Observations of the past year.
A few things stick out as we close out 2014, and I need to write about them. This is one of them, and it seem to be a big one:
Any organization, private or government, that cannot or will not take criticism, is doomed to fail.
Take North Korea. It doesn't like Sony's The Interview movie. I won't go into details, but I wouldn't be suprised if North Korea hired a group to strip Sony bare... which pissed off numerous other groups as well. It doesn't take much to piss off a band of bored hacking mercenaries, which is why North Korea's Internet connection is very intermittent.
The thing is, while the movie is a flop here, it's going gangbusters over in China... and North Korea. So much so that North Korea's government is going ape-BALSA-WOOD trying to block it from coming in. North Korea's government is effectively making the movie, which is classed as a comedy, look more like a dramatized documentary. That's not how you handle a movie like that.
I'm not sure how North Korea is going to survive in my time now. The Korean War (currently at a stalemate) may be decided by the Internet for South Korea, without any country lifting a finger.
Any organization, private or government, that cannot or will not take criticism, is doomed to fail.
Take North Korea. It doesn't like Sony's The Interview movie. I won't go into details, but I wouldn't be suprised if North Korea hired a group to strip Sony bare... which pissed off numerous other groups as well. It doesn't take much to piss off a band of bored hacking mercenaries, which is why North Korea's Internet connection is very intermittent.
The thing is, while the movie is a flop here, it's going gangbusters over in China... and North Korea. So much so that North Korea's government is going ape-BALSA-WOOD trying to block it from coming in. North Korea's government is effectively making the movie, which is classed as a comedy, look more like a dramatized documentary. That's not how you handle a movie like that.
I'm not sure how North Korea is going to survive in my time now. The Korean War (currently at a stalemate) may be decided by the Internet for South Korea, without any country lifting a finger.