Does it always take you 80 hours to rollback a change set?

The point is that the CPU and the motherboard are all manufactured in such a way that the processor can work at a clock cycle so damn fast. That is precision. Not everything is about work/time. To your analogy, it's more like saying "We can have the engine do ten bazillion RPM! That's a quality engine! However, if you try to drive at that RPM, any flaw in the system can cause a huge amount of damage, so don't expect to drive it at that speed."

No you aren't the only one. That's the way I feel about making computers too. "Why couldn't the government design the iPad?"

IP addresses and DNS servers are not the internet. It's the network. And you can build your network any way you like and avoid sending traffic through the US.

In what language is + a unary operator?

I disagree, as there are an infinite number of shades we would describe as green.

Um, what exactly do you think happened in Speaker for the Dead if not Ender speaking for the dead Marcao?

My point is that it seems to me that if you are doing something with it that you couldn't do to any type, you shouldn't be using an anonymous type. I would genuinely like to know what a valid case is for using an anonymous type where later you will be accessing one of its properties by name. If you pass that anonymous type to another function it will have to be an [object] anyway, and if its just the same function, build the properties for the anonymous type before initializing the anonymous type. You can't pass an anonymous type to another function as its type (and it would be stupid if you could), and you can't cast from an object to the anonymous type (which would lead to the errors you mentioned above). So, within the same function, your anonymous type may as well be an object instead of a var.

Well, in my defense the GP to my comment was referring to var in C#, so I responded with how I would handle a situation of renaming the type in C#.

Why would you be using an anonymous type if you needed a reference to it that couldn't be handled with the [object] type? That sounds down-right wonky.

Uh, you put the cursor on the type name, press ctrl+r+r and type the new name. Or you click the tickle and choose the rename option after you change the name. Are you just assuming that everybody uses var everywhere?

"XML sucks"

Really? You think so? You have any more complaints from 5 years ago? Use JSON or binary serialization, then stop complaining.

How would they know how to identify the account to charge? Some kind of identifier, like a 16 digit number?

It is a really simple surgery. I've had both done. However, the important thing to realize is that when you get your new lens (at least at the time I got my implants a couple years back), you can't change the focal length without the help of glasses. Long range I see a lot better, but now I need reading glasses. Also, no self respecting ophthalmologist would remove your natural lens for no reason. When I had my cataract surgery in my left eye, three days later my retina tore and detached. Granted, I'm prone to that sort of thing, and if the cataract wasn't so thick from delaying the surgery it shouldn't have happened, but it's still a possibility.

Yeah, just build a secure OS and browser that doesn't allow people to use cookies as tracking cookies. Oh shit, the only way to do that would be to not support cookies at all. And holy crap, IE allows you to turn cookie support off.

You don't really understand the problem here, do you? It's a potential ethics violation by Google, not a technical violation. It's like if a company published inaccurate ingredients on a can of nuts, and you're bitching about shoddy can manufacturing.