is a national security problem? Sony is a Japanese company caught short provoking a fight with the NKorean government and that is a problem for the US president?

Why?

The answer is Barak Obama, and in fact any US president, is a racketeer for Wall Street.

"I served in all commissioned ranks from a second Lieutenant to a Major General. And during that time, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street, and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.
Smedley Butler

Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/smedley_butler.html#ZVhdXs1BSv5HKFXd.99"

I cringe when Obama starts mentioning the names of actors and pimping movies, especially one as bad as this one. We're not talking "The Best Years of Our Lives" here, after all. This is one of the reasons I think this all might be fabricated as either an ad stunt or merely to get the torture report off the front page.

mentioned "fabricated" because that occurred to me also.

including the racial joke emails that make top execs look horrible, the direct threats to employees, the health records and more make it clear this is not an ad stunt.

What's next? This?

THe hack was of an American based company. One role of the federal government is protection from those foreign and domestic. If our government just lets it slide it opens the door to all kinds of further attacks that could cripple the economy.

Pictures is incorporated in the US but it is just a division of Sony Corporation and ultimately Sony Group. It is no more American than BMW USA.

The location of your head office determines your corporate home.

You really wrote that


I love me some DU in the morning

It's art for art's sake, and I never liked Art.

Boo-yah!

...the White House is pleased that a movie that makes a joke about the assassination of a world leader (no matter how heinous), by two American scofflaws is a good thing.

While separated by mere minutes, also condemns the actual murders of two police officers?

The clear and unequivocal feeling of COGNITIVE DISSONANCE that should be occurring here, totally escapes people's notice. Which is why we have so many troubles in this world. We're not even paying attention.

- The more I think about it, the more I've come to believe that the dinosaurs took a meteor that should have been for us.......

nt

free on demand streaming !

Yeah, they might just go ahead and release it.

The CEO of Sony said that he would love to set up a private screening of the movie with the President.
I think there could be no better visual than the POTUS sitting in the White House screening room watching this movie.

Regardless of the stupidity of the film, or the stupidity of making it in the first place, this is an issue that has gone far beyond that! This is the time for President Obama to stand up for the USA (as has many times before) and say to the World, we will not condone terrorist threats, we will stand up to them!

If we, as a Country, do not stand behind expression of art now, we will have every terrorist group in the world threatening over movies, books, news reports, etc.....

We stood behind Solomon Rushdie in the past, we stood up for the those that wanted to publish Muslim cartoons, we must stand up again, and the President is in the perfect spot to do it.

I don't think North Korea is actually behind this attack. Consider that someone in the West made up a rumor about Kim Jong-il feeding his uncle to a pack of hungry dogs and North Korea didn't threaten to launch terrorist attacks all over the West in retaliation.

Also consider Sony just Bained itself. Why anyone hires Bain to restructure its business is a mystery; most people can figure out "fire half your employees and sell off everything outside your core competency even if it's making you money" on their own.

(It seems that the Acme Corporation had a problem: their employees couldn't see down the hall. The management of Acme called in Bain to consult on the problem. Six months later, Bain's team returned with an hour-long PowerPoint presentation.

"We have determined your problem is your headcount is bloated. Immediately terminate fifty percent of your employees. One million dollars, please."

That didn't solve the problem, so they called Bain back in. Six months later, Bain revealed another PowerPoint presentation.

"Acme's principle problem at this juncture is a series of ill-advised forays into businesses outside your core competency. We recommend selling off nine divisions. Two million dollars, please."

That didn't solve the problem either, so Bain came back in, and six months later...

"Acme's most critical issue is that its stock price is undervalued due to lack of respect from Wall Street. We recommend doing a Leveraged Buyout. It will cost you $220 million in up-front fees, plus management fees of 12 percent of your gross revenues for a period of ten years."

That still didn't solve the problem, so Bain came back...

"We recommend doing a Chapter 11 bankruptcy immediately."

Before declaring bankruptcy, Acme called in another consultancy for a second opinion. The consultant was briefed as to the problem, disappeared for ten minutes, and returned.

"The problem is solved. Twenty bucks for gas, coffee and parking, please."

'What the hell did you do?'

"I found the light switch.&quot

Reports indicate the hackers stole 100 terabytes of data. Got news for ya: YOU CAN'T STEAL A HUNDRED TERABYTES OF DATA IN JUST A FEW DAYS! My feeling is, some Sony employees with high-level access to Sony's servers have been stashing "insurance" data over the last few years onto physical media, just in case they got downsized and needed to retaliate against the company.