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[sidsmom]

Odd to see an individual so passionately invested into a company like...Sony. They gave me a TV & a Walkman, but they didn't affect my life personally.

[tansy]

On 12/18/2014 Qwackertoo said:

On 12/18/2014 tansy said:

Gato, what's UD stand for, please? Only thing that pops into my head is urban dictionary

My guess would be Urban Decay. The makeup brand.

Does a buzzer go off if a 50-year-old woman approaches an Urban Decay counter? LOL. I

[dooBdoo]

Another thought on this: It actually plays into the hands of the North Korean propaganda machine when we allow such things to immediately trigger us to spread aggressive vilification of our own government. There's a faction of people who take just about any topic and try to use it as a partisan political weapon. (This occurs no matter who happens to be in office at the time, by the way.) It's a terribly unfortunate phenomenon.

jmo, ymmv

[Qwackertoo]

On 12/18/2014 tansy said:

On 12/18/2014 Qwackertoo said:

On 12/18/2014 tansy said:

Gato, what's UD stand for, please? Only thing that pops into my head is urban dictionary

My guess would be Urban Decay. The makeup brand.

Does a buzzer go off if a 50-year-old woman approaches an Urban Decay counter? LOL. I

I have no idea~!!!!

[Topaz Gem]

On 12/18/2014 dooBdoo said:

Another thought on this: It actually plays into the hands of the North Korean propaganda machine when we allow such things to immediately trigger us to spread aggressive vilification of our own government. There's a faction of people who take just about any topic and try to use it as a partisan political weapon. (This occurs no matter who happens to be in office at the time, by the way.) It's a terribly unfortunate phenomenon.

jmo, ymmv

Rumor has it that the directive to hack into Sony came right from the top in the NK government, so my guess is that Dear Leader is strutting his stuff today, thinking that he has the power to frighten a major corporation into doing what he wants. That's the part that scares me, because he may not stop at this little incident, IMO.

Edit to add: CNN is reporting that NK has 1,800 cyberwarriors. This is according to a defector from that country. Experts are speculating what will be next.

[deepwaterdotter]

If the theater owners choose not to show this film, they have made a business decision. It is their option to decide how they will run their theaters, without government intervention. Let free-market capitalism operate unfettered.

[Mj12]

On 12/18/2014 deepwaterdotter said:

If the theater owners choose not to show this film, they have made a business decision. It is their option to decide how they will run their theaters, without government intervention. Let free-market capitalism operate unfettered.

ITA, deep.

[kittymomNC]

On 12/18/2014 dooBdoo said:

Another thought on this: It actually plays into the hands of the North Korean propaganda machine when we allow such things to immediately trigger us to spread aggressive vilification of our own government. There's a faction of people who take just about any topic and try to use it as a partisan political weapon. (This occurs no matter who happens to be in office at the time, by the way.) It's a terribly unfortunate phenomenon.

jmo, ymmv

Hi dooBdoo, and thank you also for again being a voice of reason and speaking the truth. I quit trying on this subject way back in the thread somewhere, but just came back to see if it was still here. You are so correct in your assessment, in my humble opinion. No matter what the subject, if there is any way to inject partisan poli^tics into it and put down our government, it will happen. Last night I questioned why one poster used the words our "new American government" instead of calling it what it is, the current administration, and I was chastised for "mocking the poster" among other things. I asked a simple question and was given my "comeuppance" for doing it. And the question was never answered.

I also tried to post an article last night on another thread and had to go back and edit it to get rid of the red "not allowed" comments from the PTB. May I say that I think it's a sad state of affairs on this board that we can apparently use the name of any American pres in history except the current one in our posts. It makes me sad.

[Say Nay]

On 12/18/2014 Qwackertoo said:

On 12/18/2014 tansy said:

On 12/18/2014 Qwackertoo said:

On 12/18/2014 tansy said:

Gato, what's UD stand for, please? Only thing that pops into my head is urban dictionary

My guess would be Urban Decay. The makeup brand.

Does a buzzer go off if a 50-year-old woman approaches an Urban Decay counter? LOL. I

I have no idea~!!!!

LOL!

Not Urban Decay

For anyone interested there is a good article in The Atlantic on The Interview.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/12/north-korea-is-not-funny-the-interview-sony...

[Topaz Gem]

On 12/18/2014 kittymomNC said:

On 12/18/2014 dooBdoo said:

Another thought on this: It actually plays into the hands of the North Korean propaganda machine when we allow such things to immediately trigger us to spread aggressive vilification of our own government. There's a faction of people who take just about any topic and try to use it as a partisan political weapon. (This occurs no matter who happens to be in office at the time, by the way.) It's a terribly unfortunate phenomenon.

jmo, ymmv

Hi dooBdoo, and thank you also for again being a voice of reason and speaking the truth. I quit trying on this subject way back in the thread somewhere, but just came back to see if it was still here. You are so correct in your assessment, in my humble opinion. No matter what the subject, if there is any way to inject partisan poli^tics into it and put down our government, it will happen. Last night I questioned why one poster used the words our "new American government" instead of calling it what it is, the current administration, and I was chastised for "mocking the poster" among other things. I asked a simple question and was given my "comeuppance" for doing it. And the question was never answered.

I also tried to post an article last night on another thread and had to go back and edit it to get rid of the red "not allowed" comments from the PTB. May I say that I think it's a sad state of affairs on this board that we can apparently use the name of any American pres in history except the current one in our posts. It makes me sad.

Hi Kittymom, not always true. For literally years, you could not use the name Bush in any form on this BB. Suddenly it's allowed again. The same for the guy that was VP during that administration. I guess the Webbies figure that the current guys in office are too hot of a topic and their names should not be allowed.