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by temphn 14y ago
This is apologism for untrammeled abuse of power. He was being threatened with 35 years in federal prison for downloading some PDFs! He would have been 61 when he got out. They would have taken away 40-50% of his life. Sometimes it is bet
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Think about Aaron Swartz, and now realize the balls and execution it took for Larry and Sergey to do Google Books. They got big enough that Google's "only" risk was a civil lawsuit. Had they been smaller, they would have been risking some a
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drzaiusapelord (great name, made me smile in spite of myself today) I think you have your heart in the right place. I'd ask you to hopefully see that at least some libertarians/Paul supporters are pretty different from your run of the mill
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Exactly. The DC police made the (correct) decision recently to use prosecutorial discretion to not pursue David Gregory, who DID have juice in DC. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/11/david-gregory-inves... Having carefully review
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A young man is dead because Carmen M. Ortiz unambiguously railroaded him. Frankly the ignorance and tenor of her prosecution in this area makes me much less likely to believe that all those other people she fined and jailed were bad guys. T
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All Obama has to say is that Massachusetts law enforcement acted stupidly. It'd have the same effect, as they've done so before, and he's said so before. http://articles.cnn.com/2009-07-22/us/harvard.gates.intervie...
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The goal must be to get her fired for abuse of power. Getting the press involved is the only way to accomplish this. Calling a Congressman by itself will only help if done in a huge and coordinated way. That kind of suggestion on its own is
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Ortiz is Heymann's boss. http://www.justice.gov/usao/ma/news/2011/July/SwartzAaronPR....
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Very much agree. Getting her out of office is the beginning of that conversation.
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It's obviously very important to stay on the bright white side of legal here, as we are dealing with a prosecutorial bully. Emailing her directly is unlikely to produce results and likely to get your name on some kind of terrorist watch lis
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Naming and shaming Carmen M. Ortiz for destroying the life of a young man is exactly what is necessary. She brought 13 felony counts against him for downloading articles that should be freely available, after JSTOR itself had dropped the ch
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are approximately equally inflationary, over time. Exactly. Both terminate in the end of the US as the world's reserve currency, with the yuan as its obvious replacement. China has already signed deals with Russia, Australia, Brazil
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Well, with a Bitcoin bank, at least as a customer you have a chance of not being robbed. By contrast, if you keep your money with an FDIC bank in USD, you are having your funds diluted away every day (the latest proposal is to print a $1
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Paypal encountered many of the problems that central regulators were set up to solve. Their solution to fraud protection was better than anything else out there, and has been widely copied in the industry. Do they have false positives? Yes,
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You are absolutely right here on the government point, but I think that fact cuts a different way. Without newspapers to make up people's minds for them on who to vote for, they will now need to actually read position papers and make an inf
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Blogs have indeed disrupted print, which is why the New York Times lost its bet in 2002. http://blog.longnow.org/02008/02/01/decision-blogs-vs-new-yo... Long Bets has arrived at a decision for Long Bet #2 between blogger Dave Winer
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The guys who set up the lighting and sound on motion picture sets have not been "obsoleted" by Reddit. No, but they will be by devices like Lytro and the Kinect, and video camera descendants thereof. Instagram filters are just th
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It may well be that hard-right conservatives are opposed to copyright reform. But I think you will have to agree that progressives are likewise unlikely to cover themselves in glory here, as many of the most vicious and relentless lobbyists
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"Make their employees do that" Who else is going to respond to a Home Depot customer service issue but the employees? It seems the company is damned if they do and damned if they don't. Damned if they don't respond to her tweet. Dam
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The title of this link is very misleading. Amazon is actually going out of its way to provide excellent customer service, and is being exploited by a scammer. It is therefore not "Amazon's Scam", but a scam perpetrated against Amazon. As to
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> I have never felt the need to own firearms in order to feel secure robomartin: I enjoy many of your posts and understand where you're coming from. Regarding this point, however, if you saw videos of Koreatown during the LA Riots, or i
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Murder is banned. He committed more than twenty murders. Why do people think that you can ban mental illness? The focus on guns as opposed to the person is similar to the TSA's focus on weapons vs. terrorists. As for the cause and effect li
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I disagree. The TSA is extremely unpopular and an attack on it could get a lot of positive press.
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This is an actual email: http://foia2011.org/index.php?id=5718 From: Phil Jones To: "Michael E. Mann" Subject: HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL Date: Thu Jul 8 16:30:16 2004 ... I can't see either of these papers being in the next I
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From our point of view guns are the core of the problem. An individual can decide not to buy something if they don't like it. Apple can tell Google to piss off when they don't like the terms of a deal. But you can't tell the government to g
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Or we could quit acting like starting a business in the U.S. is really just like starting a business in a country run by a junta The US is obviously a much better place to start a business than a Latin American dictatorship.
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Cool, yeah, beer is awesome. Appreciate the discussion. Another way to express what I'm saying is this: Individuals do lots of things that aren't directly for profit, like open source or art or helping out a friend. But over the long term t
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I'm almost certain you're not arguing that "dollars generated per person" is the only valid measure of the success of a government Sure, it isn't the only measure of success, but if this number is very low then that is (I woul
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Hmmm. Russian state-owned enterprises did not end with Stalin, and Chinese state-owned enterprises did not end with Mao. Many of them continue through to the present day and are not setting the world on fire. I should note that I agree that
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Ok, I might well be missing the point. But enough people upvoted that I think this is a common perception: "Oh, not another time-waster". So, maybe make the homepage address this issue head on with a good video that shows why this is compel

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