The National Rifle Association has much to answer for, not the least of which is this. That we still don’t have good data on gun deaths is inexcusable. Nothing in the constitution bars gathering information, but the NRA in its paranoia has blocked any such data collection. I’m not adverse to guns just like I’m not against […]
Posted on October 8th, 2015 by admin
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How costly is a bad reputation? In the data world, post Snowden’s revelations about the National Security Administration, it means that data is frozen in the EU. It might have been difficult in any event to continue data transfers between Europe and the US, but NSA’s bad reputation for snooping sealed the decision. This […]
Posted on October 7th, 2015 by admin
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Cue and queue lobbyists for and against this trade pact. The Trans-Pacific Partnership is both detested and celebrated and will be full employment for lobbying and PR firms for months to come. Unions hate the deal because to them it means lost jobs. Businesses support it because it means less expensive and faster ways of […]
Posted on October 6th, 2015 by admin
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One way to tell whether an organization cares about its reputation is how it behaves. The Islamic State wants to be feared, and it has reduced ancient sites to rubble to show its intent. There is nothing about Palmyra that should offend IS. The muslim terrorists blew up the Arch of Triumph because it was […]
Posted on October 5th, 2015 by admin
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It’s not often a CEO starts his tenure with an apology, but the CEO of United has done so. He is asking forgiveness for the mess his predecessor made of a merger. Note that he doesn’t name his predecessor nor does he refer to him in his letter of apology, but it doesn’t take reading […]
Posted on October 2nd, 2015 by admin
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How hard is it to communicate through the web? Try a billion times to be heard above the noise. Or, to be more precise 935,950,654, give or take a few tens of thousands. Those of us who have long memories and can recall the early days of the web are gobsmacked by its growth and […]
Posted on October 1st, 2015 by admin
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