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    latest on those pesky social contributions, please

    in French Finance

    Posted

    You're effectively calling me a liar then !

    Ever heard of false positives ?

    FWIW I've contacted Tinyupload to complain about their service flagging my completely innocent and proper pdf as some sort of malware, at least Filedropper works properly.

    And BTW if you have that little confidence in your AV catching something (assuming there was something to catch which there isn't) then I suggest you change it forthwith.

    HADOPI

    in French Satellite TV, French Internet and Telephone

    Posted

    There are 3 ways to download copyrighted material.

    1. Prepay or subscription.

    2. Torrents or P2P

    3. Direct download.

    The first needs no real explanation and here is small tutorial on what 'torrenting' is about, the process itself is not illegal per se (the BBC iPlayer uses the technology) it's only the when copyrighted material is being downloaded and distributed that it becomes that.

    Direct downloading is where an entire file is hosted on a server somewhere and made available to anybody as a single simple download.

    There are innumerable resources for finding just about anything you could possibly want and they generally escape legal problems because they do not actually host the files themselves but are merely indexes to where they can be found, indeed if you know the correct search terms to use Google is pretty good at finding most things !

    Direct downloading of copyrighted material is no less illegal than by torrenting however HADOPI declare themselves uninterested in them.

    HADOPI

    in French Satellite TV, French Internet and Telephone

    Posted

    With Chancer's recent brush with HADOPI in mind I idly did some research and found this hypocrisy:

    La Haute autorité Hadopi a pour vocation la lutte contre le piratage sur

    Internet. Sont ici visés les nombreux utilisateurs ayant recours à des

    téléchargements illégaux via des plateformes de partage de fichier

    (réseaux dits « peer to peer »). En revanche, les personnes qui

    téléchargent par des liens directs ou qui utilisent le streaming ne sont

    pas concernés.

    So there you have it, if you refrain from using P2P and torrents and download directly you can do what you like with the blessing of HADOPI !

    Also if you keep your nose clean after a first HADOPI letter the slate is supposedly wiped clean.

    En cas de récidive

    dans les 6 mois à compter de l'envoi de cette première recommandation,

    un nouveau courrier électronique est envoyé à l'utilisateur.

    Download away me hearties !

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    the worm that squirmed

    in Other Topics

    Posted

    I didn't watch it but I've seen him on the news this morning, how I wonder does somebody revel in the title of 'expert' when the subject is unique and entirely new and novel ?

    Perhaps sadder still I sort of watched some of the coverage of the Supreme Court appeal proceedings !

    It doesn't surprise me that much though, it was a deadly poison chalice to be handed and an ongoing example of how shamefully unprepared the government had been both for the referendum itself and the outcome. Much if not all of this should have been considered and thrashed out BEFORE not after and pathetically parroting the "Brexit means Brexit" soundbite is an insult as six months on still nobody knows what it actually means.

    On the other side of the coin on Question Time a week or so ago, the one with that odious turd Farage on the panel, characterised along with Trump by the wonderfully acerbic Will Self as "grubby opportunists", Brexit naturally came up and one woefully naive - but likely not atypical - Brexiteer in the audience rated on that there was no need for any negotiations at all and that the UK could and should have left the EU pretty much the day after the the vote as if it were some sort of dissatisfied supermarket shopper ripping up their loyalty card at the till then sticking up two fingers as they stormed out slamming the door behind them !

    These are some of the folk who have set UK on it's path for the foreseeable future.

    The ultimate irony is that if the government lose the appeal, as they surely must, then the only other course open to them is an appeal to the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg !

    Doctor retiring

    in Health

    Posted

    [quote user="CeeJay"]surely some action should be taken by someone?[/quote]Yes and by you, you find another doctor and see if they will sign you up - what else ?

    The same happened with our doctor about 3 years ago and she had just about every English patient in the area on her books although we did have plenty of notice.

