You know, you sound exactly the way I thought a resource would sound once it realized it was simple property.
But hey, its not all bad.
You now bear a personal price tag. That's something you never had before hey!
The price tag is the total value of your work life at the specialization in which you excel, minus your anti-establishment sentiments and estimated danger-cost to the state.
Beware that your minus does not exceed your plus, lest the powers-that-be redirect your vehicle via GPS, into a bridge abutment at 80 MPH. :)
One by Land and Two by Sea and Three by Air - gotcha
What always amazes me about all of this surveillance industry double talk, is the blatantly obvious fact that none of this activity is designed to catch bad guys, or terrorists.
Common sense and history point out that whenever law enforcement bags the bad guys it brags so loud its embarrassing to behold, but there is never a peep about who has been convicted of crimes due to these myriad intrusive public spying programs.
I note that the only mention of the program's (if it actually exists) efficacy in catching bad guys, is that it "has been an effective way of catching fugitives, including drug suspects and suspected killers…" - "suspects and suspected" being the key words here. No convictions to mention at all.
Maybe they don't want to talk about it because its a C.E.L. Game ("catch'em, extort'em and let'em go") kinda thing, like the program used in Vancouver, Canada, against Marijuana Grow Operations, to generate a continuous stream of extra non-budget funds for the cops, by making sure the growers are put back on the streets and allowed to immediately set up new grow ops.
Considering the new motto of the Most Transparent Administration In American History -
"everyone (in the 99%) is considered to be guilty of some kind of a crime pending sufficient evidence to prove it so, or sufficient cash bribes to prove it false"
- that statement could easily be translated to mean that they have simply located and identified where most Americans live, using this program.
The only real question that needs answering is what exactly ARE they doing all this surveillance for if is it not for catching crooks and terrorists, and personally, I think the answer is obvious.
The US public is now an expendable, self-replicating resource/feed-stock and good business sense demands that one know where one's resources are and what they are doing at all times.
"Pretty soon, I'll need a license to walk down the street because they don't know who I am."
Nah. That's what all the facial recognition hardware mounted on every third telephone pole and every second building is for.
They can tell who you are, where you came from and where you went, every day, anywhere, on any street, in any town.... soon.
Of course, there will soon be a booming semi-secret underground "masquerade" business in North America as well, which will offer a new "face" for casual travel, business meetings, drug buys, etc.. :)
But you have it right. This will in no way stop or even hinder any kind of criminal activity on the web, and will have zero impact on "mankind's" favourite entertainment - child porn - as this is primarily a crime that caters to the wealthy and thus, is untouchable by law.
You might have noticed that every "Child Porn Ring" that ever gets reported, quickly begins to show the names of VIPs, judges, politicians, CEOs, ministers, and the like, and then, just as quickly, all investigation ends. The only child porn busts that get any real effort are those that deal with single individuals who are very seldom actually selling the stuff, but collecting it instead.
I figure this "license" crap is just another way to let businesses and government know exactly who to send the bill to for all the "mistakes" people will soon be making on the soon to be "gardened" internet.
Another authorized, unauthorized "leak" from another undisclosed person "who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to talk on the record."
Bend over America, here comes another vaseline enema.
"... for virtually all illnesses there are multiple, beneficial therapies...including medications (i.e., alternate medications having "therapeutic efficacy"
So you're now saying that "virtually" EVERY ailment has a bevy of readily available alternate remedies, and in your world, all remedies are equally effective against every ailment.
"I really don't want people that failed an IQ test as a condition of employment, having access to military vehicles, weapons, or other equipment."
Sadly, its no longer a matter of what you or any of the public might want. Its now entirely a matter of what the Ownership Society, also called the 1%, want, and they want protection from all the sheep they're shearing to the bone - you and the rest of the public.
You want to have a say in how things are done?
Get filthy stinking rich.
It does not matter how you do this, only that you succeed. Once you're at the top of the ladder, you'll no longer be at the mercy of the law and nobody will ever question how you made your money.
In fact, you can write a novel about how you made your millions from selling dolls made of cardboard and rags on the street corner wearing only a torn cotton jacket, no shoes, and greasy cut-off jean shorts all year round, year after year, and it will be accepted as gospel because your rich.
Of course, once you're accepted as a member of the Ownership Society, you'll want the same thing as the rest of the 1% do, since you'll be busy robbing the public in order to turn each of your dollars into three dollars, over and over again, forever, just like the rest of the 1%.
But at least then you'll be happy and thankful that the cops are as stupid as rocks, evil as Satan's Anus and loyal only to money and those who have it.
