80% chance of good weather for the next launch window, 35’ from now. They’re about going to start loading fuel, which commits to this window for today. (View Post)

Coming up on T minus one hour for the latest attempt to launch the SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission, following a delay a couple of weeks ago. They plan to fly to an altitude of 1,400km above the surface o… (View Post)

The only other country that does this is the US, and even for Americans living abroad there’s a $112,000 personal allowance for earned income, and it’s allowed to deduct things like rent from your ta… (View Post)

That’s nearly as good as the financial services tax, the idea that taxing all transactions running through the stock market at 0.1% would amount to hundreds of billions of pounds a year. Except that … (View Post)

There’s a few of us who try to add some balance in US reporting. @Alanbrooke @Driver @williamglenn @Luckyguy1983 and others actually read both sides of the American news. I try and post items of inte… (View Post)