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Post by mrev19 » Wed, Jan 22, 2014, 10:42 PM UTC

hga wrote: post #98

micheljansen wrote: post #85

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Yep, from Sun Tzu's Art of War: "When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard." -- http://classics.mit.edu/Tzu/artwar.html I think this is also the first time I've heard it quoted in an appropriate context, as opposed to business blabla.

Also comes up in discussing the types of ground. "Death" or "desperate" ground is where you fight at all costs, since otherwise the cost is death.

Post by alexeisadeski3 » Thu, Jan 23, 2014, 7:50 AM UTC

micheljansen wrote: post #85

mrev19 wrote: post #79

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that idea comes from art of war

Yep, from Sun Tzu's Art of War: "When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard." -- http://classics.mit.edu/Tzu/artwar.html I think this is also the first time I've heard it quoted in an appropriate context, as opposed to business blabla.

Post by tripzilch » Fri, Jan 24, 2014, 10:17 PM UTC

XorNot wrote: post #40

f_salmon wrote: post #20

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There is only 1 real solution: Put your cell phone in flight mode and use it exclusively as a PDA/music player/etc. Let people contact you on a landline and email - more than enough.

I'm pretty sure this doesn't work. i.e. even in flight mode, the baseband processor is still powered and will passively listen for cell-tower requests, so presumably it can still be told to wake up? I know its true of phones that are "off" without the battery removed - stands to reason it applies in flight mode too.