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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."
Stuff it America Junior.
Plus "You got your asses kicked in Vietnam." Hardly, the North was not much of a fighting force after Tet. The United States got its political ass kicked.
Yeah, and you're an idiot. The biggest reason the French suck is because they had the right, the obligation, the duty, to prevent the Germans from building up their military after WWI, and they gave in, they failed, they surrendered. Every death in WWII, including millions of Jews and Russians, can be laid at the feet of the French for failing to live up to the terms of the Treaty of Versailles which gave them the right to march into Germany at any point they desired and smack them down. But the french were afraid, and thus were key to making WWII happen by their inaction.
Then, of course, there's this fact: "There has rarely been a war in which France did not surrender or win with the help of making allies with another country that would do all the work for them."
http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/u/u/uup101/France.htm
The meme won't die because it's based in historical fact. Sure, France helped the US out mightily during the Revolution--but not due to any great purpose or charity, only to hurt the British. And there's no one more smug, more racist, that I know of than the French.
The french are wussy surrender-monkeys and smug bastards. I'm sure it won't be long now before the french give in to the muslim elements in their society and become the first muslim european state.
T3o stick something the mobo blew
They imposed ridiculous penalties on Germany after WW1 and allowed Germany to remilitarize, giving birth to Nazi Germany, which, after defeated, gave birth to Israel.
They defeated the British Army in the Revolutionary War and provided financial aid to the Continental Army, giving birth to the USA.
Basically the French are directly responsible for the two most hated nations in living memory, the USA and Israel.
FTFY.
WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?
Written Japanese and Chinese have the precious feature of separating educated people like me from illiterate trash like you.
Really?
Yeah, those Germans in WWII were real pushovers for my relatives freezing their asses off in the Ardennes during the battle of the bulge. And that whole Normandy thing was a real cake walk too.
I can't believe we picked on such a weak and militarily mismatched foe.
World War II military deaths:
France: 217,600
U.S.: 416,800
I understand the irony of the Americans (my native country) cowardly waiting to join the war, relatively safe due to an ocean of distance, now calling the French cowards.
Go suck a dick.