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French did a nice ad

http://www.lefigaro.fr/actuali...
an anti-smoking group launched a poster campaign which links the use of tobacco by teenagers, both male and female, to the performing of oral sex on an older man.

Gotta start somewhere.

Qarnot was founded roughly 4 years ago and also has customers in the Paris area.

"1500 AMD Ryzen PRO will heat homes and offices next year in Bordeaux, France"

That is not really geography diverse - it is all within one city or area.

That's their next deployment. They already have customers in the Paris area.

Interesting that Total, France's biggest petrochemical company payed no corporate taxes in France even though they have sales that dwarf those of Apple.
http://www.lefigaro.fr/conjonc...

Will Total be called to pay billions in back taxes and France put to task for illegally aiding them? Ah no, Total is French. There will be an under the table arrangement that will quietly absolve everyone involved of guilt. Please return to your Apple bashing...

Fessenhiem is near Strasbourg and no where near Switerland. I think you find the Swiss want to close the nuclear plant at Bugey (see the story in french), and the luxembourgeois would surely like the plant at Cattenom to close.

According to French website Figaro,

[C]es essais de phase 1, après avoir été menés sur des chimpanzés, ont débuté le 9 juillet 2015 dans les locaux de Biotrial. 128 hommes et femmes participent aux essais. 90 personnes se sont vu administrer cette molécule à des doses variables, les autres ont pris une dose placebo , a indiqué la ministre.

"The phase-1 tests, after having been done on chimpanzees, started on July 9 2015 at Biotrial. '128 men and women participated in the tests. 90 were administered the drug at different doses, while the others took placebo', said the minister (of Health, Marisol Touraine)"

According to French website Figaro,

ces essais de phase 1, après avoir été menés sur des chimpanzés, ont débuté le 9 juillet 2015 dans les locaux de Biotrial. 128 hommes et femmes participent aux essais. 90 personnes se sont vu administrer cette molécule à des doses variables, les autres ont pris une dose placebo, a indiqué la ministre.

"This phase-1 test, after having been done on chimpanzees, started on July 9 2015 at Biotrial. '128 men and women participated in the test. 90 of them were administered the molecule at different doses, while the others took placebo', said the minister (of Health, Marisol Touraine)"

According tot he CDC at http://www.cdc.gov/reproductiv..., the unintended pregnancy rate male condoms is 18%.

Funny that here around I've regularly seen and read different numbers (random source in fr. key point < 10% for latex based condoms, < 5% for polyurethan. that's just a random example. I don't have enough time to kill to do a complete litterature mining and meta analysis)
Either North American are much dumber or worse at using condom than European, or your condoms tend to be made of a self-destructin material~
Xenophobic jokes aside, actual result vary *wildly* depending on the considered population, specially the level of sex-ed.

*when used properly* condoms can be very much safe. When used *haphazardly* not so.
See this table (again quick search). Pregnancy rates vary a lot. (See the specially low level among "motivated women" in israel. They probably had better knowledge on proper prevention than the (poor) women in the philiphine that still did get pregnant up to 60%).

The difference in number seem to be linked in the level of education and motivation of the people. A *properly* used condom is effective. That means that you need to educate better the people, to that they use the prevention better.
(instead of completely ignoring condoms, and opting to outcast HIV positive people, as suggested by top troll).

(I know it's only an anecdote, but that also match my personnal experience with <1% breakage among the hundreds of protected intercourses I've done. But both I and girl(s) knew how to use a condom properly and the necessary precautions to take).

Making it easier to vote by moving the action from a polling station to your pocket could only increase turnout, especially in the primaries.

There are many professional elections that have switched to online voting in France and every time the E-Voting proponents trumpeted the turnout boost this would no doubt bring. Unfortunately they have essentially been wrong every time.

Mohamed Merah already filmed this killing spree with a GoPro, including killing two boys six and three as well as chasing down an eight year old girl in the school yard and shooting her in the head at point blank range. Al-Jazeera got the tape but refused to show it to anyone, oddly enough it never showed up on the Internet. So disgusting shit was still possible long before this gun cam.

independant workers who paid in the 100kâ - 300kâ range to get a state-regulated taxi licence plate. ....

Please show evidence/source of what you write here and where in the Euro-Zone those prices appear.

For Paris, I found at least one English source: http://www.rudebaguette.com/2013/08/07/anatomy-of-the-paris-taxi-market-past-present-future/. If you read French, you may try Wikipedia or this article in Le Figaro.

When the founder of the Nouvel Obs admits "C'est un journal mendésiste, social-démocrate de gauche", you should probably think it could expose left-wing opinions. Try again with Les Échos (liberalist), le Point or Le Figaro (conservative right-wing) to actually make a point.

