hester’s Comments

• Mar 25th, 2013 @ 6:29pm

  Chinese

  on DailyDirt: Learning A Foreign Language

  Chinese is heartbreakingly difficult. I'm trying to learn it now (just started). LInk for why it's so damn hard: http://pinyin.info/readings/texts/moser.html

• Mar 7th, 2013 @ 12:14pm

  Re:

  on Holder: DOJ Used Discretion In Bullying Swartz, Press Lacked Discretion In Quoting Facts

  That account by norton is truly heartbreaking. They destroyed her and Aaron's relationship b/f they destroyed him

• Mar 7th, 2013 @ 12:01pm

  Re: How do we let these people into positions of power?

  on Holder: DOJ Used Discretion In Bullying Swartz, Press Lacked Discretion In Quoting Facts

  Until and unless money is taken out of politics completely these ppl will always be in power. We voters get a pared down choice, a choice dictated by the monied powers that be. Unless you are independently wealthy or your campaign is subsidized by the monied, you are sol.

• Feb 5th, 2013 @ 1:06pm

  (untitled comment)

  on MIT Should Make All Its Research Open Access In Honor Of Aaron Swartz

  Nice idea. Hope it happens. But i've got no faith that it will. MIT and US Gov't have very strong ties.

• Jan 26th, 2013 @ 8:22am

  prosecutors

  on Aaron Swartz Unlikely To Face Jail Or Conviction... Until Feds Decided To 'Send A Message'

  I guess the question is who decided that the feds should be involved?

• Jan 23rd, 2013 @ 1:31pm

  Old folks and technology

  on The War On Computing: What Happens When Authorities Don't Understand Technology

  I'm guilty of both being old and not understanding technology. On the other hand I have been reading tirelessly about Aaron Swartz and what happened to him.
  
  Some of us oldsters are pretty liberal and understand and approve of openness and availability for people to become informed. I think many people who are against this openness really do not understand, but would be sympathetic if things were explained to them in way they (we ) could understand.
  
  And btw, many of us protested the War in Vietnam, so we're not all idiots or frightened. Just ignorant of newer technologies.
  
  peace.

• Jan 22nd, 2013 @ 4:52pm

  Re: Low blow

  on Some People Still Can't Seem To Question Their Car's GPS

  you are undoubtedly right. at first I thought it was funny. then i realized the age of the woman and stopped thinking it was funny. no question she has some form of dementia.

• Jan 22nd, 2013 @ 9:03am

  Prosecutors

  on Carmen Ortiz Refuses To Reflect; Insists Her Office Will Do Everything The Same As Before

  there's another suicide on Stephen Heymann's watch:
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2262831/Revealed-Aaron-Swartz-prosecutor-drove-hacke r-suicide-2008-named-cyber-crime-case.html