A comment from the TSA Blog.
"Once upon a time there was a King who was afraid someone would attack his castle. He gathered together the best minds in the land--the Transylvanian Society of Academics, or TSA, to help him secure his castle. The TSA had heard about a group of terrifying adversaries who once swam across a moat and attacked a castle. The TSA were horrified that such a thing might happen to the King, so they helped him develop a very expensive plan that widened to moat (to make it harder to swim across), filled it with acid, and just for good measure installed crocodiles in acid-proof wetsuits. The project was very expensive, and entailed a good deal of effort (since the crocodiles needed constant attention), but everyone felt it was worth it to protect the castle against the scourge of swimming invaders.
And all was well, until a little boy with the strange name of Blogger McCritic said, “But the invaders could just throw ropes over and shimmy across, or they waft in on gliders, or use long ladders to breach the moat. And if they want to attack the castle, they could still lob flaming embers in to burn it down, or use gunpowder rockets. All you’ve done is to attempt to prevent one particular attack vector--there’s still lots of ways to bring down the castle! And it wasn’t even a very probable attack, either! The castle is just as insecure as before, because you can’t make anything 100% safe. You’ve wasted resources and effort to prevent one very unlikely type of attack. Even worse, it’s really inconvenient to get to the castle, now! People get sick from the acid fumes as they cross the drawbridge, and there’s really long lines because it’s such a skinny bridge. You’ve made everyone’s lives more miserable at the expense of pretending to protect your castle!”
The TSA realized that everything the little boy said was true. But the TSA realized that the skills needed to acid-proof crocodiles weren’t of much use elsewhere in the kingdom, and they knew they had a good thing going and didn’t want to ruin it. So the tossed the boy into the deepest dungeon and then redecorated the drawbridge with pretty lights and calming music, and then raised the Kingdom’s Orange Threat Flag above the battlements, and in this way the populace’s attention was diverted and everyone forgot about the little boy. The end."
ALSO.
If this murder delays Harry Potter I will fly to England and set the murderer on fire.
And all was well, until a little boy with the strange name of Blogger McCritic said, “But the invaders could just throw ropes over and shimmy across, or they waft in on gliders, or use long ladders to breach the moat. And if they want to attack the castle, they could still lob flaming embers in to burn it down, or use gunpowder rockets. All you’ve done is to attempt to prevent one particular attack vector--there’s still lots of ways to bring down the castle! And it wasn’t even a very probable attack, either! The castle is just as insecure as before, because you can’t make anything 100% safe. You’ve wasted resources and effort to prevent one very unlikely type of attack. Even worse, it’s really inconvenient to get to the castle, now! People get sick from the acid fumes as they cross the drawbridge, and there’s really long lines because it’s such a skinny bridge. You’ve made everyone’s lives more miserable at the expense of pretending to protect your castle!”
The TSA realized that everything the little boy said was true. But the TSA realized that the skills needed to acid-proof crocodiles weren’t of much use elsewhere in the kingdom, and they knew they had a good thing going and didn’t want to ruin it. So the tossed the boy into the deepest dungeon and then redecorated the drawbridge with pretty lights and calming music, and then raised the Kingdom’s Orange Threat Flag above the battlements, and in this way the populace’s attention was diverted and everyone forgot about the little boy. The end."
ALSO.
If this murder delays Harry Potter I will fly to England and set the murderer on fire.