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The French are acually ahead of us on something...


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2011 Jun 7, 1:11am   4,765 views  25 comments

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Radio and television anchors in France are no longer allowed to use the names of the social networking sites promotionally in their broadcasts.

C'est impossible, you say? But the French cite a 1992 law on the books that bans the promotion of business enterprises on network television programs. And a mere mention of “follow us on Twitter” or “check out our Facebook page,” in the eyes of the French government, represents subliminal advertising and promotion of those platforms. Reporters are still allowed to mention the sites by name if the news story itself concerns one of the businesses, but referring to Facebook or Twitter in a promotional capacity is a definite non.

Bravo French, I'm surprised we Americans don't realize the unfairness and detriment to "Free Trade" when you have a company that can pay network news to make Faux news items out of corporations, fan the flames of a hot IPO,(even when said company is nothing more than a few lines of code on computer in a basement somewhere). All it takes it some seed capitol, to pay the networks to give your site the "Hot News" treatment. And Viola your competition and possibly better more deserving companies are crushed.

I give the French Props for realizing it is a gross breach of trust of the Journalist/Viewer relationship. And I give the French props for realizing what a detriment these Social sites are to companies and their Shareholders when a Tweet or a Facebook page goes wrong and takes on a scandalous life of its own.

If I ran a company Sr. level Employees would not be permitted to have a Social network moniker, site, account, not part of it.

Corporate America playing in the Swine excrement that is the social network sites is the dumbest thing we've done since the Carter Oil Embargo that crushed our economy and his second term bid.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/06/05/french-say-adieu-to-twitter-and-facebook-on-tv/?hpt=hp_bn7

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1   Done!   2011 Jun 7, 1:19am  

So you're a Greenie Doofus with a Twitter account too, no doubt.
Quick tweet somebody an inappropriate pic that will get you fired next week.

One Million Years from now:[museum guide]"And here we have a fossil of the Democratis Doofiticus, they tweeted them selves to extinction."

2   Done!   2011 Jun 7, 1:27am  

Fascinated? Hell yeah keep them coming, 2012 can't get here soon enough. Maybe the Liberals on the Hill can Yelp good Whore houses too.

3   American in Japan   2011 Jun 7, 2:21pm  

They are ahead of the US on a good number of things and vice versa...

4   bob2356   2011 Jun 8, 5:21am  

How many frenchman does it take to defend paris? Unknown, it's never been tried.

5   kentm   2011 Jun 8, 5:23am  

How many bob2356's does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

Unknown, trolls hate the light.

6   MisdemeanorRebel   2011 Jun 8, 5:24am  

Or that 200,000 Frenchmen had died in one month - May 1940 - all them apparently shot running away or trying to surrender. About a fifth of the entire French losses in WW1, in just one month.

Speaking of WW1, by 1919, about 5% of the entire French population was killed and 15% maimed for life over the preceding few years.

Americans have never had a third of their country reduced to ash or 5% of their population killed in war, so are in no position to talk. There was a 9/11 every night in Britain during WW2 for months at a time. That will change a public's perceptions of the wonders and glory of war, especially when you find your wife or mother and your infant children blown to smithereens at the bottom of a pile of rubble from carpet bombing after you come back from a 16-hour shift at a munitions plant.

Eating chips and drinking Coors while watching guided bomb footage of a buildings blowing up and cheering over it is really kind of sad, when you think about it. The worst elements of primitive tribalism and modern alienation.

7   mikey   2011 Jun 8, 5:58am  

I'd like to respond but I'm a little froggy.

8   kentm   2011 Jun 8, 6:46am  

I for one would have to agree on most of those points... We should remember also that the 'Liberty, fraternity, equality' credo comes directly from the French and their cultural experience of dislodging the direct rule by aristocracy. Perhaps some day we'll get to that point over here. :-)

The Statue Of Liberty was a gift from the french, wasn't it?

9   leo707   2011 Jun 8, 6:50am  

The 1912 French invasion of Russia lead to one of the greatest info-graphics of all time:
http://flowingdata.com/2008/07/17/is-minards-map-of-napoleons-march-the-greatest-statistical-graphic-ever/

more in-depth article discussing the graphic:
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/mayjune_2011/features/the_information_sage029137.php

People tend to forget that the US and French have been allied in almost every armed conflict starting with the American Revolution.

11   leo707   2011 Jun 9, 3:17am  

shrekgrinch says

Of those two, the War of 1812 came closest to us ‘fighting to the last soldier’ yet still losing.

First, the US did not "loose" the war of 1812, it was a stalemate (see: The Treaty of Ghent).

