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Low productivity? Per hour French productivity is 25$, US one is 24.6$. It's clear that French productivity is bad.... US debt is 102% of GDP compare to France 93% (reference FT: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/28c0...).

All those American social media have policy preventing to show even a small part of a tits, but it is fine to show someone burnt alive??? WTF? Have you lost any basic common sense? "Violence should be worshiped and sex is bad" is the new America social standard that is pushed to the rest of the world.

So I don't see your point, you just demonstrated that it is a basic feature of romance/latin language to import word from Greek and that latin root are just the base of all romance language. (that all share a very close vocabulary)

Yes you can use Tsunami in French (like you can do in English) but the phenomena is know in French as "raz-de-marée" and "sarrigue" can be used for opposum, automate is also a synonyme for robot etc. I think that a basic knowledge of the French language will help you to pick better exemples...

It seems that you have no clue about the subject. French is a romance language (use wikipedia to understand what it means) and it is a basic feature of this language to use latin to coin its own words (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulgar_Latin). During the XVI century, French took the habit to also use greek roots to coin new words. It is just the english (a germanic language that has nothing to do with latin) that imported french words and then the french way to create word from latin and greek roots. (The motto of the queen of England is even in french). Take a simple exemple: Geography this word was made in french from the greek words ge and graphy (earth and to write) this word was then imported in the english language during the XVI century. Most of the word you refer are the same in all romance language (French, Italian, Spanish, etc.) for the same reason. Of course modern French is not the same as latin but it is the same as for Italian and Spanish. Even modern Greek is very different from the classical version. By the way in french a computer is "ordinateur".

Do you mean that American stand in front of their dishwasher until the job is done? You must have wonderful evening!

And that's why more and more US citizen abroad are renouncing to their US citizenship. In Switzerland the number are growing every year, as thanks to FACTA even getting a simple bank account is almost impossible. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Not true there is one place where US is number one regarding health system: total cost per inhabitant. Far ahead of Switzerland which is one of the most expensive country in the world... page 155: http://www.oecd.org/els/health...

Who cares multiple fork exist today and will continue the job even if Oracle pull the plug.

There is also a strong argument for company like Dropbox to avoid or at least not encourage too much client side encryption: deduplication. If deduplication is no more working, it will considerably increase their storage cost, which the core of their business.

The data is not available, this is only for Mozilla own usage and they don't even know if they want to publish the data at one point (not even a sample data set). This project is as close as Google or Apple, the only difference is that this time its Mozilla who is in charge, and they just say "hey we also provide a free API" (so this why they call it open

No this type of node is not appropriate for Hadoop. First of all Hadoop is all about data locality when you run it on physical hardware (if you really need performance), and this is not the case here. Moreover 8G of RAM can be quite a limitation for many Hadoop related task (Hbase node will require more). Today you can have blade system with 2000 core per rack with AMD, why if cores matters would you limit yourseld to Intel CPU?

Because sometime you work on virtualized networks where you need virtual appliance to keep the benefit of easy deplyoment...