Gongol.com Archives: January 2016
January 7, 2016
Why everyone should know self-defense: Case study #20
Things went very wrong in Cologne on New Year's Eve as large numbers of men sexually assaulted and harassed passing women. There's no guarantee that anyone can pass through a sufficiently large mob without being hurt, but there's also something to be said for defending yourself in such a way that the beaten pulp of one seriously injured attacker is left to serve as a warning to others.
Trump's campaign isn't about politics: It's a thinly-veiled vanity marketing stunt
Regrettably, though, it's dredging up feelings among some of his supporters that they shouldn't be proud to display
An ugly day on the stock market
It doesn't matter so long as people understand that the market isn't the economy and the economy isn't the market. The marginal behavior of the stock market is erratic and irrational, but so long as people train themselves to think of the value of the companies they own through stocks and to generally ignore the price, there's no cause for actual alarm.
Chicago has a violence epidemic
A stunning number of shootings and killings. And these things can be "contagious", in a sociological sense, which makes the problem worse.
US Marshals show up to stop knockoff single-wheel skateboards from selling at CES
The list of actual patent violations coming out of China would blow the minds of anyone willing to try comprehending it, but this is an unusually dramatic move. Things like these self-balancing "electric skateboards" are pretty silly on their own, but they do point towards big and useful improvements in technology down the road.
