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Astronaut Eileen Collins, NASA’s First Female Shuttle Commander nasa.gov/image-article/astrona… #NASA #EileenMCollins #SpaceShuttle

Astronaut Eileen Collins, NASA’s First Female Shuttle Commander - NASA

Astronaut Eileen Collins, STS-93 commander, looks through a checklist on the space shuttle Columbia’s middeck in this July 1999 image. Collins was the first
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A wide ask here so please boost: my grandfather is trying to get rid of an old business computer, and I was wondering whether any vintage computer people might want it. It was purchased for $50k from The Ultimate Corporation in the early 80s. This ran the Pick operating system, and my best guess is the hardware was originally manufactured by GE or Honeywell. It's about the size of a half-rack and currently lives in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. It has sat covered in plastic in a chemical warehouse for the past 35 years. Where do people usually post stuff like this other than here? Thanks!

#RetroComputing

Photograph of the front of a half-rack-sized black computer sitting on the ground on rollers. In the top slot is a large tape reel reader, below that is the power control, and the modules below that are covered by a removable metal grille.
Photograph of one of the compute module trays pulled out of the lower part of the computer. It is a large circuit board with a ribbon cable trailing off the back into the computer.
Front photograph of the two compute module trays with their protective metal grille removed. Each are identical; on the left is a large encapsulated hard drive. On the right appears to be a power supply. In the middle is a metal drum of unknown purpose. Both are topped by a large circuit board.
Photo of model info plate. It reads: The Ultimate Corporation Model: 2000 S/N: GE4601 Volts: 120 VAC Amps/Watts: 10/1200
#retrocomputing

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"Confiamos en APC, y ustedes confían en los miembros, y eso es algo que viene con esta red" : Entrevistas con nuevos miembros de APC en el Encuentro Comunitario 2024 (inglés)

apc.org/node/40256

“We trust APC, and you trust in members, and that’s something that comes with this network” : Interviews with new APC members at the 2024 Community Gathering | Association for Progressive Communications

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25 Years On, Chandra Highlights Legacy of NASA Engineering Ingenuity nasa.gov/missions/chandra/25-y… #NASA #ChandraXRayObservatory #General #MarshallSpaceFlightCenter

25 Years On, Chandra Highlights Legacy of NASA Engineering Ingenuity - NASA

“The art of aerospace engineering is a matter of seeing around corners,” said NASA thermal analyst Jodi Turk. In the case of NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory,
Lee Mohon (NASA)
#NASA #general #marshallspaceflightcenter #chandraxrayobservatory

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Boneyard Airplane Sees New Life as a NASA X-66 Simulator nasa.gov/image-article/boneyar… #NASA #Aeronautics #ArmstrongFlightResearchCenter #FlightInnovation #GreenAviationTech #NASAAircraft #SustainableFlightDemonstrator

Boneyard Airplane Sees New Life as a NASA X-66 Simulator - NASA

NASA’s X-66 aircraft, the centerpiece of its Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project, is taking the term “sustainable” to heart by reusing an old MD-90
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#NASA #aeronautics #armstrongflightresearchcenter #flightinnovation #nasaaircraft #greenaviationtech #sustainableflightdemonstrator

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The U.S. Senate's recent hearing: "The pressing need for comprehensive US federal data privacy and security laws in the context of AI cannot be overstated."

Is the American Privacy Rights Act (APRA) enough? How will this affect the future of AI and LLMs?

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The U.S. Senate Takes a Swing at Data Privacy and AI - R Street Institute

This analysis is in response to breaking news and subject to change. Please reach out to pr@rstreet.org to speak with the author.
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NASA Rocket Discovers New Energization Process in Upper Atmosphere science.nasa.gov/science-resea… #NASA #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #Heliophysics #HeliophysicsDivision #NASACentersFacilities #ScienceResearch #Uncategorized

NASA Rocket Discovers New Energization Process in Upper Atmosphere - NASA Science

When it comes to discoveries about our upper atmosphere, it pays to know your surroundings. Using data from the Twin Rockets to Investigate Cusp Electrodynamics (TRICE-2) rocket launch, NASA scientist Francesca Di Mare and Gregory Howes from the Univ…
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#NASA #goddardspaceflightcenter #heliophysicsdivision #heliophysics #uncategorized #scienceresearch #nasacentersfacilities

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NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for NOAA’s JPSS-4 Mission nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-awa… #NASA #JointPolarSatelliteSystemJPSS #JointAgencySatelliteDivision #KennedySpaceCenter #LaunchServicesProgram #NOAANationalOceanicAndAtmosphericAdministration #ScienceMissionDirectorate

NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for NOAA’s JPSS-4 Mission - NASA

NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies Corporation) to provide
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#NASA #sciencemissiondirectorate #kennedyspacecenter #launchservicesprogram #noaanationaloceanicandatmosphericadministration #jointpolarsatellitesystemjpss #jointagencysatellitedivision

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Kitsune Tails will be a platformer to remember, full of mini-games and powerful modding tools gamingonlinux.com/2024/07/kits…

#Linux #SteamDeck

Kitsune Tails will be a platformer to remember, full of mini-games and powerful modding tools

Kitsune Tails, the platformer styled after beloved classics and steeped in Japanese mythology, shows off a bunch of retro minigames and some pretty powerful modding support that will be available at launch.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #SteamDeck

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Apple design award winner Afterplace just released on PC with Linux support gamingonlinux.com/2024/07/appl…

#Afterplace #Linux #PCGaming

Apple design award winner Afterplace just released on PC with Linux support

Originally a mobile game that won an Apple design award, Afterplace is an open world adventurous retro game for those who like to get lost. Today it released on PC with full Native Linux support.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #pcgaming #afterplace

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Apologies if I miss anything on @gamingonlinux but there really is just too many games releasing all the time.
@Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

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Watch Carbon Dioxide Move Through Earth’s Atmosphere science.nasa.gov/earth/watch-c… #NASA #ClimateChange #Earth #EarthSAtmosphere #GreenhouseGases

Watch Carbon Dioxide Move Through Earth’s Atmosphere - NASA Science

What we’re looking at: This global map shows concentrations of carbon dioxide as the gas moved through Earth’s atmosphere from January through March 2020, driven by wind patterns and atmospheric circulation.
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#NASA #climatechange #earth #earthsatmosphere #greenhousegases

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NASA Wallops to Support Sounding Rocket Launch for U.S. Navy Fleet Training nasa.gov/centers-and-facilitie… #NASA #WallopsFlightFacility

NASA Wallops to Support Sounding Rocket Launch for U.S. Navy Fleet Training - NASA

A rocket-propelled target is scheduled for launch July 27-28, 2024 from NASA’s launch range at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia in support of a U.S.
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#NASA #wallopsflightfacility

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Deep space colony sim Stardeus gets a massive overhaul in a new update gamingonlinux.com/2024/07/deep…

#Stardeus #Linux #SteamDeck

Deep space colony sim Stardeus gets a massive overhaul in a new update

Get ready to put together a spaceship again, as the deep space colony sim Stardeus has a really massive update out now and it's looking great. Basically, it's RimWorld on a spaceship and it's cool.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #SteamDeck #stardeus

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Secret Panel HERE 🙂 tapas.io/episode/3241718

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Met a very good boy on the hike.
A black dog with white around his mouth and paws, wearing a red collar, one ear down, very photogenic.

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NVIDIA 560 Linux driver Beta has Wayland improvements, defaults to open GPU kernel modules gamingonlinux.com/2024/07/nvid…

#NVIDIA #Linux

NVIDIA 560 Linux driver Beta has Wayland improvements, defaults to open GPU kernel modules

NVIDIA has released a fresh Beta to get you testing all the latest features and fixes. So here's what's new in the NVIDIA 560.28.03 driver Beta for Linux.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #Nvidia

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NASA’s 21st Northrop Grumman Mission Launches Scientific Studies to Station nasa.gov/missions/station/iss-… #NASA #ISSResearch #CommercialResupply #Expedition71 #HumansInSpace #InternationalSpaceStationISS #NorthropGrummanCommercialResupply

NASA’s 21st Northrop Grumman Mission Launches Scientific Studies to Station - NASA

NASA and its international partners are sending scientific investigations to the International Space Station on Northrop Grumman’s 21st commercial resupply
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#NASA #humansinspace #issresearch #internationalspacestationiss #commercialresupply #northropgrummancommercialresupply #expedition71

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DRAG returns as ExoCross, an offroad racing game with 4CPT vehicle physics gamingonlinux.com/2024/07/drag…

#Linux #RacingGame #ExoCross #SteamDeck

DRAG returns as ExoCross, an offroad racing game with 4CPT vehicle physics

Remember DRAG from Orontes Games? A while back they joined up with iRacing and now the game has returned finished as the future off-road racing sim ExoCross.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #SteamDeck #racinggame #exocross
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J'ai acheté Drag au début du projet mais ça n'avançait plus.

J'aime bien ce jeu, mais la difficulté est élevé. Je ne sais pas si je vais craquer pour cette reprise.

