Posted on 03/07/2009 5:55:47 AM PST by kellynla
The proper term for this behavior is “niggardly”.
I don't understand your post -- do you think I am oblivious? Are you attacking me?
Sorry - but the black slavery heritage extends to almost all blacks - and to most Arab cultures. They were either slaves or slavers. And the Brits? With us they were the first groups to FIGHT slavery. I believe it was outlawed in the last middle east country in the 1960’s. Yep - there was still legal slavery in arab countries when Kennedy was President.
He should be happy that the gift wasn’t an autographed picture of “The One”, with maybe a DVD of Jeremia Wright’s greatest hits thrown in.
It doesn’t surprise me. He very seldom has Michelle on the stage or even mentions her, nor the girls.
He likes to be the sole source of attention.
Oh no, I’m sorry, I didn’t reference it right. I meant that about my father, the person I was quoting.
Sorry about that!
true
Maybe Mark Steyn should change the title of “America Alone” to “And Then There Were None”.
In the sense of being stingy or cheap, yep. Personally I see it as he being low/no class. Perhaps just plain stupid. I suppose they kind of go together.
There are other expressions for doing such a thing on purpose.
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Brilliant Steyn piece. Thanks for posting.
PAL DVDs have 576 pixels of vertical resolution, vs the NTSC standard which has only 480. Every DVD drive can handle both formats, but some DVD players sold in the US won’t accept PAL format discs, even if they’re region free, just as some sold in Europe won’t accept any NTSC discs, even if they’re region free.
Off brands are usually the ones which don’t really care what format disc you use in them, and there’s several brands that don’t even bother reading the region code.
But yeah, there’s a difference in format. I’d better know this, my wife lists 450 DVDs on eBay each day and she’d probably kill me if I got that wrong. :)
The only countries that he wants to heal relations with are the enemies of the US. Our allies? Thrown under a bus.
Mark
It's a different thing. The issues with video tape were more due to technological issues. With DVDs, it's more for copyright protection. DVDs are composed with "regional encoding" to ensure that a DVD created for region 1 won't play on a player set up for region 2. Most DVD players can be set for a specific region, however there's a limit to the number of times you can change that region setting. Once you've hit that maximum number, you can't change it again. This allows a manufacturer to make a single DVD player but sell it anywhere in the world.
But some DVDs are also "non-region" encoded, so they'll play on any DVD player, anywhere in the world.
Mark
Obama is such a punk.
A classless punk.
Actually there is a difference between Pal and Ntsc DVD’s. The scan rate and audio track freq’s are different and unless you have a Muli system Player and TV you are pretty much out of luck.
While over here all tv’s and players are multi player, in the US if it aint Ntsc, it is not available.
“Great article...typical Steyn.”
Is there a Mark Steyn ping list as I enjoy his articles?
In real life, in Europe dvd players and tv’s generaly can handle it, in the US the systems cannot.
It is not the reigon code, it is the scan rate and format for the audio track. For instance, my laptop can handle the scan rates fine, but Pal plays without the audio track as it is in a different place in pal from ntsc.
Reigon codes are easily bypassed, but scanrates are another beast altogether.
For the purposes of this thread, I am sure the Dvd’s could be watched in Europe, but the reigon code would have to be hacked, an easy thing commonly done over here.
The gift was crass however, not class and degrades American influence overseas rather strongly. Obama just is not Presidential material.
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