Swartz's crime wasn't that severe and he had no record so he was facing the small end of potential sentence.?
35 years in federal prison is the small end?
Theres nobody to blame but Swartz. He is the one that pulled the stunt. He is the one that was very sick. Blaming the prosecutors, JSTOR, or MIT for Swartz's death is simply revolting.
Anyone who thinks that 35 years is anywhere near to appropriate for what Swartz did is far, far sicker than Swartz. And far, far more dangerous too.
Use Jitsi or Retroshare instead. Both support VOIP, and both are free an open source. Jitsi does XMPP and SIP. Retroshare is a darknet application with the PGP web of trust model with a voip plugin.
There are good alternatives today that aren't beholden to any corporate interest. Use them.
If you break a treaty with a foreign country, you have no reason to expect that country to respect other treaties you have with them. Since the WTO can't put the US in jail, it has to work with the tools it has.
You say that like it's a bad thing. The word for that is "clinical experience."
No, the word for that is confirmation bias. If clinical experience trumps controlled scientific experiments, why do we bother with the controlled scientific experiments at all?
It's not. I'm in treatment right now. It's not doing anything except confirming all of my worst fears about psychiatry. Where is the actual evidence to support your claim that depression is "fairly treatable"? I've been looking. I've been looking hard.
The truth is, doctors aren't experts in everything. In fact, from my experiences with med students, they're not very bright at all. And once they're out of med school, they get most of their training from pharmaceutical representatives.
Never do anything your doctor suggests without checking to see if its sensible. He very well might be talking out of his ass, and not even know it. Their egos prevent them from acknowldging that they don't know everything. They put their personal experience above what the scientific data actually says.
That's fair enough. I was thinking about Vitamin D for my own depression, which is not seasonally linked. The world does not suddenly get more just, or present more opportunity, just because the Earth's axis is pointed towards the sun.
Studies reported a wide range of different populations, interventions and outcomes which preclude an overall synthetic meta-analysis. Preliminary data from prospective studies show an association between low vitamin D levels and subsequent depressive symptoms. Data from trials are mixed, with the largest RCT showing no beneficial effect of supplementation on depressive symptoms, while most smaller studies (6/9) show a positive effect of vitamin D supplementation on depressive symptoms, indicating likely publication bias.
Conclusions There is limited research on the role of vitamin D to reduce depressive symptoms and it currently provides a mixed picture â" it is likely that more research will be needed.
This kind of thing happens all the time in science. A hypothesis gets popular, a bunch of small labs test it out. Only the labs who get positive results publish, so it looks like there's a lot of supporting data for the hypothesis. That leads to larger grants for larger labs to study the issue. These larger studies are more rigorous, and they fail to replicate the results found by smaller labs.
This is how nonsense like vitamin C for colds gets perpetuated. People swear by it, but it does nothing. I see no reason to believe that vitamin D for depression will be any different.
That's how people who get conned by psychics, mediums, reflexologists, magnet therapists, etc, etc, think. Hell, that's how audiophiles think. You're smarter than an audiophile, aren't you?
All of the things that you see as wrong exist, but its YOUR choice to sit around and think about them.
But willful ignorance is the cause of, or at least the major obstacle, to fixing all of these problems. How can I ethically become part of the problem without hating myself as much as I hate the world?
If you view the world through such a critical lens that nothing appeals to you and you have nothing comfortable to fall back on, you need to turn the lens back on your methods and outlook.
Believe me I'm trying. I'm trying as hard as I can to get people to tell me I'm wrong, and explain to me exactly how I'm wrong. No one seems able to do that.
The pressure release is to know that you are a small part of it and that many hands make light work toward improvement.
Except when most hands are actively involved in making the world worse. Many hands make light work, and after Swartz's death we have many hands working on prosecutorial abuse. And you know what, reform is still not going to happen. Ortiz will suffer no consequences for her abuses. The legal machine will continue to devour the lives of promising young people and there's really nothing we can do about it. As far as I can tell, the only rational respose to that is depression.
And Clay's advice near the end (you did read that far, right?) is dead on. We're a group who likes to fix things. We are not trained to fix this. The best we can do is aim someone we are concerned about in the right direction.
The unfortunate fact is that there's no way to fix depression. SSRI's don't work except for the most extreme cases, and then only provide a moderate easing of symptoms. Therapy works for anxiety patients, but regularly fails to outperform placebo. Only when poor controls (e.g. waiting list) are used does therapy show significant results. And in my personal experience, it's obvious that therapists are nothing more than bullshit artists. There really is no hope for the hopeless. Offering us false hope only makes you feel better. It only fills your need to feel like you're doing something.
To bring this back to Swartz, the right way to help people like him is not to stuff them full of antidepressants and make them talk to some asshole for an hour a week. It's to build a society where what happened to Swartz can't happen again. Swartz was depressed because he was right. We live in a society where the powerful prey on the weak, and no one really cares. That's fucking depressing.
Critical thinking is part of the problem. If you've trained your mind to see the world as it actually is, then you're less likely to have comfortable illusions to fall back on. And because other people don't like having their illusions questioned, you don't have much of a social network to fall back on either.
