Everyones safety and convenience is WAY more important than self-importance and an excess of belief in your own capability.

Except when it disrupts the approximate 7 billion living outside the US.

Which of course is all the time.

That is basically the opposite of what he was complaining about.

Everybody expects the spanish inquisition!

Fail.

It's entertainment.
Entertainment in a large fashion dictates what is ok and normal.
Every bit of acceptance is good.

This is also the matter of people noticing that a feature is lacking in their game.
It's the same type of complaint, in a fashion, as when you can't play games in a LAN unless you are connected to the internet.
It's an unneccesary addition specifically not allowing two people to get together.

You mean, you've learned one workflow and you are dissapointed when a separate one works differently.

Not at all strange, just that it's not the same.

I have similar problems going from libreoffice calc to excel since I know libreoffice calc better.

Sick axioms don't excuse that much.

It explains why Hitler didn't consider himself evil, but it doesn't mean that his actions where decent.

It is homophobic to consider an act of love to be morally wrong just because it occurs between two persons of the same sex.

Only when you install windows yourself unless I'm mistaken.

1: Could you get more interesting stuff to do currently?
2: How long will this creative phase last in the new job?
3: Will it be a long-term thing? Basically this can only be guaranteed by partnership in the firm.
4: Is money currently a major influence on what you can do with your life?
5: If this company fails after your redesign, how will that look on your CV?
6: Do you know if they will actually listen to your experience or will they hamper you severely by restricting your choices?

Basically, you can't know.

However, try to have a beer with your new collegues first.
Usually you can get them to tell you about what type of place it is to work.

So play with your friends...

Most artists aren't salesman.

The true currency is always status.

IPS is sometimes great.

However, if an attack occurs from thousands of IP-adresses and with random requests.
Well, they fail and you fail.

DDOS is terrible to defend against.

DOS otoh is simple, just block the IP.