Mr Ceour de Lion II

Well there's bugger all money in the Spanish speaking communities near here. You just need to go to Walmart to understand this.

hahaha Ok, basically you head off to a torrent site, and search for any tv show, movie, ebook, or whatever you are after. Once found, you download a tiny file called a torrent that relates to this. The file then gets opened in a torrent client, something like bittorrent. Once opened, it downloads the actual file from other people across the globe who have this item. It's basically peer to peer sharing. Quite a few torrent sites have been taken down by various governments, but they keep reappearing in other parts of the world. It's one of the things HADAPI is trying to fight against I think.

[quote user="Quillan"]Apart from Obama does anyone care. [:@][/quote] Fixed for you :)

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

Ultimately, there's very little I find of interest on tv these days. Anything I particularly want to watch, I just use torrents and download, but even that's rare for me to do these days.

Been using something called expatshield which does the same thing for years, except when I bought a win 8 machine, their app didn't work on it, so I haven't been watching iplayer for some time now. Will look at using this instead. Good find. Proxy servers like that are the reason why government snooping via things like HADOPI will always fail.

Perhaps because your laptop isn't set to check for them as often as your other devices.

I think it depends. That ad was showing an extreme usage of smacking children. The kid hadn't really done anything wrong and certainly didn't warrant any kind of slap, let alone one across the face. Smacking still has its place, but only be used if the child has done something extremely wrong.

Yeah, it is tough, and it does get you excited when you get that interview, but once you work out it's a scam you get a sense of satisfaction. It is a pain though. I'm applying for so many jobs, so few responses if any. You'd think if you can apply automatically, you'd be able to receive a response automatically too. Oh well. In the past month I've had three interviews, but no offers as yet. Working freelance on web and graphic design in the meantime to keep myself busy and get some kind of income. If my freelancing takes off, I may end up starting a business, but for now I'm just keeping it simple and will pay my taxes at the end of the year...

I'm job hunting at present. In fact, it's only the second time I've had to search for a job in my life, as work has always seemed to have a knack of finding me. But it is so different today, getting a million and one emails from various online agencies, it's like a minefield. There are so many scam jobs amongst everything too. Recently, I applied for a job that looked quite legitimate and pretty exciting. Pretty good pay, health benefits, pension plan etc. They will even train you. When they invited me for an interview in Philadelphia, I was quite excited and decided to find out some information on the company, to be prepared for the interview. I told my mother in law and she told me that the address they had given me was in a really upper market part of Philly, so it was all looking good. It was when I started researching the company that I noticed something strange. Their website was quite small for such a corporation that claims to have companies such as Walmart, AT&T, Verizon and so on as their clients. 4 pages in all. There was no address or phone number posted anywhere on it. When I checked the domain name registration information, I discovered the web site was only 5 months old. Next, a google search with the company name with the word scam after it. Up came hundreds of results. The whole company is basically a door to door sales thing, where employees have claimed to have spent days and wasted petrol with the big promise of a big pay cheque at the end of it. Of course that cheque never arrives. Now I am aware of this scam, it's amazing to see how many other similar type scams I can pick out just by the words used. Can't believe they're allowed to get away with it. It's hard enough trying to find a job, let alone having to sift through many ads filtering out scam jobs too. I'm so glad that I was able to research online and discover the scam, as driving up to Philly, parking and so on would have been a big waste of time and money.

Sounds like a surrealist to me. I see a rhinoceros...

For a nation that has a history of revolution (how many revolutions have there been in France), plus strikes and other citizen unrest, it is surprising to hear that France hasn't changed!

I thought Hollande recently said the crisis was all over now and everything's sweet coz he's in charge?

Clair wrote the following post at 11/06/2013 8:56: I can't say I'm surprised. but if it's all legal and above board, why make it a secret? Trouble is, I don't think it is legal. It's in conflict with the 4th amendment for a start. This Patriot Act urgently needs looking at again, it was implemented so quickly after 9/11 that it was ill thought out. In the meantime, Facebook has already updated their site settings.

[quote user="Hoddy"]I think attempts to re-write history are ridiculous. While it's true that we did awful things to the Mau mau they themselves were not exactly a peaceful protest organisation. Where should it stop ? Will America sue us for what happened during their war of independence ? Can I sue Iraq for what they did to my uncle in 1916. In more recent times there are plenty of people in this bit of France who could sue the Germans for their random killings of elderly farmers just tilling their fields and for removing people from the hospital and shooting them. With the current passion for righting ancient wrongs perhaps we could sue all those paedophile kings and princes who married underage princesses without their consent. Hoddy[/quote] Personally, I think we should sue the Americans for 1776. After all, it was us who spent all the money to get the French out of there for them. And at the end of the day, it was just the tea we taxed (eventually...).

Thing is, it's really hard to listen to facebook and email. You don't really hear much.

[quote user="Rabbie"]My Certificate of Insurance was sent to me as an email attachment so no need to photocopy just print out two copies  and keep one in the car and one in a filing cabinet.  [/quote] Now that makes sense.

[quote user="You can call me Betty"] It's another Simon Cowell show. Why anyone wants to give him the oxygen of publicity is beyond me. As is why anyone would want him to give them the oxygen of publicity. Luckily, I was able to use the off switch. Others appear not to have been so fortunate. [/quote] I had to move to USA to get away from it. It's still on here, but it's buried under 50 million channels of other s**t. You hear nothing of it :)

In today's technological world surely these documents could all be reproduced electronically on a phone? Very impractical to carry stuff around sometimes. Or why not keep a photocopy of the insurance in the car?

Did the French ever apologise for 1066? ;)

I always thought the little green thing on your windscreen was enough to prove insurance? Always kept my certificate at home where it was safe.

Why worry? Nationality is all made up. It doesn't exist in reality :)

Surely all war is illegal? I've always thought it a bit weird to call the Iraq war illegal, yet no other war gets tarred with the same brush.

Never thought about this one before, but I guess it's very plausible, considering the Vichy government were in cahoots with the Axis for four years, compared to fighting less than one year with the allies.

With the comparison between Wilson and Blair, I think you would have to take Blair every time. Silly comparison though, and very poor choice (like the last US election candidates).