26 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: Unhappy Adobe Customer , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SSSCA? References: <20011008193423.77229.qmail@web11901.mail.yahoo.com> <3BC34784.4D56D9DF@mindspring.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 10 Oct 2001 02:40:25 +0200 In-Reply-To: <3BC34784.4D56D9DF@mindspring.com> Message-ID: Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Terry Lambert writes: > I pos facto. > > (Translation: you can't make something illegal after the fact). Actually, I think "I pos facto" translates to "Terry doesn't know latin". The US Constitution's Article I, Section 10 states (from memory) "No state shall pass any ex post facto law". The latin expression "ex post facto" translates rougly into "because of a subsequent fact", i.e. you can't punish someone for something they did if it wasn't illegal at the time, even if it became illegal later. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message