"...while they go about doing whatever it is they want."
I would think that this is exactly what most people should be concerned about - just what is it that they actually want?
It is certainly not what Americans in general want, or they would not need any of this paid-for-by-tax-payer subterfuge, deception, and word re-meaning.
Methinks it would advance the US public good to start determining just what it is that the USG actually wants and what it is they are working towards getting - at your expense.
"If your motto is "Don't be evil", I wouldn't want to go there, even if it's dickheads who're causing it and not G."
Perhaps, but then again, I've never been one to put a lot of faith in a Corporation's Public Relations Slogans, advertisements or Mottos.
A corporation has but one purpose, regardless of its product or service, or its motto. That purpose is simply to take in more money this year than last year, and absolutely every single action a corporation takes, is designed to insure that this goal is reached.
That little graph chart that depicts a company's profits year by year is the true pulse of any corporation and must always rise to new heights each year.
Eternal Sustainable Growth is not really possible, but is nonetheless, the singular goal of all corporations.
"Don't be Evil", instills no more faith than does "A Family Company", or any other corporate motto, as it is designed to make the company look good, nothing more.
All that aside....
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"Think, "Your cloud storage provider just went tits up." It would cause *a lot* of disruption considering G.'s popularity."
I would think that the first country to "opt out" of Google, would provide the best possible advertisement conceivable, and insure Google's acceptance by every other country/government on earth, specifically because of the losses incurred almost immediately by the businesses in that first country, caused solely by its government.
And since with a little penalty pay added to the cost, country A could quickly Opt back in as soon as its government realized the damage it had done, very little real "evil" would be done.
"Why will "the press" not be reporting anything important?"
Because they won't have time to report anything important between all the PR BS the new Repubbie Feds need publically disseminated. Fascists believe that the public should only be informed enough to keep them happily consuming. But you already knew that anyways didn't you.
"hint: the press is not just MSM"
What is MSM?
"Yeah, the public is asleep - not."
Sorry. Did not mean to wake you. Just roll over and go back to pretending everything is just fine. Sleep well now.
A tiny truth might have lent this BS some credence.
But Rabinovich didn't bother to include even the tiniest of truths. He, or his trainer really thinks the public is utterly stupid.
"1. Better-equipped and trained police are a better asset to protect and serve their communities."
Better "militarily" equipped and "militarily" trained police are better able to arrest and kill members of their communities.
The military does not make "Weapons of Mass Serving, or Mass Protecting". All military gear is designed to protect the users of that gear and to kill everyone else.
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"2. In some quarters, violent anti-government groups and individuals are targeting cops as scapegoats."
100% purest bullshit. RoboCop Dreams.
Public support of police has definitely dropped drastically and the public is less respectful of the "pigs" now, true, but that is due entirely to the actions of the police - which has worsened yearly for decades and has reached this new peak of military preparedness against a nearly unarmed public.
Had any acts of "targeting cops as scapegoats" actually taken place anywhere in the USA, the press would be all over it and the government would be screaming about it from the rooftops. This sort of activity would solidify the "need" for bigger budgets for cops and anti-terrorist groups.
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"3. There has been a steady increase in deadly and violent assaults on cops — as well as acts of domestic and international terrorism — many of which are reported in limited scope or not publicly known."
I wondered why almost all the TV Cop shows seemed to have the same plot recently - you know the plot where villains get out of jail and immediately attack the arresting cop in an attempt to get revenge.
Real criminals are far too interested in making money, and revenge is an expensive and non-profit activity.
This is actually part 2 of the "targeting cops as scapegoats" bullshit, and Rabinovich let the cat out of the bag by adding that attacks on cops and terrorist attacks "are reported in limited scope or not publicly known."
As above, this sort of activity is exactly what is needed by the Feds to get public support of bigger budgets for the cops and anti-terrorist activities and would be spread far and wide and continuously by the press.
Mister Rabinovich is a liar of the first water, because he is in a position to actually know that this is all bullshit.
" It could have and should have come much earlier, but better late than never."
One should never count one's chickens before they are actually hatched.
I don't believe this is anything more than top notch PR.
The FCC will pull its usual "Rabbit-Out-Of-Its-Ass-Hat and the Big Players will get what they wanted, and very likely, what they have already paid mega-bux for.
I've not seen anything remotely resembling truth fall out of Obama's mouth since he "took" office, and I'm sure as hell not considering the notion that he's suddenly gonna start telling the truth now.
Hell, the man has almost single-handedly paved the path for an apparently popular Republican take over of the country, with the bodies of dead democratic principles and shards of the constitution.
