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You still wonder why you read this? I still wonder why I write this... I will put some thoughts here from time to time (I am absolutely NOT responsible for what you will read below! blame it on my right hand!!!).

January 10th - 2008
"Generally speaking, France is not an attractive location for individuals or companies seeking to limit taxation." (A quote from a very resourcefull site : http://www.lowtax.net/ )

They should actually have written that France is a Tax-Freaked country. You even get taxed for farting...
If you want to check out some really interesting options for establishing a business try Cyprus, Dubai or Brunei! After some research You will find that Arab countries have a lot more hospitable jurisdictions if you want to earn what you deserve without beeing sucked dry by your own country of residence (France in my case). Not even the USA can beat them and these countries are so close to Europe that it would be a waste to travel to the British Virgin Islands (offering the same benefits but too far for me).

January 5th - 2008
Happy New Year from SuperCrap!
I've gotten the chance to read an interesting book written by a very lucid American who realized how fast an evolved country (or any country considering itself as such) can turn into a manipulating organisation on the edge of becoming a "Democracy-Faced Totalitarian Institution". In France, whatever you decide to undertake will be controled by the Government. You want to open a pub? You need a licence. You want to prepare food in your pub? You need another licence you can only get if you have the apropriate diploma. You want to serve late at night? You need an additional licence.

France is one of these countries where everything is allowed as long as you stick by the rules. Actually not everything is allowed but if you fit into the mold everything will be fine. So the Government and Educative System produce "crops", animals that obey and have low expectations of what to expect from whoever is ruling the damn place. Just look at the PCF (French Communist Party) mutated into the LCR ( Revolutionnary Communist League). They all want more "buying power" because they all believe that tons of cash make them free. Free to buy perishable things. Free to drive faster home. Free to get more chanels on cable TV. Money buys them the freedom to be more like the Government wants them to be: STUPID and DEPENDENT.

So far it went pretty well. France is one of the last economic powers in Europe. I'm not talking about GDP or other figures but about successful creative entrepreneurship. France isn't leading but itself. It doesn't create anything it can brag about. It doesn't have any leading technology known to the public. And the highest ambition students have is to become a civil servant. The others are happy to get the minimum salary of 1,200 euro. If you start as self employed you have to earn less than 26,000 euro a year otherwise you need to become a LLC and pay tons of taxes. But if you are self employed you pay about 50% taxes on what you earn so you are left with 13,000 euro and that's less tha 1,100 euro a month. So the SMIC (minimum salary of 1,200 euro) is more interesting and you can work in the closest burger joint without worrying about extra paperwork and tax filling.

In other words : don't be an entrepreneur in France if you can't afford it!
But of course you can try. France is a free country after all...

Freedom never comes for free : "Secret Freedom Fighter" by Jefferson Mack (ISBN 0-87364-392-5)

December 21st - 2007
We're getting close to Christmas and the only stuff I could come uo with is a flyer from the SNCF (French Railway Company) labor syndicate with Trotskyite Communists in big characters all over it. I thought these guys vanished from the face of the earth like the dinosaurs many years ago. I knew socialists where very strong inside the SNCF and that strike was the second most important activity after Holidays Planning (working is comes only in 27th place after Complaining about the Broken Coffee Machine and Fiercely Enquiring about a A Grade Stapler...).

But their Communism came to me like a shock while I read through hte flyer. There was little to read about the ideas they were defending and most of the text explained how the rich should give to the poor so that they can have access to better TV channels and buy more stuff. Not to mention that they don't want to abandon the 35 hours a week system with which they feel so comfortable now. They even reject the option of giving the choice of working on Sundays to anyone who wants to.

French Communists, unlike the dinosaurs, should disappear or be given a hand if they they show unwillingness. Communism has reached the END of its life span and should retire with the pleasant feeling of a well sabotaged French mind.

