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Ronin Duskstar
Shinrei Syndicate
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Posted - 2013.01.12 09:44:00 -
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It's a sad day for the internet. RIP Aaron Swartz, I've benefited immensely from web.py. You were too soon for this world.
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Bane Necran
Appono Astos
1425
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Posted - 2013.01.12 12:05:00 -
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That's shady as **** with all the other suspicious deaths of activists recently. "The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive." ~Kenneth Williams |
Eli Green
The Arrow Project
418
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Posted - 2013.01.12 15:22:00 -
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Bane Necran wrote:That's shady as **** with all the other suspicious deaths of activists recently.
you forgot your tinfoil hat on the table sir! wumbo |
Zimmy Zeta
RvB - RED Federation
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Posted - 2013.01.12 19:35:00 -
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RIP.
Morgan Freeman ordered me to self-destruct....now what's your excuse? |
Bane Necran
Appono Astos
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Posted - 2013.01.13 01:14:00 -
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Eli Green wrote:you forgot your tinfoil hat on the table sir!
I never take it off.
That's when they get you. "The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive." ~Kenneth Williams |
Seven Koskanaiken
Open University of Celestial Hardship Art of War Alliance
116
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Posted - 2013.01.13 17:26:00 -
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he should have done like assange and went to a foreign embassy and went full media spotlight thats the only way you can protect yourself if you rock the boat too much
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Rain6639
Team Evil
90
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Posted - 2013.01.13 18:23:00 -
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that site makes me feel sideways just reading it, I don't think I could live with myself if I created it Want To Adopt: any 2003 children to work as passive income miner alts in the PLEX trade.. |
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Operations
3302
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Posted - 2013.01.13 20:24:00 -
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There is an online petition to remove the District Attorney who harassed him to death.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-united-states-district-attorney-carmen-ortiz-office-overreach-case-aaron-swartz/RQNrG1Ck America is the only country to go from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. - Oscar Wilde - 1870's |
Bane Necran
Appono Astos
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Posted - 2013.01.14 00:44:00 -
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Visionary internet activist Aaron Swartz found dead; was this brilliant internet revolutionary 'taken out?' "The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive." ~Kenneth Williams |
Khergit Deserters
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Posted - 2013.01.14 17:08:00 -
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Bane Necran wrote:Eli Green wrote:you forgot your tinfoil hat on the table sir! I never take it off. That's when they get you. They'll get my tinfoil hat when they pry it off of my cold, lifeless head!
Why would people doubt that people will do extremely bad things for their own self-interests. (I.e. money and/or power). History is full of blatant examples of that. Just these ruthless power elite don't have to sack cities, enslave people, or work kids 16 hours a day in a factory. Modern technology, communications, government systems, legal systems and corporate anonymity let them use more discrete, sophisticated methods. The many levels of complexity in modern society make it hard for information to trickle down to the regular joe, so that he might spot the bad deeds that are going on. Just because people don't spot it doesn't mean it's not happening. Are the people that are obsessed with money and power any nicer than they were in the days of Tamerlane or J.P. Morgan or Joseph Stalin? Don't think so.
Kind of along the same lines, Alan Greenspan (Chairman of U.S. Federal Reserve) said, "It is not that humans have become any more greedy than in generations past. It is that the avenues to express greed had grown so enormously."
Sorry for the tl;dr. I regret that I have but one life to give for my tin hat. If you help someone when they're in trouble, they will remember you when they're in trouble again.
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Micheal Dietrich
Kings Gambit Black
876
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Posted - 2013.01.14 17:18:00 -
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Khergit Deserters wrote:Bane Necran wrote:Eli Green wrote:you forgot your tinfoil hat on the table sir! I never take it off. That's when they get you. They'll get my tinfoil hat when they pry it off of my cold, lifeless head! Why would people doubt that people will do extremely bad things for their own self-interests.
