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   On 2017-08-20 03:28:42 +0000, Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy said:   
   > Your Name  wrote in   
   > news:onaqlq$1kt$1@gioia.aioe.org:   
   >> On 2017-08-19 22:36:32 +0000, Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy   
   >> said:   
   >>> Your Name  wrote in   
   >>> news:onadcr$1g8e$1@gioia.aioe.org:   
   >>>> On 2017-08-19 21:48:43 +0000, Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy   
   >>>> said:   
   >>>>> Your Name  wrote in news:on8ap3$do2$1   
   >>>>> @gioia.aioe.org:   
   >>>>>> On 2017-08-18 23:06:02 +0000, Gutless Umbrella Carrying   
   >>>>>> Sissy said:   
   >>>>>>> Your Name  wrote in   
   >>>>>>> news:on7r1a$1snq$2@gioia.aioe.org:   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> After the (rumoured) stupidity of pointlessly shovelling   
   >>>>>>>> the Death Star in the Han Solo movie, I don't hold much   
   >>>>>>>> hope for any of these new Diseny-made Star Wars movies.   
   >>>>>>>> :-(   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> It really took you that long to realize it's all going to   
   >>>>>>> be crap?   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> The first clue was "Disney now owns Star Wars." The   
   >>>>>>> absolute proof was their announcement that they're going to   
   >>>>>>> be releasing 87 new titles per month for the next five   
   >>>>>>> thousand years, with everything single one coming with a   
   >>>>>>> complete line of toys and other (non-) collectible.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Seriously, dude, what the hell did you expect?   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Yep. It was a given as soon as the buy-out was rumoured.   
   >>>>>> :-(   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> George Lucas should have kept it all and perhaps given over   
   >>>>>> the day-to-day running to Rick McCallum.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Only if he cared more about the franchise than he did about   
   >>>>> $4 *billion* dollars. Which he clearly didn't. Nor would you   
   >>>>> or I.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> He would easily have made far more money simply by keeping   
   >>>> control of the franchise ... in fact franchise*s*, since the   
   >>>> sale included Indiana Jones, LucasArts, ILM, etc.   
   >>>   
   >>> So now you're as world famous an economist at Shawn Wilson? Is   
   >>> that it? Maybe he could have, but not all at once.   
   >>   
   >> Like he really needed the money "all at once".   
   >   
   > Apparently, he wanted it that way. Why would your opinion matter   
   > more than his own? Seriously, dude, why would *anyone* care how you   
   > think he should run his life? What kind of drugs are you on that   
   > you think our opinion matters at all?   
      
   Since he later regretted it (and likened it to selling your kids to   
   slave traders), it's actually his own opinion as well.  :-p   
      
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