retroactively

So this change in interpretation being applied retroactively is what the OP is concerned with.

Some claim it is a form of subsidy, but the government is allowed to retroactively raise rates if it turns out the risk profile wasn't accurately measured.

There is a tendency among the new mods to retroactively close questions which were asked and answered years ago.

The attempts in this thread to retroactively attribute this failure to something other than Google are...interesting.

But thankfully - if you have an old version - they can't retroactively change the license.

So yes, since the IRS can adjust my tax burden retroactively, tax evasion is involved.

We don't put policy into place in order to retroactively ban backlogged behavior.

Since early voting activity has undue influence, often in the first few minutes of contents' existence, retroactively deflating month-old ratings doesn't do much.

If they can demonstrate you lied about that, I'd imagine they could retroactively drop you.

>...it's not clear to me that traditional, non-computer law would allow the shopkeeper to retroactively characterize the visit as 'trespass'.

But if those interpretations are authoritative and violation of the current IRS interpretation (but not the previous one) means you get prosecuted in federal court, how is that not effectively the ability to retroactively change laws?

One thing is very clear: the IRS will take what it feels is due ('legally', or retroactively legal) and is willing to use the criminal justice system to do so.

Would he then be allowed to make a "policy change" retroactively making something illegal and arresting them for it?

It's a bit aggravating when articles give dates for when something will "eventually go into the public domain" without a caveat that copyright terms in the US have been repeatedly and consistently lengthened retroactively.

There are some long-running “batch-jobs” for large computations where it’s acceptable to apply a response retroactively, but most uses of Sigma are synchronous—a client needs to know immediately (more or less) how some bit of content is classified and what action to take in response to it.

I'm expecting Disney to change the law to allow for authorship reassignment, so the "until death of author+70 years" effectively becomes "until dissolution of The Disney Corporation+70 years", after which we can drop the "+70 years", and expand the public domain retroactively with the works of many recently-deceased artists.

Retroactively give everyone that has ever purchased or been purchased reddit gold a one year subscription.

Retroactively remove them from the commit history.