Posted by Jason Kottke on under 2016 summer olympics, olympic fencing, fencing team, sith lord, summer olympics, barack obama, asst, olympics, rally, white house, sword, victory, star wars, nbsp, photos | 
The President recently hosted a rally at The White House in support of Chicago's bid to hold the 2016 Summer Olympics. Some members of the Olympic fencing team were there. Obama was given a plastic sword. Photos were taken. Photoshop (with an assist from me) did the rest.
Here's our President attacking an unseen Sith Lord or perhaps someone condemned by a death panel:
And having finished them off to the delight of the assembled, a victory pose.
Update: See also the Japanese Obama action figures. (thx, myles)
Tags: Barack Obama remix Star Wars
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Posted by on under youtube video, european telecoms, deutsche telekom, slashdot, france telecom, google, policy director, whitt, data networks, network operators, free ride, financial times, technology company, internet search, pipes, bandwidth, sword, bas, europe, traffic |
An anonymous reader passes along a Financial Times piece that covers a push by EU telecoms to get Google to pay them directly — years after US ISPs began rattling that sword, to little effect thus far. "Some of Europe's leading telecoms groups are squaring up for a fight with Google over what they claim is the free ride enjoyed by the technology company's YouTube video-sharing service. Telefónica, France Telecom, and Deutsche Telekom all said Google should start paying them for carrying bandwidth-hungry content such as YouTube video over their networks.... Some European telecoms groups fear Google will reduce them to 'dumb pipes' because the internet search and advertising company pays the network operators little or nothing for carrying its content. Rick Whitt, a senior policy director at Google in Washington ... said Google was spending large amounts on its own data networks to carry its traffic to the point where it is handed over to telecoms companies round the world." Note that FT.com operates on a "first few per month free" paywall basis.
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