French journals have political orientations, but for the French political spectrum they cover a quite wide choice of opinions. For an American, it's all socialism.

Le Figaro reports that Minitel will be closing June 30, 2012. End of an era.

Back in the 80s a company I worked for made computers that could handle really large quantities of low-speed cooked-mode serial I/O, and while they turned out not to be the big-selling high-performance high-reliability systems the marketing slides thought they were, they were occasionally useful, and I think we sold some for Minitel.

In the USA, we are lucky if a simple majority of people vote at all. Internet based voting might help with that, since it takes some of the effort out of voting.

Internet voting has been introduced for a number of professional elections in France and it never increased voter turnout, and in some cases it seems to have lowered it. The same increased turnout claims were made for electronic voting but it seems they never realized even in countries that used it more widely like Belgium and the Netherlands.

The problem the Fukushima events showed evidently is that you do not have to make the nuclear reactor go critical and explode to cause a major radiological catastrophe: you just have to cut the power to the control room and safety system that prevents the reactor to sustain and limit its heating-cooling cycle.

Therefore protection against any intrusion or incident is paramount to the safety of the plant, therefore security should be airtight.

Parent post has it right: the Gendarmerie Nationale is in charge of the protection from intrusion into nuclear plants and other facilities and even NBC protection.

http://www.gendarmerie.interieur.gouv.fr/index.php/fre/sites/Gendarmerie/Presentation/securite/The-BRNC-facet

Nuclear plants are also surrounded by restricted air zone enforced by SAM and fast jet interception. See this (french) animation:

http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2011/12/05/01016-20111205ARTFIG00591-comment-sont-protegees-les-centrales-nucleaires.php

According to the Figaro (Link in french), the door was already opened by another employee, so the electronic record thing would be moot anyway.

FTFA:

However, both Gartner and IDC predict Microsoft's Windows Phone will beat out Apple's iOS for mobile market share by 2015

Yeah, that's what everyone predicts from the market share trends :

• USA (3rd graphic)
• France

Or maybe MS will continue its slow descent into hell...

Actually the source I first learned about it this morning (in French sorry) is this article and it states that the geologists used hints from a USSR survey in the 1980s that they kept secret during the Taleban government. So, yeah, some conspiracies are plausible here.

In other news... The 3-strikes law is definitely adopted in France, after the "Conseil constitutionnel" (an equivalent of the Supreme Court) validated the law:
http://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/2009/10/22/01002-20091022ARTFIG00615-le-conseil-constitutionnel-valide-la-loi-hadopi-2-.php (French article)

Two very bad news in the same day. Believe me, sometimes, it sucks to be French....

On the other hand, I can't wait to see if they will ever manage to have the law just working.

I guess they would, but they won't. A local gastronomy label, called AOC ("appelation d'origine controlée" or "controlled term of origin") helps to maintain the present diversity.

Large European milk processing companies such as Lactalis tried to impose pasteurized camemberts under the original gastronomy label AOC reserved to the raw milk version. But they failed!

According to Le Figaro, in 2007, Lactalis, a large European dairy company, stopped all production of raw milk cheese pretexting that such cheese sold by one of its concurrents, a small cheese maker from Normandy called Reo, were laced with listeria. Reo produced contradictory reports, lost some money but survived. So, Lactalis did it again in March 2008. Again, Reo produced proof otherwise. Alarmed, the small local dairies organized themselves and imposed the AOC label for raw milk cheese. This was confirmed by decree in January 2009.

Are you still reading newpapers? On the Web? Do you prefer watching news?

Personally, I m only reading newspaper on the web (http://www.lemonde.fr http://www.liberation.fr/ http://www.lalibre.be/ http://www.lesoir.be/ and less http://www.lefigaro.fr/ http://www.letemps.ch./ Even if people describes me to be more on the right (for Belgium, translate as communist in the USA :) ), i prefer leftish newspaper. But I like to be able to read different point of view and then make an opinion about myself. Still i find the quality of the writing to be weaker than before. If you now a subject well, you see obvious errors.

Now, i still buy 2 papers every month : "le monde diplomatique" (in http://mondediplo.com/) and "foreign affairs" ( http://www.foreignaffairs.com/) both are very interessing and they are following high standard, I also read the Economist from time to time. I wouldnt want to read them on the web because each article is quite dense and asl myself to focus on it. I would like to have the same depth into classical newpaper but alas :(.

I think Democracy needs Journalism. In democracy, voters must vote for the best candidate. And how would you do without knowing? I think that both Education and Information need to be analyse in the light of how good they are to Democracy

To come back to the proposition, I think is not neccesaraly wrong, this could allow some smaller publication to exist and that will bring more diversity where before the News Conglomerate were tending to uniformity.

