{"id":6248,"date":"2011-03-22T18:30:58","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T22:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6248"},"modified":"2011-03-22T16:39:14","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T20:39:14","slug":"tuesday-various-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6248","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>&#8220;The government is always going to go after the guy with the most money, regardless of culpability&#8230;&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2010\/01\/26\/the-forfeiture-racket\">The Forfeiture Racket<\/a> is a lot worse than you might think. I don&#8217;t have a lot of sympathy for convicted criminals who lose their property, particularly property used in the commission of a crime. And my first thought, when I read about an accused large-scale meth dealer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2011\/03\/04\/accused-meth-dealer.html?dlvrit=36761\">who might lose his beloved comic book collection<\/a> (the link that led me to the one above), was <i>well, good, if he&#8217;s convicted, he probably should lose his property<\/i>. But forfeiture laws go <i>way<\/i> beyond that, down all sorts of crazy, corruption-filled paths.<\/li>\n<li>But yes, by all means, let us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/04\/opinion\/04fri4.html\">cut funding to poison control<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Oh that Chris Brown&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/chris-brown-tired-of-media-rehashing-his-violent-p,53478\/?utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_campaign=feeds&#038;utm_source=channel_tv\">still a class act<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Okay, I&#8217;ve got to admit, this is a pretty neat <a href=\"http:\/\/blastr.com\/2011\/03\/image-of-the-day-the-best-1.php\">zombie T-shirt<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>And finally, I&#8217;m no copyright expert, but I think <a href=\"http:\/\/mblogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/2011\/03\/15\/copyright-law-meets-synthetic-life-meets-james-joyce\/\">inscribing a passage from James Joyce into the genome of a synthetic microbe<\/a> is covered by fair use. The Joyce estate, apparently, does not agree. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The government is always going to go after the guy with the most money, regardless of culpability&#8230;&#8221; The Forfeiture Racket is a lot worse than you might think. I don&#8217;t have a lot of sympathy for convicted criminals who lose their property, particularly property used in the commission of a crime. And my first thought, &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6248\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[67,83,60,15,6,9,38,10,39,111,24],"class_list":["post-6248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-america","tag-legal","tag-money","tag-music","tag-politics","tag-pop-culture","tag-science","tag-various","tag-weird","tag-writers","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}