{"id":14740,"date":"2013-08-12T01:15:28","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T08:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=14740"},"modified":"2013-08-12T01:15:28","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T08:15:28","slug":"monday-links-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/12\/monday-links-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Carl-Bear (who occasionally traffics in science fiction) makes his best guess about what Elon Musk&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bussjaeger.org\/index.html#hyperloop-guess\" target=\"_blank\">mysterious new &#8220;hyperloop&#8221; transportation system<\/a> will be. And finds it familiar.\n<li>One more (rather weird) way that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/rich-and-poor-people-have-different-toxins-in-their-bodies-2013-8\" target=\"_blank\">the rich are different than the poor<\/a>. Different toxins in their bodies.\n<li>Government forces <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2013\/08\/lavabit-encrypted-email-service-shuts-down-cant-say-why\" target=\"_blank\">one privacy option out of business<\/a> (in the creepiest way). A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,2817,2422944,00.asp\" target=\"_blank\">new privacy option<\/a> is born. Not in the U.S. of course. Nobody in their right mind would base a privacy service in the U.S. from here on out.\n<li>Small business? The IRS wants to know <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2013\/08\/10\/critics-question-irs-initiative-targeting-small-businesses\/\" target=\"_blank\">what you&#8217;re doing with your cash<\/a> &#8212; and it appears to be shooting in the dark hoping to win through intimidation. Of course, it denies any intent to intimidate anybody. Nooooo, the IRS is your friend. You are its &#8220;customer.&#8221; No intimidation could possibly be involved.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2013\/08\/do-you-trust-the-police.html\" target=\"_blank\">Do you trust cops?<\/a> (Rhetorical question. Wiseass remarks not required &#8212; but probably inevitable.)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/libertarianalliance.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/07\/revolution-rip\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Revolution, RIP.&#8221;<\/a> Sad but beautiful.\n<li>Is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1840309\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Divergent<\/i><\/a> going to be good? Anybody here read <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;field-keywords=Veronica%20Roth&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;tag=livifree07-20&#038;url=search-alias%3Daps\">the parts of the YA trilogy<\/a> published so far? (This movie is being made from book one; book three is due out this fall.) Looks either a) promising or b) like a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;field-keywords=Hunger%20Games&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;tag=livifree07-20&#038;url=search-alias%3Daps\"><i>Hunger Games<\/i><\/a> ripoff. Getting the books now &#8230;\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carl-Bear (who occasionally traffics in science fiction) makes his best guess about what Elon Musk&#8217;s mysterious new &#8220;hyperloop&#8221; transportation system will be. And finds it familiar. One more (rather weird) way that the rich are different than the poor. Different toxins in their bodies. Government forces one privacy option out of business (in the creepiest way). A new privacy option is born. Not in the U.S. of course. Nobody in their right mind would base a privacy service in the U.S. from here on out. Small business? The IRS wants to know what you&#8217;re doing with your cash &#8212; and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/12\/monday-links-18\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday links<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,13,19,20,23,28,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-free-speech","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}