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by olefoo 14y ago
That is correct. Ms. Ortiz is a political appointee, she can be replaced at the discretion of the President. The standard procedure is to ask the official to resign.
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by olefoo 14y ago
I would suggest that asking that someone be removed from a position of power that they are to all appearances misusing; is not vigilante justice. In point of fact, it is the proper procedure to ask that someone who has abused the public tru
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by olefoo 14y ago
As the author of the petition; I take responsibility for hitting the submit button, halfway through an edit. Sorry.
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by olefoo 14y ago
Being a federal prosecutor isn't just a job, it's a privileged position of power. It's not someplace where you bumble through law school and wind up arguing to put people away for life; all of these people competed to get where they are now
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by olefoo 14y ago
Encryption software is not something to be trusted; it's use is to be regarded as a necessary evil, likely to fail without warning, and prone to catastrophic failures in two modes; that of being completely ineffective and that of being all
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by olefoo 14y ago
I sure hope you are right. But our .gov is a supertanker with a turn radius of several years. Change comes slowly.
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by olefoo 14y ago
Yes. Less than 72 hours since I pressed submit on my half-edited, strike-while-the-iron-is-hot petition. It feels rather hollow, I wish we hadn't lost Aaron.
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by olefoo 14y ago
Yes. I signed that one and would encourage everyone else to do so as well. However, it is an unfortunate fact of political life, that when someone screws up; the best move is to try to get their boss fired. Shit, as they say; flows downhill
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Petition to remove DA Ortiz reaches 25,000 signatures
104 points by olefoo 14y ago|32 comments
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by olefoo 14y ago
This is a fascinating glimpse of the way Aaron affected most of those who came into contact with him. It's unfortunate that we could not share these stories while he was still with us. The petition to the President to remove Ms. Ortiz from
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by olefoo 14y ago
That is a fine display of histrionics; but, the specifics of this case DO merit removing Ms. Ortiz and her assistant Mr. Heymann from office. Those of us who were following the case before Aaron's tragic episode knew that a great injustice
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by olefoo 14y ago
As the author of the petition, the most I hope for is that it reaches the threshold to deserve a response. I do not expect Ms. Ortiz to lose her position, although I clearly do think that such an outcome would be salutary for the legal prof
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by olefoo 14y ago
The petition has already reached 1,000 signers. 1/25th of the number needed to expect a response.
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by olefoo 14y ago
I'm the author of the petition, so allow me to explain my thinking; and why I don't expect Ms. Ortiz to lose her job over this. 1. Obama appointed her, and by many metrics she is doing a good job. 2. The DOJ under Holder is anything but Lib
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Petition the Whitehouse to remove Carmen Ortiz from office(petitions.whitehouse.gov)
801 points by olefoo 14y ago|234 comments
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by olefoo 14y ago
Petition to Remove United States District Attorney Carmen Ortiz for overreach in the case of Aaron Swartz https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-united-stat... http://wh.gov/E3v1 Needs 25,000 signatures by February 11. Please
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by olefoo 14y ago
Make no mistake, this means she will always be facing serious opposition should she choose to run for public office. And since she was appointed by President Obama, it is entirely appropriate for those of us who feel strongly that she misus
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by olefoo 14y ago
Aaron, I miss you, we never met, but you inspired me. You burned so brightly, yet so briefly.
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by olefoo 14y ago
"Knowing the reddit community" Could you elaborate on that?
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by olefoo 14y ago
I understand both the reason for the sound alert and the distaste for carrying forward the existing bland hum. Perhaps the NHTSA could come up with an acceptable standard definition (x db, localizable, y frequency histogram, etc. ) that wou
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by olefoo 14y ago
Here's a metaphor to consider; think of financial crises as forest fires, easy to start and hard to fight when conditions are right for them. Bailouts act to increase the fuel load in areas where they apply, so while they solve the immediat
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by olefoo 14y ago
The problem is, if you're setting up such a system; why should you limit yourself to a 10% cut? In the short term, if you're setting up a company that is building revenue generating sites, you can probably capture more than that in revenue
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by olefoo 14y ago
I've been thinking about building something like you describe for a while. However I do see that there are problems of agency in making such an arrangement work. Anytime you have a revenue stream that is supposed to be divided on an ongoing
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by olefoo 14y ago
Reddit. /r/forhire might work. It has the right audience.
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by olefoo 14y ago
If there is one lesson to be learned from studying the history of the 20th century, it's that genocides do happen; governments can go crazy and turn on their citizens.
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by olefoo 14y ago
Most crimes committed by US government officials in the course of carrying out their duties are documented in some way by the government. Those documents are subject to disclosure under FOIA; indeed that is the purpose of the FOIA. That the
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by olefoo 14y ago
Well, the US government has said that it doesn't have to tell you that because it's a national security matter. However the existence of at least one government associated plan to kill US Citizens on US territory was surfaced in the media l
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by olefoo 14y ago
Actually, it should be sent to their re-election campaign committees; legislators themselves are considered members of the government, and would not be considered businesses in their own right. Whereas their campaign comittees are heavily r
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Pragmatic Unicode(nedbatchelder.com)
42 points by olefoo 14y ago|19 comments
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by olefoo 14y ago
My theory is that organizational politics are what's driving many media companies to push their 'app' over their website. Building native apps means that new people with new training need to be hired, a new team with a new manager needs to

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