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French Military Contributes To Thunderbird 3
fredboboss sends news about Mozilla's email client Thunderbird 3, whose release we noted last week. "Thunderbird 3 contains code from the French military, which decided the open source product was more secure than Microsoft's rival Outlook. The French government is beginning to move to other open source software, including Linux instead of Windows and OpenOffice instead of Microsoft Office. Thunderbird 3 used some of the code from TrustedBird, a generalized and co-branded version of Thunderbird with security extensions built by the French military."
I'm tired of the rest of the world trying to tell US citizens what to believe. If you are so pissed off at us, then do something about it.
I think the US is the best country in the world, no exception. I don't give a shit in the least what anyone else thinks of that. I'm proud to be an American.
During the Napoleonic Era, France had the best armies in continental Europe; England dominated the seas. From the Wikipedia entry on the Battle of Trafalgar, "The British victory spectacularly confirmed the naval supremacy that Britain had established during the past century..."
I absolutely agree that the French surrender thing is stupid and juvenile. It needs to go away. There's some "The French always surrender," then we get comments like yours that are like "but the French saved you in the Revolutionary War" and so on. I'm sick of the whole damn thing.
I suppose you mean the War of 1812 when you mention the US losing to Canada. That's a retarded conclusion to make. First, we were primarily fighting Britain because of trade tensions because the British restricted trade to, of all countries, France. The war ended because both sides finally realized that there was no point in fighting.
A lot of people think that Vietnam was a huge "defeat." I'm not going to say that it wasn't, but we did accomplish some goals. Communist Vietnam never became a strong force in Asia, and didn't spread. We effectively contained Communism there. There were two goals in the Cold War: 1) don't allow Communism anywhere, and 2) if #1 fails, then contain it. We absolutely failed at #1, but #2 worked well. People will probably respond that we shouldn't have done anything to stop Communism; I agree that we probably should have stayed out, but the countries where we did stop Communism are markedly better off now, in particular North vs. South Korea.
You seem to be confused that all assholes are ignorant. I'm perfectly fine with being an asshole sometimes, especially when someone criticizes something of which I am proud.
I think that you are an ignorant, America-hating asshole that seems to be so pissed off because the US makes the rules for world. There are a lot of groups/countries that have hated the US over the years, none of them have done particularly well.
Yeah the U.S. definitely has the high moral ground when it comes to wars.
last time i tried gnumeric, about a month ago, it was hopeless: just a really basic program , worth what you paid for it
France fought brave and well in WW2 but still lost.
No, France had very powerful military and opportunity to win but they failed to take initiative while German was invading Poland. Later on, they just crapped their pants, especially Gamelin.
Where was the U.S. when Germany was invading Poland? Indeed, the U.S. didn't enter the war before being attacked either. GB did, but then, they were under contractual obligation to help Poland; no one can tell for sure if they would have entered the war otherwise. At least they didn't earlier when Germany invaded Czechia, a fact that massively increased the faith German generals had in Hitlers strategic abilities. Maybe if GB had already engaged in the war at that time, the German generals would have opposed the invasion of Poland, because they wouldn't have thought they could win (besides the fact that also the tactic situation would have been worse for Germany without having the possibility to send the soldiers through Czechia to Poland).
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.