> Less interested in people and character studies. More interested in the mechanics of how things that we take for granted actually got built and what the world they were made in was like.
Pish posh. They also sell that data at an increidble markup – and without the knowledge of their customers – to anyone who'll pay, including governments and their cutouts.
There's this guy in my town who is still clinging, somehow, to his life in the as a long-haired metalhead hifi bro and I cannot wait to see the look on his face when I go down there and drop a couple paychecks in his lap and say "enlighten me" ;-)
You didn't miss out because Sonos continues to do an awful job software-wise. One of the things I'm most looking forward to as I de-IOT-ize my life is selling that system and running speaker wire like a true G.
They deleted the scene in Cast Away where he uses a log to test the strength of a branch before hanging himself. Fox et al have completely obliterated any existence of that clip.
These two things are inseparable.