TurquoiseB wrote: >--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>In a message dated 12/7/05 9:35:23 A.M. Central Standard Time, >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> >> >> >>>You know what happened to the last uncaring >>>asshole who used that line, don't you? :-) >>> >>>"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed >>>to repeat it." - George Santayana >>> >>> >>But that was at a time when the French had some balls. Since >>the end of Napoleonic times they have been neutered. >> >> > >Neutered? France has one of the highest birth >rates in Europe, second only to Ireland. :-) > >Politically, while France is no longer the >imperial power it once was, its people are >*far* closer to the country's revolutionary >spirit than Americans, in my experience. >God *help* the French administration that >tries to fuck with what the French consider >"basic rights." The last time an adminis- >tration tried (in 1999), the French staged >a nationwide general strike. Nothing moved >in France -- no trains, no planes, no taxis, >no Metros, no trucks, nothing. There were >no services like garbage collection; only >the hospitals and emergency services were >excepted from the strike. > >The result? The French government caved in >and abandoned its plans to change the disputed >policies in less than two weeks. > >It could happen in the US, too, if Americans >were actually willing to sacrifice two weeks >of their oh-so-precious salaries to make a >point and stand up for what they believe in. > > So (as a software developer) explain this lame French idea: http://www.fsffrance.org/news/article2005-11-25.en.html
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