Name: Anonymous 2009-03-20 23:44
DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE appears to have been an evil plot to unlock Her Majesty's government from the special relationship that Blighty has with its former colony of Virginia.
The newish boss of the United States of America, President Barack Obama, stuck for an idea of an official gift for the Scottish Prime Minister Gordon Brown during his state visit of that country, hit upon a wizard idea.
Why not give Gordon a bumper set of DVDs with all the US classics? So he sent his aide around the corner and came up with 25 of the greats, wrapped them up and presented them to Gordon after dinner.
Brown, incidentally, gave the American President in the form of a penholder carved from the timbers of an anti-slavery ship. The sister ship, in fact, of the one that was broken up and turned into the desk in the Oval Office, which is a bit spooky if you ever saw the horrible flick National Treasure because it means the two timbers are in the same place.
However Gordon was apparently touched with his gift until he got it home. He had just popped the pop corn, and settled down on the sofa at Number 10 and stuck the disk in the machine, only to discover that evil movie moghuls wanted to stuff up his night's entertainment.
Gordon's machine told him that he was living in the wrong region for this disk to work and, other than coasters, President Obama's gift was a bit like that pot of gold that the Irish President once gave him that turned into Ian Paisley in the morning.
In the good old days Britain could send a warship into New York harbour and scuttle its fleet. Alas these days the only nukes we have are old and made in America anyway.
According to a Daily Telegraph hack who rang up the White House to warn about the dangers of DRM to the special relationship, the aide "tittered".
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/474/1051474/drm-threatens-uk-special-relationship
[[ Eat your own shit, fuckers! ]]
The newish boss of the United States of America, President Barack Obama, stuck for an idea of an official gift for the Scottish Prime Minister Gordon Brown during his state visit of that country, hit upon a wizard idea.
Why not give Gordon a bumper set of DVDs with all the US classics? So he sent his aide around the corner and came up with 25 of the greats, wrapped them up and presented them to Gordon after dinner.
Brown, incidentally, gave the American President in the form of a penholder carved from the timbers of an anti-slavery ship. The sister ship, in fact, of the one that was broken up and turned into the desk in the Oval Office, which is a bit spooky if you ever saw the horrible flick National Treasure because it means the two timbers are in the same place.
However Gordon was apparently touched with his gift until he got it home. He had just popped the pop corn, and settled down on the sofa at Number 10 and stuck the disk in the machine, only to discover that evil movie moghuls wanted to stuff up his night's entertainment.
Gordon's machine told him that he was living in the wrong region for this disk to work and, other than coasters, President Obama's gift was a bit like that pot of gold that the Irish President once gave him that turned into Ian Paisley in the morning.
In the good old days Britain could send a warship into New York harbour and scuttle its fleet. Alas these days the only nukes we have are old and made in America anyway.
According to a Daily Telegraph hack who rang up the White House to warn about the dangers of DRM to the special relationship, the aide "tittered".
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/474/1051474/drm-threatens-uk-special-relationship
[[ Eat your own shit, fuckers! ]]