Micro$uck is also screwing customers in many other ways. Anyone who buys a Win 8 Home Edition laptop expecting to downgrade the OS to XP or 7 is in for a very rude awakening - you will have to upgrade to Win 8 Pro before you can downgrade to XP or 7. Time to get off Micro$uck's vampire wagon...
Not many papers yet, but with a larger population of papers and a site search capability - this really has very strong potential. Congratulations to Pete Binfield for a much-needed job very well done! :-)
Aaron Swartz girlfriend blames suicide on 'vindictiveness' of prosecution
The partner of the internet activist Aaron Swartz, who killed himself earlier this week, has blamed his suicide on the stress of his prosecution.
Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman said she was "absolutely confident" that Swartz killed himself because of the case, in which he was being prosecuted for downloading academic articles from a university archive.
Swartz, 26, a prominent open-internet advocate who helped build Reddit and RSS, was found dead in the Brooklyn apartment he shared with Stinebrickner-Kauffman on January 11. They started dating a few weeks before Swartz was indicted in 2011.
He was set to go trial next month for downloading academic articles from JSTOR, an online academic journal library, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. If convicted, he could have faced a 30-year jail sentence, although it emerged this week that he had been offered a six-month term in a plea bargain. "The legal system has lost all sense of mercy and justice and it has been replaced with punitiveness and vindictiveness," Stinebrickner-Kauffman told Mail Online.
"Felony charges change the course of people's lives. There are things Aaron maybe wanted to do – like go into government – and it's just ludicrous that one act like this could prevent somebody like him from serving his country. The risk was too much for him."
[...] Strinebrickner-Kauffman is the executive director and founder of SumOfUs [http://sumofus.org], a movement that attempts to counterbalance the power of corporations. She said that Swartz would take the subway with her to work, but the morning of January 11, he told her he wanted to stay home and rest.
"I wanted to stay with him but he said he didn't want me to and that I should go to the office," Strinebrickner-Kauffman said. "So I did."
She found him that evening dead of an apparent suicide in their apartment. [...]
As Rex Nutting of Marketwatch noted in his 12/18/2012 article “Why isn’t Obama demanding corporate welfare cuts?”, “$2.6 trillion could be saved [...] It’s possible to achieve all the budget savings we need for the next 10 years simply by cutting the fat out of discretionary spending programs and tax expenditures [removing all of the corporate welfare] without raising tax rates on the wealthy or cutting the safety net at all.”
Oil and gas companies, which are raking in record profits, certainly don’t need $4 billion a year in subsidies, and even the oil company CEOs admit they don’t need it!
Why are cuts to Social Security and Medicare even being discussed while literally billions in corporate welfare are constantly spilling out of the Treasury?
White House petition to End Corporate Welfare: http://wh.gov/Qa6f
As Rex Nutting of Marketwatch noted in his 12/18/2012 article “Why isn’t Obama demanding corporate welfare cuts?”, “$2.6 trillion could be saved [...] It’s possible to achieve all the budget savings we need for the next 10 years simply by cutting the fat out of discretionary spending programs and tax expenditures [removing all of the corporate welfare] without raising tax rates on the wealthy or cutting the safety net at all.”
Oil and gas companies, which are raking in record profits, certainly don’t need $4 billion a year in subsidies, and even the oil company CEOs admit they don’t need it!
Why are cuts to Social Security and Medicare even being discussed while literally billions in corporate welfare are constantly spilling out of the Treasury?
White House petition to End Corporate Welfare: http://wh.gov/Qa6f
As Rex Nutting of Marketwatch noted in his 12/18/2012 article “Why isn’t Obama demanding corporate welfare cuts?”, “$2.6 trillion could be saved [...] It’s possible to achieve all the budget savings we need for the next 10 years simply by cutting the fat out of discretionary spending programs and tax expenditures [removing all of the corporate welfare] without raising tax rates on the wealthy or cutting the safety net at all.”
Oil and gas companies, which are raking in record profits, certainly don’t need $4 billion a year in subsidies, and even the oil company CEOs admit they don’t need it!
Why are cuts to Social Security and Medicare even being discussed while literally billions in corporate welfare are constantly spilling out of the Treasury?
White House petition to End Corporate Welfare: http://wh.gov/Qa6f
As Rex Nutting of Marketwatch noted in his 12/18/2012 article “Why isn’t Obama demanding corporate welfare cuts?”, “$2.6 trillion could be saved [...] It’s possible to achieve all the budget savings we need for the next 10 years simply by cutting the fat out of discretionary spending programs and tax expenditures [removing all of the corporate welfare] without raising tax rates on the wealthy or cutting the safety net at all.”
