{"id":180025,"date":"2017-08-04T04:52:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T09:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/08\/04\/linkage-189\/"},"modified":"2017-08-04T04:52:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T09:52:00","slug":"linkage-189","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/08\/04\/linkage-189\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-planes-idUSKBN1AD28Y\">U.S. government ordered to solve &#8216;Case of the Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat&#8217;<\/a> (Reuters) The FAA is saying that shrinking airline seats are not a safety issue.&nbsp; An advocacy group filed suit. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/07\/30\/lawsuits-obamacare-insurers-241112\">Lawsuits could force feds to pay Obamacare insurers<\/a> (<i>Politico<\/i>) Pass the popcorn.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/bjxwma\/people-are-buying-fish-antibiotics-because-they-cant-afford-human-ones\">People Are Buying Fish Antibiotics Because They Can\u2019t Afford Human Ones<\/a> (<i>Motherboard<\/i>) Best healthcare system in the world.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2017\/08\/original-shareholder-value-article-milton-friedman-gm-build-clunky-cars.html\">Original Shareholder Value Article \u2013 Milton Friedman to GM: Build Clunky Cars<\/a> (<i>Naked Capitalism<\/i>) A straight line between Milton Friedman&#8217;s theory of shareholder value and the implosion of GM.  See also <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2017\/01\/proving-ayn-rand-like-ebola.html\">Sears and Ayn Rand<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/political-capital\/why-are-drug-prices-so-high-fight-over-price-gouging-bill-2573130\">Why Are Drug Prices So High? The Fight Over A Price-Gouging Bill<\/a> (<i>International Business Times<\/i>) The Democratic Governors Association, in particular contemptible Connecticut sh%$ heel Dan Malloy, are fighting against anti-price gouging laws.  And the Dems wonder why people don&#8217;t believe that they work for the rest of us.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.golocalprov.com\/business\/siedle-forbes-columnist-raimondo-critic-to-be-awarded-48m-in-sec-record-whi\"> UPDATED: Siedle, Raimondo Critic, to be Awarded $48M in SEC Record Whistleblower Case<\/a> (<i>GoLocalProv<\/i>) Gina Raimondo, Rhode Island Governor and former state Treasurer, shoveled money out of the pension fund to her hedge fund friends.&nbsp; One of her biggest critics just got a lot of money for uncovering corruption.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/food\/flash-drought-could-devastate-half-the-high-plains-wheat-harvest\/\">\u2018Flash drought\u2019 could devastate half the High Plains wheat harvest&nbsp;<\/a> (<i>Grist<\/i>) Clearly anthropogenic climate change is a myth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reader(s) of this blog may be aware of my fondness of the juxtaposition of engineering and history.  Case in point, this military training film about mechanical ballistic computers from the early 1950s:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s1i-dnAH9Y4\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. government ordered to solve &#8216;Case of the Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat&#8217; (Reuters) The FAA is saying that shrinking airline seats are not a safety issue.&nbsp; An advocacy group filed suit. Lawsuits could force feds to pay Obamacare insurers (Politico) Pass the popcorn. People Are Buying Fish Antibiotics Because They Can\u2019t Afford Human Ones (Motherboard) &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-180025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180025"}],"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=180025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}