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It is, but many people prefer to use the english words rather than the french translation for a lot of things related to computer technology. And some of the french words are just awful. Spam/junk mail is " pourriel" ,, lame
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No your lessors are correct, it's courriel (two Rs btw). But afaik, that word is only used popularly in Québec, and even there it's really 50/50.
That's nothing. "Chat" is "clavardage", which is just so cumbersome to use. And that's coming from someone who loves puns.
I will only use courriel if I have some weapon pointed at my head, and even then only if I'm convinced that it's loaded.
Collusion maybe? It's hard because it's the kind of thing that's hard to reliably codify. Which is exactly why it goes on.
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How so?
For example, if they had inferred the information had merit there would be no recourse to challenge it whatsoever.
Le Pen is already under investigation for diverting EU parliament monies (5 million Euro to be exact) that apparently ended up funding FN campaign purposes. The likely reason it hasn't sunk her campaign to the extent that Fillon's crook-ery did is that her base likely looks upon such an act as a good thing to do.
I'm not sure how this makes their commentary an example of the detriments of the system.
And it's not like challenging last-second smears like this frequently works even if you do have the ability.
Commercially, it probably wouldn't be that hard, since i doubt russia is running enough net buisnesses for it to be that much of a hit (particularly if other nations buttered up the ISPs)
Technically is an entirely different matter; wireless internet makes it real hard to keep people out.
Ironically if they just blackholed Russian net businesses it would take out Torchlight's email server.
I sure hope you're right. Hopefully this is the point the world says "this far and no further" to racist, fascist, Russian backed candidates.
edit: ...or do they even do that in France with the blackout thing?
As I understand it they can't report on exit polls until the official statement is out.
I'm not panicking, you're panicking.
Also I haven't delved past the headlines yet but I'm hearing stuff about false data the Macron campaign planted in case they got hacked that's pretty much designed to catch Wikileaks out and make them look like idiots? I'm not sure how true that is.
It's not low. It's slightly lower. Look at the historical numbers, don't just read headlines.
Nothing more will come from French media until 2pm EST, at which point the forecast will be announced based on initial results
I'm guessing somewhere in the vicinity of 2-1. This is basically a rejection of Le Pen although there will be some press saying that she did better than her Dad.
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I'm with you. I'd bet a pretty penny on over 60%, so 66% is a possibility.
they have been on the receiving end of our German shit of the same ilk before. They know better.
you got this, France. if anybody can stop this sillyness it is you.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/07/world/europe/france-election-results-maps.html
It is being reported as 63% here so that is slightly?
Rightwing conspiracy thinking tends to claim any contradictions in the facts are a "false flag operation.".
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Wikileaks wouldn't look like idiots, they haven't claimed that the documents are legitimate (they claim to be analyzing them and looking for fakes). Macron's campaign said they found fakes, but I'm sort of skeptical, mainly because I doubt they've had the time to go through all the leaks yet. Clinton implied that some of her leaked emails were fake too, which as far as we know didn't end up being true.
WikiLeaks also pointed out metadata in Cyrillic in some of the files, which could imply that Russia altered them, although why WikiLeaks would point this out is unclear to me (they prefaced the post with "false flag?").
That Reuters article pointed out that the leaks seem to have initially appeared on 4chan/been shared by US far right activists before being picked up by French Le Pen supporters. Seems odd to me, though I guess anonymously crowdsourcing the distribution might be smarter than just sending a torrent link to the FN or whatever.
The whole thing is disturbing, but the late timing + the French media laws lead me to agree that the hack won't have a significant effect on the election. The reports of lower than expected turnout are displeasing, I assume the left is just staying home because they weren't down for a tactical/lesser evil vote this time (still the wrong move, IMO). Not terribly worried about the results but I look forward to being sure in a few hours.