- Extended households, extended version | Family Inequality • by Philip Cohen
- There is little doubt now that household structure has changed in response to the financial crisis and recession, partly because of its overall severity and partly because of its concentration in housing and real estate. There is general evidence of doubling up, as well as a specific trend toward children living with their grandparents. …
- 98% of Florida Welfare Applicants Pass Drug Test, Discredit Tea Party Gov | Colorlines • by Jorge Rivas
- The Tampa Tribune did some simple math and found out how much the governor’s assumptions about poor people going to cost the state:…
- > class_warfare war_on_inanimate_objects
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Ebook Piracy – cecilia tan
- Here’s the thing. You could still argue that all these examples of authors “pirating” their own books leading to higher sales are all about physical books. (See more links below re: Tor Books, Tobias Buckell, John Scalzi, Paul Carr, and others.) But what if you’re a digital-only publisher? I see the fear. Your product is 100% digital. If someone pirates it, they have the entire product. What incentive do they have to pay for it? Piracy of digital files might help print sales, but they’ll hurt digital sales, right? RIGHT??
- Do women’s yearbook photos predict their future happiness? Depends what you mean by “happy.”
- > skience
- Forget The First Amendment, BART Messed With The Phone System. Violated CA and Federal Law. » Wetmachine » Tales of the Sausage Factory
- A number of folks are asking if there is a right to cell phone service as if there were a novel question rather than something settled by decades of telecom law.
- Also missed by most: this goes well beyond BART. If BART gets away with including “we can shut down cell phone service” in its tool box you can guarantee that other local law enforcement agencies will start copying this – and all for the best of reasons. Because what could possibly go wrong when you pull the plug on a critical piece of infrastructure whenever some local police chief or city council person or whoever decides they need to do something about these “flash mobs” or “rioters” or whatever?
[My bookmarks live at delicious.com/camryl. In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. Also, signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
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