Apparently, you do not understand the concept of asymmetrical warfare. You do not need overwhelming force to enforce your will; you just have to be willing to struggle harder than your opponent.
The state does not have overwhelming military force, when it is outnumbered 300:1 by the occupied. Of course, if you deny citizens the right to bear arms, Fascism has more of a fighting chance. Hence, the reason why Communists, Fascists, and Socialists are inimical to the right to bear firearms.
I'm not deluded enough to believe that any nation has the "right" to nuke another nation because they aren't as "progressive" they are. And there is nothing "civil" about the state of Israel.
It was build 10162 and previous that Microsoft was going to turn off the activations. They did not say that "fast ring" evaluators were going to have any problem with activations. Thus, your 10224 build works fine. (The issue is moot for me, because I got my install activated anyway; just not on the machine I intended.)
Microsoft achieves the same result by cutting off the ISO downloads. The "panic" activations probably would be under 10K. I understand the attitude Microsoft would have toward evaluator value, but its kind of "rude/abrupt" to slam the door without any advanced warning.
The last time I checked, there were many nations besides France and Germany (and the rest of the Eurozone) that Greece could buy and sell products too. Hell, they can even use US dollars.
If you want any copy of any Windows OS to work beyond 30 days, it has to be "activated" by Microsoft's licensing servers. I have no idea if my preview build has/had a 30 day clock; it may have had a 0 day clock. Was it a big deal? No, but given the fuzziness of the "free" Windows 10 license with a VALID Windows OS install, I wanted to preserve the freebie Windows 10 license that would be mine by installing the Insider preview.
Except that Greece can still trade with any nation not part of the Eurozone. The last time I checked, the USA and China had pretty large economic markets, and all those nations that aren't the USA, China, or the Eurozone, had markets larger than North Korea.
If you had any comprehension of the political and psychological aspects of this debt crisis, you'd understand that no Eurozone nation has an interest in collapsing Greece in order that their motherfucker bankers can get 100% return on their predatory loan.
I think everyone reading this is has been in that boat sometime or another.
Nah, in my case, it was my own damn fault. I should have been more familiar with EFI/UEFI issues before starting. I've been a long time linuxer, so I was counting on my outdated MBR/dualbooting and ntfsclone dumps to get me through. The first snag was that Windows 10 would not install on my secondary drive for some reason, because it already had an EFI partition, which somehow made it unsuitable for booting. (I know this may sound incorrect to some; I'm just relating my first hand experience.) It was the relative sluggishness of the Windows install menu that made me accidentally delete a partition important to my OS drive and then hilarity ensued...
wbadmin backup? You're talking 8.1, right? Nope, windows 7 here at home. Yeah, I've been able to mount all my intact partitions, so I haven't lost data, but I'm working on repairing EFI partitions and restoring the relevant hidden system drive dump to the correct partition. Actually, I was doing the book learning I should have done before attempting anything, and then Microsoft now "mentions" they're shutting down the preview activations.
Well, I've mentioned elsewhere that I was able to get my 10162 build installed & activated today (different machine), so one day soon I'll be back to square one.
1) Its probably not available. If its available, it won't be soon.
2) I already had a copy of build 10162. The problem is that the Insider blog mentioned that Microsoft would NOT be activating 10162 builds anymore.
3) It still activated for me today. But the experience was odd. When I ran the initial install, it hung at "Please wait for a moment". I was certain that it was hung because Microsoft was not validating build 10162 anymore (sic). Of course, I waited for 30 minutes, and then rebooted. It then displayed a "login" (activation, whatever you want to call it), asking for my "insider" account (which is basically linked to your Windows Outlook account, provided you had already successfully applied for an insider account). The install appears to be complete, and working as expected.
If you care about having a working copy of Windows 10 (beta) for the next two weeks, install/activate 10162 now. I doubt it will work if you're not already registered with the Windows Insider program. I don't know if it (build 10162) will activate if you try installation tomorrow.
Then why cease validating build 10162? Immediately shutdown downloading the test ISOs, and warn that they'll stop validating any "old" windows 10 releases in three days.