And then when you look for help, you find that psychiatry is bullshit just like everything else. SSRI's don't actually work except for the most severely depressed. And therapy... well when your problem is that you see the world accurately, what exactly is therapy going to do?
Even if you could stop thinking critically, is that an ethical thing to do? Most of the world's problems are due to not enough critical thinking, so if you have that skill and don't use it, you're deliberately becoming part of the problem.
For how long? We might have the source, but there's no guarantee that there will be hardware to run it on in the future. And Microsoft is doing everything in its power to make that happen.
Don't tell me you think Boehner and McConnell actually believe their "job creator" bullshit. They know damn well that the rich in this country have enough money to create any jobs they want. They are not stupid people, they wouldn't have captured power so effectively if they were. This is not a case where stupidity is a sufficient explanation.
It's perfectly acceptable to store multiple copies of the same data. You just have to divide your quoted storage density by the number of copies. You don't say a RAID1 array made of 2 3TB drives is a 6TB array, and you shouldn't say this is 2.2PB/gram either.
Political party platforms are not determined by God, never to change.
No, they're determined by the people who bankroll them.
You're also not understanding the internal dynamics of the Democrats. The reason Dems side with Hollywood is
Hollywood money, that's why. Do you have more money than Hollywood? No? Then expect your dissent to get crushed just as quickly.
Let me put it to you this way: who in Michigan do you think would actually vote against an anti-Copyright candidate in a primary?
Anyone who wants an "electable" candidate in the general election. Which is just about every rank and file democrat.
The Greens and Libertarians have been trying this strategy for years, with larger potential pools of voters then an anti-copyright party, and nobody takes hem seriously.
And people like you have been trying to "change the system from the inside" for decades. And the system has just gotten worse and worse and worse. What are you going to do differently? Why do you expect it to work this time?
And on a personal note, how do you sleep at night knowing that you've supported candidates that support atrocities like the war on drug users, the private prison industry, prosecutorial abuses like plea bargaining, etc.? How do you sit down at a table with such reprehensible creatures and not lose your appetite? How do you speak to them without telling them what corrupt lying pieces of shit they are?
The death of the middle class over the past 30 years has been intentional. Our leaders seek to return us to feudalism, and have been very successful at that. Remember that, next time you see a politician crying about the middle class.
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Swartz's crime wasn't that severe and he had no record so he was facing the small end of potential sentence.?
35 years in federal prison is the small end?
Theres nobody to blame but Swartz. He is the one that pulled the stunt. He is the one that was very sick. Blaming the prosecutors, JSTOR, or MIT for Swartz's death is simply revolting.
Anyone who thinks that 35 years is anywhere near to appropriate for what Swartz did is far, far sicker than Swartz. And far, far more dangerous too.
Or just leave the keys and let them learn their lessons the hard way.
Use Jitsi or Retroshare instead. Both support VOIP, and both are free an open source. Jitsi does XMPP and SIP. Retroshare is a darknet application with the PGP web of trust model with a voip plugin.
There are good alternatives today that aren't beholden to any corporate interest. Use them.
I also object to calling any criminal hacking "hacktivism". A legal protest can be more effective.
Can be, but not necessarily. If it weren't for criminals, we wouldn't be racially integrated today.
They didn't advance their beliefs or causes
They didn't, but they tried. And that's better than most people do.
If you break a treaty with a foreign country, you have no reason to expect that country to respect other treaties you have with them. Since the WTO can't put the US in jail, it has to work with the tools it has.
Are they going to be charging for these downloads? Or are they going to be making their money through ads, the way MegaUpload did?
You say that like it's a bad thing. The word for that is "clinical experience."
No, the word for that is confirmation bias. If clinical experience trumps controlled scientific experiments, why do we bother with the controlled scientific experiments at all?
It's not. I'm in treatment right now. It's not doing anything except confirming all of my worst fears about psychiatry. Where is the actual evidence to support your claim that depression is "fairly treatable"? I've been looking. I've been looking hard.
The truth is, doctors aren't experts in everything. In fact, from my experiences with med students, they're not very bright at all. And once they're out of med school, they get most of their training from pharmaceutical representatives.
Never do anything your doctor suggests without checking to see if its sensible. He very well might be talking out of his ass, and not even know it. Their egos prevent them from acknowldging that they don't know everything. They put their personal experience above what the scientific data actually says.
That's fair enough. I was thinking about Vitamin D for my own depression, which is not seasonally linked. The world does not suddenly get more just, or present more opportunity, just because the Earth's axis is pointed towards the sun.
BTW, here's something a little more recent(2011).
This kind of thing happens all the time in science. A hypothesis gets popular, a bunch of small labs test it out. Only the labs who get positive results publish, so it looks like there's a lot of supporting data for the hypothesis. That leads to larger grants for larger labs to study the issue. These larger studies are more rigorous, and they fail to replicate the results found by smaller labs.
