When you've completed your novel, please let us know where to find it on Amazon. What you have so far is a good plot idea, and I would like to encourage you to stick with it.

Not to mention editing a comment in Facebook that extends beyond one line.

What terrible math!

80years * 20,000men = 1,600,000 man years (24hrs, 7 days/wk)
i.e: 533,333 man years (8hrs, 7 days/wk)
i.e. 380,952 man years (8 hrs, 5 days/wk)

If everyone of the 20K workers were sick half of the time:
190,476 man years (8 hrs, 5 days/wk, but not working 50% of the time)

Using your data, the pyramids at Giza took 5.5 times longer to build than people have been playing COD:BO, and that's if they were a bunch of slackers who took a sickie every other day!

ISS: €100 billion

In this article, information about science research is being withheld from the media.

What if the fact that this information is being withheld, were also withheld?

Now we have a media with no information, and no idea that they don't have the information, and a public who has no clue about it either.

How would you go about convincing your countrymen that this is a bad thing, if no-one, even you, knew about it?

It is not that "scientific explanations preclude God as a valid concept".

It is that "there is nothing that needs a God concept as part of the explanation for it".

Serial jokes are so lame

What do you base this opinion of Windows Live Messenger on? I am intrigued.

Please explain.

What in Newtonian physics precludes knowing locations or times? Especially considering that both those things are simply definitions, in terms of a locator service.

So what?

All this means is that there is an initial section of the website that doesn't use cookies, and therefore doesn't need to pass a cookie to the user. This is the EULA section.

After this, there is another section which uses cookies because the user allowed it, and then a third section which says: well thanks for reading the EULA, pity you won't be able to see the rest of the site because you clicked No.

What's the big deal?

I agree with your take on this. I am glad that I took maths and applied maths at uni, because that's been of tremendous help to me during my career as a programmer.

But nothing I learned at uni about programming or computer science has been of any use whatsoever.

Everything I know about coding I learnt either from reading other people's source code or long hours of experimentation. The rest is just experience and reading books.

Also, I devote part of every day to reading up on new or old coding practices/techniques, and I read a book a month about something to do with design, engineering or coding. If I didn't do this, I wouldn't stay current, and I wouldn't have a broad pool of knowledge to draw from.

The big question of a degree vs a diploma becomes irrelevant after a few years, something neither recruiters nor employers seem to realise.

For an accountant you need a degree, because the rules and practices of accounting are well-known and you can learn them all in a degree. This is not the case AT ALL for the ever-evolving field of programming, never mind the misunderstood field of computer science.

So where will you find people directly after high school that knows 3 programming languages fluently?