Oil and gas companies, which are raking in record profits, certainly don’t need $4 billion a year in subsidies, and even the oil company CEOs admit they don’t need it!
Why are cuts to Social Security and Medicare even being discussed while literally billions in corporate welfare are constantly spilling out of the Treasury?
White House petition to End Corporate Welfare: http://wh.gov/Qa6f
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Swartz's Girlfriend Explains
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jan/18/aaron-swartz-suicide-girlfriend-intern et-reddit
Aaron Swartz girlfriend blames suicide on 'vindictiveness' of prosecution
The partner of the internet activist Aaron Swartz, who killed himself earlier this week, has blamed his suicide on the stress of his prosecution.
Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman said she was "absolutely confident" that Swartz killed himself because of the case, in which he was being prosecuted for downloading academic articles from a university archive.
Swartz, 26, a prominent open-internet advocate who helped build Reddit and RSS, was found dead in the Brooklyn apartment he shared with Stinebrickner-Kauffman on January 11. They started dating a few weeks before Swartz was indicted in 2011.
He was set to go trial next month for downloading academic articles from JSTOR, an online academic journal library, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. If convicted, he could have faced a 30-year jail sentence, although it emerged this week that he had been offered a six-month term in a plea bargain. "The legal system has lost all sense of mercy and justice and it has been replaced with punitiveness and vindictiveness," Stinebrickner-Kauffman told Mail Online.
"Felony charges change the course of people's lives. There are things Aaron maybe wanted to do – like go into government – and it's just ludicrous that one act like this could prevent somebody like him from serving his country. The risk was too much for him."
[...] Strinebrickner-Kauffman is the executive director and founder of SumOfUs [http://sumofus.org], a movement that attempts to counterbalance the power of corporations. She said that Swartz would take the subway with her to work, but the morning of January 11, he told her he wanted to stay home and rest.
"I wanted to stay with him but he said he didn't want me to and that I should go to the office," Strinebrickner-Kauffman said. "So I did."
She found him that evening dead of an apparent suicide in their apartment. [...]
Sign these White House petitions!
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-united-states-district-attorney-carmen-orti z-office-overreach-case-aaron-swartz/RQNrG1Ck
White House petition to Fire Assistant US Attorney Steve Heymann (8,074 now)
http://wh.gov/Ex1n
White House petition to Reform the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (3,151 now)
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/reform-computer-fraud-and-abuse-act-reflect-realit ies-computing-and-networks-2013/qMvdwVNw
White House petition to Limit Copyrights to a Maximum of 10 Years (2,438 now)
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Sign these White House petitions!
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-united-states-district-attorney-carmen-orti z-office-overreach-case-aaron-swartz/RQNrG1Ck
White House petition to Fire Assistant US Attorney Steve Heymann (8,074 now)
http://wh.gov/Ex1n
White House petition to Reform the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (3,151 now)
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/reform-computer-fraud-and-abuse-act-reflect-realit ies-computing-and-networks-2013/qMvdwVNw
White House petition to Limit Copyrights to a Maximum of 10 Years (2,438 now)
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/shorten-excessive-copyright-terms/XMc72zjc
Sign these White House petitions!
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-united-states-district-attorney-carmen-orti z-office-overreach-case-aaron-swartz/RQNrG1Ck
White House petition to Fire Assistant US Attorney Steve Heymann (8,074 now)
http://wh.gov/Ex1n
White House petition to Reform the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (3,151 now)
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/reform-computer-fraud-and-abuse-act-reflect-realit ies-computing-and-networks-2013/qMvdwVNw
White House petition to Limit Copyrights to a Maximum of 10 Years (2,438 now)
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/shorten-excessive-copyright-terms/XMc72zjc
White House Petitions
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2262137/Aaron-Swartz-Reddit-founder-request-plea- deal-turned-Massachusetts-prosecutor.html
Lawyer says he warned prosecutors that Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz was suicidal
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2262518/Lawyer-says-warned-prosecutors-Reddit-fo under-Aaron-Swartz-suicidal.html
White House petition to fire US Attprney Carmen Ortiz for her misconduct in this case
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-united-states-district-attorney-carmen-orti z-office-overreach-case-aaron-swartz/RQNrG1Ck
The petition to fire US Attorney Carmen Ortiz has already exceeded the 25,000 signatures needed to get a response from the White House.
