From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 11 18:38: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hiwaay.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0617137B916 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 18:37:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt6-216-180-5-39.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.5.39]) by mail.hiwaay.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e3C1bsI28144; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 20:37:54 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA65720; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 20:37:52 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <200004120137.UAA65720@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Christopher S. Weimann" Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Legal Comprehension (was: Re: ksh ?) In-reply-to: Message from "Christopher S. Weimann" of "Tue, 11 Apr 2000 19:53:15 EDT." <20000411195315.D3143@wallnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 20:37:51 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Christopher S. Weimann" writes: > On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 10:58:02PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: > > > > If I was Dictator Of The World I'd leave the President and Congress to > > do the dirty work but the first Order I'd impose would be, "You can > > pass no new law unless the President can score 70% on an exam based on > > that law." > > The real question is who gets to compose the test. Those who voted against it. ??? The the Supreme Court could grade the exam(s). If the entire Congress were required to take the exam then in the future when the Supreme Court is scratching its head trying to decide what Congress really meant by a law then they'd have the exam records for insite to see what the members really knew and were thinking. The elements everybody misses clearly should not have as much weight under the law. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message