NEW YORK (Reuters) – Hewlett-Packard (HPQ.N:) conducted feasibility studies on placing spies in news bureaus of two publications as part of an investigation into leaks from its board, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.

A long way from the prototypical garage days. A company got here on the lease of two women. Odd. Perhaps female Captains of Commerce (COCs) have to play it up for the boys. To act tougher, like the chicken hawks. If you don’t have the balls pretend harder.

Or maybe it’s just the time. Post Reagan. Post Gecko “greed is good.” A time when “no body is going to put anything past me.”

I am the COC of HP.

To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is and of what is not that it is not is true.
— Aristotle.

When several hypotheses are presented to our mind which we believe to be mutually exclusive and exhaustive, but about which we know nothing further, we distribute our belief equally among them …. This being admitted as an account of the way in which we actually do distribute our belief in simple cases, the whole of the subsequent theory follows as a deduction of the way in which we must distribute it in complex cases if we would be consistent.
— W. F. Donkits.

The object of reasoning is to find out, from the consideration of what we already know, something else which we do not know. Consequently, reasoning is good if it be such as to give a true conclusion from true premises, and not otherwise.
— C. S. Peirce.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.
— W. Blake.