Secondly, in the war of 1812 about 3% of US forces were lost (hardly to the last soldier). While about 24% of the French military was killed in WWII.

Thirdly, I applaud the high level of self-esteem that it must take to make up "facts", not worrying that you will appear to others as a willfully ignorant shill.

12   Done!   2011 Jun 9, 3:22am  

From the Huffingtonpost link

The bottom of the page says...

More in the News.

Ann Coulter And Piers Morgan Have Awkward...
Rush Limbaugh Goes Off On Caller Who...
Katie Couric: Donald Trump Acting Like A...
Glenn Beck Turns Up In Anthony Weiner...

Just admit it already, you're all Closet Republicans.
You can't get enough of them, you guys are "All Repbulcians All the Time." Kind of like "FOX".
Who needs to watch Fox, when you guys and the Huff & Stuff keep recycling every damn thing Fox says and does?

13   leo707   2011 Jun 9, 3:32am  

Tenouncetrout says

From the Huffingtonpost link

The bottom of the page says…

More in the News.

Yeah, websites base those links on the current article you are looking at. Being that it is about FOX "news" it stands to reason that all the links will be some how related to FOX.

Tenouncetrout says

Glenn Beck Turns Up In Anthony Weiner…

Is this in reference to another sex scandal?

14   Done!   2011 Jun 9, 5:22am  

Who said that's what I want?

Don't blame me because the Democrats SUCK at passing any meaningful legislation. If they can't get a decent legislation passed that addresses all of the current system's ills, with out it being a "Christmas In July" Bill for the Insurance companies. Or with out allowing,(even and especially when they are the majority in power, and for two years, were the sole Captain of the Ship) allowing Republicans turning the argument into a vote for deregulation and tax cuts.

When the Republicans want to build another freaking Laser beam to point in space and play space truckers, they don't cloud their efforts by dragging the Democrats pet peve into the argument. They just make the fucking thing happen. and... w...

You know this whole thing is stupid, and the point is less about whether I'm a Republican or not, I certainly am not. But more about there's only two sides of the debate with you.

The Liberal choice, and accepting unconditionally everything it may devolve into, or you're a Republican.

I've been having republican debates with you guys, and you're so focused on "Screw the Right!" that none of you have even noticed I've been yanking every Chain on every Liberal line you have. Like rattling a stick in the fence you Blue Dawgs all run to the fence barking and snapping.

Who's a good boy? Would you like a Liberal treat? How about some Medi snacks, and alternative kibble? I'll put it over here in your single payer bowl, beside your Drill Baby drill chew toy.

15   bob2356   2011 Jun 9, 5:44am  

kentm says

How many bob2356’s does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Unknown, trolls hate the light.

Geez someone has their panties in a wad. Bad hair day? For the record I've lived in France and like the french.

16   leo707   2011 Jun 9, 6:42am  

Tenouncetrout says

I’ve been having republican debates with you guys, and you’re so focused on “Screw the Right!” that none of you have even noticed I’ve been yanking every Chain on every Liberal line you have. Like rattling a stick in the fence you Blue Dawgs all run to the fence barking and snapping.

I am not sure what you are saying here, but it sounds like you are calling yourself a troll.

17   leo707   2011 Jun 9, 7:00am  

@Tenounce

When you are talking about liberals most of what I hear from you is insults and repetition of FOX "news" talking points (most of which are inaccurate sweeping generalizations and/or intentional attempts to mislead others).

There are others on this board who, when faced with a propaganda campaign intended to mislead the American population, feel compelled to set the record straight. I don't think I have ever seen anyone here say that the Democrats are blameless in our current predicament. However, there are those that put the blame entirely on the Democrats or "Liberals". Most of these individuals don't seem to be interested in "truth" or actually solving our problems.

18   Done!   2011 Jun 9, 7:36am  

1) Appoint Elizabeth Warren and be done with it. He has no problem appointing the worst people for other positions. Here's one I endorse for a cause I support.

2)Clear the Fed of the same legacy suspects that have been running the economy into the ground since the S&L collapse in 89-90.

3)Either enforce the Barney Frank intended financial reform or repeal it. As it stands now it created so many loop holes, Banks legally can be greater crooks than ever. In regards to fees and how and when they credit payments or debits. Irony legislation is Barney's strong suit.

4)Commodities, unless you have an Agriculture license, and are set up to receive the Grain, Livestock, Produce you speculate in, then you can't buy them.

5)Unless you are in the Oil business and have tanks to Hold the crude and take delivery than you can't trade Oil.

