Gongol.com Archives: August 2017
August 9, 2017
"Fire and fury" meaning nothing?
Some want to discount what the President meant when he threatened North Korea. Note what Calvin Cooldige said: "The words of the President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately."
Complex requirements are counterproductive if they mean people just write down their passwords on sticky notes
Editor chases a manuscript 30 years overdue
If you're this far behind on a writing project, it's probably time to find a good ghostwriter. Or even a bad one.
De-escalation isn't dishonorable
Anyone who's eager for war in Korea is thinking of it as an abstraction. The reality would be tens of thousands of individual tragedies -- all the tragedy of a single death, thousands and thousands and thousands of times over.
Honda goes against the grain and stays independent
Other automakers are rushing for tie-ups with one another, but Honda remains stubbornly independent. That's probably true to the company's intrinsic character, and thought it might be a more difficult way to climb, it's hardly the first obstacle in the engineering-heavy company's way.
Productivity is rising, but not by very much
If output per hours worked is only rising by a hair over 1% a year, it's going to be basically impossible for the economy to grow faster unless a whole lot of people start working or a whole lot more hours start getting worked
Iowa Homeland Security office issues notice about Kaspersky Labs
Kaspersky makes one of the most highly-regarded computer security suites on the market, but there are a whole lot of suspicions that have emerged lately that the outfit may have troubling ties to the Russian government.
FBI raided Paul Manafort's house
The FBI search suggests that the special counsel investigation under Robert Mueller is stopping for nothing and no one
