Quote from: franky1 on November 06, 2018, 09:27:18 AM

Quote from: DooMAD on November 04, 2018, 09:37:21 PM

There's no flip flopping, those securing the chain decide what consensus is. They've decided on SegWit. That's not tyranny. Forcing a larger blockweight onto nodes that don't want it is tyranny. Node operators have the option of running code that supports a larger blockweight. If or when they decide to do that, fair enough. We can then have a larger blockweight. But they aren't doing that now.

you forgot your dessert analogy didnt you
people didnt ask for dessert they were happy with their main meal... but the dessert arrived at the table anyway, they were just told to not see or hand it around. and to only touch the main meal plate the waiter handed them stripped of the dessert

though the people with only the main meal pay more for their meal even if they cant be involved in having a full valid meal+dessert.

I'm happy to keep it going with the analogy if that's what you really want.

You're in a restaurant that serves dessert. You are there by choice. You're seated in the "no dessert" section. Also by choice. Even though it's more expensive without the dessert discount. That means you are not getting a dessert. Dessert is not being brought to your table. You've never even seen a dessert. You can still enjoy your main and pay exactly what you've always paid for it. Stop whining at us because we like sitting in the dessert section and we're happy with the one main. One lone voice can't change the restaurant chain's policy on main courses. Each restaurant location sets its own menu, but most of them seem to have the same menu. Most of the other customers seem very content with the current menu. Sometimes you have to tip a bit more when it's busy, but most people don't have a problem with this because they love the service and the quality. This restaurant always seems to know exactly what the majority of its customers want, almost as if it was run by them. I honestly don't know why you keep coming here when all you do is complain about the menu. Some people just like the attention, I guess. You also strike me as the kind of person that doesn't tip very generously. We like it here, though.

I even hear that a small number of locations for this chain of restaurants have a bespoke menu. You run one of those restaurants, don't you? You let customers decide how many main courses they want to have, but there's definitely no dessert menu. It seems that idea hasn't proven very popular, though. Most people are happy with either just the one main, or the one main and then a nice big dessert. I'd have thought you'd be appreciative of the fact that you're totally free to run your own restaurant with no dessert on offer. Literally no one can force you to offer dessert at your location. I don't know why you think you get to tell the other locations what should be on their menu, though. It's not your call. You've made your choice for what goes on your menu, so you need to respect the choice of the other locations. Maybe you should consider being less of a dick about this and just be thankful for what you've got. No one else can reverse your order like they can in old-fashioned restaurants. You don't have to give them your personal contact details to eat here like old-fashioned restaurants do. They're open 24/7, when the old-fashioned restaurants are often closed. You can even be refused service altogether at those old-fashioned places. Everyone is welcome here. You might not like the menu, but there are clearly enough good reasons for you to stick around because you haven't left yet.

Plus, there's always that other chain of restaurants with the controversial advertising and up-to-32-course meals and no dessert if you like your mains so much. We think that's a tad gluttonous, though. If everyone ate a large number of courses there, most of their locations would probably be forced to shut and you'd be left with only one central location where the service was absolutely terrible. They could change the menu as much as they wanted and people wouldn't have much say in it. Plus, even though you can have up to 32 courses there, most people who eat there don't even finish their starters. People just seem to go there for a light snack. It's all a bit strange, really. But if you like that business model, the option is yours.

And there are countless other restaurant chains too, but the service and quality varies greatly. Sometimes people get food poisoning at those other chains. Standards are pretty lax.

Many believe that's why this chain of restaurants we eat in is so popular. The quality here is really high. And there are so many locations. Sometimes people forget how important those aspects are and that maybe it's not the best idea to jeapordise those qualities.