{"id":22763,"date":"2015-09-27T08:03:33","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T15:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=22763"},"modified":"2015-09-27T08:03:33","modified_gmt":"2015-09-27T15:03:33","slug":"yikes-the-open-tabs-are-taking-over-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/27\/yikes-the-open-tabs-are-taking-over-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Yikes, the open tabs are taking over the world!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So &#8230; a gigantic Sunday morning linkathon &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The technology is ancient. Mark Twain knew all about it. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefirearmblog.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/25\/making-gunpowder-from-urine-natural-materials\/\" target=\"_blank\">making gunpowder with urine<\/a> is taking the gun blogs by storm. Smoky black powder it&#8217;ll be. But one more way that all the self-righteous bans in the world won&#8217;t end firearms.\n<li>We all know not to talk to cops, but in a moment of surprise and stress, the temptation to &#8220;cooperate&#8221; is enormous. The astute Ken White <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brownwhitelaw.com\/if-i-just-talk-to-the-police-i-can-clear-this-up-the-dangerous-delusion\/\" target=\"_blank\">explains the WHY<\/a> of things in a way that might help us zip our lips.\n<li>The Motley Fool <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/general\/2015\/09\/19\/84-mpg-and-only-6800-heres-my-test-drive.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">test drives an Elio<\/a>.\n<li>Another way Oregon did its pot legalization better than Washington: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/09\/21\/us\/oregons-legal-sale-of-marijuana-comes-with-reprieve.html\" target=\"_blank\">a reprieve for past offenders<\/a>.\n<li>And even in benighted Massachusetts a judge <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.com\/blog\/news\/2015\/09\/highest-court-in-massachusetts-bans-cops-from-stopping-drivers-solely-for-marijuana\/\" target=\"_blank\">tells cops<\/a> they can&#8217;t stop drivers for pot alone.\n<li>Eeeeeew. Another <a href=\"http:\/\/losangeles.cbslocal.com\/2015\/09\/25\/la-beaches-remain-closed-as-crews-clean-up-waste\/\" target=\"_blank\">government-aided environmental mess<\/a>\n<li>Ray Bradbury, Epictetus, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.com\/2015\/09\/the-real-reason-we-need-to-stop-trying-to-protect-everyones-feelings\/\" target=\"_blank\">real reason<\/a> we should quit coddling every weak, fainting, &#8220;offended&#8221; soul.\n<li>Hillary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/article_email\/hillary-clinton-vs-foia-1443136818-lMyQjAxMTE1NTI1NTkyMDU5Wj\" target=\"_blank\">vs FOIA<\/a>.\n<li>White House considered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2015\/9\/24\/9393091\/white-house-break-encryption-updates-working-group\" target=\"_blank\">disguising malware as updates<\/a>. Heck, what else is new? In this era of <a href=\"https:\/\/bearbussjaeger.wordpress.com\/2015\/08\/30\/so-who-would-go-to-prison\/\" target=\"_blank\">forced cloud computing<\/a> Microsoft does that routinely.\n<li>Student studying counterterrorism <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2015\/sep\/24\/student-accused-being-terrorist-reading-book-terrorism\" target=\"_blank\">gets questioned<\/a> by school security for &#8230; um, reading a book about terrorism.\n<li>Can you really &#8220;create a public disturbance&#8221; that only you and the cop involved <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/houston-texas\/texas\/article\/Burleson-Alvarado-police-arrest-Curs-Jessica-Texas-6525037.php\" target=\"_blank\">can hear<\/a>?\n<li>Netflix knows <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/netflix-can-pinpoint-exactly-when-people-get-addicted-t-1732778194\" target=\"_blank\">the exact moment<\/a> you get hooked on a streaming series. (But they can&#8217;t tell when I watch my <i>Orange is the New Black<\/i> DVDs with the Internet connection disabled!)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So &#8230; a gigantic Sunday morning linkathon &#8230; The technology is ancient. Mark Twain knew all about it. But making gunpowder with urine is taking the gun blogs by storm. Smoky black powder it&#8217;ll be. But one more way that all the self-righteous bans in the world won&#8217;t end firearms. We all know not to talk to cops, but in a moment of surprise and stress, the temptation to &#8220;cooperate&#8221; is enormous. The astute Ken White explains the WHY of things in a way that might help us zip our lips. The Motley Fool test drives an Elio. Another way&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/27\/yikes-the-open-tabs-are-taking-over-the-world\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yikes, the open tabs are taking over the world!<\/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":[5,6,7,12,19,23,28,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-legalization","category-computers-and-technology","category-cultural-insanity","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-war-on-some-drugs","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22763","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=22763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}