Gongol.com Archives: November 2015
November 28, 2015
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But he's really just "campaigning" as a vanity publicity stunt. It has to be viewed as a commercial endeavor, not a political one: He's getting endless free media coverage, which only serves to advance his interests as a marketer who vomits his name atop lots of gaudy real estate. He stands to lose very, very little, even by saying profoundly offensive things.
![Threats and Hazards](http://gongol.com/assets/icons/2005icons/threats.png)
ISIS/ISIL/QSIL/Daesh has a long view of its presence online as a tool of both recruitment and terror. Meanwhile, the United States seems to perpetually cutting back, mismanage, and under-fund its own tools of international public diplomacy, especially those under the Broadcasting Board of Governors. It's penny-wise pound-foolishness. International broadcasting costs us next to nothing, but unfortunately there's been a lot of displacement of conventional broadcasting methods (like shortwave radio) in favor of Internet services -- when they represent two different products for very different audience purposes and should have been treated as additive, not substitutional.
![Science and Technology](http://gongol.com/assets/icons/2005icons/sci.png)
![Humor and Good News](http://gongol.com/assets/icons/2005icons/haha.png)
![Computers and the Internet](http://gongol.com/assets/icons/2005icons/comp.png)