December 15th - 2007
It looks like our deer politicians mix up sides in a fight that doesn't concern them directly. You know, after World War 2 France declared they won the war. Actually France was conquered by America and has ever since tried to keep up somehow with the world leaders. Right now France tries so hard that it is one of the last economical powers in Europe, with unqualified workers, the elite (if you can call them like this) fleeing to other countries where pay is much better and politicians who still believe French is the diplomatic language around the world.

But WW2 involved France as a part of Europe, unlike the middle-east where France applies the same "lets say this and see how it goes" technique to test the water and side up with the strongest. I guess you understand why Lebanese diplomatic leader Abderrahman Chalgham says about Bernard Kouchner that "he's a nice person, but I heard him quite a few times take position in the morning and changes his mind when night falls". France is still trained NOT to take a final position and always to keep a backdoor in case the room heats up a little too much. I get the same results when I work with French people. They say "sure I'll do it" and you end up telling your customers that the guy you had on your team left the project because, although the money was good, he had to work more than 35 hours a week to get the job done...

America isn't wonderland... but many French rarely keep their word. So I don't know what's worse... Bush's savage imperialism or double edged communists who believe to be economic gurus...?

December 14th - 2007
Beowulf (2007) is somehow a missed movie as far as action and visual effects are concerned. 3D animations are nice of course but you got this kind of stuff all over the place. I would have appreciated the movie a lot more with hard impacts during attacks, bone crushing and direct violence. Something really hard core, if you see what I mean. If you don't like wussy piss poor boring movies then stay away from this. If your child is under 11 years old then he might find Beowulf impressive. The only highlight was to watch a 3D reproduction of Angelina Jolie (tres jolie and even tres tres jolie...) naked. Don't try too hard to find pussy lips because you won't find any...

Anyway don't waste your time on this unless your girlfriend promissed you a special treat afterwards. Watch some real horror movie instead. There is plenty to chose from in my selection.

December 7th - 2007
Long time no see on SuperCrap. Well we where busy with some stupid business and we constantly wonder why we keep working with French partners... We find the customers and they fuck things up... Just great. So now we are looking at products we can deal all by ourselves, to reduce the "Fucked-up-by-French-Partners" factor.

Trains where on strike a few weeks ago and they'll on strike again beginning of next week. "It's tradition" as you might say. So if you come to France for holidays I would advise you to rent a car.

October 22nd - 2007
Yeah I know don't event tell... You came lately to the site and checked for some exciting news and all you got was some microwave reheated leftovers from the week before. I also thought I would have some time to spend on the site and instead of that I have plenty of other stupid stuff to take care of. Some people call it WORK!

I call it a waste of time because most customers come with some stupid fantasies and change their fucken mind every 5 minutes so you don't have time to present a design that they come up with some other shitty concept like "it would be cute if the visitor heard a bubble sound every time they click on a menu button".

And you know what? It take me 30 minutes to make them understand that if I where the visitor and I had to listen to bubbling fucken buttons I would shoot myself right through the face before I manage to close the window!

When you design a web site DON'T PUT SOUNDS TO THE NAVIGATION BUTTONS!!! Don't FUCK with your visitors MINDS! Torture has been abolished in most countries and DON'T pretend you have a good excuse just because you live in Afganistan or in North Korea!!

I really hope this was usefull to somebody out there...

October 12th - 2007
Today's thought is : I have so many reasons to work with Germans... and so litle reasons to stay in France!!! So I am dealing with luxury cars, and I often go to Germany to check out what the dealers are offering (usually good cars). But seriously, compared to the German professional behaviour the French have to "grow up"...

I gotta get back to my drawings this weekend...

October 8th - 2007
What does SuperCrap on a lazy day look like? Well I'm not sure I ought to tell you. The company hosting santadelic.com might just aswell shut my site down for obscene content and sue me for crime against humanity...