    Recommended uk dealers to buy a french registered LHD car ?

    in Driving in France

    Posted

    That may be so for ordinary UK cars and dealers and while I'm sure there are bargain basement LHD cowboys out there of whom one should rightfully be equally wary for the most part you'll find that reputable ones tend to concentrate on relatively new and good condition LHD cars and a perusal of the web sites of the major players shows you that, e.g.

    http://www.londonlhdcentre.com/lhd-cars-for-sale

    Obviously I have no idea what your budget might be however as general observation I would suggest that if you're in the market for a car at lets say €10k or under then the risks of buying in UK are just too great and because of that you really should buy locally.

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    Mick Jagger, 73, eighth child just born.

    in Other Topics

    Posted

    Knighthood:

    The honour of knighthood comes from the days of medieval chivalry, as

    does the method used to confer the knighthood: the accolade, or the

    touch of a sword by the sovereign.

    Although Knights Bachelor do

    not comprise an order of chivalry, knighthood is a dignity which has its

    origins in Britain in Saxon times. They are styled "Sir" (except for

    clergymen who do not receive the accolade) and their wives "Lady".

    The honour is given for a pre-eminent contribution in any field of activity.

    If I'd known rampant begetting qualified I'd have tried harder [6]

    are these gassing stories credible?

    in Other Topics

    Posted

    [quote user="Gluestick"]

    Did I or indeed any other poster state people had been killed?

    Answer: err, NO.[/quote]And that's the point isn't it, it's beyond credibility that such a gas, if it indeed exists, would not have killed or at least significantly harmed somebody by now. The Moscow incident demonstrates the high potential for lethal outcomes from such tactics and presumably they used whatever they thought would do the job with as little collateral damage as possible.

    [quote user="Gluestick"]Interestingly, the some manufacturers of gas detectors designed for truck

    cabs and sleeping areas, all describe their products as "Noxious" gas

    detectors.[/quote]That's just naive and since nobody seems to have a clue as to what this gas actually is  it's difficult to see how one engineers a detector for it, how would you propose testing such a device ?

    [quote user="Gluestick"]If your man assumes to challenge the carefully measured opinion of an august body like the Royal College of Anaesthetists on the matter then as far as I'm concerned that puts his credibility firmly in the toilet.

    Now where did I suggest he did??? [8-)][/quote]

    By telling us that he's installed detectors in his trucks which infers that he thinks he knows better than the RCoA ?

    [quote user="Gluestick"]

    But I forgot; as a logistics expert, managing ten thousand RoRo movements per minute, you have intimate knowledge and experience of all such matters..........[/quote]Sarcasm is the last resort of those who have lost their argument.

    Ask your man if he has documented proof that out of his thousands of detectors just ONE of the has EVER actually either registered or prevented a gas attack, I think we can all guess the answer.

    are these gassing stories credible?

    in Other Topics

    Posted

    [quote user="Gluestick"]ALL of his pan-continental trucks are fitted with noxious gas alarms in the cab and driver's sleeping "loft". And special security locks and bars, installed, temporarily, for sleeping hours.[/quote]Locks and bars are simple and sensible security precautions but specifying 'noxious' gas detection - by definition harmful to living things or injurious to health - implies that whatever this mythical gas is, and given the alleged number and variety of instances in which it's supposedly been used, it defies both common sense and logic that it has yet to kill anyone.

    Who knows, maybe they were installed to assuage fears of drivers spooked by the unproven anecdotes.

    If your man assumes to challenge the carefully measured opinion of an august body like the Royal College of Anaesthetists on the matter then as far as I'm concerned that puts his credibility firmly in the toilet.

    BTW these stories have been floating around since the early 90's when US forces personnel in the Philippines claimed to have fallen victim.

    When somebody is physically apprehended attempting to administer this substance, as surely they must one day, then I'll believe it, until then it remains in the realm of the urban myth.

    paris alternate vehicle days due to pollution

    in Travelling to/from France

    Posted

    x2, who is 'Mac' and why should anybody take particular note of his route ?

    Personally I don't take much notice of road numbers, on the way up I just follow the signs for Lille and on the way back down the signs for Bordeaux, it couldn't be simpler and needs neither map nor sat nav [;-)]

    FWIW apparently pollution levels actually got worse on Wednesday after a day of supposedly halved traffic, maybe folk who had 2nd cars they could use (quite possibly older and more polluting) took to those instead but that's what you're liable to get when you apply simplistic solutions to complex problems.

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