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I am also interested in a key.  Wonder if it will run on this laptop though, should.

Depends on the laptop, of course, but you can get functionality (if not very impressive functionality) from a pretty crappy rig. Think m'lappie is actually below the minimum specs and can get it to run. Not very well (s'kinda' shitty looking at the level I have to run to get it to go, and it's sub-30 FPS doing it, but...), but it runs well enough.

The answer is seethingly pissed off, and you're making it worse."

Y'know, I'm half wondering... it's definitely not something you should have to do, or... anything like that, but. Giant curtains (or maybe just a sufficiently large privacy screen(s)?) and a office pool for cheap soundproofing/muffling material? Can't get it fixed to be tolerable officially, take matters into own hands? If you're not adapting to the environment, adapt the environment to you, etc.

Alternately, giant goddamn pillow fort all up in that shit.

Well, yes, but you can figure those things out if you give a mere 10 minutes of thought to them. And if you're a military commander in charge of peoples' lives, you would be an idiot not to spend that requisite time doing so.

And yet it's amazing just how many and how often people disregard any and all of it, to their detriment. Beyond that, some times you don't have ten minutes to make a decision. Having internalized a set of maxims (be it from the Art of War or otherwise) that will more likely than not at least lead to a less disastrous outcome... it can help.

Beyond that, we still live in an age when "Where abstract thought doesn't exist, and learning is done by experience." is a truism for a great many people, including those in power. Many -- most, most likely -- people are never taught particularly involved degrees of abstract thought, and never stumble upon it naturally or only do so (much) later in life. For them, a "Don't be an idiot" guide is... pretty damn useful, and for many more people it's useful before they actually know enough to stop being an idiot (I.e. young and stupid). I've met quite a solid handful of folks that have been forced to read Tzu's work in depth and came out better people, by their own admission. Because, y'know. Lotta' people tend not to think until prodded, but once prod, cannot be unprod.

Point being the Art of War, along with a number of other military guides of such nature, should honestly probably be required reading in, say... middle school, maybe late elementary? And then again in mid-late high school, and likely again in early college. Especially if used in contrast or support of more peace-related texts, probably part of a general critical thought regimen. I've... met more than a few folks it probably would have helped. Likely would have been a bit better off m'self if I'd been in something like that when I was younger.

Plus, damn. Who wouldn't want a week dedicated to what the proper point to set things on fire is? S'shit like that that's how you catch the attention of youngin's

Cheers, folks! And a hat tip to Rex and Forsaken, of course.

... just as soon as you incorporate and get up enough money to pay people to work for you, and enough money to pay the lawyers that make sure the entirety of those people's creative works are legally yours.

The Thing vs Mr Fantastic. So cannon, the chat can't handle it.

Don't think there's any cannons involved with that one, actually. Unless stretchy has some kind of science cannon he pulls out or somethin'...

Looks like about six hours short from a full week, from your post, yeah.