Scholarships? For scholars?!? Are you out of your mind?

I was a horrible college student once I had to start trying. It was the late 80's, though, so I was surely a mild case compared to the current crop.

Furthermore, "a Middle Ages marketplace" is clunky at best. Ride with "A person in the Middle Ages buying produce from a/the marketplace" and set that brain free with clarity.

The whole sentence would read better if the "person" were left out and the goods on offer in the marketplace were made the subject.

Was your font meant to insult his memory?

You might want to watch the movie (again) if you think it glorifies much of anything

... nor does an unqualified negative opinion make it bad.

Keep going crazy over other peoples' (former) problems and we'll see if you can manage 54.

Great! Then the lawyers will have even more of the money, and more of the influence! Take that, you corporations!

Pity the citizens who choose to tolerate them...

"Else, how else..."?!?

Is there no dignity left over for the language I used to know? Marry the robot...

Rest assured that no Brit has ever worked in the Facebook PR department and ever will!

Patent judges are even easier to bribe in the U.S. than they are in India!

You just figured that out? Uh, would you like to go to war for me, er, I mean the U.S.?

Disagreed. German engineers are paid much more on average and enjoy a much higher standing in society relative to their software developer counterparts. Plus, their work isn't located in the sticks (which is essentially impossible to accomplish in Europe as it is).

You weren't an engineer to begin with (it's a shame that so many software types donned themselves with that moniker in the late nineties).

That designation is left to those gullible enough to swallow the B.S. spiel from the Financial States of America about technological youth.

thegarbz hits the nail on the head above. Why become an engineer? He's also right that other societies value engineers just as the U.S. trivializes their talents.

- an M.S.E.E. turned Software DEVELOPER