Yeah but Mickey, you said "they should have counted hours in front of the computer the same as spending time in front of a TV." People who write software and the like, do that all day. Even surfing on the Internet is part of that, for support and example code, for example. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> As for forums and chats - even those can be part of the work. There's plenty computer language forums out there, and although some go there for fun, others occasionally visit them for a living - so to speak. Or you could just have a chat while you're working.
My point is - sitting in front of the television, you can only watch. But sitting before a computer screen, even when surfing the Net, you can be doing more than watching. You can make things, you can actually do something.
So no, I don't think it's the same <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

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