Jon Corzine was served papers from one of MF Global’s customers during a recess in his testimony today before Congress.
Watch the video. It is gives you a flavor of the kind of person Corzine really is.
An evening pause: They sound as good now as when they first recorded this song back in 1969.
A Russian scientist has found large amounts of methane being released into the atmosphere in the Arctic, far more than previously predicted.
It is speculated that these releases are the result of the Earth’s warming climate during the past several hundred years. And because methane is a far more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, its release will feed into that warming.
The first debris from the March 11 Japanese earthquake/tsunami has reached the shores of the northwest U.S..
Thugs: The Obama Justice Department has joined the UK government to go after the climategate whistleblowers.
This action once again shows how completely tone deaf the Obama administration is. Attacking the messenger here will do nothing to convince anyone that global warming is happening. Instead, it will help to convince everyone that the whole thing is a fraud, and should be shut down.
Repeal it! Another ObamaCare program has gone bankrupt, spending its full budget three years earlier than expected.
Alan Boyle describes the details behind NASA’s decision to go with simpler contracting for future commercial rocket contracts.
If you read the article, you’ll notice that the opposition to this decision comes from a Congressman and the GAO. In both cases they cite safety as an issue, as is by some magic giving NASA a lot of bureaucratic approval rights on every design is going to make the rockets or capsules safer. All this will really do is slow things down, increase costs, and possibly increase risks as the companies will no longer have as many resources to focus on design issues. Instead, they will have to spend a fortune pleasing NASA bureaucrats.
And yes, I call them bureaucrats. Any NASA engineer who spends his or her time looking over the shoulder of another engineer — who is doing the real design work — is nothing more than a bureaucrat. Better to quit NASA and get a job with one of these new companies where you can do some real work.
Good news: NASA has decided to stick with essentially the same contracting arrangement it used for the SpaceX and Orbital Sciences cargo deals to ISS in its future commercial crew and cargo contracts.
This suggests that the NASA bureaucracy, which had wanted more control of the new commercial companies by using a more restrictive contract arrangement, has lost. However, we don’t yet have the details on how the new contracts will be administrated, and as always, the devil is in the details.
FAA tests have found that LightSquared’s broadband system interferes with flight safety systems.
These results are in addition to the tests that found LightSquared interferes with 75% of all GPS units.
The Wisconsin teachers union is trying to get a teacher fired for doing a commercial in support of Governor Scott Walker.
One reason we are going bankrupt: The stimulus was not a one time expense, it was built into the baseline.
Click to see the chart most of all. It will make you sick.
China’s Tiangong-1 space station today started its first planned monthly cabin check to test the status of the station’s atmosphere.
