This is nonsense.
I am French and living in France and can tell you that the French are lagging WAY behind all the "modern" countries such as the US, UK or Germany. Statistics show that the number of french families connected to the Internet is not even 20%. Compare that to the near 50% US rate.
The French are old-minded people, and do not embrace new technology very fast, as said in a previous post on this page. They invented the minitel, great! but now what are they doing? sticking with that old dumb terminal from the early 1980's, instead of massively adhering to the Internet.
This is considered as a major issue right now in France, and the government has only consented to undertake a few symbolic actions against it. Go on that so-called online tax-paying site and tell me if you can actually pay your taxes... i doubt it.
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This is nonsense.
I am French and living in France and can tell you that the French are lagging WAY behind all the "modern" countries such as the US, UK or Germany. Statistics show that the number of french families connected to the Internet is not even 20%. Compare that to the near 50% US rate.
The French are old-minded people, and do not embrace new technology very fast, as said in a previous post on this page. They invented the minitel, great! but now what are they doing? sticking with that old dumb terminal from the early 1980's, instead of massively adhering to the Internet.
This is considered as a major issue right now in France, and the government has only consented to undertake a few symbolic actions against it. Go on that so-called online tax-paying site and tell me if you can actually pay your taxes... i doubt it.