Michael wrote:
>It is possible that I will have some troubles with military service
>in my country. I hope I will manage 1.60 stable release before they "got
>me". I also hope to avoid this trouble either for health reasons or
>to serve "alternative service", not in army, but it may have negative
>effect on amount of time I can spend improving Arachne :-(
The only tip I can give on this (I never had to use it myself due to my,
almost, lack of vision on my left eye) is to try and get sick around when
they test how good you are physically (I'll have to assume they do this).
By doing so they can't claim that you are deliberatly doing your worst.
Still that wount help you from the civil (or in your words alternative)
service.
>I think that compulsory military service should be outlawed in all
>countries worldwide. I am absolutely _not interested_ in serving in any
>army of any country in the world, but Czech laws give me very little choice,
>and "alternative service" is kind of punishment for people who refuse
>to go to the army anyway.
Lucky for me I became Swedish "offically" (I was earlier Danish - but I
haven't even lived there) before they got the cleaver idea of demanding me
to travel to Denmark.
But I agree with you Michael, since there's (almost) no threat from any of
the fellow neighbours in almost any country around the world (except the
Middle East and India/Pakistan) I don't see the point of destroying so much
time for people that have no interest of it. (Not to mention the ammount of
money for the goverment).
On the other hand the army totaly consisting of professionals often get
into other kinds of trouble - since they don't know much from the civil
life fixing small things that need to be done while in the field will
require additionall staff.
IMHO there shouldn't be any armies at all.
>Do you think Internet can help to achieve this goal ?
As a last resort there may be some "computer division" (stopping crackers
from reaching vital data - or crack the oppositions side) - that would
probably suit you better.
As a side note the Swedish military computer division has as a goal to be
able to break into any other countries databases. Perhaps that's the reason
you get away very easily (two years probation (sp?)) after getting into
Pentagon etc. here. ;-)
//Bernie
http://bernie.arachne.cz/ DOS programs, Star Wars ...