This spiel has got to be just more think-tank PR BS - just more "tell them what they want to hear and then bugger'em from behind when they look the other way".
My guess is that he did this to make the opposition to the Big Players Net-Take-Over plans relax a bit and breath a sigh of relief, so that the Big Players can knock their knees out from under them while their guard is down.
I think its time for Google to start stating globally, that if you don't like Google Service in your country, fine, it will no longer service your country.
And if your country exits that service and then later wants it back, it'll cost you dearly in re-start-up fees and ad costs.
I'll bet it'll turn out to be a far better way to foment massive civil unrest in foreign countries than anything the CIA can cook up.
Joe cannot get Drug A because of Patent Restrictions.
However, Drug B, which is used for treatement of those with Disease B is readily available and so, Joe can buy and eat as much of Drug B as he wants.
So Joe should stop bitching even though Drug B, while imminently effective in the treatment of Disease B, has zero effect for those with Disease A, like Joe.
On the post: Feds Put Fake Cell Towers On Planes, Spied On Tons Of Innocent Americans
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But hey, its not all bad.
You now bear a personal price tag. That's something you never had before hey!
The price tag is the total value of your work life at the specialization in which you excel, minus your anti-establishment sentiments and estimated danger-cost to the state.
Beware that your minus does not exceed your plus, lest the powers-that-be redirect your vehicle via GPS, into a bridge abutment at 80 MPH. :)
Ah... the future sounds so sweet, for the 1%.
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On the post: Justice Department Defends US Marshals' Airborne Cell Tower Spoofers; Refuses To Acknowledge Program Exists
One by Land and Two by Sea and Three by Air - gotcha
Common sense and history point out that whenever law enforcement bags the bad guys it brags so loud its embarrassing to behold, but there is never a peep about who has been convicted of crimes due to these myriad intrusive public spying programs.
I note that the only mention of the program's (if it actually exists) efficacy in catching bad guys, is that it
"has been an effective way of catching fugitives, including drug suspects and suspected killers…" - "suspects and suspected" being the key words here. No convictions to mention at all.
Maybe they don't want to talk about it because its a C.E.L. Game ("catch'em, extort'em and let'em go") kinda thing, like the program used in Vancouver, Canada, against Marijuana Grow Operations, to generate a continuous stream of extra non-budget funds for the cops, by making sure the growers are put back on the streets and allowed to immediately set up new grow ops.
Considering the new motto of the Most Transparent Administration In American History -
"everyone (in the 99%) is considered to be guilty of some kind of a crime pending sufficient evidence to prove it so, or sufficient cash bribes to prove it false"
- that statement could easily be translated to mean that they have simply located and identified where most Americans live, using this program.
The only real question that needs answering is what exactly ARE they doing all this surveillance for if is it not for catching crooks and terrorists, and personally, I think the answer is obvious.
The US public is now an expendable, self-replicating resource/feed-stock and good business sense demands that one know where one's resources are and what they are doing at all times.
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On the post: Guy Sues Time Warner Cable For Deceptive Acts & False Advertising Over Bogus Promotional Rates, Hidden Fees
Justice so blind it simply cannot see the victim.
1.Big Bizness breaks the law and rakes in a few million bux.
2.Big Guv "fines" Big Biz for a portion of the take.
3.Big Biz walks away with the lion's share of the illicit proceeds.
4.Big Guv walks away with their percentage.
End of victimless legal process.
Little Guy - the victim - get screwed outta his cash once again.
Like I said, this is a business model.
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On the post: Ontario Police Inspector Says He Wants A 'Driver's License For The Internet'
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Nah. That's what all the facial recognition hardware mounted on every third telephone pole and every second building is for.
They can tell who you are, where you came from and where you went, every day, anywhere, on any street, in any town.... soon.
Of course, there will soon be a booming semi-secret underground "masquerade" business in North America as well, which will offer a new "face" for casual travel, business meetings, drug buys, etc.. :)
But you have it right. This will in no way stop or even hinder any kind of criminal activity on the web, and will have zero impact on "mankind's" favourite entertainment - child porn - as this is primarily a crime that caters to the wealthy and thus, is untouchable by law.
You might have noticed that every "Child Porn Ring" that ever gets reported, quickly begins to show the names of VIPs, judges, politicians, CEOs, ministers, and the like, and then, just as quickly, all investigation ends. The only child porn busts that get any real effort are those that deal with single individuals who are very seldom actually selling the stuff, but collecting it instead.
