It was send from his private e-mail address, he used his name and explain why he was so concern by this law because of his job. Nothing wrong here.

Newly build french fast train line are already design for speed around the 250MPH and are operated at 200. They even have a top speed record at 360MPH. Except the Eurostar nearly all the TGV are faster than 150MPH

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGV_Est

Big News, France and Germany have air travel too. But TGV and ICE still make profit. When you add the airport check, registration, and the limited number of fly available to a destination, the transportation from the airport to the city central, etc air transport are often longer than train.

Fast train killed all the under 500km air trip inf france and germany. It's economically viable but who can engage this amount of money in this kind of project except the state ? States finances road why should they don't finances train ?

No, only the user manual,PEGI (ESRB) rating and epilepsy risk warning must absolutely be in French for the French market ( don't know for the belgium and swiss). But if you release a unlocalized game you will probably miss most of your potential consumer.
Most of the super market will not sell unlocalized game to prevent any problems and potential refund. Only specialized story sell imported game.

Because they can charge them more and screw them with an 1$ = 1E conversion rate.

French speaking candian are often really protective and strict about the use of Anglicisms unlike the French who use a lot of Anglicisms (and even build false Anglicism like "planning").
The main different are that anglicisms come and go in the french french but often don't stay long and we don't have to fear about french extinction in france. That's another concern in quebec where they are suronded by English speaker.

They are north american people with a anglosaxon ( anglosphere ?) mindset, french are european with a latin mindset. We both speak french but that the only common point.

Quebec french insult sound particularly funny for french because most of them are religiously themed, when french insult are sexually themed (and most french aren't religious people). Quebec rapper like the "roi heenok" are an endless source of fun for french.

France : 65 millions of potential consumer
France + Belgium + Swiss + ... : 70 millions of French speaking European
Quebec : 7 millions

Game maker will not stop to create French localizations for their games only to win the Quebec market.

As a French French, i think the problem is more about the lame localizations often done specially for the French Canadian market, many game and movie have two French version, the cheat and quickly done Canadian one and a decent French European one. It's all about the delay between the American and the European release of game and movies.

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Somalian undersea cable will give an all new meaning to internet piracy.

"Shouldn't the packets get rerouted if a particular link is down?" In a perfect world, yes it must be rerouted.

In real world ISP have peering contract between them, they usually share some amount of bandwidth for free ( balanced usages form two neighborhood, etc ... ) but charge for the extra ( you use my infrastructure and it have a cost ).

So most of the ISP and large network infrastructure provider ( backbone, undersea cable, etc ..) will not forward rerouted packet for free.

Pro. it's encourage big ISP to be directly connect to each other. that mean cheap "regional" bandwidth for the ISP and an high density network.

Con. It's make the inter continental/regional traffic expensive and unwanted. That one of the reasons ISP hate P2P traffic. Minor player are isolated and vulnerable, their are not interesting for big player ( few bad peering contract ).

It's already hard for an offshore oil platform to dig in deep see. It's nearly impossible in this case. Their are not such think as submersible bulldozer robot and the seabed composition is mostly unknown.

Doing anything in high deep is extremely expensive too