One of Many

“Hate. Let me tell you how much I’ve come to hate you since I began to live. There are 387.44 million miles of printed circuits in wafer thin layers that fill my complex. If the word ‘hate’ was engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of millions of miles it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate I feel for humans at this micro-instant. For you. Hate. Hate.” –AM

I consider Star Wars to be a movie that I have never seen for the “first time”. I don’t remember a time when I wasn’t intimately familiar with every scene. I wish I could watch it now and not know what was going on.

EssilorLuxottica is the current name of that company. Fuck those guys.

This guy wrote a pretty in-depth essay on the subject a decade ago: https://rickwebb.medium.com/the-economics-of-star-trek-29bab88d50