http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/22/bu...gewanted=print

imbecilic, illogical and corrupt to the core of their socialist government.

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Please god no, I hate french people they are the rudest people on earth.

somethings going on in France and its not being widely reported. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/ed...-riot-reports/

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I am utterly confused. I thought if nothing else you would appreciate the people rioting. They always riot in France. Anytime the government tries to make any changes the people riot to keep it the way the people want. Sure the government tries to placate the industries (and a lot of the stuff that they want to do would help economic growth), but the people rise up and riot telling them screw that we don't care about highrises we just want to enjoy our lives.

And say what you will about them, the people dictate the rules there. Both our countries history with our declaration of independence and French Revolution made us both allies and without there help we may have been brits for quite a while longer.

I love America and think it is the best place to live, but to think we are not as pompus as people think the french are your mistaken.

My issue was the fact that you don't see our government on the verge of restricting companies from developing new technologies that make use of old. No one in the United States in their right mind would insist that the small company mentioned in the linked article should pay for the unused power that the power companies were producing.

Besides, we've earned the right to be pompous.

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Yes by blowing up everyone that disagrees with us.

I thought that it said they wanted to charge for a technology that is currently in place and 'free' (but we both know that it is still being paid for), but to up the amount of homes that have it and charge everyone from then forward, which would help conserve energy across the country and help reduce costs? I will have to reread the article if I got it wrong.

You read it wrong.

They want to charge the company that is providing the tools to reduce consumption at peak hours for the revenues lost to the entrenched state-ran power company.

Socialism at its "finest."

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You're totally right we never have bogus lawsuits and outragous verdicts here in favor of corporate or special interests, we are perfect.

Are you trying to link a bad call here to their commie medical system is that why you bring this up?

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As usual you miss the entire point that I was attempting to make.

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You missed my point, which covered anything not said outright.

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