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#320509 - 19/03/2009 06:27 A gift from the President
boxer pooh-bah Registered: 16/04/2002 Posts: 2011 Loc: Yorkshire UK	I started the day chuckling on this one from this morning's paper: Obama gave Gordon Brown 25 classic American films on DVD - when Gordon sat down, with his popcorn, at No. 10 Downing Street, all he got on screen was the wrong region message. Apparently "Clueless" wasn't one of them. Still, these companies have to protect their copyright - best that our leaders should set an example! _________________________ Politics and Ideology: Not my bag
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#320526 - 19/03/2009 13:36 Re: A gift from the President [Re: boxer]
wfaulk carpal tunnel Registered: 25/12/2000 Posts: 16706 Loc: Raleigh, NC US	I commented on that (or NTSC/PAL) being a possibility when the gift was announced. Just a cherry on top of the gift inequality. For those who don't know, Obama gave Brown said set of American movies. Brown gave Obama an ornamental pen holder made from the wood of the sister ship to the anti-slave ship that Obama's presidential desk is made of. _________________________ Bitt Faulk
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#320529 - 19/03/2009 13:52 Re: A gift from the President [Re: wfaulk]
boxer pooh-bah Registered: 16/04/2002 Posts: 2011 Loc: Yorkshire UK	I never did persuade my mother that not being able to make the VHS of her American grandchildren work in the UK was anything other than me being unhelpful, until the day she saw an ad. for doing the conversion - when she got the quote, she decided to do without! _________________________ Politics and Ideology: Not my bag
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#320533 - 19/03/2009 14:16 Re: A gift from the President [Re: boxer]
Robotic pooh-bah Registered: 06/04/2005 Posts: 2026 Loc: Seattle transplant	I'm not certain how things work in reality, but I believe that in the computer world NTSC vs PAL should not be an issue. keyword: should All that aside, Bitt's description of the two gifts certainly shows an inequality in the exchange. _________________________ 10101311 (20GB- backup empeg) 10101466 (2x60GB, Eutronix/GreenLights Blue) (Stolen!)
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#320547 - 19/03/2009 17:50 Re: A gift from the President [Re: Robotic]
boxer pooh-bah Registered: 16/04/2002 Posts: 2011 Loc: Yorkshire UK	What we didn't tell you was that Gordon fashioned the pen holder with his penknife on the way over - times are hard! _________________________ Politics and Ideology: Not my bag
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#320548 - 19/03/2009 17:52 Re: A gift from the President [Re: boxer]
larry818 old hand Registered: 01/10/2002 Posts: 1039 Loc: Fullerton, Calif.	Even my oldest dvd player plays pal dvds on my ntsc set.
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#320549 - 19/03/2009 17:52 Re: A gift from the President [Re: boxer]
tonyc carpal tunnel Registered: 27/06/1999 Posts: 7058 Loc: Pittsburgh, PA	Hey, at least it went over better than the gift Hillary gave the Russian foreign minister. Quote: "I would like to present you with a little gift that represents what President Obama and Vice President Biden and I have been saying and that is: 'We want to reset our relationship and so we will do it together.'" Clinton, laughing, added, "We worked hard to get the right Russian word. Do you think we got it?" she asked Lavrov. "You got it wrong," Lavrov said." Both diplomats laughed. "It should be "perezagruzka" (the Russian word for reset,) Lavrov said. "This says 'peregruzka,' which means 'overcharged.'" She should have totally put the word for "launched nukes" on there, instead. _________________________ - Tony C my empeg stuff
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#320564 - 20/03/2009 05:31 Re: A gift from the President [Re: tonyc]
g_attrill old hand Registered: 14/04/2002 Posts: 1172 Loc: Hants, UK	Looking at the button itself, I guess they didn't have a Cyrillic Dymo handy
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#320566 - 20/03/2009 05:57 Re: A gift from the President [Re: boxer]
boxer pooh-bah Registered: 16/04/2002 Posts: 2011 Loc: Yorkshire UK	Quote: Even my oldest dvd player plays pal dvds on my ntsc set. Me too (Vice-Versa), but I can only take the newspaper reports at face value (Apart from the popcorn!) _________________________ Politics and Ideology: Not my bag
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#320567 - 20/03/2009 06:50 Re: A gift from the President [Re: boxer]
Cris pooh-bah Registered: 06/02/2002 Posts: 1904 Loc: Leeds, UK	Wow, the economy must be hitting real hard over there, they are some really cheap gifts Cheers Cris.
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#320576 - 20/03/2009 16:51 Re: A gift from the President [Re: g_attrill]
wfaulk carpal tunnel Registered: 25/12/2000 Posts: 16706 Loc: Raleigh, NC US	Originally Posted By: g_attrill Looking at the button itself, I guess they didn't have a Cyrillic Dymo handy That was my thought, too. _________________________ Bitt Faulk
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