{"id":25542,"date":"2016-06-12T14:38:14","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T21:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=25542"},"modified":"2016-06-12T14:38:14","modified_gmt":"2016-06-12T21:38:14","slug":"sunday-monday-links-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/12\/sunday-monday-links-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday-Monday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Yet another way cynical, opportunistic cops (and governments in general) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/canada\/man-ticketed-after-handing-change-to-cop-posing-as-panhandler-1.2940070\" target=\"_blank\">quash our desires<\/a> to be kind to our fellow man. Foul parasites. And apparently Canadian sneaks are no better than U.S. sneaks. (H\/T JB)\n<li>Ohhhhh gawwwwwwd. Not agaiiiiiin. First Sudafed goes behind the counter and gets your name into a police registry. Now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techtimes.com\/articles\/163697\/20160608\/fda-warns-about-people-overdosing-on-diarrhea-drug.htm\" target=\"_blank\">over-the-counter diahhrea meds<\/a> &#8212; yes, Immodium, of all things &#8212; get targeted as part of Dreaded Scourge of Opiod Abuse.\n<li>It&#8217;s one thing to carry your heart on your sleeve. Entirely another to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techtimes.com\/articles\/164124\/20160609\/man-awaiting-transplant-survived-more-than-a-year-using-artificial-heart-in-a-backpack.htm\" target=\"_blank\">carry your heart on your back<\/a> for over a year.\n<li>Well, I wouldn&#8217;t v*te for Trump if somebody put a gun to my head. But even so, being a gay, Hispanic Trump supporter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/posteverything\/wp\/2016\/06\/10\/im-voting-for-donald-trump-so-i-went-to-see-him-speak-protesters-broke-my-nose\/\" target=\"_blank\">doesn&#8217;t merit having your nose broken<\/a> by leftist thugs.\n<li>People have called Windows 10 malware. But I figured that was figurative. Turns out that, given its recent, extremely deceptive sneak-install behavior, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3080102\/operating-systems\/how-windows-10-became-malware.html\" target=\"_blank\">it actually <i>is<\/i> malware<\/a>, by Microsoft&#8217;s own definition. MS&#8217;s vile sneakery <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3073457\/windows\/how-microsofts-nasty-new-windows-10-pop-up-tricks-you-into-upgrading.html\" target=\"_blank\">has been confirmed<\/a> by knowledgeable sources. Beware any pop-ups from MS!\n<li>Fascinating. The FDA and Interpol want to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-fda-prescriptiondrugs-idUSKCN0YV1R7\" target=\"_blank\">abolish 4,402 international websites<\/a> selling prescription drugs. This is based on confiscation of 797 parcels in a brief recent period. Think on it. What does that number tell you about <i>the number of parcels that have gotten quietly and safely to customers<\/i> all this time &#8212; customers who are apparently happy with their confidential, and money-saving purchases. People who will want to make similar purchases in the future. Um &#8230; good luck with that, bureaucops.\n<li>And speaking of confidentiality (or lack thereof) in prescription drug purchasing &#8230; <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2016\/06\/10\/dea-wants-inside-your-medical-records-to-fight-the-war-on-drugs.html\" target=\"_blank\">the DEA now wants warrantless access<\/a> to your legal drug records<\/b>. AND might hassle or arrest you for perfectly legal activity. (H\/T to <i>everybody<\/i> who sent me this link; I already had it, which just goes to show you this is one to pay real serious attention to, even if you blow off everything else you see here today.)\n<li>Remember the story in our last links post about cops having a new device to let them steal more money during traffic stops? Thought you might be interested in the Department of (Achtung!) Homeland Security&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/science-and-technology\/prepaid-card-reader-aids-seizing-fraudulent-cards\" target=\"_blank\">more favorable take<\/a> on it. (And what is it they say about the differences between theory and reality again &#8230;?) Alas, the <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2016\/06\/appeals-court-rules-cops-can-legally-search-a-seized-credit-card-with-no-warrant\/\" target=\"_blank\">courts, as usual, take the pro-gov line<\/a> in such matters.\n<li>I&#8217;m sorry that today&#8217;s links have contained so many downers and nothing in the area of nooz you can use. At least we can end on a note of good cheer, courtesy of MJR. Here&#8217;s another of those optimistic post-TSHTF flash stories: <a href=\"http:\/\/365tomorrows.com\/06\/10\/hills\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Hills&#8221; by Joe Miles<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another way cynical, opportunistic cops (and governments in general) quash our desires to be kind to our fellow man. Foul parasites. And apparently Canadian sneaks are no better than U.S. sneaks. (H\/T JB) Ohhhhh gawwwwwwd. Not agaiiiiiin. First Sudafed goes behind the counter and gets your name into a police registry. Now over-the-counter diahhrea meds &#8212; yes, Immodium, of all things &#8212; get targeted as part of Dreaded Scourge of Opiod Abuse. It&#8217;s one thing to carry your heart on your sleeve. Entirely another to carry your heart on your back for over a year. Well, I wouldn&#8217;t v*te&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/12\/sunday-monday-links-3\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday-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":[6,7,9,13,19,23,28,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-cultural-insanity","category-free-speech","category-health-and-science","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\/25542","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=25542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}