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Comment Re:Pitiful (Score 1) 230

I would not have pulled the movies. Those asshats would have done nothing.

So if you were an exec at Sony and you got an email that proved it was from the NK hackers that said "If you show this movie I'll kill your children," and it included pics of your kids coming and going from school, would you still release the movie? I strongly suspect that's what has happened here.

Comment Re:What are they going to do? (Score 2) 230

It boggles my mind that anyone seriously believes North Korea is going to start mounting attacks on North American theaters should they screen this film.

As I said in the other thread, I suspect what NK has done is threaten harm to the families of the Sony execs and the movie chain execs.

That's likely all it would take: "Show this movie and I'll kill your children."

The "attack the theaters" response is just a smokescreen against what has really been threatened.

Comment Re:Land of the free (Score 1) 580

[He] always makes sure to read the copies of Entertainment Weekly and People lying around the shop's break room, "just so he can point out all the stars and shows he's never heard of."

"Last week, in one of the magazines, there was a picture of Calista Flockhart," Elkins said, "and Jonathan announced, 'I have absolutely no idea who this woman is. Calista who? Am I supposed to have heard of her? I'm sorry, but I haven't.'"


http://www.theonion.com/articl...

Comment Re:Now if India would just invest in its own peopl (Score 4, Insightful) 56

In 1962, when Kennedy gave his famous "Choose to go to the moon" speech, the US still had 'white' and 'colored' drinking fountains. Many rural Americans in the Appalachians and the south were in deep poverty and had no indoor plumbing. Should America have fixed those things first before they went to the moon?

Comment The Executives (Score 3, Interesting) 580

As soon as I heard this story, I realized it's not Sony Pictures giving in to threats to an AMC in Des Moines - It's likely Sony Pictures execs giving in to threats to themselves and their families: "If you release this movie we'll kill your children."

Of course I doubt NK has the reach to pull off those threats, but pretty chilling nonetheless...

Comment Re:Well, expect more of these, then (Score 1) 589

What I want to know is what we (for any of the appropriate values of 'we') are going to do about this, because this kind of thing cannot be allowed to go on.

'We' have allowed unimaginable atrocities to 'go on' in North Korea against innocent men, women and children for decades and we've done nothing.

Yet NK makes empty threats against movie theatres and now we're supposed to do something about it?

How does NK survive? China. You want to do something about it then everyone in the USA needs to stop buying stuff from China. Once China turns off the NK money taps (money that comes from you, indirectly) then regime will collapse.

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