Twenty years ago, the shell creators gave you the ability to enclose $VARIABLES in "$QUOTES". Methinks you BELIEVE you know how to script bash, but you have not really learned anything beyond typing commands in an interactive shell. Shell quoting is just so fundamentally obvious and they are mentioned so early in the bash manual, I have a REALLY HARD time believing you are a competent software developer (unless you program mirc scripts or in visual basic).

Unfortunately, whether risk is a common or an individual good (two hypotheses for which you have not presented any evidence, and no, "cheaper if everybody pays for it" is not evidence of risk being a common good), is not the reason why health care is mandatory.

Build your array with ZFS. Back it up incrementally and atomically with zfs send / zfs receive.

Or you could just use ZFS in RAIDZ or mirroring mode, and say goodbye to expensive hardware, since ZFS is always consistent on-disk and can be quickly scrubbed, regardless of what power catastrophes you get.

I wrote something apropos your comment.

Wrong. If someone orders you to do something without your previous -- explicit -- consent, and you have no say in the matter and are forced to comply, then you're a slave.

Yes, yet another way in which the government intrudes with a feel-good yet useless restriction that is naturally enforced with a very clear threat of violence.

Now people who *really* are predators will be even more encouraged to continue their task, safe in the knowledge that their camera and telephoto lenses won't make a click loud enough for their victims to detect. Let's face it -- if someone is close enough to you that the click will alert you, then either you're as good as dead, or there wasn't much of a threat in the first place.

I like this world more and more with each passing day.

It would not be ironic. It would be fair.

...but my only concern is this: using violence to drag a human being into a rape hole, for duplicating a few bits and bytes, is immoral.

And we are all the poorer for living in a society so corrupt that this is regarded as not just legal, not just condoned by us, but also the blessed course of action.