I figure this "license" crap is just another way to let businesses and government know exactly who to send the bill to for all the "mistakes" people will soon be making on the soon to be "gardened" internet.
Its always about the money.
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On the post: Tom Wheeler Still Wants To 'Split The Baby'; Forgetting That The Point Of That Story Was Not To Actually Split The Baby
P.R. + B.S. = U.S.G.
Another authorized, unauthorized "leak" from another undisclosed person "who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to talk on the record."
Bend over America, here comes another vaseline enema.
On the post: Pharma Officials Insist That There Is 'Zero Evidence' That Patents Harm Access To Medicine
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But I suspect childish insults are all I'm gonna get from this point forward, so have a nice day.
On the post: Attention Kim Kardashian: You Can't Sue Another Woman For Having A Big Ass And An Instagram Account
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On the post: Pharma Officials Insist That There Is 'Zero Evidence' That Patents Harm Access To Medicine
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So you're now saying that "virtually" EVERY ailment has a bevy of readily available alternate remedies, and in your world, all remedies are equally effective against every ailment.
You really are quite simple aren't you. :)
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On the post: Veteran Police Officer Defends Law Enforcement's Use Of Military Vehicles Using Condescension And Baseless Claims
He who has the Gold....
Sadly, its no longer a matter of what you or any of the public might want. Its now entirely a matter of what the Ownership Society, also called the 1%, want, and they want protection from all the sheep they're shearing to the bone - you and the rest of the public.
You want to have a say in how things are done?
Get filthy stinking rich.
It does not matter how you do this, only that you succeed. Once you're at the top of the ladder, you'll no longer be at the mercy of the law and nobody will ever question how you made your money.
In fact, you can write a novel about how you made your millions from selling dolls made of cardboard and rags on the street corner wearing only a torn cotton jacket, no shoes, and greasy cut-off jean shorts all year round, year after year, and it will be accepted as gospel because your rich.
Of course, once you're accepted as a member of the Ownership Society, you'll want the same thing as the rest of the 1% do, since you'll be busy robbing the public in order to turn each of your dollars into three dollars, over and over again, forever, just like the rest of the 1%.
But at least then you'll be happy and thankful that the cops are as stupid as rocks, evil as Satan's Anus and loyal only to money and those who have it.
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On the post: Homeland Security Ignores Own Guidelines To Make It Prohibitively Expensive For Media Companies To Obtain FOIA Docs
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I would think that this is exactly what most people should be concerned about - just what is it that they actually want?
It is certainly not what Americans in general want, or they would not need any of this paid-for-by-tax-payer subterfuge, deception, and word re-meaning.
Methinks it would advance the US public good to start determining just what it is that the USG actually wants and what it is they are working towards getting - at your expense.
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On the post: Court Says By Agreeing To AOL's Terms Of Service, You've 'Consented' To Search By Law Enforcement
Re: Re: Dance around the dying dinosaurs.
Who or what thus pays AOL for this service?
Is it advertisement driven?
On the post: Germany's Top Publisher Admits Its Web Traffic Plummeted Without Google; Wants Politicians To 'Take Action'
Re: Re: Give USG a helping hand.
Perhaps, but then again, I've never been one to put a lot of faith in a Corporation's Public Relations Slogans, advertisements or Mottos.
A corporation has but one purpose, regardless of its product or service, or its motto. That purpose is simply to take in more money this year than last year, and absolutely every single action a corporation takes, is designed to insure that this goal is reached.
That little graph chart that depicts a company's profits year by year is the true pulse of any corporation and must always rise to new heights each year.
Eternal Sustainable Growth is not really possible, but is nonetheless, the singular goal of all corporations.
"Don't be Evil", instills no more faith than does "A Family Company", or any other corporate motto, as it is designed to make the company look good, nothing more.
All that aside....
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"Think, "Your cloud storage provider just went tits up." It would cause *a lot* of disruption considering G.'s popularity."
I would think that the first country to "opt out" of Google, would provide the best possible advertisement conceivable, and insure Google's acceptance by every other country/government on earth, specifically because of the losses incurred almost immediately by the businesses in that first country, caused solely by its government.
And since with a little penalty pay added to the cost, country A could quickly Opt back in as soon as its government realized the damage it had done, very little real "evil" would be done.
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On the post: Pharma Officials Insist That There Is 'Zero Evidence' That Patents Harm Access To Medicine
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No surprises there.
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On the post: Now In Charge Of Congress, GOP Plans To Give Up Its Own Constitutional Powers To The Obama Administration
Re: Re: Re: Seems appropriate
Because they won't have time to report anything important between all the PR BS the new Repubbie Feds need publically disseminated. Fascists believe that the public should only be informed enough to keep them happily consuming. But you already knew that anyways didn't you.
