I don't know what fd does, but at a guess maybe what you're missing is that tar includes all the files in directories you give it? So if you exclude 'foo/bar' but include 'foo' then foo/bar will be in your tar file.
What I do is basically tar cf `ls ~ | grep -v $files_to_exclude` but if you want to exclude something that isn't a top-level directory you'd need to get slightly more fancy.
The model year and other relevant info is found in the first part of the VIN. There's no legit reason for it to demand the whole thing, which it does.
Me? I'm not so anarchist that I personally have a problem with pledging allegiance to a flag or whatevs, just anarchist enough that I find it somewhat odd when people assume that everyone is part of "you" and "us" groups of that kind.
I guess it's just that having to acknowledge the sovereign powers of some country other than the one you're applying for citizenship in is unusual enough to make this sort of weird power to define our views of the world that the modern state has achieved stand out a little more than usual.
The intention is good I suppose, but it seems unfair to those who don't believe that nation-states in general have rights that should require our affirmation, even while they have many powers we must respect. Are they also made to affirm the right of Germany to exist? They've made a rule which denies would-be citizens the right to espouse anarchism, which seems like a step in the direction of removing human rights.
I have no data on that. Cheaper and easier to get tlds like .world might be the most dangerous of all.
If it's that bad, could you maybe give people a hint as to why we'd want to watch it and what it has to do with linux?
They're probably just as dangerous as .com sites.
If we're including television I'm disappointed that nobody mentioned Blackadder.
If not, Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
...more fancy such as using tar -X, which works for me. I'd never actually tried it before. The 'weird globbing' it uses is regular expressions, which are worth learning how to use. Run
grep $expression $_tmpfilewhere $expression is a line from your exclude file to see which files it's going to match and exclude.