So I Guess The Terrorists Have Won

[Mouthwash]

George Clooney actually has interesting things to say: http://deadline.com/2014/12/george-...-north-korea-cyberattack-petition-1201329988/

 

[Gori the Grey]

A trio of limericks on Sony's pulling "The Interview":

This Christmas there’s just this thing you
Simply won’t be permitted to do.
It’s wrong* and its wronger**
But you can no longer
“The Interview” this winter view.

The terrorists triumphed, you say,
And you’re right; it’s outrageous, but hey,
They just managed to kill ’em
A Seth Rogan film
You weren’t planning to see anyway.

They’ve done a perfidious thing
Without precedent, this hacking ring.
To cause Sony to quake?
No! they’ve managed to make
A Seth Rogan film interesting.

*Sony caving, **the terrorists’ threat

 

[Borachio]

Let's watch Kim Jong Un's head blow off;
At terrorists' threats we shall scoff.
Though bullets may fly,
And hands reach for sky,
We'll keep to our seats, sure enough.

 

[warpus]

The interview sucks
But people want to see it
Thanks a lot, Korea

 

[Light Cleric]

Isn't Korea 3 syllables?

 

[Gori the Grey]

They threaten another Twin Towers,
Terrorize even nuclear powers.
It's their bombs that we fear,
But one thing this makes clear:
They're even more frightened of ours.

 

[Borachio]

Is it me, or are your limericks a little bit irregular, Mr Grey? And deliberately so?

Line 4 of that one, especially, stumbles a bit for me when I read it.

Still, I don't know. I'm a bit stuck on Lear's limericks which all seemed to go 88558

edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerick_(poetry)

Hmm. I really don't know. Anapest! Catalexis! I give up.

 

[warpus]

Isn't Korea 3 syllables?

The dear leader told me he will allow it

 

[tetley]

Roses are red
Violets are fair
Kim Jong's forehead
Needs rogaine for hair

 

[Ailedhoo]

More stuff to add to the wanted poster?

 

[Kaitzilla]

Obama talked about the movie being pulled today.
https://deadline.com/2014/12/obama-sony-hack-attack-north-korea-1201330493/

“We cannot have a society in which some dictator someplace can start imposing censorship here in the United States” he said in an extremely strong answer to a question about the hack of the studio. “Because if somebody is able to intimidate folks out of releasing a satirical movie, imagine what they start doing when they see a documentary that they don’t like, or a news report that they don’t like — or even worse, imagine if producers and distributors and others start engaging in self-censorship because they don’t want to offend the sensibilities of somebody whose sensibilities probably need to be offended. That’s not who we are. That’s not what America is about.

“Sony is a corporation. It suffered significant damage, threats against some employees. I am sympathetic to the concerns they faced. Having said that, yes I think they made a mistake,” Obama said this morning when asked just that.


“That’s not what America is about…I wish they’d spoken to me first. I would have told them, ‘Do not get into a pattern in which you’re intimidated by these kinds of criminal attacks’.”

Obama promised the government will respond to the attack. “They caused a lot of damage and we will respond. We will respond proportionally, and we’ll respond in a place and time and manner that we choose. It’s not something that I will announce here today at a press conference,” he said.

But, he advised Hollywood, “We can’t start changing our patterns behavior any more than stop going to football game because might be possibility of terrorist attack…Let’s not get into that way of doing business.

” It says something interesting about North Korea that they decided to have the state launch an all-out assault on a movie studio because of a satirical movie starring Seth Rogen and James Franco. I love Seth and I love James, but the notion that that was a threat to them, I think, gives you some sense of the kind of regime we’re talking about here.”

In other news, that cinema in Colorado is set to lose millions in lawyer costs.
The case against them was not summarily dismissed, so letting that nutjob shoot up their theatre 2 years ago will probably go to trial.
http://deadline.com/2014/08/cinemark-aurora-theater-shooting-lawsuit-jury-dark-knight-rises-820639/

Since the suits first started being filed in late September 2012, Cinemark has argued over and over that it could not have known “a madman’s mass murder”could occur on their property. (James Holmes is scheduled to be tried in December for the shootings, which killed 12 and wounded 70 more. He has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.)

This week, Jackson said that was just not enough in the America of 2012. “Although theaters had theretofore been spared a mass shooting incident, the patrons of a movie theater are, perhaps even more than students in a school or shoppers in a mall, ‘sitting ducks,’” he wrote. “One might reasonably believe that a mass shooting incident in a theater was likely enough (that is, not just a possibility) to be a foreseeable next step in the history of such acts by deranged individuals.”

