Part of the issue is that the software that comes standard with Linux dwarfs what comes with Windows. For example, Linux distros typically come with and office suite (or 2), multiple mail servers and clients, a full development suite and many many more things that you must buy separately for Windows.

Of course, you can easily do a minimal (base) install of Linux that includes no GUI at all.

So, at best it's a matter of picking and choosing a kinda sorta apples to apples installation of Windows and Linux. Where there's picking and choosing, there's cherry picking...

There is a reason we don't call them kings.

Perhaps more importantly, a good theory comes from further building and testing. Denying that it does anything and shelving it means no theory is likely ever happen.

I sure wish we could get back to having dozens to hundreds of smallish ISPs to choose from. They did actually care and got things fixed fast.

By shutting down the event where his video stream was (almost) shown.

No, as long as they don't restrict the content of the bills and they do permit them somewhere reasonably where the public will see them. No dodges like letting them post them on the inside of dumpsters only.

I was primarily reacting to rubycodez post being the 4th or 5th time he said exactly the same thing in this article.

As for Tajmar, he is not the first or the last experimenter who has been in error, it's the nature of science. Remember the FTL neutrinos? As for warp drive, I can find no reference to him making such a claim. I can't even find a wild media claim of that for him.

Agreed.

That OP is silly to call out the use of the term 'learn' for a non-sentient thing.

If it is a parlor trick, it will be more accidental than clever I suspect. Even that would teach us something new.

It's one thing to question the very preliminary theory of operation for the thing, it's quite another to demand that it is doing nothing just because it would be inconvenient.

My gut feeling is that whatever it is, it won't violate conservation of momentum.

Machines are said to learn, but are not sentient and do not think. Memory plastic isn't sentient either.

They push against the propellant they throw away. You should spend more time understanding what was said and less figuring out a lame excuse to say someone is wrong.

We get it, we get it. You're the god of science and he's a doodie head.