Via Scoop.it – Creating the FutureAs advertised on the company’s Web site, a Falcon 9 launch costs an average of $57 million, which works out to less than $2,500 per pound to orbit. That’s significantly less than what other U.S. launch companies typically charge, and even the manufacturer of China’s low-cost Long March rocket (which the U.S. has banned…
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Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation Iceland’s reactions to its banking crisis offers lessons both for Greece and Occupy Wall Street protesters. Iceland, in 2009, did what Greece would like to do now: it let its banks fail, and told their creditors to take a hike. Two years on, Iceland’s economy is recovering, while Greece and Ireland and other…
Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationA county north of Houston made news in Europe at the end of October by taking delivery of a new “weaponizable” drone, a squat remote-controlled helicopter called a ShadowHawk that can fire Tasers or beanbags at people on the ground.Via www.miller-mccune.com
Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationBut a little-known but influential private membership based organization has placed itself at the center of advising and coordinating the crackdown on the encampments. The Police Executive Research Forum, an international non-governmental organization with ties to law enforcement and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, has been coordinating conference calls with major metropolitan mayors and police…
Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation After writing a rather lengthy and somewhat firey post on the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) yesterday, I realized this morning that I didn’t know Microsoft’s position on the matter. …Via thenextweb.com
Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationI can’t see any legitimate basis for police action like what is shown here. Watch that first minute and think how we’d react if we saw it coming from some riot-control unit in China, or in Syria. The calm of the officer who walks up and in a leisurely way pepper-sprays unarmed and passive people right…