Here's a new petition to fire Assistant US Attorney Steve Heymann:
http://wh.gov/Ex1n
White House petition to limit copyrights to a maximum of 10 years
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/shorten-excessive-copyright-terms/XMc72zjc
White House Petitions
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2262137/Aaron-Swartz-Reddit-founder-request-plea- deal-turned-Massachusetts-prosecutor.html
Lawyer says he warned prosecutors that Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz was suicidal
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2262518/Lawyer-says-warned-prosecutors-Reddit-fo under-Aaron-Swartz-suicidal.html
White House petition to fire US Attprney Carmen Ortiz for her misconduct in this case
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-united-states-district-attorney-carmen-orti z-office-overreach-case-aaron-swartz/RQNrG1Ck
The petition to fire US Attorney Carmen Ortiz has already exceeded the 25,000 signatures needed to get a response from the White House.
Here's a new petition to fire Assistant US Attorney Steve Heymann:
http://wh.gov/Ex1n
White House petition to limit copyrights to a maximum of 10 years
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/shorten-excessive-copyright-terms/XMc72zjc
White House Petitions
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2262137/Aaron-Swartz-Reddit-founder-request-plea- deal-turned-Massachusetts-prosecutor.html
Lawyer says he warned prosecutors that Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz was suicidal
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2262518/Lawyer-says-warned-prosecutors-Reddit-fo under-Aaron-Swartz-suicidal.html
White House petition to fire US Attprney Carmen Ortiz for her misconduct in this case
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-united-states-district-attorney-carmen-orti z-office-overreach-case-aaron-swartz/RQNrG1Ck
The petition to fire US Attorney Carmen Ortiz has already exceeded the 25,000 signatures needed to get a response from the White House.
Here's a new petition to fire Assistant US Attorney Steve Heymann:
http://wh.gov/Ex1n
White House petition to limit copyrights to a maximum of 10 years
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/shorten-excessive-copyright-terms/XMc72zjc
How To Cut Spending: End Corporate Welfare!!!
Oil and gas companies, which are raking in record profits, certainly don’t need $4 billion a year in subsidies, and even the oil company CEOs admit they don’t need it!
Why are cuts to Social Security and Medicare even being discussed while literally billions in corporate welfare are constantly spilling out of the Treasury?
White House petition to End Corporate Welfare: http://wh.gov/Qa6f
(untitled comment)
As Rex Nutting of Marketwatch noted in his 12/18/2012 article “Why isn’t Obama demanding corporate welfare cuts?”, “$2.6 trillion could be saved [...] It’s possible to achieve all the budget savings we need for the next 10 years simply by cutting the fat out of discretionary spending programs and tax expenditures [removing all of the corporate welfare] without raising tax rates on the wealthy or cutting the safety net at all.”
Oil and gas companies, which are raking in record profits, certainly don’t need $4 billion a year in subsidies, and even the oil company CEOs admit they don’t need it!
Why are cuts to Social Security and Medicare even being discussed while literally billions in corporate welfare are constantly spilling out of the Treasury?
White House petition to End Corporate Welfare: http://wh.gov/Qa6f
(untitled comment)
As Rex Nutting of Marketwatch noted in his 12/18/2012 article “Why isn’t Obama demanding corporate welfare cuts?”, “$2.6 trillion could be saved [...] It’s possible to achieve all the budget savings we need for the next 10 years simply by cutting the fat out of discretionary spending programs and tax expenditures [removing all of the corporate welfare] without raising tax rates on the wealthy or cutting the safety net at all.”
Oil and gas companies, which are raking in record profits, certainly don’t need $4 billion a year in subsidies, and even the oil company CEOs admit they don’t need it!
Why are cuts to Social Security and Medicare even being discussed while literally billions in corporate welfare are constantly spilling out of the Treasury?
White House petition to End Corporate Welfare: http://wh.gov/Qa6f
(untitled comment)
As Rex Nutting of Marketwatch noted in his 12/18/2012 article “Why isn’t Obama demanding corporate welfare cuts?”, “$2.6 trillion could be saved [...] It’s possible to achieve all the budget savings we need for the next 10 years simply by cutting the fat out of discretionary spending programs and tax expenditures [removing all of the corporate welfare] without raising tax rates on the wealthy or cutting the safety net at all.”
Oil and gas companies, which are raking in record profits, certainly don’t need $4 billion a year in subsidies, and even the oil company CEOs admit they don’t need it!
Why are cuts to Social Security and Medicare even being discussed while literally billions in corporate welfare are constantly spilling out of the Treasury?
White House petition to End Corporate Welfare: http://wh.gov/Qa6f
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