{"id":179834,"date":"2017-10-11T05:06:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T10:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/10\/11\/linkage-173\/"},"modified":"2017-10-11T05:06:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T10:06:00","slug":"linkage-173","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/10\/11\/linkage-173\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20171005\/09400638350\/anybody-claiming-net-neutrality-rules-killed-broadband-investment-is-lying-to-you.shtml\">Anybody Claiming Net Neutrality Rules Killed Broadband Investment Is Lying To You<\/a> (<i>Techdirt<\/i>) &#8220;That is, if you&#8217;re playing along at home, not a f%$#ing slowdown, and anybody that continues to push this flimsy narrative is either lying to you, or has been duped by years of lobbyist nonsense.&#8221; <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.illinois.edu\/blog\/view\/6367\/395605\">Skills gap for U.S. manufacturing workers mostly a myth, paper says<\/a> (Illinois News Bureau) Employers can find skilled workers, they just want a bigger supply so that they can pay less.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duffelblog.com\/2017\/10\/war-in-afghanistan-turns-16-earns-drivers-license\/\">War in Afghanistan turns 16, earns driver&#8217;s license<\/a> (<i>Duffelblog<\/i>) Very well done snark.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kevinmd.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/time-ban-productivity-medicine.html\">It&#8217;s time to ban productivity from medicine<\/a> (<i>KevinMD<\/i>)&nbsp; A better prescription would be to call for the end of MBA\/High Finance type management, which fails for everything, not just medicine.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/features\/taibbi-on-da-who-dropped-fraud-case-against-ivanka-and-don-jr-w507338\">Taibbi on DA Who Dropped Fraud Case Against Ivanka and Don Jr.<\/a> (<i>Rolling Stone<\/i>) It appears that Cyrus Vance, Jr. looks to have some explaining to do.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.riverfronttimes.com\/stlouis\/the-stockley-files\/Content?oid=9006642\">The Stockley Files<\/a> (<i>River Front Times<\/i>) The St. Louis PD, including its current police chief when he was a major, covered up the shooting.&nbsp; Obstruction of justice.&nbsp; Also, prosecutors need to stop assenting to bench trials for killer cops, particularly in states that elect their judges, because the police union would go after him at the next election.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/working-in-development\/2017\/oct\/07\/how-to-avert-the-apocalypse-take-lessons-from-costa-rica\"><\/a>Want to avert the apocalypse? Take lessons from Costa Rica (<i>The Guardian<\/i>) Small country, low per capita GDP, but overall outcomes that frequently exceed those of the United States.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Cgq3jpe.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Cgq3jpe.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2017\/10\/06\/you-can-now-buy-cuecats-on-ama.html\">You can now buy CueCats on Amazon Prime<\/a> (<i>Boing Boing<\/i>) Daym!&nbsp; This privacy slurping bar code scanner was dead before the turn of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am so seeing Deadpool 2 in the movie theater:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tpo9WYxLdLY\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anybody Claiming Net Neutrality Rules Killed Broadband Investment Is Lying To You (Techdirt) &#8220;That is, if you&#8217;re playing along at home, not a f%$#ing slowdown, and anybody that continues to push this flimsy narrative is either lying to you, or has been duped by years of lobbyist nonsense.&#8221; Skills gap for U.S. manufacturing workers mostly &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-179834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179834"}],"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=179834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}