First you need to define what veteran means. Old farts like me that have been around since 1959 and on the Internet since 1995 and also in the industry for 20 years ~ or vets RAMBO style.

If they are like me, then what is it for? If it is for the other, the a Uzi would suffice with a redirect to "I'll be back"

It should be called "Old farts that don't have a clue"

I expect BG donated the monies through an outlet that gets more back. Like his foundation that invests in Pharma's that him and his family have loads of shares in, and basically do a MS to shaft others then clean up the sales afterwards.

Bill Gates is nothing but a modern day snake oil seller -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_oil

Exactly. Just teach kids maths. I guess it is all down to the stupid assumptions (excuses) that PC people have about the kid that can't learn (dslyx... or however you spell it) or try to make it interesting involving drink and food. Load of bollocks.

The last bloody thing I want to do when out walking, or in a pub or on the bus or anything else when out and about is the bloody well create a word processing document or spreadsheet or what ever.

Geez, what's going on in the world?

Skype is a household word as is Kleenex, and people want to get rid of both as soon as they have used it.
You got that wrong. I don't know anyone that uses 'skype', nor anyone that talks about it. But I do know that people hoover, and use andrex to wipe their arse. Maybe MS think doing dirty and shitty work makes the name stick.

... and not been near one in years, how would you know it smells of cat's piss if you don't know what cat's piss smells of?

I would have blamed windows 8.1 and all the other crap they pre-install - perhaps it's the smell of crap.

But you need a few more crashes and 'incidents' to get the data to improve the code. More crashes please!

Also in the UK (as we are a relatively small Country) a lot of services run underground, so once laid they don't have so much maintenance costs.

No, remove time from the observer and the one doing something. Both events will happen at the same speed, but it is only the 'time' measure that is wrong because humans have to measure it.

Yes entropy, but time is perceiving a measure between different states of it (but I doubt animals do anyway, I mean, does a pigeon know how old it is?). Time is just like a tape measure - just a way to measure different states between events. i.e. supposedly before the big bang, there was no time, as effectively there was no events.

I don't think so.... the main point is 'over the passage of time...' - but time is only a human concept. Plus I wouldn't trust wikipedia anyway with all the nonsense on there.

After reading a lot on this is that sometimes an issue becomes a problem without reason.

Now, time is ONLY a man made measure - a measure between events. Nature/the universe doesn't know what time is nor cares about it. It is only us humans that need to try to explain time dilation and various other 'time issues' to make the maths work. Remove time, and I bet it will balance these equations.

Time cannot run backwards,as there is no such thing as time except in the human brain and the human concept of measuring changes.

£3.00=$500 - Let me know where I can get them exchange rates please!

I wonder if the wireless thing ever turned on properly after he woke up?

I don't think it's specific to cockney, just generic rhyming slang in England. It's all gone 'Pete Tong', I'm going for a 'Ruby {Murray}' type thing.