More like messing around with a personal machine I didn't want to lose the customizations or data from the past month. More flying by my ass than I would have liked in hindsight; less flying by my ass than the worst possible case I could have exposed myself to.
I botched up my disk drive's EFI partition while trying to install Windows 10. By the time I resolve all my problems, I may not be able to activate the damn install!
Bloomberg didn't force everyone to drink less soda. He outlawed packaging that encouraged people to drink an inordinate amount of soda. People who really wanted to drink 1 liter of soda merely had to buy two large cups.
It takes money to order and install such signs. Then those requirements impede profit later on, as well. That plan won't fly.
Cop-out. It would work fine. The City Council doesn't have the balls to fund and implement it. They would much rather ask a company to put itself at a competitive disadvantage for the Council's benefit. That's what you get when you elect socialist paper pushers with no sense of reality or ethical courage.
Ah, bloodsucking capitalist, I see. No, there will be a massive debt, denominated in euros, which Greece WILL NEVER make payments towards, once it leaves the Euro for a debased currency. Or are you suggesting NATO, or a German military alliance will invade Greece to extract payment?
Some of those bodies may be rotating around Pluto's barymetric point (gravitational center of mass). Some of them may be moons of Pluto, but we do know Charon is not one of them.
As limited as Pao is, I don't even really blame her. I think Ohanian made some mega-mistakes which reflects poorly on upper management. He's the guy who helped create reddit, but he doesn't understand basic concepts in business operations or how to "properly" manage volunteers.
No, it was, particularly the initial writeup on thursday(?). (I would have thrown in that people were putting up garbage AMAs in response to the/r/AMA Ohanian had cobbled up, to illustrate his lack of clue, but I get that it may have confused readers more than enlightened them.)
It spooked me a little that so many of your details matched my initial impressions. I had no idea your reporting existed before I started ranting, I swear!;)
I had meant the TV side, when I said "tech media punditry". Too bad they don't bother at least reading their competition before reporting their impressions.
Has ANYONE considered that chooter may have done something so egregious (e.g. fraud, ethics violation, etc) that they had to terminate her employment ASAP?
1) The idea that an employer has to terminate an employee ASAP is a myth. The only time an employer "really" has to terminate an employee ASAP is when they are imminently about to kill another employee. Otherwise, its really at the employer's discretion, except where the law makes it at its discretion. If management can keep it under their hat, they can wait months before firing an employee.
Generally, when haste is "required" in firing an employee, its a 24 hour process. HR has to be lined up, security has to be lined up, IT needs to be cued to lock out an employee, but it should be freaking obvious is that her supervisor needs to be informed in advance, even if its minutes before the exit process starts. Its their job to see that her work functions are accounted for when she's no longer available. I don't buy into the notion at all that her "coworkers" needed to be told in advance. In any case, I never suggested that anyone outside of management needed to be told.
Most important is to avoid fuckups that commonly occur in the firing process, and not destroy your company by making the incorrect decision to fire your employee. If you did destroy your company by alienating your participant base, or opening up a legal suit, or even generating enough bad publicity to hurt your profits, you cannot claim management did a competent job when they fired someone. It really helps when you understand how your company works, because then you can avoid making bad decisions or avoidable mistakes.
2) I am not a reddit mod, and I don't give a shit that Victoria got fired, since I don't even really care about iAMAs. Firing Victoria is not the issue. Not being aware enough about what Victoria did to not have a surrogate already in place when they fired her, is what's called not "having a replacement plan in place". Usually, it you like running things half assed, you just drop the bomb on her supervisor, and they have to manage the fallout, including doing whatever it is Victoria did, or assign an underling to do it. Reddit management apparently did not have a hands on supervisor for Victoria, but didn't bother to find out what she did. So when Ohanian dived in to do damage control, all he could say was "we're going to figure it out, and eventually get on it". Does this sound like a competent business organization to you?
