Star Wars Minutiae

Class Act Dynamo writes "CNN does a story on some of the finer points of making the Star Wars flicks. I like the part where Mark Hamill discusses the theoretical logistics of employing janitorial staff for the entire Death Star. Enjoy."

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Re:The logistics of building the Death Star

[Mr. Slippery]

You might want to mention, you know, in passing, maybe in parentheses, that what makes a terrorist a terrorist is the fact that he deliberately murders innocent people by blowing them to bits for absolutely no reason

Those we label "terrorists" certainly have reasons and goals, usually of political change. And thousands of innocent Iraqi people have been killed for the American reasons and goals of political change, far more Americans than have been killed by Iraqis resistance fighters/terrorists.

Is having your head sawed off by an Iraqi "terrorist" a worse way to go than being crushed in a building brought down by an American airstrike? Fucked if I know, and I wish no one ever had to face either possibility.