The judge also wrote that while Cinemark apparently left to local managers whether to bring extra security into their cinemas for the DKR screenings, the chain could not have known there were concerns. The Aurora manager did not deploy extra security but 80 other Cinemark theaters hired off-duty cops or other extra security for the film’s opening night.

All of the original lawsuits blame the lack of proper security at the Aurora Century 16 multiplex as a cause for the shooting. The bloody rampage left 12 people dead and 70 wounded. In a separate case, Long before then, Cinemark will also certainly appeal this latest development in the victims’ case.

Good luck trying to ever watch the Interview.
https://variety.com/2014/film/news/sony-has-no-further-release-plans-for-the-interview-1201382167/

Sony Pictures Entertainment has chosen to stand down for “The Interview,” deciding against releasing the Seth Rogen-James Franco comedy in any form — including VOD or DVD, as U.S. officials reportedly link Sony’s massive cyber attack to North Korea.

“Sony Pictures has no further release plans for the film,” a spokesman said Wednesday.

 

[Gori the Grey]

@Borachio. Spoilered because off-topic

Spoiler :

Anapestic, three feet in verse two,
One and five; three and four must make do
With one fewer per line,
And an iamb is fine
In the first verse of any foot, too.

Go re-read your dear Lear and you’ll see
He observes this exact prosody--
Nine as often as eight;
Five and six are both great.
You just need three, three, two, two and three.

In short, it’s not syllable count
That determines what will and what woun’t
Properly scan,
It’s the beats, my good man.
They’re of limerickness the proper fount.

The reason verse four makes you stumble
Is . . . it’s bad (I’m not just being humble).
The difference in stress
Between “one” and “thing”’s less
Than the beat needs; you’re dead right to grumble.

 

[Borachio]

You're gifted, Mr Grey! Truly.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Again, spoilered for off-topicality:

Spoiler :

You don't have to be scared off by the Greek terminology. Anapest just means the da-da-DUM rhythm that you hear through most of a limerick. Catalexis just means you're allowed to omit one of those lightly stressed syllables at the start of the line, make it an iamb (da-DUM) instead of an anapest. You have an ear for it; that's why you heard the poorly devised "but one thing" and why you can compose them well yourself. These terms just give you names for what you're hearing.

 

[ReindeerThistle]

Notice how fast the US prez was on the Sony hack? Well, 300 million Target, Home Depot and Staples customers -- you know, people who WORK for a living -- who got their account info hacked? Not so lucky.

Sony can crawl back under the rock it came out from and take Seth Rogen with them.

 

[bhsup]

Welp, it looks like it was all just a media ploy after all. The Interview will indeed be opening on Christmas Day. Well done, democratic party White House, in helping out your Hollywood donors when they needed to salvage a film probably destined to lose them money.

The Interview: US cinemas to screen Sony film on Christmas Day

The North Korea comedy film that had its Christmas Day launch cancelled after a major cyber attack and threats against US cinema-goers is now to get a limited theatrical release, Sony says.

The Interview will be shown in some independent US cinemas on Thursday.

 

[warpus]

North Korea should send assassins disguised as journalists to interview Seth Rogen and the other guy.

 

[Commodore]

Welp, it looks like it was all just a media ploy after all. The Interview will indeed be opening on Christmas Day. Well done, democratic party White House, in helping out your Hollywood donors when they needed to salvage a film probably destined to lose them money.

The Interview: US cinemas to screen Sony film on Christmas Day

Or Sony realized that caving to the demands of a North Korean dictator that looks like a Weeble-Wobble was actually going to hurt their public image (and thus their revenue) more than any potential cyber-attack or terror plot could. I have seen several petitions floating around calling for a complete boycott of Sony and all of its affiliates and I personally know quite a few people that traded in their PS4s for Xbox Ones specifically because of this event.

Also the fact that North Korea's entire internet service was taken down by the US mysteriously crashed may have given Sony the reassurances they needed that the threat from North Korea can be effectively contained.

 

[bhsup]

Question. How is this worse (sony caving, not the attack itself) than when MgM / UA buckled to ChiCom interests and altered the storyline of Red Dawn (the crappy remake) by making the big baddies North Korean rather than ChiComs?

 

[JollyRoger]

Now that people will feel that they have to go see this Zeus awful movie to do their patriotic duty, the terrorists may have actually won.