As reported by the Register, police can break up a rave party under section 63 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act since 1994. And it is not for any kind of music festivals... No, no, no, only raves: "playing amplified music wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats during the night".

When Loulou, my 8 pound siamese cat, saw a 12 pound stranger came in the garden, he knew he couldn't faced him. So he hid behind a small wall and made horrible howling noises. This strategy worked. The big fat stranger ran away at once and never went back.

It depends. I had cats who came to me when they were sick or injured as they knew from past experiences that me or the vet could help make the pain goes away.

As for now, one of my cats has glaucoma and she comes to me when I'm late for her eyedrops but only for one of the two kinds she got 4 times a day.

She doesn't like the other kind of eyedrops and she run away when the time comes. But recently I got feet surgery and I'm not walking too well. She still tends to run away but when I beg her to stop as I'm not able to chase her, she freezes and let herself be picked up without resistance.

Kitten Still Loves Puppy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTstzR4gwAw

Actually, 3 year prison time and/or 300 000 euros fine are what is already applied since 2006. This is the DADVSI law.

Of course, there will be no prison time but you will not be able to defend yourself. If you say "It's not me. Someone took over my connection without my knowledge..." You will got a 1300 euros fine anyway if you have not installed a spying software that will hinder p2p connection. Even worse: they will try also to spy on e-mails.
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"La Chine en a reve... Hadopi l'a fait..."

hadopi will have to pay people for downloading content in order to verify that it is indeed illegal.

I guess they would, but they won't. A local gastronomy label, called AOC ("appelation d'origine controlée" or "controlled term of origin") helps to maintain the present diversity.

Large European milk processing companies such as Lactalis tried to impose pasteurized camemberts under the original gastronomy label AOC reserved to the raw milk version. But they failed!

According to Le Figaro, in 2007, Lactalis, a large European dairy company, stopped all production of raw milk cheese pretexting that such cheese sold by one of its concurrents, a small cheese maker from Normandy called Reo, were laced with listeria. Reo produced contradictory reports, lost some money but survived. So, Lactalis did it again in March 2008. Again, Reo produced proof otherwise. Alarmed, the small local dairies organized themselves and imposed the AOC label for raw milk cheese. This was confirmed by decree in January 2009.

Not only to this type of politicians but also to this type of "artists" such as those old French ones who support hadopi. The most aggressive are the old, rich and famous who, for the past 40 years (!), were showered with royalties. They got already plenty (what have they done with it?) and as their talent dries out, they cling to their annuities and fight for their privileges. And they don't care how the law enforces their rights as long as they keep them. Anyway, hadopi or not, as they disappear from the p2p networks, they will disappear from the human memory.

TV shows will make great use of it... The ultimate of reality TV!

In 1973, D.G. Compton published an excellent sci-fi novel, The Unsleeping Eye or The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe, about a TV show in which a terminally ill woman will be filmed until her death. This will draw a huge audience in a world where almost all diseases can be cured. The woman runs away after signing the contract and a journalist with a camera implanted in his eye will arrange to locate her and, impersonating a compassionate lover, film the woman's agony without her being aware of it.

As good as the book was the 1980 movie, Death watch (La mort en direct) , directed by Bertrand Tavernier, with Romy Schneider and Harvey Keitel.

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I was young, had been up all night and was not used to drinking coffee. Before going to work, I drank a large cup of very strong coffee... All day long, I kept asking my co-worker "what did you say?" and always got "nothing" as an answer. Sometimes I had also the feeling that somebody tapped on my shoulder. That really freaked me out. I'm glad it never happened to me since.