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Laverre: That goes without saying, like I said, it wasn't meant as a "back to reality" call, but was intended as a real question. Could be someone knows, what the regulations are in America for gifts recieved by the president :).
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cjrgreen: The President can keep gifts of nominal value (last I knew, the limit was $180) unless they are food or drink (these are destroyed out of an excess of concern for safety). So he could keep it, but I think it's unlikely that the Obamas would warm to the game.
Thanks for the answer.
Post edited May 29, 2011 by Laverre
LOL, google translate is the worst.

Look at someone's translated comment, for example:
"Taking into account the fact that The Witcher 2 suffered a worldwide success, and certainly will be named game of the year"

LOL
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Demut: I really doubt that he’ll have time to play video game. And does he even enjoy doing that?
His own words suggest very strongly that he dislikes them as a matter of principle (Harvard commencement speech, last year):
"With iPods and iPads; Xboxes and PlayStations -- none of which I know how to work -- information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation.... All of this is not only putting new pressures on you. It is putting new pressures on our country and on our democracy."

But he's all in favor of developing video games as a form of education [STEM is US ed-speak for "Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics"]:
"Our success as a nation depends on strengthening America's role as the world's engine of discovery and innovation.... I applaud partners in the National STEM Video Game Challenge for lending their resources, expertise, and their enthusiasm to the task of strengthening America's leadership in the 21st century by improving education in science, technology, engineering and math."

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stoicsentry: LOL, google translate is the worst.

Look at someone's translated comment, for example:
"Taking into account the fact that The Witcher 2 suffered a worldwide success, and certainly will be named game of the year"

LOL
Even Google Translate has a long way to go to match Stephen Seymour, President Carter's Polish translator, who delivered up for the Plains peanut pusher two brilliant speeches in which he spoke partly in Russian, claimed he had abandoned the United States never to return, and applauded the Polish people's lusts for the future.
Post edited May 29, 2011 by cjrgreen
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Demut: I really doubt that he’ll have time to play video game. And does he even enjoy doing that?
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cjrgreen: His own words suggest very strongly that he dislikes them as a matter of principle (Harvard commencement speech, last year):
"With iPods and iPads; Xboxes and PlayStations -- none of which I know how to work -- information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation.... All of this is not only putting new pressures on you. It is putting new pressures on our country and on our democracy."

But he's all in favor of developing video games as a form of education [STEM is US ed-speak for "Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics"]:
"Our success as a nation depends on strengthening America's role as the world's engine of discovery and innovation.... I applaud partners in the National STEM Video Game Challenge for lending their resources, expertise, and their enthusiasm to the task of strengthening America's leadership in the 21st century by improving education in science, technology, engineering and math."
I see, thank you.
That's a pretty amusing gift :)