Comment Orwell (Score 4, Interesting) 312
So, really -- what's the point of this? PC enforcement? Social modeling? Productivity improvement? Lawsuit prevention?
If it isn't about productivity, it is probably a drag on the organization.
(Revere)“warned the British that they weren’t going to be taking away our arms by ringing those bells and making sure as he’s riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free.”
If somebody told me I was about to encounter several hundred armed opposition, I would take that as a warning. Advice, at least.
No -- they just want their Trench Warfare bonus pack to be a nice surprise!
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
"Forward, the Light Brigade!
"Charge for the guns!" he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
Damn straight.
The death of the 600 was due to a communications screw up. The commander got his orders and set about to do it, and the men did their job.
What if it had been the proper thing to do? The cavalry attacks the line and forces a pivot to face them. The line is poorly trained or led and overdoes the pivot. This allows the battalion to attack the weak end of the emplacement and capture the line. Now the defenders have a huge hole where their vaunted cannon battery used to be and a full brigade pouring in the gap.
Sacrifice a company to rout the enemy? Yes. That's how it's done, and it does not require the company commander to know the big picture. It requires people on the scene who know how to work together and achieve the targets given, even at the expense of their life. Such is war.
You can't wait until you line up your ducks. The ducks are trying to kill you!
Real Programmers don't write in FORTRAN. FORTRAN is for pipe stress freaks and crystallography weenies. FORTRAN is for wimp engineers who wear white socks.