6)Create a Not for Profit Health Care system. Sure there can be employees it wouldn't be a public traded company. It doesn't have to be a Government agency, but if you want to play in it, then you would have to be a not for profit organization. And since we don't have a not for profit Insurance company I would create one, then appoint some dogooder like Bill or Melinda Gates or Warren Buffet to run it. They are always talking a good game, lets see them put their abilities where their mouth is.

19   Done!   2011 Jun 9, 8:10am  

I Play the Gitbox simchland not the Xbox.

20   simchaland   2011 Jun 9, 9:10am  

Tenouncetrout says

I Play the Gitbox simchland not the Xbox.

:-) You're funny. :-)

21   American in Japan   2011 Jun 13, 12:02am  

>They are ahead of the US on a good number of things and vice versa…

To elaborate
Life expectency at birth:
France 90.7
USA 78.3

Infant mortality rate:
(deaths/1,000 live births) (lower is better)
France 4.2
USA 6.3

Wine produced:
France 4,198,632 tones (2008)
USA 2,250,000 tones (2008)

22   MisdemeanorRebel   2011 Jun 13, 2:11am  

Hours worked per week.

Vacation Time.

Vacation Home Ownership.

Medical Care, regardless of Career Path.

Food Quality and "Naturalness".

College Tuition Costs.

23   simchaland   2011 Jun 13, 2:17am  

Shhhhhh! You guys are just going to piss off the conservatives as they eat their freedom fries. They don't want to hear that France's socialist communist fascist system actually works. They want to continue to live in a Plutocracy that is a Corporate Super Rich Elitist paradise in pure ignorant bliss while other countries pass us by as we rocket down to the bottom working to become a real third world country.

24   MisdemeanorRebel   2011 Jun 13, 2:26am  

You gotta love the French.

A whisper of cuts to health or job benefits, and the whole damn country shuts down.

You gotta despise, sometimes, Americans.

They let the Media call them fat, stupid, and lazy, when they work the longest hours, get the least vacation, have the weakest protections, etc of any industrialized country's workforce. And they agree with it! And a strike - unheard of. For all the awesome, evil, corrupt power of Unions, when was the last time you were touched by a strike or encountered a general strike?

Oh, our great-grandpas must be rolling in their graves.

25   simchaland   2011 Jun 13, 7:26am  

thunderlips11 says

You gotta love the French.
A whisper of cuts to health or job benefits, and the whole damn country shuts down.
You gotta despise, sometimes, Americans.
They let the Media call them fat, stupid, and lazy, when they work the longest hours, get the least vacation, have the weakest protections, etc of any industrialized country’s workforce. And they agree with it! And a strike - unheard of. For all the awesome, evil, corrupt power of Unions, when was the last time you were touched by a strike or encountered a general strike?
Oh, our great-grandpas must be rolling in their graves.

LOL! Yes!

When living in Paris, France I would get annoyed when various unions would strike. When a union strikes they shut entire systems down.

The Metro workers would go on strike and suddenly you'd have to use buses, take taxies, or walk everywhere. The longest such Metro worker strike I experienced was 2 weeks long. It was a major inconvenience but I tell you, they make their point and management has to pay attention.

The weirdest strike (for effect) was when the cashiers of French Museums went on strike. You could enter all of the museums for free. They were kept open by the security who were still working. But whoever employs the cashiers gave in because they were going to go bankrupt without ticket sales. I got into so many museums for free that week.

Then there was a trucker's union strike. They had the entire country gridlocked. They dumped produce in the middle of interections and parked their trucks there too. They got attention and management had to negotiate.

People in this country are cowards. They are too scared to stand up and fight for their rights because they are afraid of being fired. Why? Because Ronnie Raygun set the example of what would happen if a union were to actually effectively shut down an industry. He simply replaced all of the airtraffic controllers. Since then unions have had no bargaining power because management just follows Ronnie's example of replacing workers with scabs.

In France this practice is illegal. An employer cannot simply replace workers who go on strike. They are forced to negotiate with the workers who go on strike. And guess what? The French fought long and hard for that right to strike without being replaced. If a French employer tried to replace striking workers with scabs, no self respecting French worker would attempt to take the place of the striking workers to become a scab.

Here in this country, people gladly step over each other to be paid less and less for doing the same work that previous workers were paid more to do as union employees.

All those who claim that American unions are thugs simply don't understand what a thug is. A thug actually has some power. Unions in this country have no power. That's why workers are being paid less and less and your benefits are disappearing. Also it's why you have less rights as a worker in the USA than workers in just about any other first world country. It's also why we are plummeting down into third world status faster than thinking.

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