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French Military Police Switches to Firefox
Oslo_the_CKC writes to tell us that French Magazine Linux Pratique recently published an interview with General Brachet of the Gendarmie Nationale. In the interview he discusses why they have moved over 100,000 personnel over to Firefox and Thunderbird (70,000 and 45,000 respectively). This follows on last year's switch to OpenOffice.org so it seems like the French Military Police are enjoying the success of open source.
It's a fucking joke. Sensitivity is fast becoming a reactionary trait, anyway.
In a related news, U.S. stocks climbed today as shares of office furniture manufacturers like Chairs Inc. (CHR) rose and investors were optimistic that sells are going to increase in the area around Seatle. Based on the latest available data, CHR ended up 39.54 points, or 4.31 percent, at 1,880.95.
Can you believe it? I guess there really are such things as miracles.
Wonder if they will have as many problems with Thunderbird as I did. We shall see if they switch back to Outlook or whatever. I use FF as my primary browser, though.
Imagine how much harder physics would be if electrons had feelings! -Feynman, maybe
I for one welcome our cliché parroting overlords.
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This is definitely the best and most creative joke among the comments. While jokes about the French are overrated, why was this the one to be modded down?
YM cheese-eating chain-smoking surrender monkeys who never bathe. :D
Did I leave out any French stereotypes?
(kidding, only kidding)
The Christian Right is Neither (Christian nor right). See: Matthew 23, Matthew 25, Ezekiel 16:48-50
I mean, they dont have a brilliant history, but no one has. And I mean no one. Not even the USA. Most of the USA victories were against small Latinamerican or other third world countries, or fighting backed by a coalition AND with their homeland not being bombed day and night, like England, for instance. Indeed, the joke we make here when a war starts is that ITALY surrendered, and Switzerland declared itself neutral, no matter where that war is. Italy has had a much worse record in the last couple hundred of years. And Switzerland, well, that's a clear case of lack of commitment for anything but money.
You forgot unshaven pits.