The untimely death of Aaron Swartz
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Muxel
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Couldn't they have solved it the way youtube did with the DMCA thing - allow copyrighted content, but with ads? Perhaps they feared that a new paradigm of social networking with scientific stuff as the common denominator would lead to people connecting the dots between Science's compartmentalized fields, or people distilling new knowledge as the Internet today distills memes.
(In any case, I'm not too happy with scientific papers in general. Many I've come across seem so impossibly specialized, along the lines of "Sociological Implications of A Speck of Dust on My Computer Screen", that their individual usefulness to the populace escapes me.)
Abstract: Let's feed mice a diet of potatoes, and when the mice are all dead we know that potatoes are fatal to mice, while the effects of potatoes on humans remain to be discovered.
(In any case, I'm not too happy with scientific papers in general. Many I've come across seem so impossibly specialized, along the lines of "Sociological Implications of A Speck of Dust on My Computer Screen", that their individual usefulness to the populace escapes me.)
Abstract: Let's feed mice a diet of potatoes, and when the mice are all dead we know that potatoes are fatal to mice, while the effects of potatoes on humans remain to be discovered.
Hmm...Kniall said:
Iron
Dagobah Resident
It seems that the PTB does not hesitate in dealing in a more direct way to threats to their wealth. Aaron could potentially put a halt to the imperialistic science machine, so he had to be killed at once. The strange thing is that people do not even find weird that the charges were dropped two days after his suicide.
I looked at his picture yesterday and felt sad and hurt. Twenty-six years young. Such a drama.
This metaphor of a boot in your face that George Orwell described, or maybe it is not even a metaphor?, becomes more and more visible every day. And I can feel it, too, this boot.
This metaphor of a boot in your face that George Orwell described, or maybe it is not even a metaphor?, becomes more and more visible every day. And I can feel it, too, this boot.
Mariama said:
Makes one think, whether discussing Haiti or other tragic happenings, there are country powers that likely know quite well what the face of the PTB are capable of, "this boot", what they have as deterrents, should one gets out of line. With these singular deaths, or mass deaths, they know too. For others who can discern these things, it is there to conclude on a evidence bases, sciences studied, or with questions that can't be reconciled - perhaps without ever understanding the exact MO. For others still, there is the disinformation routine that will lead down many paths. For humanity at large, there is the official story. :(
... while the criminals get paid gazillions for their "services"!
Source: __http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-18/goldman-sachs-boosts-blankfein-stock-bonus-90-to-13-3-million.html
Source: __http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-18/goldman-sachs-boosts-blankfein-stock-bonus-90-to-13-3-million.html
The irony is that Aaron Schwartz, among other things, helped reveal the existence of "Obama's assassination lists". Allegedly those lists target "enemies" in foreign countries like Yemen, Somalia or Afghanistan. That might only be the emerged part of the iceberg and I would not be surprised if some assassination lists include
also U.S. citizen. Aaron Schwartz might have been on one of those lists he helped uncover.
In any case, after Aaron Russo, here is another Aaron who spoke the truth and died quite quickly after that...
also U.S. citizen. Aaron Schwartz might have been on one of those lists he helped uncover.
In any case, after Aaron Russo, here is another Aaron who spoke the truth and died quite quickly after that...
The guy who stopped SOPA
I have to admit until I saw this documentary ( probably like many average internet user) I didn't have a clue who Aaron Schwartz was. Very sad but also inspiring story.
I have to admit until I saw this documentary ( probably like many average internet user) I didn't have a clue who Aaron Schwartz was. Very sad but also inspiring story.
