No. France wants its laws to be applied on any service SOLD (if it's free, then you're the product) on the French territory. France doesn't care if the service is sold through a .com or .fr domain name.

Since google.com is a service that is available in France, then it is also under French regulations
If google only want to apply the constraint on google.fr , ok , then they have to deactivated access to google.com
This is not censorship, people, this is only personal data protection.

Ummm... no. Each people in France has the right to see its data DELETED from any company database. This is personal data regulation.

The title is wrong, because it only refers to a duration (40 hours) and not a work quantity. It should have been "Why Do Americans Work So Long?".

You should check the OECD Stats, where you can find the GDP per hour worked, which should be a better indicator (not perfect, but better)
http://stats.oecd.org/Index.as...

As an example, Norway or Irish people would work less time to generate more GDP, per capita.

This is a hoax. Bowie will never die.

I'm looking forward getting the next Nokia 3310!

Inbox is even worse than the previous replacement of GTalk by Hangouts... Who would have guessed...

Apparently the shut-down is due to a problem on Mitsubishi's vapor generators, replaced in 2009/2010. Two years later, a leakage of 100+ liters per hour. Very impressive to buy heavy equipment with a two years lifetime ...

One of the reason could be because some companies still reimburse only the contract monthly cost, and not for mobile phone itself. Some people do not want to use their personal phone, and prefer getting a new one, only for professional matters. In this case, the only way for them - if they don't want to entirely pay for a new phone - is to have a new contract, with mobile phone cost embedded.

... Why would Sony and Microsoft be open? What interest would they have in using a competitor's OS? And creating a completely NEW platform would still be very hard...

People don't trust NSA anymore. After all the spying (National and International), declared non-constitutional, they're trying to have better communication? Too late guys ...

for "Machete Kills Again"!

pans attached to a string !

Proxy is a nice option, except when you don't know where the Proxy is... Easy to implement a Proxy and have a look at users communications...

... but French Exagon Motors is better (http://www.exagon-motors.com/)