Google, The French, And World Domination; The Culture War Begins

The Reality Check ^ | 18 May 2005 | Jason Miller

[Lando Lincoln]

Lando

[ClearCase_guy]

Begun the Culture War has.

[JesseJane]

~pinga~

[datura]

Hey World:

RESISTANCE IS FUTILE....

[postaldave]

i heard it was all going to be done in Italy during the month of August until the remembered the whole country is on vacation that month.

[Billthedrill]

I can't honestly say I have a great deal of sympathy here. If the American "threat" motivates these dead-asses to archive their own national literature I'd say that was a fairly significant contribution to world culture on its own. Future generations of French reading Hugo on the web should thank the Americans for it, but being French, they won't.

[lafroste]

Why are you talking like Yoda. Strange to me it seems.

[GSlob]

Girolamo Fracastoro wrote "Syphilis sive Morbus Gallicum" [Syphilis or the French Disease] as far back as 1530s. This major cultural contribution of theirs (the disease, not the treatise. Fracastoro was an Italian) stands in no danger whatsoever from cultural erosion. Indeed, as far as I am concerned, they can have all of it.

[Crazieman]

Imperial culturism is imaginary.

If they like it, they buy it, we give them more.

Its pure capitalism.

[Bonaparte]

France drops its butt on the floor with yet another screaming tantrum -- this time upset that somebody is making the literature of their choice available to others who want it. Oh, the horror!

[Antonello]

Future generations of French reading Hugo on the web should thank the Americans for it, but being French, they won't.

Ironically, they will probably find that Hugo by doing a Google search for it.

[Rembrandt_fan]

Spooking the French in any matter, great or small, gives me a cozy, warm feeling inside. Oh, how I love my country. Paraphrasing my hero, Bugs Bunny: 'What deviltry can we get into now?'

[bubman]

What's the difference what language is used to digitize the great books and ideas? A thousand years from now there will be no Europeans to ponder the great books in their respective languages because there won't be any-all languages in Europe will be Arabic!

Leave it to the Europeans to find the most difficult solution to this very simple of problems-Population growth. Occam's Razor holds that when when you have two competing theories which make exactly the same predictions, the one that is simpler is the better. Confronted with different ways to protect their culture. Having kids would be the simplest one right?

Or maybe not!

[poindexter]

"Why are you talking like Yoda. Strange to me it seems."

Admit you must; fun it is!

[Diddle E. Squat]

I can't honestly say I have a great deal of sympathy here. If the American "threat" motivates these dead-asses to archive their own national literature I'd say that was a fairly significant contribution to world culture on its own. Future generations of French reading Hugo on the web should thank the Americans for it, but being French, they won't.

Great post.

[SierraWasp]

"...a new brand of manifest destiny"

That's the way... un huh uh huh... the way I like it... uh huh uh huh...

[SierraWasp]

Sock it to the cheese eating surrender monkeys without mercy!!!

[Stonedog]

Did you here about the new tank the French have developed? It has only one forward gear...but 10 in reverse.

[Milhous]

Sock it to the cheese eating surrender monkeys without mercy!!!

[NonValueAdded]

If it is a fear of losing identity, boy are they going to have a surprise when the EU gets fully cranked up.