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     thought it would be better to ask.
     -   A: For everybody listening to this conference, the
         **international** edition is the right choice.
-    -   It features more aggressive stance against intellectual property
+    -   It features more aggressive stances against intellectual property
         (being linked specifically to the American culture)
     -   There are pieces in the book where the typical American audience
         might be offended
     -   ...But if your skin is thick enough to deal with reasonable
-        criticism, the international edition for you.
+        criticism, the international edition is for you.
 -   Q:Thank you for this talk! How does your perspective interface with
     works such as Yanis Varoufakis' Technofeudalism?
     -   A: Not familiar with the book.
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ Previous Talks: <https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/bidi> and
     -   A: The idea is that teaching and learning should be
         unrestricted, such as the Muslim/Iranian saying: "Passing along
         the learning is the tax on having learnt".
-    -   "Being used as part of education"
+        [ The "tax" on knowledge is sharing it with others. زكات علم، آموختن آن به ديگران است. ] 
 -   Q:As a specific example of how "ownership is not clean", look at the
     Star Trek Picard series: they continuously asked Patrick Stewart to
     come do another Star Trek series but he wouldn't because Star Trek
@@ -254,22 +254,21 @@ Previous Talks: <https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/bidi> and
 -   Probably my favourite talk of the event
 -   Wonderful talk!
 -   This presentation gets better and better.
--   I don't know if this is a problem with
-    Capitalism which can be many things to different people to the point
-    the term might not mean much. I have a problem with people competing
-    through corrosion rather than compition. For example google is
-    restricting access to google drive api making everybodys app but
-    googles worse. Capitilism "not fake Capitilism" predospes a free
-    market which would limit this
 -   going to go checkout the book later as half way
     thorugh the talk i got term overload
 -   Great talk, great software.
--   Thank you for the presentation Mosen.
+-   Thank you for the presentation Mohsen.
 -   while this heavy topic is certainly a major critique of
     capitalism as such, i certainly would not mix in here any sort of
     religion-related things. hence leveraging "Halaal" for this is
     quite disturbing.
 - I skipped the whole thing because I suspected it would just annoy me for no other reason than that one term. (Maybe this was excessively prejudicial of me, but seriously, not my religion, I suspect I'd be unwelcome.) (maybe this is an English-specific thing, Do Not Mention Religion, because last time we mentioned it we had centuries of religious wars.)
+- Mohsen's response to the above two bullets. 
+  Halaal is a very sensitive and potent word.
+  There is an entire chapter titled: "Introducing Halaal and Haraam into Globish" in the book.
+  In those 10 pages, I clarify that my use of Halaal is philosphical not religious.
+  Unfortunately the equivalent word for halaal does not exist in English.
+  Americanists, should first try to understand what halaal really means.
 - Hard topic, it feels like we are in an era of closing open-source software, eg redhat
 
 - YouTube comment: Phenomenal thinking. I will be reading the Nature of Polyexistentials