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On the first page, it says:

    Aaron Swartz
    TERMINATED: 01/14/2013
It's probably just legalese that refers to the case being closed, but the placement of the all-caps word right under Aaron's name sent a chill down my spine.

Sorry for the off-topic post.



That is one very unfortunate choice of words and I have goose flesh just reading that line. Terminated indeed.


"probably"? Yes, it is.

Heaven forbid when someone 'kill's the Apache instance on aaronsw.com...

EDIT: Sorry, this might seem a bit harsh/shallow, but it was my attempt at pointing out that there is a reaction here that is, in parts, bordering on the hysterical - to use the parent example, "I'm sure the use of 'terminated' is probably just legal terminology"... as opposed to what, "Yeah, we got him, target terminated"?




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