THIRTY FUCKING ASSHOLES.
There are 577 deputies in France and only 30 of them are present to vote Big Brother.
Fortunately, there are several steps to go: it has to be approved by the Senate and then the Conseil Constitutionnel (in charge of the Constitution) might still reject it.
Nevertheless, this proves how much our political leaders DO NOT understand the Internet.
What I've gleaned from listening to the StackOverflow/StackExchange podcasts is: If you can a build a community, community members will be inclined toward handling a lot of user management as part of their engagement in it.
There's also the implication that if you're not trying to build that sort of community, it's unlikely to be successful.
I'll answer everybody here but I was thinking about something I could use for a company.
A place where you can both talk and manage people - a bit like Discourse but with proper profile management.
I don't think people are used to shitty forums, I think they accept it because of a lack of other solutions.
But thanks for the recommendations, I'll give it a look.
If you compare with other major capitals, like SF, NYC or London, housing is quite cheap (around twice as less expensive). And although the transportation system is far from being flawless, it's not worse than any other one.
Untrue.
I've lived in Paris, London and SF and Paris is definitely the cheapest (even by the surface).
I'm paying $1100/month in Paris for a 300sq foot appartment (in a nice neighborhood). I was paying $3000/month in SF for a 400sq foot appartment...
I might be wrong, but I found the kind of room that $1000 pays for in NYC to be way nicer and larger than the one you can get for a similar price in Paris (though the usd/eur has increased 20% since I checked).
Utterly stupid. The only reason that would make Firefox win is because it's a good piece of software, which it's currently not, especially when you compare it to chrome.
You're not going to convince the average joe with a rant like that ;)