U.K. leader can't view Obama's gift

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I have a better ASSet than my breasts. I'll just drop some papers or something.

My imagine just ran the 40 in under 2 seconds. Phew...

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Brown gave Obama some pretty cool gifts. Obama gave him a crappy gift in return... and they don't even work!!

The movie industry's digital protection schemes have turned President Obama's present for British Prime Minister Gordon Brown into little more than a set of coasters.

British newspapers earlier this month made hay out of the supposedly unequal exchange of gifts between the two leaders during Brown's visit to Washington. Brown gave an ornamental pen holder with an indirect tie to the Oval Office desk — both items were made from the timber of sister ships — and a first-edition set of a seven-volume biography about Winston Churchill.

Obama responded with a DVD set featuring 25 classic American movies. "About as exciting as a pair of socks," declared The Daily Mail.

Now it turns out Brown can't play the discs because of region-specific limitations, The Daily Telegraph reports.

DVD players are coded to limit themselves to material meant for specific geographic areas. The United States and Canada are Region 1. Western and Central Europe are Region 2.

Players sold in one region aren't supposed to play discs sold in another. Had the same sort of protection applied to Brown's gift, Obama would need a special key sold only in Europe to open the Churchill books.

People willing to experiment with hacks can go online to find relatively easy ways around region-coding prohibitions on discs. But a spokesman for the prime minister referred a Telegraph writer to the White House for "technical assistance."

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009/...eader-cant.html

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=183187

I know. But the region thing was icing on the cake.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

That's hilarious. Since when did anyone care what 'gifts' were exchanged between leaders?

They only care if it can be used to somehow make the leader look bad.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Bush probably would have given him a Beta tape.

[Ban Hammer 13,491]

Brown gave Obama some pretty cool gifts. Obama gave him a crappy gift in return... and they don't even work!!

The movie industry's digital protection schemes have turned President Obama's present for British Prime Minister Gordon Brown into little more than a set of coasters.

British newspapers earlier this month made hay out of the supposedly unequal exchange of gifts between the two leaders during Brown's visit to Washington. Brown gave an ornamental pen holder with an indirect tie to the Oval Office desk — both items were made from the timber of sister ships — and a first-edition set of a seven-volume biography about Winston Churchill.

Obama responded with a DVD set featuring 25 classic American movies. "About as exciting as a pair of socks," declared The Daily Mail.

Now it turns out Brown can't play the discs because of region-specific limitations, The Daily Telegraph reports.

DVD players are coded to limit themselves to material meant for specific geographic areas. The United States and Canada are Region 1. Western and Central Europe are Region 2.

Players sold in one region aren't supposed to play discs sold in another. Had the same sort of protection applied to Brown's gift, Obama would need a special key sold only in Europe to open the Churchill books.

People willing to experiment with hacks can go online to find relatively easy ways around region-coding prohibitions on discs. But a spokesman for the prime minister referred a Telegraph writer to the White House for "technical assistance."

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009/...eader-cant.html

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=183187

I know. But the region thing was icing on the cake.

i suspected the regional code would be an issue too. i'm chagrined that our president can't do a bit better in gift giving to one of our most valuable allies.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Brown gave Obama some pretty cool gifts. Obama gave him a crappy gift in return... and they don't even work!!

The movie industry's digital protection schemes have turned President Obama's present for British Prime Minister Gordon Brown into little more than a set of coasters.

British newspapers earlier this month made hay out of the supposedly unequal exchange of gifts between the two leaders during Brown's visit to Washington. Brown gave an ornamental pen holder with an indirect tie to the Oval Office desk — both items were made from the timber of sister ships — and a first-edition set of a seven-volume biography about Winston Churchill.

Obama responded with a DVD set featuring 25 classic American movies. "About as exciting as a pair of socks," declared The Daily Mail.

Now it turns out Brown can't play the discs because of region-specific limitations, The Daily Telegraph reports.

DVD players are coded to limit themselves to material meant for specific geographic areas. The United States and Canada are Region 1. Western and Central Europe are Region 2.

Players sold in one region aren't supposed to play discs sold in another. Had the same sort of protection applied to Brown's gift, Obama would need a special key sold only in Europe to open the Churchill books.

People willing to experiment with hacks can go online to find relatively easy ways around region-coding prohibitions on discs. But a spokesman for the prime minister referred a Telegraph writer to the White House for "technical assistance."

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009/...eader-cant.html

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=183187

I know. But the region thing was icing on the cake.

i suspected the regional code would be an issue too. i'm chagrined that our president can't do a bit better in gift giving to one of our most valuable allies.

Can they impeach him for that?

[Ban Hammer 13,491]

Brown gave Obama some pretty cool gifts. Obama gave him a crappy gift in return... and they don't even work!!

The movie industry's digital protection schemes have turned President Obama's present for British Prime Minister Gordon Brown into little more than a set of coasters.

British newspapers earlier this month made hay out of the supposedly unequal exchange of gifts between the two leaders during Brown's visit to Washington. Brown gave an ornamental pen holder with an indirect tie to the Oval Office desk — both items were made from the timber of sister ships — and a first-edition set of a seven-volume biography about Winston Churchill.

Obama responded with a DVD set featuring 25 classic American movies. "About as exciting as a pair of socks," declared The Daily Mail.

Now it turns out Brown can't play the discs because of region-specific limitations, The Daily Telegraph reports.

DVD players are coded to limit themselves to material meant for specific geographic areas. The United States and Canada are Region 1. Western and Central Europe are Region 2.

Players sold in one region aren't supposed to play discs sold in another. Had the same sort of protection applied to Brown's gift, Obama would need a special key sold only in Europe to open the Churchill books.

