The Holy C

What about making a UI contest?
Open some of your APIs, let us write views, and host them so that people can choose to use them.

I would be interested in a smartphone app that does not amount to a screenscraper...

You're right on France: governement are almost the same as usa on privacy but the original article speaks about 2 french human rights organisations not french government. They just try to pursue NSA because with Snowden files they got proofs. If they had same proofs on french system, they will pursue french government as well.

Yeah, those S&M guys really like to have us suffer...

That would require 10^14 floppy drives, and they probably would eat all of Earth's energy throughput.
Disclaimer : I would be quite entertained too. Even more with 5''1/4 drives.

There are a lot of electrical effects that can generate electricity without a turbine, but we have found them to be useless at MW scale.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_generation#Methods_of_generating_electricity

Caesar had it all right, with the violent circus games.
We can now achieve this catharsis without spilling blood, thanks to video games!

So, what's so good and honest about creating death tools?

I think the world was a better place when you were engineering software

There is a small typo in the summary.
If you get past this, you can find many results on Google, like this one : http://kaken.nii.ac.jp/en/r/10159634

It is actually easier in Veteran mode, where it feels like playing against another human (probably because of the input of other users)
The Novice mode is too unpredictable!

It needs to be powered by cold fusion. Please be a little more patient, it's only 20 years away!

Blasphemy!
A pagan cult leads to the pagan idea of Evolution. Such heresy would never have happened if those people were Christian! We sent Cortez a little bit too late.

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The Church

They did not "pull it together".
Several big copyright holders demanded a solution, and one of them could convince a minister who started a state commission (directed by the PDG of FNAC, a French media and hi-fi retailer) mandated to review possibilities.
Those copyright holders might be worthless too, but they are still different from MPAA, and France is a very different country from the USA.

There is no US-like class-action lawsuit in French law.
Also, the "entertainment industry" is actually quite fragmented, there are a lot of smaller groups which could not afford a proper lawsuit

Why does that sound like Air Scotland?