3) I am not a reddit employee or mod or have any stake in this fiasco, but even I took the trouble to read the mods' explanations about why they did what they did, and try to understand how this all came about. I bothered to learn that iAMA affected OTHER subreddits like/r/science, with mods that had real jobs and not killing time in their parents basement, and they outlined how the loss of process and ignoring previous history was going to revert iAMA into a shitshow. Then I bothered to read the posted leaked transcripts between Ohanian and the/r/science mods to see that Ohanian was doing a really bad job of alleviating their concerns by not actually addressing their specific, purely process related questions.
What has me disgusted is that I have developed a picture of what was involved with only cursory reading, but apparently Reddit management hasn't. Even worse, tech journalism has not bothered to investigate available information before presenting the bullshit they call "investigative reporting".
4) No one gives a shit about your claim that you have enough experience in the business world to have an opinion. That is because you posted as an anonymous coward. You were too stupid to realize that, or realize why no one cares what you say, but that did not stop you from demonstrating your mentally defective inability to grasp what my actual position was, and then regurgitate your defective thinking about what was important, which was utterly unrelated to what I said. Which works for you, since what would you have to gain by having to defend your pompous imbecility with a recurrent pseudonym?
Spoken like a true management apologist. So, the answer is for the participants let the product they love go to shit, and do it maturely. I see this all the time; for some reason I find this perspective unpersuasive.
OR perhaps management should understand how their product works, and then adroitly craft their operational style to match the situation they are "responsible" for running.
Its easier to get into those positions when the company is a startup. She was a favored investment crowd minion, and at least she took the effort initially to engage with the forums before taking the interim CEO spot. This is actually how it works with all tech startups.
YES! This is the issue that investors should care about.
And the reason why they didn't have a transition plan is that no one in management, not even co-founder Ohanian, understands how reddit works anymore (at least with the iAMA). And apparently management doesn't grasp basic HR procedure.
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Apparently, you do not understand the concept of asymmetrical warfare. You do not need overwhelming force to enforce your will; you just have to be willing to struggle harder than your opponent.
The state does not have overwhelming military force, when it is outnumbered 300:1 by the occupied. Of course, if you deny citizens the right to bear arms, Fascism has more of a fighting chance. Hence, the reason why Communists, Fascists, and Socialists are inimical to the right to bear firearms.
Isn't it wonderful the ignoramuses who think their opinions should be taken seriously?
No matter how good Israels conventional forces are they could eventually be defeated by sheer numbers
Have you seen the Iraqi military in action lately?
here is certainly no shortage of raving lunatics from the surrounding Arab countries
I worry more about the raving lunatics with Israeli citizenship; they have nukes.
but the Iranian leadership knows exactly what would happen if they decided to play nuclear chicken with Israel.
Yes, they've decided they MUST have nukes in order to not be nuked by Israel.
They are much safer playing nuclear chicken with the US.
Because the US is slightly more rational at the moment with its foreign policy.
I'm not deluded enough to believe that any nation has the "right" to nuke another nation because they aren't as "progressive" they are. And there is nothing "civil" about the state of Israel.
It was build 10162 and previous that Microsoft was going to turn off the activations. They did not say that "fast ring" evaluators were going to have any problem with activations. Thus, your 10224 build works fine. (The issue is moot for me, because I got my install activated anyway; just not on the machine I intended.)
Microsoft achieves the same result by cutting off the ISO downloads. The "panic" activations probably would be under 10K. I understand the attitude Microsoft would have toward evaluator value, but its kind of "rude/abrupt" to slam the door without any advanced warning.
The last time I checked, there were many nations besides France and Germany (and the rest of the Eurozone) that Greece could buy and sell products too. Hell, they can even use US dollars.
If you want any copy of any Windows OS to work beyond 30 days, it has to be "activated" by Microsoft's licensing servers. I have no idea if my preview build has/had a 30 day clock; it may have had a 0 day clock. Was it a big deal? No, but given the fuzziness of the "free" Windows 10 license with a VALID Windows OS install, I wanted to preserve the freebie Windows 10 license that would be mine by installing the Insider preview.
Except that Greece can still trade with any nation not part of the Eurozone. The last time I checked, the USA and China had pretty large economic markets, and all those nations that aren't the USA, China, or the Eurozone, had markets larger than North Korea.