People willing to experiment with hacks can go online to find relatively easy ways around region-coding prohibitions on discs. But a spokesman for the prime minister referred a Telegraph writer to the White House for "technical assistance."

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009/...eader-cant.html

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=183187

I know. But the region thing was icing on the cake.

i suspected the regional code would be an issue too. i'm chagrined that our president can't do a bit better in gift giving to one of our most valuable allies.

Can they impeach him for that?

what do you think?

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Brown gave Obama some pretty cool gifts. Obama gave him a crappy gift in return... and they don't even work!!

The movie industry's digital protection schemes have turned President Obama's present for British Prime Minister Gordon Brown into little more than a set of coasters.

British newspapers earlier this month made hay out of the supposedly unequal exchange of gifts between the two leaders during Brown's visit to Washington. Brown gave an ornamental pen holder with an indirect tie to the Oval Office desk — both items were made from the timber of sister ships — and a first-edition set of a seven-volume biography about Winston Churchill.

Obama responded with a DVD set featuring 25 classic American movies. "About as exciting as a pair of socks," declared The Daily Mail.

Now it turns out Brown can't play the discs because of region-specific limitations, The Daily Telegraph reports.

DVD players are coded to limit themselves to material meant for specific geographic areas. The United States and Canada are Region 1. Western and Central Europe are Region 2.

Players sold in one region aren't supposed to play discs sold in another. Had the same sort of protection applied to Brown's gift, Obama would need a special key sold only in Europe to open the Churchill books.

People willing to experiment with hacks can go online to find relatively easy ways around region-coding prohibitions on discs. But a spokesman for the prime minister referred a Telegraph writer to the White House for "technical assistance."

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009/...eader-cant.html

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=183187

I know. But the region thing was icing on the cake.

i suspected the regional code would be an issue too. i'm chagrined that our president can't do a bit better in gift giving to one of our most valuable allies.

Can they impeach him for that?

what do you think?

Why not? It makes him an unfit leader.

[natty bumppo 297]

Obama .. a "world leader" shows his knowledge with this gift. given his other comments this week .... wonder if he now qualifies for the special olympics?

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Obama .. a "world leader" shows his knowledge with this gift. given his other comments this week .... wonder if he now qualifies for the special olympics?

I'm sure that McCain would have done better. Obama must have listened to too many of George's speahces. And I'm sure that Obama personally went out and purchased the dvd set. He wouldn't let a staff member handle such an vital task.

Edited March 21, 2009 by spookyturtle

[natty bumppo 297]

Obama .. a "world leader" shows his knowledge with this gift. given his other comments this week .... wonder if he now qualifies for the special olympics?

I'm sure that McCain would have done better. Obama must have listened to too many of George's speahces. And I'm sure that Obama personally went out and purchased the dvd set. He wouldn't let a staff member handle such an vital task.

I can hear it now ..... "I'm Obama and I approve this gift"

After all ... he did present it ... no?

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Obama .. a "world leader" shows his knowledge with this gift. given his other comments this week .... wonder if he now qualifies for the special olympics?

I'm sure that McCain would have done better. Obama must have listened to too many of George's speahces. And I'm sure that Obama personally went out and purchased the dvd set. He wouldn't let a staff member handle such an vital task.

I can hear it now ..... "I'm Obama and I approve this gift"

After all ... he did present it ... no?

I don't know, I wasn't there. I highly doubt he had anything to do with the purchase. He handed it over.

[natty bumppo 297]

Obama .. a "world leader" shows his knowledge with this gift. given his other comments this week .... wonder if he now qualifies for the special olympics?

I'm sure that McCain would have done better. Obama must have listened to too many of George's speahces. And I'm sure that Obama personally went out and purchased the dvd set. He wouldn't let a staff member handle such an vital task.

I can hear it now ..... "I'm Obama and I approve this gift"

After all ... he did present it ... no?

I don't know, I wasn't there. I highly doubt he had anything to do with the purchase. He handed it over.

So ... he showed his worldlyness ... and the competence of his staff ... all at the same time.

[Peikko 1,575]

This is SUCH and important issue, I feel what we need is a list of the last 50 presidential gifts, so we can make appropriate comparisons as to what level of 'snub' this shoddy gift falls in the scheme of presidential gift giving. So, come along now, don't be shy, let us see this list!

[Ban Hammer 13,491]

Brown gave Obama some pretty cool gifts. Obama gave him a crappy gift in return... and they don't even work!!

The movie industry's digital protection schemes have turned President Obama's present for British Prime Minister Gordon Brown into little more than a set of coasters.

British newspapers earlier this month made hay out of the supposedly unequal exchange of gifts between the two leaders during Brown's visit to Washington. Brown gave an ornamental pen holder with an indirect tie to the Oval Office desk — both items were made from the timber of sister ships — and a first-edition set of a seven-volume biography about Winston Churchill.

Obama responded with a DVD set featuring 25 classic American movies. "About as exciting as a pair of socks," declared The Daily Mail.

Now it turns out Brown can't play the discs because of region-specific limitations, The Daily Telegraph reports.

DVD players are coded to limit themselves to material meant for specific geographic areas. The United States and Canada are Region 1. Western and Central Europe are Region 2.

Players sold in one region aren't supposed to play discs sold in another. Had the same sort of protection applied to Brown's gift, Obama would need a special key sold only in Europe to open the Churchill books.

People willing to experiment with hacks can go online to find relatively easy ways around region-coding prohibitions on discs. But a spokesman for the prime minister referred a Telegraph writer to the White House for "technical assistance."

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009/...eader-cant.html

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=183187

I know. But the region thing was icing on the cake.

i suspected the regional code would be an issue too. i'm chagrined that our president can't do a bit better in gift giving to one of our most valuable allies.

Can they impeach him for that?

what do you think?

Why not? It makes him an unfit leader.

if you think so.