Oh, sorry? The language behaves in a non-deterministic way and this is my fault? From what basement you are, clueless guy?

Is because JavaScript seems to randomly decide whether it will return a "11" or "2", while in a strong-typed language the result is deterministic. On Java you knows that "A" is a string and "B" is a integer, so A + B will always returns a string "11". Whereas Javascript are not sure about the types used in A and B, so therefore is no way to be sure about what he is going to return.

I usually have a worse problem, which is when Javascript arbitrarily decides that my string variable is an integer or vice-versa. You create a string, but then you discovers - when trying to use a string function like split() - that Javascript decided to treat your string as a integer, making the split() fails without error messages.

The difference is that the "+" operator in a strong-typed language works without causing nasty surprises for you.

Because variants are useful when you want to (or most common, you need to) make a generic function to handle some information where you have no way of knowing if the input parameter will be a string, integer, long, etc. Of course it is slower than dealing with a defined type, but is usually more convenient than trying to create a separate function for each possible entry type.

Is the same shit here in Brazil. 60% tax in all international purchases made by individuals under the guise of "protecting" a nonexistent national industry (nobody makes Intel i7 in Brazil as far as I know).

As long as is optional, is interesting to have it considering that the driver will not always be able to call for help in an emergency (And from the standpoint of first responders is also interesting that a car can automatically call for help when involved in an accident).

Here we use PostgreSQL in most applications of the government, and it works pretty well.

Try to visit the recent XKCD here, as example: http://xkcd.com/1416/

On Chrome is usable, on Firefox the entire system almost freeze (using Linux Mint on a AMD Athlon II X2 250).

Sorry, only your impression. When I use Firefox on a weaker computer, the speed difference compared to Chrome is obvious. The detail is that a current machine is usually fast enough to hide this difference (but it still exists).

You completely ignored the crux of the problem: For the small inventor file lawsuits against patent infringement, he must pay. And need to pay a lot, probably more than he will see in life being a small inventor.

Is the "american way". Stealing ideas, patent them and then force everyone to pay to use their "innovations".

This. The north-american justice system is so fucked up that in practice there is no justice at all. North-americans are in practice at your own risk in the market with no protection of justice, where whoever has the most money is who wins per more wrong he is.

(The legal system is as broken as google translator, the damn thing is crap)

Well, some comments are funny and welcome. The problem lies in the fact that now is so easy to use a computer that the the football captains and the cheerleaders are appearing on Slashdot to comment (why, I really do not know), but without the necessary capacity and cultural baggage to comment something useful or interesting.

But that said, it is important that you (and I, others, etc.) be tolerant, because though some are obviously stupid comments (like those involving bodily functions) others may not be stupid, being only slightly below what you (and me) think is good.

Do not waste your time with the Nimey, he's just another troll who can not understand what others write and he take pleasure in offending others when writing.