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Originally posted by BOOsTER what's all this mess with Czechs here?

You're like the plague.

yes, spread in the best places

i remember back in 2002 era, soulseek was the shit. i actually started my real download frenzy from soulseek. i will never forget that blue swan(duck or whatever it is)

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Originally posted by paranoik0 We use this nice little program called Napster. It fits well with our 56k modems. If only we had broadband internets like over there in America.

You lucky bastard. I only have 33K.

The real question is what do they use in Greenland and Antarctica? Do they know about the "internets" over there? Are they afraid of the google?

BTW, here on MARS, our slowest connection is 100000000000000 Kilobites per miliesecond. It can take almost 20 seconds to download the entire Back To The Future trilogy

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Originally posted by Capitalizt What does 56k mean? Is that technology in Europe only? ho ho ho, just kidding. I get an average download speed of 600-700kbps here. $29.99 a month. I love America.

"failing socialist europe" p0wns the US

20 Megabits triple play connection ( unlimited local nationwide and to 29 countries, tv package and unlimited dsl ) for 36$/month in France.

Don't forget poland.

Hehe i've noticed alot of files that have .pl in their descriptions.

dc ++ ftw

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Originally posted by jdat "failing socialist europe" p0wns the US 20 Megabits triple play connection ( unlimited local nationwide and to 29 countries, tv package and unlimited dsl ) for 36$/month in France.

Subsidized by your all caring government (and your ridiculously high tax rates) of course.

Even at $36.00, with 15% unemployment and a completely stagnant economy, how many frenchies can afford that?

lol

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Originally posted by Capitalizt Subsidized by your all caring government (and your ridiculously high tax rates) of course. Even at $36.00, with 15% unemployment and a completely stagnant economy, how many frenchies can afford that? lol

you're f*ckin' pathetic man.

and this has nothing to do with government help as the telco market wasn't shaken up by the historical operate but by the newbie free.fr isp.

sure the economy here ain't the best but 15% unemployment talk about gross over exaggeration on your part.


Once again none of your facts are straight or even remotely close to the reality of the situation.

I guess we're going off on a tangence here. France is definitely a global leader in many aspects, and its current unemployment rate hovers around 9-10 percent.
This info, taken from Wikipedia, might be of useful reading to some:

According to the OECD, in 2004 France was the world's fifth-largest exporter and the fourth-largest importer of manufactured goods. In 2003, France was the 2nd-largest recipient of foreign direct investment among OECD countries at $47 billion, ranking behind Luxembourg (where foreign direct investment was essentially monetary transfers to banks located in that country) but above the United States ($39.9 billion), the United Kingdom ($14.6 billion), Germany ($12.9 billion), or Japan ($6.3 billion). In the same year, French companies invested $57.3 billion outside of France, ranking France as the second most important outward direct investor in the OECD, behind the United States ($173.8 billion), and ahead of the United Kingdom ($55.3 billion), Japan ($28.8 billion) and Germany ($2.6 billion).

In the 2005 edition of OECD in Figures, the OECD also noted that France leads the G7 countries in terms of productivity (measured as GDP per hour worked).[8] In 2004, the GDP per hour worked in France was $47.7, ranking France above the United States ($46.3), Germany ($42.1), the United Kingdom ($39.6), or Japan ($32.5).[9]

Despite figures showing a higher productivity per hour worked than in the US, France's GDP per capita is significantly lower than the US GDP per capita, being in fact comparable to the GDP per capita of the other European countries, which is on average 30% below the US level. The reason for this is that a much smaller percentage of the French population is working compared to the US, which lowers the GDP per capita of France, despite its higher productivity. In fact, France has one of the lowest percentages of its population aged 15-64 years at work among the OECD countries. In 2004, 68.8% of the French population aged 15-64 years was in employment, compared to 80.0% in Japan, 78.9% in the UK, 77.2% in the US, and 71.0% in Germany.[10] This phenomenon is the result of almost thirty years of massive unemployment in France, which has led to three consequences reducing the size of the working population: about 9% of the active population is without a job; students delay as long as possible their entry into labour market; and finally, the French government gives various incentives to workers to retire in their early 50s, though these are now receding.


And now back to your regularly scheduled program

Yes, our current unemployment is 8.8% (ILO).
And in 2004 the total poverty rate of the US was 17% (child poverty: 21,9%), against 7,6% (7,5 for child poverty) for ma glorieuse patrie.

And we drink a real Champagne, not that bubbling grape-juice that you have.

I use DC++ and Emule

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