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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PKZIP 1.10 is there...
Message-ID: <3382@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 9 Apr 90 18:07:06 GMT
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In article <412@sigma3.sm.luth.se>, d89-bfr@sm.luth.se (d89-bfr) writes:
> In article <3367@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
> 
> >Hmmm.  It didn't seem to stop the Allied Powers from holding the 
> >Nuremburg Trials, even though the crimes against humanity weren't
> >violations of German law, or, for the most part, of the countries
> 
> Oh. I'm awfully sorry. I had no idea that knowing things that are
> public in the US is a crime against humanity if you're outside the US.
> I'm really sorry :-)
>    _
> /Bjorn.

I didn't say they were -- just that there is plenty of precedent for
nations enforcing their laws outside their own country.  That doesn't
make it right or wrong -- just the way it is.

Note that I agree that the law in question is stupid and unenforceable.
But then again, democracy nearly guarantees that stupid unenforceable
laws will be passed.


-- 
Clayton E. Cramer {pyramid,pixar,tekbspa}!optilink!cramer
Politicians prefer unarmed peasants.  Ask the Lithuanians.
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