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+Thank you for the talk. I mean, it was a fairly long one and we
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+had two very distinct parts, one which dealt with a
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+philosophy of Libre-Halaal software and then the application,
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+obviously, of Bisos. So thank you so much for the
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+presentation. Before we get started with the question, and
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+for the record, we have about 14 minutes of question time, is
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+there anything that you'd like to add on top of your
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+presentation, something that perhaps would not have fit in
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+the actual presentation format? Sure, but prior to that,
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+félicitations à tous les Français pour le rouvrir de
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+Notre-Dame. Thank you. I'll say thank you because I'm a
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+Francophone and I'm also French, but OK.
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+Yeah, so a few things have come up in various other talks,
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+that kind of EmacsConf 2024 talks, that kind of dovetail
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+with what I was saying. One idea was Peter Prevos's
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+observation of working with Emacs versus working on Emacs.
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+And I'm all for that. So the idea of BLEE is that
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+Others can package things, and we are seeing this in the form
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+of redistributions. There is Doom, there is Space Max, and
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+we are seeing the evolution of Emacs into layers. So there is
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+the core Emacs, and there are layers on top of it. And Peter
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+also mentioned about too much choice, this notion of
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+Not always too much choice is the right thing to have. And
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+packaging Emacs with a layer on top of Debian gives you a
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+platform and an environment where the choices are a lot
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+less. And that is not necessarily a bad thing.
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+So that was one idea. The other idea or the other theme
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+throughout the various talks that we saw was this concept of
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+mixing org mode with programming languages and What Babel
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+has done is two things. One is it has successfully
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+integrated org mode with all kinds of languages. And that
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+has happened in the context of literate programming. Um, so
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+a talk coming after mine is literate programming for the
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+21st century, mixing org mode with program languages. And
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+what I am saying is that there is an alternative and that's
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+great, but we should also, uh, consider a traditional
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+programming mixed with org mode and, um, Polymode is key to
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+that. So those were some of the key concepts that I saw a
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+resonance with as the conference went forward. Yeah, and I
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+think, if my memory serves me right, we have another talk
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+about hyperbole this year, right after this Q&A session.
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+And hyperbole, it's not Org Mode, but I'm not sure if you're
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+familiar with it, Mohsen, you might have seen it from
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+various talks last year, but it also tends to have a similar
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+stance than you, with the fact that text should be embedded
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+in programming languages rather than having Org Mode
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+implement, I mean, integrate other languages. And I found
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+it funny that we have your talk and this talk which are about
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+the other direction, which I find very resonating as well.
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+Right, right, right. So in terms of other things that did not
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+fit into my talk is that the several concepts that I
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+introduced, namely
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+dynamic blocks everywhere and COMEEGA.
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+I'd be happy to expand on those by sharing your screen in due
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+course, whatever is appropriate. Sure, considering the
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+time that we have, we only have about 8 minutes 30 and we
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+already have about four, five questions actually. I
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+suggest we perhaps leave the screen sharing until later if
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+people are interested. I mean this Q&A can last as long as you
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+want. That makes perfect sense. OK, cool. So how about we
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+focus on the question now and starting with the first one.
+
+NOTE Q: I'm from Brazil, which edition would you recommend?
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+You mentioned that there are two editions, one named at
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+Westerners and one for worldwide readers. I'm from Brazil.
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+Which edition would you recommend? It's a Western country,
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+but you didn't make the distinction exclusive for the
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+second edition. So I thought it would be better to ask.
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+Right. So definitely, I would say for everybody who is on
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+this conference, the international edition is the right
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+choice. In this book, I take some aggressive stance against
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+intellectual property and I link that specifically to the
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+American culture. So there are pieces in the book where the
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+typical American audience may be offended. And if your skin
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+is thick enough to deal with what I consider reasonable
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+criticism, then the International Edition is definitely
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+the better choice. Right. So yeah, I believe you also
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+mentioned it. Pretty much exactly the same thing in your
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+talk. So if you need to review, just watch the talk. And I
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+think Mohsen also provides extra information about this.
+
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+Moving on to the second question. Thank you for this talk.
+
+NOTE Q: Thank you for this talk! How does your perspective interface with works such as Yanis Varoufakis' Technofeudalism?
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+How does your perspective interface with work such as Yanis
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+Varoufakis' Technofeudalism?
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+I haven't read much of that. I think there is a whole lot of
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+global growth and collective understanding towards this
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+notion that the direction we are headed in And by that, I mean
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+American digital ecosystems
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+are dangerous and that we should revisit
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+the entirety of the model and strategy.
