As best as I can tell it was 'Porky's' reference originally, and yes you are missing the joke. The replies are very 'tongue in cheek'.

As I only countered his alleged simile (...is like coding a new software with [one language] while...) with my experience showing that it isn't so impossible, I would conclude that you need to read a little more carefully. To be more explicit, he never said anything about anecdotal evidence at all, that was just you being fully snarky, but likely you knew that already.

As principally a Java programmer, I've only done one C# project, It ran quietly for more than five years, even was moved to a new machine without issue by someone who contacted me once with some basic questions because he saw my name associated with it. I'm sorry, your point was what exactly?

While I'd agree with you in general on your attitude about 'innocent until proven guilty' and I personally have never ran across this situation once IRL. However, I'd consider some life changes if I kept running across personal stories of such type, like you seem to have had.

Using a tech analogy to explain a car issue just doesn't have the same feeling as it does the other way around. Good try though.

The question is "Do you feel vindicated or victimized by the +5Insightful rating for your post?". As you must realize that your completely common place observation has been 'agreed to' as being 'Insightful'. Congratulations man, you're part of the 'problem' :)

Well, it's only 'insightful' in the meaning of 'I was thinking the same thing', which kinda works, but only in the absence of a proper choice.

The only reason why people are even distributing such foolery is that right wing commentators have been filling the gullible with tales of Death Panels, Socialistic take over, etc. in a seemingly desperate effort to confuse people enough to vote for them again.

Reactionaries always whine about 'those dirty damn liberals' as an effort to distract from real policy discussions. Troll like, they are often spit out comments about how 'their liberal friends' are 'so stupid'.

Some already do. Almost any ecommerce site, and many 'support/help' sections will redirect based on specific searches. What you want to know is what they are, and for them to more often to support account function queries.

The only kind of place I've seen such tall ceilings have been in tropical climates, and never more than a couple of stories high.

Organ donation can be a form of self sacrifice, not unlike falling on a grenade, or rushing into a suicide bomber. Surely, observant Jews don't condemn those people, why should organ donation be any different?

To that you're supposed to answer "I went to Jared", or at least that's what the TV says will make her and her closest friends happy.

Chances are that the cell phone equipment was the reason he could afford it.

I like to say that one needs to be 20% done before knowing how long it will take.

STS-133 is the mission designation, so while the obiter has a couple missions under it's belt, that mission will functionally end with the landing of the obiter.