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You could start by reading the tremendous life of Lysenko.

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

You will see how he used politics to expend his influence on all the soviet agriculture: research, agronomy, industrial production. Not only that lead to a massive agricultural failure but as said Sakharov he was also "responsible [...] for the defamation, firing, arrest, even death, of many genuine scientists".


Isn't that the definition of exiting? http://www.cobol-it.com/index.php?page=products

"Restructuring COBOL sources" "COBOL-IT is the first company offering an enterprise-class Open Source COBOL Compiler with a wide range of Premium Professional Services"


> a lot of homosexual people got beaten by far right / nazi-like groups.

This IS a lie. Do you have any sources?

There have been one attack on a gay couple, hugely used by the government and their supporting medias. Newspapers have implies (no facts) that the culprits where members of the strike against same sex marriage or far right activists. There was then a huge huge buzz to shame the strikers. And finally, 4 months later, the police arrested 4 youths: 3 in a "cité" (public housing, "ghetto") and one was already in jail, all of them well known of the police services for violence facts. http://www.leparisien.fr/paris-75/agression-homophobe-a-pari...

Some people in the comments do say that the police delayed the arrest so that the government could shame the protesters against same sex marriage.

One more thing, the man beaten reacts to the arrest on a far left web site. https://bellaciao.org/fr/spip.php?article137205 And he is in a complete deny, not being able to recognize that those who beat him have nothing in common with those that protested against same sex marriage.


> This IS a lie. Do you have any sources?

What's the "lie", the aggressions or the fact that it come from far right groups ?

If the former:

http://www.france24.com/fr/20130421-climat-homophobie-agress...

> 1200 aggressions on homosexual people in the first 3 months of 2013 compared to 1 556 on the whole 2011.

Almost 4 times more than usual, is it enough for you ?

About the authors of the aggressions:

http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2013/09/04/bar-gay-sac...

Are skinheads far-right enough for you ?

But off course, skinheads are probably not behind ALL these aggressions, most of them are probably "standard" homophobics.


Your first source speaks of "verbal aggression", you cannot take that as a proof for 1200 physical aggressions.

"L’organisme (SOS homophobie) a reçu trois fois plus d’appels et de mails entre le 1er janvier et la fin mars. (1 200 personnes sur trois mois, contre 1 556 sur l'ensemble de l'année 2011)." "Ces chiffres sont un indicateur important car ils permettent de mesurer la libération de la parole homophobe."


We may thank Antoine-Augustin Parmentier for his efforts convincing people to eat potatoes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine-Augustin_Parmentier

""" Parmentier therefore began a series of publicity stunts for which he remains notable today, hosting dinners at which potato dishes featured prominently and guests included luminaries such as Benjamin Franklin and Antoine Lavoisier, giving bouquets of potato blossoms to the King and Queen, and surrounding his potato patch at Sablons with armed guards to suggest valuable goods — then instructed them to accept any and all bribes from civilians and withdrawing them at night so the greedy crowd could "steal" the potatoes. (These 54 arpents of impoverished ground near Neuilly, west of Paris, had been allotted him by order of Louis XVI in 1787.[3]) """


This is NOT the Police but the Gendarmerie, one of the four military bodies along with the navy, the army and the air force. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Gendarmerie

They are soldiers, not civil servants. Unlike french public administrations, when the army has an execution plan, it get things done!


Getting things done ? You must have missed the Louvois scandale. You know, thousands of soldiers no being paid for almost a year and stuff...


Didn't they just move from Defense to Interior?


For budgetary/employment yes (back in 2009), but status-wise they remain a military force.

So they're really halfway, under both defense and interior.


So they can influence and share that know how with both departments? This could be interesting. I am really surprised that they managed to do it and it will be an easier sell now with the MS/NSA collaboration thing. So maybe we could expect other big deployments of that kind.



The fact that he arrived in France from Poland at the age of 15 may explain that. Plus that his whole family works with him. Does anyone know if he speaks polish with them at work? The company is 100% family owned! Not bad.

His story in french: http://www.capital.fr/enquetes/hommes-et-affaires/octave-kla...

The first interview I ever heared from him, on a french radio/Tv: http://www.bfmtv.com/video/bfmbusiness/it-for-business-lhebd...

His views on the french state subsidized cloud attempts: http://pro.01net.com/editorial/584765/octave-klaba-un-fourni... "That is not enough to put on the table a big amount of money."

http://www.vaporcloud.info/ "Vous aussi vous en avez marre des annonces franco-françaises autour du Cloud financé par l'argent public ? Adoptez le Cloud français d'OVH.com. "

His twitter with nice pictures of OVH infrastructures: https://twitter.com/olesovhcom

Keep on Oles!


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