I was just thinking (yeah that happens to me too sometimes... but only sometimes) that I could put some early Evil Santa drawings on the site so that my deer visitors see that my drawing skills haven't improved since I discovered I suck big time in algebra (that must have been in 6th grade...). Yeah well that was in the US (New York state... some 20 years ago) and my poor English didn't level up much either as you can read in my reviews.

October 3rd - 2007 again...
I guess France has another way to play with words and define "technological progress". The subway in Paris will soon have what they call "interactive display". And we would all say "jee... that's great stuff... France is leading with some advanced digital wide screen display".

Well, not exactly...
The paper advertisements and other classical methods will not be removed and replaced. The advertisers will only include some digital boxes in the Add boards sending advertisement to your mobile phone! In other words you get spam...
Damn... technologically advanced stuff, I'm telling ya!!!

October 3rd - 2007
Now here we have a good story that shows clearly that French journalists have crossed the limits of boredom!!! Two journalists (from a left party journal that has one foot in communism and another in something they would love to describe as capitalist desire) followed the French President Sarkozy just to write down his speeding offences... Then they get back to the office and write a big article on how outrageous all this is.

The real news would actually be that the journal "Liberation" is targeting "Voici" and "Gala" magazines by acting like paparazzi.
... that's gonna keep me from sleeping for at least... 2 minutes.

September 25th - 2007
Biter Sweet
I received a letter (yes another one) from the French Government encouraging me to borrow money from a bank (every newly created company gets this kind of offers - although over half of these newly created companies never make it past their first year of existence). The Government would become guarantor for 70% of the borrowed sum. All this in order to push companies to spend more. And of course they do. Bankruptcy is good business for the French Government as all this money spent includes 19.6% VAT going directly to the Government Treasury.

The rest goes to the banks (if the lender has the ability to pay back - which is rarely the case) and feeds the economy and other small companies struggling to stay alive. And if you happen to be the manager and owner of the company you have to give away over 50% of your earnings for tax, retirement and social security.

So do I regret creating my company in France? YES!... But I give myself another year to see just how it goes and we'll see. So far it cost me over $4,000 just to setup the whole damn company and lost 2 months in the process (administration is slower than snails walking on sand...)

September 23rd - 2007
It's been a long time. I've just received a letter telling me how honored the sender is to announce me that my financial aide (to develop a professional project) has ben terminated. I'm glad to know at least someone is pleased to give bad news...

July 6th - 2007
Civil Servant is the most sought after job in France. You can't get fired, you rarely need to achieve results and you can travel in time (you start at 9am but you arrive at 9:30am and you finish at 6pm but you are already in front of the TV at 5:15pm). On top of that you also have the legal right to strike every year (and you often strike for some unknown and mysterious reason). And I needn't mention the holiday extensions declared as official "Off duty for heavy tuberculosis" so you can enjoy another weekend at a cheap beach in Bretagne.

Civil Servants also love to complain about their bad working conditions and the huge loads of stress. They often take sick leaves for repeated depressions and enjoy early retirement due to their bad health condition (mostly heavy smokers or heavy drinkers with a tendency to become stressed by not getting the choice between sugar or milk when you offer them a cup of coffee).

July 4th - 2007
Here's a stupid French joke:
There is an obvious difference between a hooker and a panther!...
Have you ever seen a panther wearing hooker skin?
This makes French people laugh... but I wouldn't recommend it in parties.

July 1st - 2007
Actually in France you do talk about things other people have (and you would die to get your hands on if you had a real job and the will to work your ass off to earn more) but you criticize and make up every possible excuse why you wouldn't buy these things even if you could afford them (although you never will...).

June 13 - 2007
French people don't talk about money.
In France you generally never talk about something you don't save...

June 12 - 2007
France is a cool Country! Why?
Because we still allow communists to vote in order to keep them from extinction.

June 11 - 2007
What do you call an "American Survival Kit" in France?
Mac Donald's

June 8 - 2007
Why does everyone in France want to work for the national rail company?
Because striking is part of the job! ( wait until we get to September and you'll see...it's almost tradition)