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Pascal de Bruijn asks: "I recently started to use NetBSD, the first thing I noticed was that it didn't have a command-line history. So I immediately wanted to switch my shell, being on BSD my first instinct was to change to tcsh, but many people told me it wasn't any good. Others recommended zsh. I would really like to hear your opinions about shells." The submitter is particularly interested in shell memory usage, and the features you like...and dislike...from the current options that are available, today.
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Slashdotters, good news....
Christian pro-life campaigners are claiming a
major victory, following a Supreme Court ruling that a federal racketeering law can't be used against abortion protesters. By an 8-1 majority, the justices reversed a lower court judgment which had ruled that Operation Rescue pro-life activist Joe Scheidler and others committed extortion and violated racketeering laws when protesting in front of an abortion clinic.
Scheidler and the other demonstrators were sued in 1986 by abortion clinics in Delaware and Wisconsin and the National Organization for Women (NOW), which contended that racketeering and extortion laws should protect businesses from violent protests that drive away clients.
They claimed the groups blocked clinic entrances, menaced doctors, patients and clinic staff, and destroyed equipment during a 15-year campaign to limit abortions. The demonstrators were ordered to pay about $258,000 in damages and barred from interfering nationwide with the clinics' business for 10 years.
"[The] decision is a major victory for the pro-life movement, and a major testament to the power of prayer," Scheidler, national director of the Pro-Life Action League, said on the group's Web site. "[We] wish to thank all the thousands of supporters around the world who have prayed for this victory over the past 17 years."
The ruling that the protesters could not be prosecuted under the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act was "a spectacular victory for those living out the gospel of Christ in the streets," said Flip Benham, national director of Operation Rescue, now known as Operation Save America.
Mathew Staver, president of the Liberty Counsel, one of several Christian groups that filed briefs in the case, arguing that pro- life protesters were not guilty of extortion, said "the Supreme Court breathed new life into the pro-life movement."
At the American Center for Law and Justice, chief counsel Jay Sekulow said the judgment was "a tremendous victory for those who engage in social protests." John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute, said that the RICO Act could no longer be used "as a bludgeon to silence dissenters from rightfully expressing their views in a public forum."
James Dobson, president of Focus on the Family, said the ruling "should help thwart the abortion industry's efforts to silence and punish the free speech and loving outreach of Christian men and women." The decision would "help ensure that women with crisis pregnancies will hear the pro-life message."
Family Research Council president Ken Connor predicted that pro- abortion groups would challenge the ruling. "The irony is that they will be exercising the very rights they seek to deny to others," he said. "The hypocrisy is breathtaking."
The RICO ruling was the second this week favoring pro-life groups. On Monday, the high court decided to let stand an Indiana state law requiring that women considering abortion be counseled face to face about the medical and emotional risks, the AP reported.
The court rejected an appeal from Indiana abortion clinics, claiming the in-person counseling sessions would force some women to forgo abortions or to risk their health by postponing the procedure far into pregnancy.
The decision means Indiana may begin fully enforcing a law passed eight years ago that requires in-person counseling and an 18-hour waiting period before a woman can get an abortion. The law and similar measures on the books in four other states require women to make two trips to an abortion clinic.
I've only begun leanrning unix, IM a system admin at a small non-profit. I actually find it my easier to write python scripts for things that would normally require bash scripts.
Could I hear your thoughts about this approach?
Thanks
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OK, I've updated my signature to point at more information. It was always sort of a placeholder till I wrote something up, so here it is.
Chris Kuivenhoven is a thief, beware
Neither does command.com. Anybody still using it?