{"id":5898,"date":"2011-06-08T09:32:20","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T16:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=5898"},"modified":"2011-06-08T09:32:20","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T16:32:20","slug":"wednesday-miscellany-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/08\/wednesday-miscellany-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>I said I was going to de-focus on bad news and its attendant blogistic knee-jerking. But once in a while the reality checks are too stunning to ignore. Here&#8217;s how bad it&#8217;s getting: The U.S. Department of Education <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news10.net\/news\/article\/141072\/2\/Dept-of-Education-breaks-down-Stockton-mans-door\" target=\"_blank\">sends a S.W.A.T team<\/a> to kick down a door and terrorize a family &#8212; for defaulted student loans. (NOTE: Original link is now 404. Thanks to dsd in the comments, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2001010\/SWAT-team-launch-dawn-raid-family-home-collect-womans-unpaid-student-loans.html?ito=feeds-newsxml\" target=\"_blank\">here&#8217;s another link<\/a>, with photos. Check his other links, too.)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/229742\/why_facebooks_facial_recognition_is_creepy.html\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook is at it again<\/a>. Keep your photos OUT of Facebook, guys. How you&#8217;re going to prevent Granny or your best buddy from posting photos of you is another thing. But this is creepy and the opt-out instructions don&#8217;t address the basic facial-recognition problem.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kentforliberty.com\/2011\/06\/internet-wakes-up.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Internet Wakes Up&#8221;<\/a> (short-short fiction). You go, Kent. Good one.\n<li>How &#8217;bout a personal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/we-need-an-evil-plan-to-foil-our-own-leaders-2011-06-07?pagenumber=1\" target=\"_blank\">Evil Plan<\/a>, rather than a political one?\n<li>\ud83d\ude42 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/705373877\/Teens-dad-spends-school-year-waving-at-bus-embarrassing-son.html\" target=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/705373877\/Teens-dad-spends-school-year-waving-at-bus-embarrassing-son.html\" target=\"_blank\">Waving at the bus.<\/a> (And the <a href=\"http:\/\/waveatthebus.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wave at the Bus<\/a> blog.) Gotta love this family.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.winknews.com\/Local-Florida\/2011-06-03\/Tables-Turn-Deputies-and-movers-show-up-at-bank-to-seize-property-for-homeowner-\" target=\"_blank\">Turning the tables<\/a> on an abusive bank. Second time at least that this has happened.\n<li>After getting burned by e-gold, I&#8217;m not trusting any online currency until it&#8217;s well proven. And I&#8217;m uber-suspicious of any money generated out of thin air. Or so complicated that only geeks can grok it. OTOH, if Bitcoin <a href=\"https:\/\/rulingclass.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/06\/chuck-schumers-new-war-on-bitcoin\/\" target=\"_blank\">has enemies like Schumer<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/c4ss.org\/content\/7361\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a>), it&#8217;s worth taking another look &#8230;\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I said I was going to de-focus on bad news and its attendant blogistic knee-jerking. But once in a while the reality checks are too stunning to ignore. Here&#8217;s how bad it&#8217;s getting: The U.S. Department of Education sends a S.W.A.T team to kick down a door and terrorize a family &#8212; for defaulted student loans. (NOTE: Original link is now 404. Thanks to dsd in the comments, here&#8217;s another link, with photos. Check his other links, too.) Facebook is at it again. Keep your photos OUT of Facebook, guys. How you&#8217;re going to prevent Granny or your best buddy&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/08\/wednesday-miscellany-12\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday miscellany<\/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":[6,16,18,20,23,28,30,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-humor","category-mind-and-spirit","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-resistance","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\/5898","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=5898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}