If you had any comprehension of the political and psychological aspects of this debt crisis, you'd understand that no Eurozone nation has an interest in collapsing Greece in order that their motherfucker bankers can get 100% return on their predatory loan.
I think everyone reading this is has been in that boat sometime or another.
Nah, in my case, it was my own damn fault. I should have been more familiar with EFI/UEFI issues before starting. I've been a long time linuxer, so I was counting on my outdated MBR/dualbooting and ntfsclone dumps to get me through. The first snag was that Windows 10 would not install on my secondary drive for some reason, because it already had an EFI partition, which somehow made it unsuitable for booting. (I know this may sound incorrect to some; I'm just relating my first hand experience.) It was the relative sluggishness of the Windows install menu that made me accidentally delete a partition important to my OS drive and then hilarity ensued...
wbadmin backup? You're talking 8.1, right? Nope, windows 7 here at home. Yeah, I've been able to mount all my intact partitions, so I haven't lost data, but I'm working on repairing EFI partitions and restoring the relevant hidden system drive dump to the correct partition. Actually, I was doing the book learning I should have done before attempting anything, and then Microsoft now "mentions" they're shutting down the preview activations.
Well, I've mentioned elsewhere that I was able to get my 10162 build installed & activated today (different machine), so one day soon I'll be back to square one.
1) Its probably not available. If its available, it won't be soon.
2) I already had a copy of build 10162. The problem is that the Insider blog mentioned that Microsoft would NOT be activating 10162 builds anymore.
3) It still activated for me today. But the experience was odd. When I ran the initial install, it hung at "Please wait for a moment". I was certain that it was hung because Microsoft was not validating build 10162 anymore (sic). Of course, I waited for 30 minutes, and then rebooted. It then displayed a "login" (activation, whatever you want to call it), asking for my "insider" account (which is basically linked to your Windows Outlook account, provided you had already successfully applied for an insider account). The install appears to be complete, and working as expected.
If you care about having a working copy of Windows 10 (beta) for the next two weeks, install/activate 10162 now. I doubt it will work if you're not already registered with the Windows Insider program. I don't know if it (build 10162) will activate if you try installation tomorrow.
Then why cease validating build 10162? Immediately shutdown downloading the test ISOs, and warn that they'll stop validating any "old" windows 10 releases in three days.
More like messing around with a personal machine I didn't want to lose the customizations or data from the past month. More flying by my ass than I would have liked in hindsight; less flying by my ass than the worst possible case I could have exposed myself to.
I botched up my disk drive's EFI partition while trying to install Windows 10. By the time I resolve all my problems, I may not be able to activate the damn install!
Bloomberg didn't force everyone to drink less soda. He outlawed packaging that encouraged people to drink an inordinate amount of soda. People who really wanted to drink 1 liter of soda merely had to buy two large cups.
Traffic gets snarled, but cops have a greater opportunity to dispense traffic tickets for blocking traffic and making left turns.
It takes money to order and install such signs. Then those requirements impede profit later on, as well. That plan won't fly.
Cop-out. It would work fine. The City Council doesn't have the balls to fund and implement it. They would much rather ask a company to put itself at a competitive disadvantage for the Council's benefit. That's what you get when you elect socialist paper pushers with no sense of reality or ethical courage.
Ah, bloodsucking capitalist, I see. No, there will be a massive debt, denominated in euros, which Greece WILL NEVER make payments towards, once it leaves the Euro for a debased currency. Or are you suggesting NATO, or a German military alliance will invade Greece to extract payment?
Some of those bodies may be rotating around Pluto's barymetric point (gravitational center of mass). Some of them may be moons of Pluto, but we do know Charon is not one of them.
As limited as Pao is, I don't even really blame her. I think Ohanian made some mega-mistakes which reflects poorly on upper management. He's the guy who helped create reddit, but he doesn't understand basic concepts in business operations or how to "properly" manage volunteers.
No, it was, particularly the initial writeup on thursday(?). (I would have thrown in that people were putting up garbage AMAs in response to the /r/AMA Ohanian had cobbled up, to illustrate his lack of clue, but I get that it may have confused readers more than enlightened them.)