It's not so much that we doubt people doing bad things, its that we doubt that everything that happens is because of a conspiracy rather than pure happenstance. |
silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
347
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Posted - 2013.01.14 18:18:00 -
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I've never cared for him, and considered him a self-indulgent narcissist, but that should not be a death-sentence. That said, suicide is a very sad thing - especially for those left behind.
May he find peace in whatever afterworld he reaches, and may those who cared for him find solace in this world. Tell someone you love them today, because life is short. But scream it at them in Esperanto, because life is also terrifying and confusing. |
KaarBaak
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Posted - 2013.01.16 00:36:00 -
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Don't do the crime, if you can't do the time.
Dude tries to steal proprietary info...years of research, work and private investment and give it all away for free. Gets caught. Faces jail time. Too mentally/emotionally weak to take the pressure. Takes the cowards way out.
No sympathy for him...just the poor folks he left behind looking for answers. In their struggle to understand they lash out against anyone they can blame aside from the coward himself.
Full disclosure: My father committed suicide. The most selfish, irresponsible and cowardly act a human can commit, IMO.
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Bane Necran
Appono Astos
1443
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Posted - 2013.01.16 00:48:00 -
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Micheal Dietrich wrote:It's not so much that we doubt people doing bad things, its that we doubt that everything that happens is because of a conspiracy rather than pure happenstance.
So, you're a coincidence theorist? "The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive." ~Kenneth Williams |
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
6583
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Posted - 2013.01.16 00:56:00 -
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Rope kills people! I demand we pass a rope ban! "Little ginger moron" ~David Hasselhoff-á |
Ronin Duskstar
Shinrei Syndicate
4
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Posted - 2013.01.16 01:14:00 -
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KaarBaak wrote:Don't do the crime, if you can't do the time.
Dude tries to steal proprietary info...years of research, work and private investment and give it all away for free. Gets caught. Faces jail time. Too mentally/emotionally weak to take the pressure. Takes the cowards way out.
No sympathy for him...just the poor folks he left behind looking for answers. In their struggle to understand they lash out against anyone they can blame aside from the coward himself.
Full disclosure: My father committed suicide. The most selfish, irresponsible and cowardly act a human can commit, IMO.
Actually, the research is publicly funded....
Edit: And the sad irony is that JSTOR (the organization the papers were scraped from) has released most of the documents to the public during all of this. |
Bane Necran
Appono Astos
1443
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Posted - 2013.01.16 01:20:00 -
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Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:Rope kills people! I demand we pass a rope ban!
Never!
Shame we can't talk about politics, because i'm mighty curious what will happen in the US after Obama's speech tomorrow.
[Jedi mind trick]That was not me talking about politics. You have goon posts to moderate.[/Jedi mind trick] "The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive." ~Kenneth Williams |
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
6583
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Posted - 2013.01.16 01:22:00 -
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Bane Necran wrote:Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:Rope kills people! I demand we pass a rope ban! Never! Shame we can't talk about politics, because i'm mighty curious what will happen in the US after Obama's speech tomorrow. [Jedi mind trick]That was not me talking about politics. You have goon posts to moderate.[/Jedi mind trick]
Just a guess but I'd guess **** all "Little ginger moron" ~David Hasselhoff-á |
Malphilos
State War Academy Caldari State
364
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Posted - 2013.01.16 04:52:00 -
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Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:Bane Necran wrote:Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:Rope kills people! I demand we pass a rope ban! Never! Shame we can't talk about politics, because i'm mighty curious what will happen in the US after Obama's speech tomorrow. [Jedi mind trick]That was not me talking about politics. You have goon posts to moderate.[/Jedi mind trick] Just a guess but I'd guess **** all
No! REVOLUTION!
Just as soon as I finish my bucket of hot wings and my 84oz Diet Sip. |
Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
2377
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Posted - 2013.01.16 19:33:00 -
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Based on what Swartz was on to with his FOIA requests, and his past accomplishments as an activist, I would put quotes around suicide.
The prosecution itself, being so ridiculous, was probably part of the attack, so people see that and think "wow that must have been stressful".
The "suicide" is one of the ways they do it. Conspiracy theory? Google "DC Madam".
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