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+If the person who asked the question has any additional
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+information, I'll be happy to hear it. Sure. We'll see if the
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+person actually comes back to this. All right. In the
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+meantime, moving on to the next question.
+
+NOTE Q: To what extent do you agree that the introduction of proprietary systems in education creates an environment for exploitation while at the same time diluting the learning value of the curriculum?
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+To what extent do
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+you agree that the introduction of proprietary systems in
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+education creates an environment for exploitation whilst
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+at the same time diluting the learning value of the
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+curriculum? My computing education at school amounted to
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+learning how to use the Microsoft Office suite, i.e. the
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+opposite of lasting open knowledge. Yeah, that's right on
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+the mark. That's right on the mark. So the idea is that
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+teaching and learning should be unrestricted. In the
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+Muslim tradition and in Iranian tradition, we say that
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+passing along the learning is the tax on having learned. So
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+absolutely. I think it makes very little sense for the
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+proprietary Microsoft software to be used as part of
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+education. So the question is right on the mark. Okay,
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+great. Let me just take a note of this. All right, moving on to
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+the next question.
+
+NOTE Q: As a specific example of how "ownership is not clean" ...
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+As a specific example of how ownership is
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+not something clean, look at the Star Trek Picard series.
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+They continuously asked Patrick Stewart to come to do
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+another Star Trek series, but he couldn't because Star Trek
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+changed from what it used to be, at least until they came up
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+with a series that honored what Star Trek used to be. Does
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+this intersect? Let me read this for a moment.
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+Yeah, I am not sure I fully get the point, but. Let me make a
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+point about my criticisms of the false movement
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+in the presentation and in the book. The idea is that we have
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+jumped on the false movement and recognize it as an
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+alternative But we haven't looked deeply enough to see if
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+our own philosophy and movement have problems. The
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+problems that I note is that The first movement does not
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+recognize clearly and explicitly that the entirety of the
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+intellectual property rights regime is flawed. The second
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+piece is that it's only now that we are seeing the FOSS
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+movement is broader than the Western world. The third
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+problem is that the labels of free software and open source
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+are not necessarily correct. The fourth problem is that we
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+are not paying enough attention to establishing a
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+relationship with society.
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+So there's a whole chapter in the book dedicated to this
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+topic. What I'm not sure about is if I got the point of the
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+question correctly. So again, if the person who asked the
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+question could clarify, I'll be happy to further expand.
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+Okay, considering the time, we only have about one minute to
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+ten seconds until we go. So what we're going to do, as we
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+usually do, Mohsen, is that we're going to move the stream
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+onto the next talk. And if you want to take a little bit of time
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+in this room to answer the question, I'm putting a link to the
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+pad in the BBB chat so you can open it on your end. But as we are
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+still live for 15 more seconds, do you have any last words?
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+Keep up the good work. Those would be my last words, that the
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+free software and the open source and Emacs are a very valid
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+strategy for inside of IPR resistance. And thank you, Leo
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+and Sacha and the rest of the folks for this wonderful yearly
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+event. Well, thank you so much. And it's always a pleasure to
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+have you. And thank you for your thankings. So we'll be
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+moving to the next talk in 10 seconds. Mohsen, thank you so
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+much. And I'll see you later. Thank you. Bye-bye. Bye.
+
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+All right. We are off air. So thank you so much, Mohsen. I'll
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+need to get moving to get ready for the next talk. So again,
+
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+feel free to take the time you need to answer the questions.
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+I'm going to stop sharing my screen because I need to leave.
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+But take all the time you need. And when you're finished, you
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+can just leave the room. OK. All right, bye-bye. Thank you.
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+Great. I see one more person in the room.
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+Hi, John.
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+I was looking at the questions.
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+To see if there is more that I can add. So.
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+through the regard of societal impacts on ethical,
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+philosophical and wider force community. I'm involved in
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+politics in my country, my party is very sympathetic to
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+force ideas and I have public...
+
+NOTE Q: Do you have any recommended reading materials designed for such an audience?
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+Do you have any recommendation
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+to reading materials designed for such an audience? Um,
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+yeah, this is with regard to the last question
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+that's on the etherpad at this moment. The idea is
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+that my own book would be an excellent resource. I'd
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+say the bibliography in the book contains various
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+other pointers that could be quite useful.
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+I'm reading again.
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+Yeah.
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+Very good. If there are no other questions,
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+I think I'm going to consider this a day and move on.
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+Thank you.