"hint: the press is not just MSM"
What is MSM?
"Yeah, the public is asleep - not."
Sorry. Did not mean to wake you. Just roll over and go back to pretending everything is just fine. Sleep well now.
"Lost what war ?"
I rest my case. :)
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On the post: Veteran Police Officer Defends Law Enforcement's Use Of Military Vehicles Using Condescension And Baseless Claims
A tiny truth might have lent this BS some credence.
"1. Better-equipped and trained police are a better asset to protect and serve their communities."
Better "militarily" equipped and "militarily" trained police are better able to arrest and kill members of their communities.
The military does not make "Weapons of Mass Serving, or Mass Protecting". All military gear is designed to protect the users of that gear and to kill everyone else.
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"2. In some quarters, violent anti-government groups and individuals are targeting cops as scapegoats."
100% purest bullshit. RoboCop Dreams.
Public support of police has definitely dropped drastically and the public is less respectful of the "pigs" now, true, but that is due entirely to the actions of the police - which has worsened yearly for decades and has reached this new peak of military preparedness against a nearly unarmed public.
Had any acts of "targeting cops as scapegoats" actually taken place anywhere in the USA, the press would be all over it and the government would be screaming about it from the rooftops. This sort of activity would solidify the "need" for bigger budgets for cops and anti-terrorist groups.
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"3. There has been a steady increase in deadly and violent assaults on cops — as well as acts of domestic and international terrorism — many of which are reported in limited scope or not publicly known."
I wondered why almost all the TV Cop shows seemed to have the same plot recently - you know the plot where villains get out of jail and immediately attack the arresting cop in an attempt to get revenge.
Real criminals are far too interested in making money, and revenge is an expensive and non-profit activity.
This is actually part 2 of the "targeting cops as scapegoats" bullshit, and Rabinovich let the cat out of the bag by adding that attacks on cops and terrorist attacks "are reported in limited scope or not publicly known."
As above, this sort of activity is exactly what is needed by the Feds to get public support of bigger budgets for the cops and anti-terrorist activities and would be spread far and wide and continuously by the press.
Mister Rabinovich is a liar of the first water, because he is in a position to actually know that this is all bullshit.
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On the post: Surprise: President Obama Calls For Real Net Neutrality
Barnum said it best.
One should never count one's chickens before they are actually hatched.
I don't believe this is anything more than top notch PR.
The FCC will pull its usual "Rabbit-Out-Of-Its-Ass-Hat and the Big Players will get what they wanted, and very likely, what they have already paid mega-bux for.
I've not seen anything remotely resembling truth fall out of Obama's mouth since he "took" office, and I'm sure as hell not considering the notion that he's suddenly gonna start telling the truth now.
Hell, the man has almost single-handedly paved the path for an apparently popular Republican take over of the country, with the bodies of dead democratic principles and shards of the constitution.
This spiel has got to be just more think-tank PR BS - just more "tell them what they want to hear and then bugger'em from behind when they look the other way".
My guess is that he did this to make the opposition to the Big Players Net-Take-Over plans relax a bit and breath a sigh of relief, so that the Big Players can knock their knees out from under them while their guard is down.
What this aint, is a promise of Net Neutrality.
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On the post: Facebook Joins Tor, And The Dark Web Gets A Little More Useful (If A Little Less Cool)
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Got any on-line resources about this we could read??
I'd love to know more.
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On the post: Court Says By Agreeing To AOL's Terms Of Service, You've 'Consented' To Search By Law Enforcement
Dance around the dying dinosaurs.
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On the post: Germany's Top Publisher Admits Its Web Traffic Plummeted Without Google; Wants Politicians To 'Take Action'
Give USG a helping hand.
And if your country exits that service and then later wants it back, it'll cost you dearly in re-start-up fees and ad costs.
I'll bet it'll turn out to be a far better way to foment massive civil unrest in foreign countries than anything the CIA can cook up.
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On the post: Pharma Officials Insist That There Is 'Zero Evidence' That Patents Harm Access To Medicine
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Joe needs Drug A because he has Disease A.
Joe cannot get Drug A because of Patent Restrictions.
However, Drug B, which is used for treatement of those with Disease B is readily available and so, Joe can buy and eat as much of Drug B as he wants.
So Joe should stop bitching even though Drug B, while imminently effective in the treatment of Disease B, has zero effect for those with Disease A, like Joe.
Did I miss anything??
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