The important thing was to understand the map. To know which rooms contained trolls, and in which cubicles orcs slept at their keyboards. He studied the photocopy he’d unpinned from the hallway bulletin board.
KNOW YOUR ROUTE
Escape Routes for Building 1, Second Floor
He found his cube and drew a rough approximation of himself in it: a class 2 wizard with brown corduroy pants, a gray t-shirt and what appeared to be a short magic wand in his hand, or possibly it was a USB thumb drive containing all of, and the only copy of, the company’s source code for the last eighteen months. The source code to the long-awaited release of ‘Anti-Demonic Toolbox, v6.0 beta‘.
I think this is such an important study/post over at Boing Boing:
Rand Corporation: To destroy Al Qaeda, we must end the war on terror
By analyzing a comprehensive roster of terrorist groups that existed worldwide between 1968 and 2006, the authors found that most groups ended because of operations carried out by local police or intelligence agencies or because they negotiated a settlement with their governments. Military force was rarely the primary reason a terrorist group ended, and few groups within this time frame achieved victory.
(emphasis mine)
It’s in the government’s interest to heed this advice and end the use of massive military force asap. I mean, that’s obvious…right? I can’t imagine why it wouldn’t be.
