I don’t hate because someone told me to, i just hate because i hate.

Fireman’s ball.

Sick burns

Without a foundation, you have no foundation.

Effectively, China has been acquiring a monopoly on manufacturing, which is an absolute necessity for modern life. We have been acquiring the higher-paid, but less numerous and less critical industries.

Any information given would obviously be for use with another device.

QR code, for example. These are instructions or information about the crash, not links (except the QR code, which would obviously be read by another device).

The only proper response.

Or, they were paid by Sony to fold…

Because for the bulk of users, unless they are power users, all they need to know is that things didn’t work.

Things actually useful to have on the BSOD:

• distro-specific instructions for submitting a bug report
• option to reboot
• option to show debug info
• option to show a qr code that submits a bug report
• and, if configured by the distro or system admin, debug info

I don’t think the contributions of the dishwasher and the Baker are equal, unless perhaps the dishwasher is deeply dedicated to the bakery - to the point where they’re dedicating their life to it.

What is to prevent them from entering into an exploitative partnership?

Come up with a plot you will voice, and a plot you won’t.

For the first, something that would change the whole political or religious landscape of all of the nearby nations/known world.

For the second, something that could actually destroy the planet, and will ultimately interrupt or make meaningless the change in political landscape.

“Find your way in an open world. Leave your mark, and try to withstand the winds of change.”

The key is that both plots happen whether or not the players get involved.

Every session, roll for the advancement of the plots. Make sure things trickle down and impact the players. Subtle early, vicious late.

Whoever downvoted you is nuts.

They’re in the basements, so you don’t hear about them.

This. The institution of science is deeply biased towards the established knowledge base - partly due to monetary interests, partly due to ‘simple’ social inertia, like when someone doesn’t want some kid to come up with ideas that may invalidate things they have seen to (seem to) work.

Like with magnetohydrodynamics - it’s useful for modeling some things, but depends on the notion that space (as in, the interplanetary and interstellar medium) is either nonconductive or infinitely conductive - which simply isn’t the case.

Plasma cosmologists have made some really nutty assertions. However, ideas should be treated on their merit - and some of what they theorize has a lot of solidity. But in general, it’s treated with derision, because (admittedly) it also traffics in unicorns.

If someone who purports to traffic in unicorns also traffics in the Principia Mathematica, it doesn’t invalidate the latter.

Interesting how you use “simple” and “mail server” in the same sentence.

Yeah, kinda weird to see it on mildlyinfuriating.

Near death experience?

Live your life as you wish. But putting words in my mouth sure doesn’t help your case.

It was three distinct points. But it wouldn’t matter if I did reason it out for you - your stance is emotive, and you won’t agree with me unless that viewpoint underlying your stance changes, and it won’t change due to someone reasoning it out for you.

The slow grind of time, and the steady erosion by nature may cause you to change, though. Fortunately, whether it does or not, it’s basically irrelevant to me whether or not you believe or act as I do.

Edit, in response to your edit:

You sure do assume a lot about me. But, so it goes. Again - I’m not really concerned with whether you think like I do or not. You can even hate me if you like. I don’t expect you to come to my viewpoint by anything I say. My viewpoint is different than yours, and that suits me fine. Such is diversity.

You got a severe case of the drama there, first worlder.