{"id":95,"date":"2008-01-28T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T00:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=95"},"modified":"2008-01-28T16:35:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T00:35:00","slug":"fear-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=95","title":{"rendered":"Fear Me."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look at this title-page from a recent technical publication.  Look at the Institutional affiliation.  <i>Look at it, bitches<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/uploaded_images\/lll01-768482.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/uploaded_images\/lll01-768474.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right.  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories.  The Black Ops Capital of the western hemisphere.   The guys who sell their obsolete <i>cast-offs<\/i> to IMF.<\/p>\n<p>Now look at this extract from the actual report (you may have to click on the image for a readable view):<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/uploaded_images\/ll02-703503.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/uploaded_images\/ll02-703490.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh, yes.  That&#8217;s me in there.  That&#8217;s my books.  I&#8217;ve got a fan in <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Livermore<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>So if any of you should encounter me on the street, or at a con, you might want to offer to buy me a beer.  Because you never know when someone might have an advanced-prototype death-ray device under their coats, courtesy of one of their <i>eyes-only-black-ops fans<\/i>.  And it can never hurt to keep someone like that happy.<\/p>\n<p>For example, <a href=\"http:\/\/myelvesaredifferent.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/peter-watts-stirs-up-some-debate-at.html\">My Elves are Different<\/a> makes me happy.  That guy knows what side his bread&#8217;s buttered on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look at this title-page from a recent technical publication. Look at the Institutional affiliation. Look at it, bitches: That&#8217;s right. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories. The Black Ops Capital of the western hemisphere. The guys who sell their obsolete cast-offs to IMF. Now look at this extract from the actual report (you may have to click [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}