This is how nonsense like vitamin C for colds gets perpetuated. People swear by it, but it does nothing. I see no reason to believe that vitamin D for depression will be any different.
Yes, I do. And when my doctor offers me a treatment, I ask them the same thing. You'd be appalled at how often the answer is "I don't know."
That's how people who get conned by psychics, mediums, reflexologists, magnet therapists, etc, etc, think. Hell, that's how audiophiles think. You're smarter than an audiophile, aren't you?
All of the things that you see as wrong exist, but its YOUR choice to sit around and think about them.
But willful ignorance is the cause of, or at least the major obstacle, to fixing all of these problems. How can I ethically become part of the problem without hating myself as much as I hate the world?
The ones who are most "successful" in this life are those who say fuck it, I'll prey on the weak too and that will make me more powerful.
I would honestly rather kill myself.
Does it out perform placebo control in double blind studies?
If you view the world through such a critical lens that nothing appeals to you and you have nothing comfortable to fall back on, you need to turn the lens back on your methods and outlook.
Believe me I'm trying. I'm trying as hard as I can to get people to tell me I'm wrong, and explain to me exactly how I'm wrong. No one seems able to do that.
The pressure release is to know that you are a small part of it and that many hands make light work toward improvement.
Except when most hands are actively involved in making the world worse. Many hands make light work, and after Swartz's death we have many hands working on prosecutorial abuse. And you know what, reform is still not going to happen. Ortiz will suffer no consequences for her abuses. The legal machine will continue to devour the lives of promising young people and there's really nothing we can do about it. As far as I can tell, the only rational respose to that is depression.
But if I'm wrong, please show me where.
And Clay's advice near the end (you did read that far, right?) is dead on. We're a group who likes to fix things. We are not trained to fix this. The best we can do is aim someone we are concerned about in the right direction.
The unfortunate fact is that there's no way to fix depression. SSRI's don't work except for the most extreme cases, and then only provide a moderate easing of symptoms. Therapy works for anxiety patients, but regularly fails to outperform placebo. Only when poor controls (e.g. waiting list) are used does therapy show significant results. And in my personal experience, it's obvious that therapists are nothing more than bullshit artists. There really is no hope for the hopeless. Offering us false hope only makes you feel better. It only fills your need to feel like you're doing something.
To bring this back to Swartz, the right way to help people like him is not to stuff them full of antidepressants and make them talk to some asshole for an hour a week. It's to build a society where what happened to Swartz can't happen again. Swartz was depressed because he was right. We live in a society where the powerful prey on the weak, and no one really cares. That's fucking depressing.
Critical thinking is part of the problem. If you've trained your mind to see the world as it actually is, then you're less likely to have comfortable illusions to fall back on. And because other people don't like having their illusions questioned, you don't have much of a social network to fall back on either.
And then when you look for help, you find that psychiatry is bullshit just like everything else. SSRI's don't actually work except for the most severely depressed. And therapy... well when your problem is that you see the world accurately, what exactly is therapy going to do?
Even if you could stop thinking critically, is that an ethical thing to do? Most of the world's problems are due to not enough critical thinking, so if you have that skill and don't use it, you're deliberately becoming part of the problem.
For how long? We might have the source, but there's no guarantee that there will be hardware to run it on in the future. And Microsoft is doing everything in its power to make that happen.
Don't tell me you think Boehner and McConnell actually believe their "job creator" bullshit. They know damn well that the rich in this country have enough money to create any jobs they want. They are not stupid people, they wouldn't have captured power so effectively if they were. This is not a case where stupidity is a sufficient explanation.
The dumbing down of computers continues. What else is new?
It's perfectly acceptable to store multiple copies of the same data. You just have to divide your quoted storage density by the number of copies. You don't say a RAID1 array made of 2 3TB drives is a 6TB array, and you shouldn't say this is 2.2PB/gram either.
Political party platforms are not determined by God, never to change.
No, they're determined by the people who bankroll them.
You're also not understanding the internal dynamics of the Democrats. The reason Dems side with Hollywood is
Hollywood money, that's why. Do you have more money than Hollywood? No? Then expect your dissent to get crushed just as quickly.
Let me put it to you this way: who in Michigan do you think would actually vote against an anti-Copyright candidate in a primary?
Anyone who wants an "electable" candidate in the general election. Which is just about every rank and file democrat.
The Greens and Libertarians have been trying this strategy for years, with larger potential pools of voters then an anti-copyright party, and nobody takes hem seriously.
And people like you have been trying to "change the system from the inside" for decades. And the system has just gotten worse and worse and worse. What are you going to do differently? Why do you expect it to work this time?
And on a personal note, how do you sleep at night knowing that you've supported candidates that support atrocities like the war on drug users, the private prison industry, prosecutorial abuses like plea bargaining, etc.? How do you sit down at a table with such reprehensible creatures and not lose your appetite? How do you speak to them without telling them what corrupt lying pieces of shit they are?
The death of the middle class over the past 30 years has been intentional. Our leaders seek to return us to feudalism, and have been very successful at that. Remember that, next time you see a politician crying about the middle class.