New Information About the SONY Hack

If you haven't seen the news anywhere, essentially, SONY was hacked by a group that's definitely not North Korea. Or actually, may not be North Korea.



And these hackers got a lot of information but the main thing I've seen in the news recently are just these big emails. Emails where these big movie execs were talking crap on directors who were talking crap on actors.

And there's still stuff constantly being posted. Even the group that did the hack said they were working on releasing a really big Christmas present.

So, all of this is happening but what are people saying?

Aaron Sorkin, who of course just ended his series: The Newsroom, wrote an op–ed in the New York Times where he said that he gets the hacker group — they did this for reason — but the media that is still posting this information, they're doing it for a nickel.



Essentially saying that these hackers, they have a cause, they have a purpose, while the media is just a whored out version of its former self.



SONY Pictures Entertainment told certain news organizations to stop publishing information containing documents stolen by hackers who have hacked the movie studio's computer network.



Also, according to The New York Times, The Hollywood Reporter,



and Variety...



...they have each received a letter from David Boies an attorney for SONY, demanding that the outlets stop reporting information contained in the documents and immediately destroy them. Saying the studio "does not consent to your possession, review, copying, dissemination, publication, uploading, downloading, or making any use" of the information.





And then we had director (of SONY) Judd Apatow who tweeted:



Really, that tweet rubbed me the wrong way. Lol, I get what Judd Apatow is saying. I like Judd Apatow. What you're saying is essentially you have this widget, this thing that's the property of one or two people, and someone broke in, against the will of the owner of the widget, took the widget, and put it out there, against the will of the original owner of those things, and that person took that private thing and made it public, without, at the very least, the consent of the widget's owner. In that way, it is very much the same thing. But, I also ask the question, is it really???

I'm not saying that you're so off base like it's the difference between actual rape and when a 12-year-old boy screams that he's raping me when I'm playing FIFA 15. But I am saying that it is kind of along the same thing as someone scoring a bicycle-kick goal in the Premier League and me saying that's just like when I scored a bicycle-kick goal in middle school, during PE, playing sand soccer.

There is a difference between reporting a bunch of rich people talking crap on each other, and me actually having seen a picture of Judd Apatow's butthole. They're both private but there's a difference between looking like an asshole and seeing someone's asshole. But, you're still kind of right, and I give it to you that it's hard to get a full point in 140 characters or less.

And with all that typed, what are your thoughts on this? I'd love to know your thoughts.

Sex With Cars

Edward Smith, from Yelm, Washington, claims to have had sex with over 700 cars! And he was on TV because apparently that's what we put on TV these days, lol.

Now it should be noted that even though Edward has sex with cars, it doesn't mean he does not believe in love. He says that while some guys look at boobs and bums on beautiful women, he looks at the front and rear end on beautiful cars.

He's committed himself to a long-term lover, Vanilla — a sexy little secondhand Volkswagen beetle that he's had for 30 years.



They have an open-relationship, sometimes bringing in Cinnamon and Splash.

Cinnamon, a 1973 Opel GT.



Splash, a 1193 Ford Ranger.



Lol, just mentioning all this so you know that this is something that exists in the world right now.

Amazon and Sears Selling Silver Swastika Rings

We have Sears and Amazon apologizing to their customers because they recently found out they were selling silver swastika rings.



The description read:



Lol, you'll simply kill 'em with style. What a guess!

Both companies have since removed the products and have been apologizing to people individually.

And if you were wondering, no, it's not the first time they had to pull something for Nazi implications. The last time they had to pull a "home decoration" of a poster that featured a Nazi concentration camp, with a sign that translates to 'Work Makes You Free'.



Smh.

The World's Wealthiest 1%

According to the new Credit Suisse global wealth report that was just published, the top 1% in the world now have 48% of the wealth.



What's crazy is you have to think of how big the world is. In fact, just to be in the top 50% of the world, a person just needs $3,650 — including the value of equity in their home; i.e., anything they potentially own in their home.

Then $77,000 is required to be in the top 10%. And if a person has over $798,000,they are in the 1%. Which makes you think — once again — how big the world is, and how poor certain places are. In fact, the bottom 50% only control 1% of the wealth.

What's even crazier, is all science are pointing to, that in the next few years, the gap is just going to increase. Obviously.

Potassium Chloride Cunt

Daniela Poggiali is a 42 year old nurse who's been working in a northeastern Italian hospital and she has now been arrested because she may have killed 38 patients by injecting them with potassium chloride because they or their family members were "annoying".

Yes, for real!

And unfortunately, the prosecution is saying that it might be hard to prove that she killed all those people because potassium leaves no trace after a few days.



As far as Daniela as a person, her coworkers described her as a "cold, polished person" who sometimes sedated patients who "bothered" her during her shift. They also suspect she gave patients laxatives to embarrass the colleagues who worked after her.

And the cherry on top of this shit pie, the nurse taking a selfie of her giving a thumbs-up next to a patient who had just died.

The iWatch

Even though the earliest Apple's going to reveal anything about this will be September 9th, The Wall Street Journal reported on what the iWatch will actually have.

A big claim here is that the iWatch will feature NFC. At the very least, this will allow tap-to-pay functionality in stores so you won't have to wave around your credit card anymore. As well as potentially use it for like let's say, transit tickets, maybe it's your hotel room key, turn on the lights, I mean, there's a lot of opportunities here.

Also, because people like myself have chunky wrists, the iWatch will reportedly come in 2 sizes.



It'll also utilize a curved OLED screen so it naturally curves around the wrist.





Additionally, it'll include sensors to track and monitor health and fitness.



And it'd be interesting to see on the 9th how much of this is correct.

The rumors, in large part to Apple releases ever since Steve Jobs died, have been pretty on point.

The Ebola Eradication is Priced at $600 Million

Yesterday, the United Nations said six hundred million dollars and supplies will be needed to fight West Africa's Ebola outbreak.



It appears the pace of the outbreak has increased with now nineteen hundred (1,900) people dead—and just four hundred (400) of those were from last week.

And it seems a lot of the messaging over the past week is trying to get people to understand that this is not an African problem but a human problem.

And it appears countries have started to pitch in. Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg saying they'd be donating 800 to 1,000 doses of their test vaccine.



U.S. Department of Health and Human Services saying they have a contract worth up to $42.3 million that'd help accelerate testing of an experimental Ebola virus treatment.



We'll see if more countries pitch in, with this most recent outbreak affecting over 20,000 people in 10 countries.

And if help also is given, there is worry that it won't be fast enough.

Dr. Thomas Kenyon, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said that the outbreak was spiraling out of control, and warned that the window of opportunity for controlling it was closing.



It's a rather scary situation.