It spooked me a little that so many of your details matched my initial impressions. I had no idea your reporting existed before I started ranting, I swear! ;)
I had meant the TV side, when I said "tech media punditry". Too bad they don't bother at least reading their competition before reporting their impressions.
Has ANYONE considered that chooter may have done something so egregious (e.g. fraud, ethics violation, etc) that they had to terminate her employment ASAP?
1) The idea that an employer has to terminate an employee ASAP is a myth. The only time an employer "really" has to terminate an employee ASAP is when they are imminently about to kill another employee. Otherwise, its really at the employer's discretion, except where the law makes it at its discretion. If management can keep it under their hat, they can wait months before firing an employee.
Generally, when haste is "required" in firing an employee, its a 24 hour process. HR has to be lined up, security has to be lined up, IT needs to be cued to lock out an employee, but it should be freaking obvious is that her supervisor needs to be informed in advance, even if its minutes before the exit process starts. Its their job to see that her work functions are accounted for when she's no longer available. I don't buy into the notion at all that her "coworkers" needed to be told in advance. In any case, I never suggested that anyone outside of management needed to be told.
Most important is to avoid fuckups that commonly occur in the firing process, and not destroy your company by making the incorrect decision to fire your employee. If you did destroy your company by alienating your participant base, or opening up a legal suit, or even generating enough bad publicity to hurt your profits, you cannot claim management did a competent job when they fired someone. It really helps when you understand how your company works, because then you can avoid making bad decisions or avoidable mistakes.
2) I am not a reddit mod, and I don't give a shit that Victoria got fired, since I don't even really care about iAMAs. Firing Victoria is not the issue. Not being aware enough about what Victoria did to not have a surrogate already in place when they fired her, is what's called not "having a replacement plan in place". Usually, it you like running things half assed, you just drop the bomb on her supervisor, and they have to manage the fallout, including doing whatever it is Victoria did, or assign an underling to do it. Reddit management apparently did not have a hands on supervisor for Victoria, but didn't bother to find out what she did. So when Ohanian dived in to do damage control, all he could say was "we're going to figure it out, and eventually get on it". Does this sound like a competent business organization to you?
3) I am not a reddit employee or mod or have any stake in this fiasco, but even I took the trouble to read the mods' explanations about why they did what they did, and try to understand how this all came about. I bothered to learn that iAMA affected OTHER subreddits like /r/science, with mods that had real jobs and not killing time in their parents basement, and they outlined how the loss of process and ignoring previous history was going to revert iAMA into a shitshow. Then I bothered to read the posted leaked transcripts between Ohanian and the /r/science mods to see that Ohanian was doing a really bad job of alleviating their concerns by not actually addressing their specific, purely process related questions.
What has me disgusted is that I have developed a picture of what was involved with only cursory reading, but apparently Reddit management hasn't. Even worse, tech journalism has not bothered to investigate available information before presenting the bullshit they call "investigative reporting".
4) No one gives a shit about your claim that you have enough experience in the business world to have an opinion. That is because you posted as an anonymous coward. You were too stupid to realize that, or realize why no one cares what you say, but that did not stop you from demonstrating your mentally defective inability to grasp what my actual position was, and then regurgitate your defective thinking about what was important, which was utterly unrelated to what I said. Which works for you, since what would you have to gain by having to defend your pompous imbecility with a recurrent pseudonym?
Spoken like a true management apologist. So, the answer is for the participants let the product they love go to shit, and do it maturely. I see this all the time; for some reason I find this perspective unpersuasive.
OR perhaps management should understand how their product works, and then adroitly craft their operational style to match the situation they are "responsible" for running.
Its easier to get into those positions when the company is a startup. She was a favored investment crowd minion, and at least she took the effort initially to engage with the forums before taking the interim CEO spot. This is actually how it works with all tech startups.
YES! This is the issue that investors should care about.
And the reason why they didn't have a transition plan is that no one in management, not even co-founder Ohanian, understands how reddit works anymore (at least with the iAMA). And apparently management doesn't grasp basic HR procedure.