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Vancha :mfrl:
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nice! Tried it on Linux some time ago, but iirc it only had a single (or two?) level(s) back then. Fun though

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EDIT: Going to try ganttproject.biz

Any recommendations for #OpenSource project management software that is simply an application on my computer? I don’t need nor want something in “the cloud”. I just need something small for myself.

GanttProject: free project management tool for Windows, macOS and Linux

Free desktop project scheduling and management app with Gantt chart for Windows, Linux and macOS
GanttProject
#opensource
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Here is a list of Project Management solutions. All open source.

opensource.com/article/21/3/op…


My favorite open source project management tools

Projects like building a satellite, developing a robot, or launching a new product are all expensive, involve different providers, and contain hard dependencies that must b
Opensource.com

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Decentric Circles Assembly
25-28 July in #Warsaw
Organised by eeefff, Aleksei Borisionok and Olia Sosnovskaya

workhardplay.pw/en/2024/


Decentric circles

workhardplay.pw
#warsaw

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ChimeraOS 46 brings major upgrades and enhanced handheld support for GPD, AYANEO, OneXPlayer and others gamingonlinux.com/2024/07/chim…

#Linux #HandheldGaming #GPD #AYANEO

ChimeraOS 46 brings major upgrades and enhanced handheld support for GPD, AYANEO, OneXPlayer

ChimeraOS Linux 46 has released today and there's a whole lot of improvements for this handheld and couch-gaming focused Linux distro.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #ayaneo #handheldgaming #gpd
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« Implemented hiding and customizing the splash screen. »

Great ! I had to cheat on readonly settings to do so.

I suppose it's possible to update a previous install ?

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“Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.”

— Carl Sagan

#quote #CarlSagan

SOURCE: https://snl.no/Carl_Sagan Carl Sagan (1994) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.no
#quote #CarlSagan
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SPAM_RiSK
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It's true. Scientific education is lacking in public education. It isn't always taught with the curious excitement that drives creatives to make discoveries.

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Codename: Ocean Keeper takes Dome Keeper and puts you in an underwater twin-stick mech gamingonlinux.com/2024/07/code…

#Linux #SteamDeck

Codename: Ocean Keeper takes Dome Keeper and puts you in an underwater twin-stick mech

Take the mining and defense idea from Dome Keeper, stick you in an underwater mech with exploration and twin-stick shooting and you've got Codename: Ocean Keeper.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #SteamDeck

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your identity in a capitalist society
Sign on a glass door: Please remember you're shopping bags

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What storage backend best fits your needs?

Not sure? Join our webinar happening tomorrow July 24th for an exploratory session - 3pm CEST and 9am EDT!

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Choosing the right Nextcloud storage: Local, external, or object? - Nextcloud

In this webinar, you will learn about Nextcloud storage backends - local, external, and object to optimize performance, reliability, and scalability for your Nextcloud.
Nextcloud

  • Local (78%, 177 votes)
  • External (10%, 23 votes)
  • Object storage (8%, 20 votes)
  • Other (2%, 5 votes)
225 voters. Poll end: 1 year ago

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I was exploring this exact question just last night. Currently, I use an attached storage volume on a VPS, but I'm looking at S3-compatible object storage. I like the prospect of lower fees and more flexible storage size options.

Regrettably, I will not be available for the webinar. Will there be a video afterward?

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I thought Tom's hardware was a reputable source of news and reviews... but apparently not

tomshardware.com/software/wind…

Seriously though, what the fuck is this article even going on about? Why are they trying to demonize EU for something perfectly normal?

Anyone who understands the architecture of operating systems know that 3rd party companies need access to kernel API to develop their software (especially device drivers).


Microsoft's EU agreement means it will be hard to avoid CrowdStrike-like calamities in the future

Microsoft cannot block access to the Windows kernel because of an agreement it has with the EU.
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Brodie Robertson
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It's about as stupid as the people who were freaking out about the EU forcing Apple to allow sideloading (what we call installing software on any other OS)

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Off Ecuador's Galapagos, a former #shark-#poaching ship's new mission phys.org/news/2024-07-ecuador-…

When #Ecuador's navy seized a Chinese-flagged ship off the #Galapagos in 2017, its hold brimmed with tons and tons of poached #fish including hammerhead and thresher #sharks. Today, the vessel has been repurposed for environmental patrols of those same waters, helping to hunt down predatory vessels of the kind it once was. It has also been renamed #Hualcopo for an Indigenous leader of centuries ago.

