{"id":179761,"date":"2017-11-03T04:26:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T09:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/11\/03\/linkage-167\/"},"modified":"2017-11-03T04:26:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T09:26:00","slug":"linkage-167","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/11\/03\/linkage-167\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/10\/29\/us\/whitefish-cancel-puerto-rico.html\">Puerto Rico Cancels Whitefish Energy Contract to Rebuild Power Lines<\/a> (<i>New York Times<\/i>) I&#8217;m hoping that there will be a criminal investigation.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jalopnik.com\/this-guy-documents-nearly-a-year-of-quality-problems-wi-1819955046\">This Guy Documents Nearly A Year Of Quality Problems With His Tesla Model S<\/a> (<i>Jalopnik<\/i>) It&#8217;s like that old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/humor\/jokes\/autos.asp\">the GM \u2014 Bill Gates joke<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2017\/10\/30\/late-stage-disaster-capitalism-2.html\">Source tells WSJ that the FBI is investigating Whitefish Energy and its $300M Puerto Rico contract<\/a> (<i>Boing Boing<\/i>) My wish is granted.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2017\/10\/researchers-warn-state-system-to-catch-voter-fraud-has-99-false-positive-rate\/\">Researchers warn state system to catch voter fraud has 99% false positive rate<\/a> (<i>Ars Technica<\/i>) This is a feature, not a bug.  It&#8217;s about preventing people named Gonzalez from voting.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2017\/10\/appeals-court-keeps-alive-the-never-ending-linux-case-sco-v-ibm\/\">Appeals court keeps alive the never-ending Linux case, SCO v. IBM<\/a> (<i>Ars Technica<\/i>) This is still a thing?  WTF?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailymash.co.uk\/news\/international\/in-our-defence-we-didnt-think-you-were-thick-enough-for-this-to-work-says-russia-20171031138293\">In our defence we didn\u2019t think you were thick enough for this to work, says Russia<\/a> (<i>Daily Mash<\/i>) It&#8217;s satire, folks.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonbabylon.com\/meet-the-democratic-partys-corrupt-crooked-pro-clinton-rules-committee-hey-everybody-lets-further-openly-fuck-democracy-in-2020\/\">Meet the Democratic Party\u2019s Corrupt, Crooked Pro-Clinton Rules Committee: \u201cHey everybody, let\u2019s further openly f%$# democracy in 2020!<\/a> (<i>Washington Babylon<\/i>) Pretty much.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/editor.currentaffairs.org\/2017\/10\/why-you-hate-contemporary-architecture\/\">Why You Hate Contemporary Architecture<\/a> (<i>Current Affairs<\/i>) Intellectual bankruptcy akin to that of the of economists.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Disturbed cover of Sound of Silence.  It might be better than the original:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u9Dg-g7t2l4\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Puerto Rico Cancels Whitefish Energy Contract to Rebuild Power Lines (New York Times) I&#8217;m hoping that there will be a criminal investigation. This Guy Documents Nearly A Year Of Quality Problems With His Tesla Model S (Jalopnik) It&#8217;s like that old the GM \u2014 Bill Gates joke. Source tells WSJ that the FBI is investigating &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[376],"class_list":["post-179761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}