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French Response to Google is Microsoft
efp writes "Mark Liberman posted over in the Language Log that, in considering alternatives to Google's library initiative in Europe, French President Jacques Chirac would consider a partnership with Microsoft 'since he has so many views in common with its president, Bill Gates'. This comes out of talks between the French president, the head of the French National Library and the Minister of Culture, in in part 'building an alter ego to the American project, before thinking of an eventual collaboration with Google, so as not to negotiate from a position of weakness' as they plan to digitize their cultural resources."
...to, ummm... "strongly dislike" the French.
Not that another reason was needed.
Farking idiots. Or should I say, espèce de petit con! ("sort of small vagina!")
Shop as usual. And avoid panic buying.
Do you want some cheese with that whine?
Get it? Cause the French have wine, cheese, and a massively inflated ego, dreaming of the days that they actually mattered in the world.
Hello -1 troll. Nice to see you again.
SAILING MISHAP
If anyone needed proof that France is evil, here it is.
--- 11 meters/second, or 24 miles per hour - the airspeed velocity of an unladen European swallow. Really.
I refuse to post this anonymously: this place makes me sick!
The knee-jerk racism that a large proportion of Slashdotters display is very much tied in with the reason there's so much bad feeling against the United States out in the rest of the world...
Why stop there? Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, the list goes on.
Seriously, if you're looking for a good moral compass, you could do worse than heading in the opposite direction of wherever it is France is headed.
"Seriously, in that one sentence you've demonstrated that you're so clueless about history that you're a danger in the classroom. I have to agree with the other poster that I'd be very worried if you were teaching my kids."
If the American posters here, can't get history right? What else do they get wrong?
Still sucking English exhaust, I hope they enjoy the sensation because I suspect things won't change. Position of power? France? G'luck.
you'd be scared to have your children taught by somone who actually knows his discipline and is well read. wow. i'm stupid? neil, i assume that's your name (or is it what you do!!), you haven't any idea. because we share a differing opinion, that frightens you? perhaps you should read a book or two, and maybe you'd feel a bit more secure in YOUR beliefs, well that's the trouble, they're beliefs not knowledge. you can believe anything, hell some idiots make a movie, and people believe it. and it even sells well, and they pimp it to the academy, and in an election year, though it's full of lies and half truths, but correct politically...try responding with intelligence rather than bluster.
as mick foley says, have a nice day.
My problem? I was perfectly gruntled, until some numbnuts came by and dissed me.
dude, put down the gore vidal, howard zinn and noam chomsky books. they are liars.
1) we did save france in ww1. the brits were effectively broken after somme and 2ypres. cambrai offered a respite, and allowed them to remain on the continent, but not as other than a shell of its former self. the french after 2nd aisne. the russians left in 1917, and the germans launched their 1918 spring offensive, got within 30 miles of Paris, only to be stopped in belleau woods. the germnas were on their way to victory. period.
i'd continue except that you displiayed your ignorance, and i shan't be bothered wasting my time ina flame war. oh yeah, by the way, we actually did win vietnam. by 1973, after LB2, we bombed the VC to the bargaining table. they gave in, we got a real south vietnma government up, had less than 30,000 troops in country, and the country was stabilizing. only the traitorous lefties in congress pulled the plug on funding which caused the democratic south government to collapse.
dude, know what you're talking about before you runneth off at the mouth. the original post was half humorous, half truthful. they have never been our allies, only used us like a french whore when it served their purpose. then they fuck us in the ass and tell us how wonderful they are.
My problem? I was perfectly gruntled, until some numbnuts came by and dissed me.
Yeah, and you've just shown us how Americans have gotten their reputation.
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck
The USA on the other hand surrendered to Somalia, North Vietnam, North Korea (they still have a captured US ship).