a large fishing vessel being intercepted by a small fotilla of military vessels

Off Ecuador's Galapagos, a former shark-poaching ship's new mission

When Ecuador's navy seized a Chinese-flagged ship off the Galapagos Islands in 2017, its hold brimmed with tons and tons of poached fish, many of them threatened species like hammerhead and thresher sharks.
Enrique ORTIZ (Phys.org)
#Ecuador #fish #poaching #sharks #shark #galapagos #hualcopo

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Check out the new demo for KILLBEAT a rhythm shooter roguelike gamingonlinux.com/2024/07/chec…

#IndieGame #LinuxGaming #Linux

Check out the new demo for KILLBEAT a rhythm shooter roguelike

A rhythm shooter roguelike sounds like a really fun idea, and now you can try it yourself in KILLBEAT which just released a demo with Native Linux support.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #indiegame #linuxgaming

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Do some #Blender with this bundle from Fanatical: fanatical.com/en/bundle/blende…

Blender Computer Animation Bundle 4th Edition | eBook Bundle | Fanatical

Our new Blender Computer Animation Bundle 4th Edition will help teach you the art of 3D creation software and show you how...
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#blender

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Do some #Blender with this bundle from Fanatical: fanatical.com/en/bundle/blende… (partner link)

Blender Computer Animation Bundle 4th Edition | eBook Bundle | Fanatical

Our new Blender Computer Animation Bundle 4th Edition will help teach you the art of 3D creation software and show you how...
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#blender

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I remember a Google that had not been consumed by JavaScript brain worms. A Google where high-traffic services had to be fast; where folks competed to see who could make the smallest 404 page; byte golfing to win latency.

That Google, it seems, is gone. In its place, a login page comprised of 380K of JS (1.2MB unzipped) *on top* of 125K of HTML (687K unzipped) generating seconds of main-thread blockage on low-end devices:

webpagetest.org/video/compare.…

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Proton Experimental gets fixes for Ubisoft Connect, Once Human, Burnout Paradise Remastered gamingonlinux.com/2024/07/prot…

#SteamDeck #Linux #Proton

Proton Experimental gets fixes for Ubisoft Connect, Once Human, Burnout Paradise Remastered

July 22nd saw a new release of Proton Experimental from Valve, as work continues as always towards the next main release of the Windows compatibility layer for Linux desktop and Steam Deck.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #proton #SteamDeck

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The Crab Nebula from Visible to X-Ray apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240723.ht… #APOD

APOD: 2024 July 23 – The Crab Nebula from Visible to X Ray

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
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#APOD

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The Crab Nebula from Visible to X-Ray

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, ASI, Hubble, Chandra, IXPE

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240723.ht… #APOD

A multi-colored nebula is shown that is the expanding remnant of an exploded star. The central white and purple colors show X-ray light, while the outer red and blue colors show visible light.

APOD: 2024 July 23 – The Crab Nebula from Visible to X Ray

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
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#APOD
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Oh, they used some Hubble processing I did a while back. It ended up oddly low resolution, though? All of the images in the 25th anniversary release look scaled down and then scaled back up again. 🤔

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Time Capsule: Nextcloud Conference 2023 😍

Let's look back at some of the best moments from the last year: incredible keynotes, edge-of-the-chair panel sessions, and the vivid Nextclouder crowd!

Grab your free ticket for #NextcloudConf24 today!

nextcloud.com/conference-2024/

Nextcloud Community Conference 2024

Join us for the Nextcloud Community Conference 2024, an exciting week of coding, design, discussions, talks, and fun!
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sheep
I approve!

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stress puss
I feel it!

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A logo change is good; a name change would be much better. #Technology werd.io/2024/its-time-for-apac…

For Good Reason, Apache Foundation Says ‘Goodbye’ to Iconic Feather Logo

https://fossforce.com/2024/07/apache-foundation-says-goodbye-to-iconic-feather-logo/ [Christine Hall at FOSS Force] "The Apache Software Foundation is making changes in an attempt to right a wrong it unintentionally created when it adopted
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#technology

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Patti Digh

How not to be a dick at an art fair. There's only one step. It's not that hard. So, you’re downtown in the blazing sun with hundreds of people around you, walking slowly through an arts and crafts...
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Fortunately, our block long Farmers' Market is quite rigourous about your having to have made your product (arts, crafts, utensils, etc) or grown it. Then there are three blocks of crap from all over the planet. That's a whole other entity and proposition. In general, I think low balling is rather rude way to initiate a transaction. If I was selling a guitar, for example, it would be the end of the discussion.
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"F--k you, pay me."
-- Harlan Ellison

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