So, how about it?
I’m really interested, so if anyone knows of a legal situation in any country at all, I’m willing to consider it.
Thanks all! 
— G. Raven
Well, you could get your country to go to war with his country, both of you could get drafted, and you could go after him that way. Other than that your best bet is to have him come after you, then kill him is self-defense. You could kill him by accident, but if the accident is intentional, then it isn’t really an accident and therefore no longer legal.
I think the two above examples are the only ways you can legally intend to kill another person in the US. There may be a goofy law somewhere in the world where if a man steals your last goat, you can kill him. I don’t know anything about that, though.
Well, it should only be a matter of finding the process id number for the daemon you want to kill, (use ps) and killing it (use kill, or if necessary, kill -9). I don’t know of any laws requiring you to leave a daemon running on your own computer, so I can’t imagine any legal hassles.
[sub]Yes, I’m a little bit of a Unix geek[/sub]
waterj2
Remember that you can only kill processes that you own, unless you have superuser privileges.
[sub]And we know you never login as root, especially over an open connection. Right?[/sub]
Well, you also frame him for murder, and then get a job as an executioner…
Well, speaking as the Archduke and High Minister of The Republic of Vancouver, I hereby enact Statue 1371: ML may kill Daemon Thrice, on the condition that you use messy means of killing such as frozen urine blocks.
OK, I suppose you’d have to use su to get privileges to do that under most circumstances. Of course, if you didn’t have privileges to do it, and hacked into the server, you could also run into some legal trouble.
Stop with the linux jokes already 
— G. Raven
[Moderator watch ON]
Could somebody please explain to me what this is supposed to mean?
Chronos, I think Morrison’s Lament has set it up as a creepy satire on Daemon’s thread: Could I legally kill Castro etc..
Perhaps Morrison’s Lament could join Castro’s bodyguard? That way, when Daemon comes after Castro, ML could kill him perfectly legally, at least in terms of Cuban law. (In fact, in terms of most countries’ laws, assassination not being a recognised form of statecraft and all that…)
A religious sect placed a fatwa* sentence of death on an English writer (Salman Rushdie) for a passage in one of his books (which was deemed to have insulted their G*d). Worshippers were told it was their sacred duty, and they would be rewarded in Heaven.
Rushdie went into seclusion (and had 24/7 armed protection from the UK Government) for several years.
It shouldn’t be too difficult to get Daemon to say something insulting towards that religion.
*religious instruction
Or you could stop worrying about legality and just do it so that no one is the wiser. Word of advice, this thread pretty much blows your chances of that, oh well.
Or you could stop worrying about legality and just do it so that no one is the wiser. You know, take him out hiking. 2 go out and only 1 come back sort of this. “Oh it was horrible officer, this bear just came up and grabbed him.”
Word of advice, this thread pretty much blows your chances of that, oh well.
brother rat:
In re: your sig
I believe his last name is spelled Welles.
As for the hope of a fatwa, I think that would only be legal where the issuer of said fatwa has the power to change the law. In Rushdie’s case, since it was the Ayotolla Khomenei that decreed it (and his successor upheld it), that would really only make it legal in Iran. And since most people (perhaps even daemon) would avoid a country where the sovereign has issued a death sentence on them, that’s not really a likely avenue.
Perhaps you could apply for a license to kill, like James Bond has.
You could legally kill Matt Damon if you were both starring in a movie and someone had replaced the blanks in your gun with live rounds without your knowledge…
BTW, there’s no ‘e’ in his name…
I hear the driving portion of test is pretty difficult, though. Something about having to ride your motorcycle off a cliff and catching an airplane in mid-air…
waterj2:
I suppose as concerns ULTIMATE legality, you’re right. But I think he’s talking about culpability, and the likelihood he’d go to prison, etc. In which case, egging daemon into a situation where he says something insulting to Islam and brings down the wrath of the fundamentalists would seem to be a perfect solution. M.L. wouldn’t be held responsible for daemon’s demise at the hands of the assassins, so while the circumstances surrounding the death are illegal, M.L. wouldn’t be affected.
Daemon has a grudge against another person, and is looking for legal ways of killing that person in a similar thread. I only wish to do the same
— G. Raven
OK, this has gone far enough.