They can only shoot their side arm after being buried 6 feet under?

Pretty much, yes.

Or do they have to go to the arcade like the rest of us?

I don't know what you mean, if you mean they only shoot the plastic gun from the arcade game, then yes that's the extent of it. I suppose they do shoot once at the police academy and have to miss their toes to pass the 'test'.

During the riots in 2007 a group of policemen were shot at and one of them had his leg wounded, when he reached for his gun an other policeman prevented him from shooting back. I have a link to the partial article in french (registration required for full article I suppose).

Last year a man suspected of kidnaping jump out of the police station window (or gendarme station here), the gendarm shot him in the back. Better article this time (french again).

They can only shoot their side arm after being buried 6 feet under?

Pretty much, yes.

Or do they have to go to the arcade like the rest of us?

I don't know what you mean, if you mean they only shoot the plastic gun from the arcade game, then yes that's the extent of it. I suppose they do shoot once at the police academy and have to miss their toes to pass the 'test'.

During the riots in 2007 a group of policemen were shot at and one of them had his leg wounded, when he reached for his gun an other policeman prevented him from shooting back. I have a link to the partial article in french (registration required for full article I suppose).

Last year a man suspected of kidnaping jump out of the police station window (or gendarme station here), the gendarm shot him in the back. Better article this time (french again).

In France, a new law is going to come into effect Jan.1 next, which will remove used vehicles from the road if ever they have an accident. Our president decided that forcing people to buy new cars was going to help the car industry... Brilliant, isn't it?

All details here : Le Figaro (in French, sorry)

OK my bad for not using preview and test the link, slashdot broke on the accented letter, but the Google Translate page work:
Financing of trade unions in France

Here is a quote:
"Some unions are also accused of having had recourse to occult financing, in particular by using work council funds, especially the CGT with the works council at EDF. At the beginning of 2000, this controversy has taken a turn justice on the one hand with the dismissal of the Director General of the CCAS, which had raised serious irregularities and malfunctions, and, secondly, by the submission of a complaint on behalf of agents. Bernard Thibault, secretary general of the CGT, has been heard by the court in July 2006 in connection with this case and a criminal investigation was opened for breach of trust, fraud, forgery and use of forgeries and misuse of company assets"

Also the workers are not on strike are subject to violent pressure, and many admit they go on strike so they tires don't get slashed, or so they can get promoted (some companies are union run, while not owned by the unions):
If you don't join the strike we'll break your car.

My uncle was beat up and spent a few weeks in a hospital, ending up partially disabled because he was not pro-strike. He was minding his own business, closing his shop for the night at the time. I supposed that's what 'union' stand for: 3-4 guys 'unite' to beat someone up so he will see things their way.

And here are the precisions:
- there would be only one publicly accessible and official source of data about all those orbitting objects, and it is provided by the US Space Command.
- this one does not provide information about "special" US satelites, but it does too often about others.

This is the unelegant discrepancy that may be corrected.

By the way, the article puts out a price for the system (only 30 million Euros!) and stresses that the French Graves detects objects while the German "Tira" would identify them.

One more precision is provided: the radar has apparently enabled the French airforce (spaceforce :-? to confirm a Chinese hit at another satellite, but apparently not in realtime.

According to this Figaro article, french living abroad have increased in number by 40.5% over the last decade, reching over 2 million. The proportion of engineers leaving the country to find a job has doubled. There are already over 300,000 french living in London, making it one of the largest french cities by comparison.

There is also this Time article dating from 2000 but which simply calls this emigration "the french exodus".

If you can read fench, then this french Senate report on emigration has a lot of numbers although it's from 1999. Its conclusions leave little doubt:
- french emigration has accelerated a lot
- this emigration concerns people with a high level of education, the number of french studying abroad has doubled in a decade
- the number of french fleeing the ISF (taxation of high net worth) has increased dramatically though it only concerns a small fraction of this emigration
- the number of french people staying abroad instead of coming back has tripled over the 16 years the study spans

The French launch a Thai satelite
Thaicom-4 with the Ariane launcher.
With "high speed" internet NOW
for 2$ a month in rural asia.

http://www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/20050811.FIG0245.h tml?185224

In french , bien sur!
The heaviest satellite in geostationary orbit.

He may be in Le Figaro today. Look for "Quand les createurs de virus se font la guerre" in Le Figaro's archive. You have to pay to read the article, though.

Osama bin Laden was treated in an US military hospital in Dubai. He also met CIA representatives. Le Figaro article is here.

I've heard that Germany charges 30EUR (about as many dollars) for each computer sold, though.