{"id":180580,"date":"2017-03-10T05:23:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T10:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/03\/10\/linkage-233\/"},"modified":"2017-03-10T05:23:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T10:23:00","slug":"linkage-233","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/03\/10\/linkage-233\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/health\/multiple-sclerosis-liberation-therapy-clinical-trial-1.4014494\">&#8216;Scientific quackery&#8217;: UBC study says it&#8217;s debunked controversial MS procedure<\/a> (<i>CBC News<\/i>) So called &#8220;Liberation Therapy&#8221; showed no effect in a double blind study.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thewire.in\/110293\/looking-hidden-black-money-london-might-place-start\/\">Looking for Hidden Black Money? London Might be the Place to Start<\/a> (<i>The Wire<\/i>) When  Margaret Thatcher deliberately deindustrialized the UK and financialized its economy while deregulating, this was inevitable.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/press\/releases\/digital-privacy-us-border-new-how-guide-eff\">Digital Privacy at the U.S Border: A New How-To Guide from EFF<\/a> (<i>Electronic Frontier Foundation<\/i>) We live in awful times.  I would suggest leaving your smart phone at home.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/mar\/08\/mole-catchers-britain\">Going underground: inside the world of the mole-catchers<\/a> (<i>The Guardian<\/i>) Controversy even in this centuries old profession.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/bitcoin-is-still-unsustainable?curator=MediaREDEF\">A Single Bitcoin Transaction Takes Thousands of Times More Energy Than a Credit Card Swipe<\/a> (<i>Motherboard<\/i>) It ain&#8217;t the technology, it&#8217;s the half baked philosophy cooked into the software.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article137317553.html\">Lawyer&#8217;s pants erupt in flames during Miami arson trial<\/a> (<i>Miami Herald<\/i>) I really don&#8217;t need to make the obvious joke.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/aviationweek.com\/technology\/drone-you-can-eat-promises-faster-humanitarian-relief\">A Drone You Can Eat Promises Faster Humanitarian Relief<\/a> (<i>Aviation Week<\/i>) Unfortunately the article does not tell us what sort of wine goes with drone.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Have some classic George Carlin:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wUG0IMjfxCE\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Scientific quackery&#8217;: UBC study says it&#8217;s debunked controversial MS procedure (CBC News) So called &#8220;Liberation Therapy&#8221; showed no effect in a double blind study. Looking for Hidden Black Money? London Might be the Place to Start (The Wire) When Margaret Thatcher deliberately deindustrialized the UK and financialized its economy while deregulating, this was inevitable. Digital &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-180580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180580"}],"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=180580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}