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100k Income in a 800k House

the family economy | Metafilter references an article in the Washington Monthly discussing whether or not we’re in a housing bubble right now. bq. Truth is, in most of the country there’s no housing bubble. Perhaps the crucial ratio from which economists determine whether housing markets are out of whack is the ratio of home ...

Atheist Sues Over Pledge

Atheist Presents Case for Taking God From Pledge – Dr. Newdow replied: “That is a view that you may choose to take and the majority of Americans may choose to take. But it’s not the view I take, and when I see the flag and I think of pledging allegiance, it’s like I’m getting slapped ...

Fraunhaufer Proposes DRM

Wired News: Pay Once, Share Often With LWDRM – LWDRM gives consumers more freedom. Like any other digital-rights system, it starts with a payment that gives consumers the right to use the song or video clip on their PC. But with LWDRM, from that point on consumers decide what may be done with it. They ...

9/11 Panel Blaims Inaction

Salon.com News | 9/11 panel cites Clinton, Bush inaction – Bush officials, meanwhile, failed to act immediately on increasing intelligence chatter and urgent warnings in early 2001 by its counterterrorism adviser, Richard A. Clarke, to take out al-Qaida targets, according to preliminary findings by the commission reviewing the attacks. The 9/11 panel has criticized both ...

Novell Pushing Linux

business2blog: Buy One OS, Get the Second One Free – Well, the answer, due to be announced later today, is breathtakingly simple. Novell will … sell Netware and Linux simultaneously. When a customer licenses Netware, he’ll also get a license for Novell’s recently acquired SuSe Linux included in the price. For Novell, it’s a sensible ...