Why do so many objectivists typically refrain from identifying themselves as libertarians? Because I would think a bigger tent for objectivists would help, right? Not to use the language of the left, but a more inclusive language from objectivists might help the cause. But if we believe that the cause is philosophical, not political, that ultimately the cause is convincing people about the morality of self-interest, and the cause is convincing people of epistemology of reason, then a big tent doesn't help because it kind of blurs those distinctions, and it doesn't make clear what it is we actually stand for. Sahinran was very clear. She stood for capitalism, because she stood for egoism, she stood for egoism, because she stood for reason. For her epistemology and her ethics are the core of her philosophy. The politics is just a logical outcome of all of that. The problem with libertarianism as an ism is that it is a big tent, and it's a big tent with some people who are sympathetic, maybe, it's true that politically and from political economy perspective, we agree, and they might even sometimes flow to some of our philosophical ideas, so we have some allies within this big tent. But we also have some real enemies, I mean real enemies, not marginal enemies. We have Kantians, Sahinran called Kant the most evil person in history, because of how she viewed his philosophy, and how destructive she believed his philosophy was the 20th century. So if you agree, yeah, we agreed free markets, but you guys pretend to come to free markets from the perspective of the most evil philosophy in human history, according to Ahinran, we're not allies, right? We're not allies philosophically. Or you have anarchists who are for the most part moral subjectivists and philosophical subjectivists and relativists. Well, that again, we consider philosophically incredibly harmful and instructive for the cause of reason. So how can we be in the same tent with them when their fundamental ideas are so destructive to what we're trying to do? So if you believe as Ahidu, as Ahinran said, lead it, that the only way to truly get to free markets, the only way to win the political battle is to win a deeper philosophical battle, then we have no, then there is no tent, right? Then in some ways, we have tents with other people, right? So I, I, you know, there's, I respect people who are advocates for reason, even if they happen to fall politically on the left, because I think that ultimately, if they're consistent advocates of reason, then free markets is obvious. I don't, it doesn't work the other way around necessarily. It doesn't seem to work the other way around. So I am very hesitant to have a tent with anybody. If I have a tent, it's a short term tent. That's very objectivist of you. That's very Ahinrandian of you. Yeah, I mean, because if you take ideas seriously, I don't think it's Ahinrandian as much as it is taking ideas seriously. I'm willing to sit down with Stephen Pinker and talk about the enlightenment and talk about reason and the points of reason. I don't think he understands reason, right? And I'd like to talk to him about that. Or I'd like somebody to talk to him about that and see if we can fix that, because I think it's destructive. I like to talk to, I don't know, Dave Rubin or even Sam Harris about free speech and about certain issues of philosophy. I like to talk to George Seligin and Larry White and Pete Betke, who are libertarian economists about economics and about and some of them I can go deeper with and they'll accept some of the deeper stuff. But then they go to, you know, some of them might go to Anarchy or some of them might go to more subjectivism. So on every issue, I think it's important for us to clearly define what we agree on or what we disagree on. And when you do that, I think there are a few tents. I think even libertarians who are not objectivists have a problem with big tents.  They don't want that association. And they just say, look, we're just free market economists, we're just good economists. And that's what we do. And we don't, we don't need these labels and these big tents. So I don't think it's uniquely objectivist. I really do think the tent idea is, is problematic if anybody takes their own ideas seriously.


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We want to take some time tonight and Consider a practical helps for prayer. We've been going through John 16 on Sunday mornings we've spent three weeks in that text and The main point of that text as we've been talking about is drawing near to God in prayer and the Lord's instruction To the disciples to do just that in their time of need They can go to God in prayer and God will supply their need He provides for us through the means of prayer And so as we've worked through John 16 these last three weeks We've learned the importance of prayer I hope pray that's been laid upon your heart the way it has been on mine at prayer is important it is a weighty need for the Christian and as we've worked through the text we really have established somewhat of a systematic theology for prayer and Through that looking at the necessity of prayer the importance of prayer the weight of prayer The place of prayer in the exercise of our faith in Christ in the face of a hostile world in the face of the ministry the great commission that we've all been given and The purpose of prayer the the implications of prayer of the grace afforded to us through prayer as we've learned a lot from that text with respect to prayer and We pray Primarily initially because we understand our need for God if you're in Christ You understand your need for God we talked about that this morning We pray because God the Father loves us Because Jesus Christ at the cross has secured for us access to God in prayer He mediates for us in prayer He is our advocate there for us at the right hand of God the father Even the spirit comes along right when we don't know how to pray as we ought the spirit intercedes on our behalf with groanings which cannot be uttered all this blessing and glory and help Associated with the blessed privilege of prayer So now thinking through that for this evening Thought we'd spend a little bit of time and build on that foundation that the Lord has established for us in John chapter 16 And I want to give you in the next few minutes together I want to give you some practical help with that. Maybe you have as I have in the past struggled with a Plan for prayer how to pray the disciples asked the Lord obviously Luke 11 teach us to pray They needed help with that we all need help at some point or another with that And so I want to give you some practical help. How do we know how to do that which we know we must do with respect to prayer and I want to give you first three Subdivisions if you will for how to think about this right in one respect where to think about prayer as a duty In another respect we're to think about prayer as a dialogue and Lastly, we're to think about prayer as our delight Then I want to give you some practical applications for those, but we want to cultivate through prayer as a duty as a dialogue and as our delight and first and foremost It begins with the fact that prayer is given to us in scripture as a duty Now you can think about Something in the Christian life that is a duty as being oppressive on you or restrictive to you or difficult for you Listen, that is not the right way to think about duties in the Christian life as the Lord would have it in his Infinite wisdom and it is infinite grace and mercy toward us in Christ The duties that he gives us are for our good and we find that when we do our duty We're blessed through that and it quickly becomes our delight, right? But prayer is a duty Paul says in Philippians chapter 4 verse 6. He says be anxious for nothing but in everything By prayer and supplication with thanksgiving Let your requests be made known to God and the peace of God which surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus this morning in John 16 the Lord was Telling them that in him they will have peace that peace in large part comes through prayer dependence upon God, right? So prayer is a duty now. I want to press on you The fact that it is a duty We are mandated by scripture by the word of God to pray and that we are in Obeying the Lord we are to cultivate prayer as a habit through regular discipline you start putting words together like habit and discipline and duty in the same sentence and There some evangelical start getting a nervous twitch because it sounds to them like legalism Listen, it is not legalistic to pray It's not legalistic for the Lord to require prayer and he does so in his word And it's not legalistic for you and I as Christians to devote time to the Lord in prayer. It is not Legalism right need to understand the definition of legalism if you are confused by that you need to have a habit of Regular disciplined prayer now we have Examples of that obviously in the scripture Daniel prayed three times a day, right others throughout history Calvin Luther others Say that you at least need to pray twice daily So it's Luther or Calvin legalistic because they tell you it'd be good for you to pray twice daily. No, no twice daily Prayer is a duty We have to in cultivating prayers of duty guard ourselves against Deluding or destructive notions right that there are other things more important Conceiving of prayer is our duty to God being that it is also required by God in the scripture Helps protect us from putting other priorities in its place If you think that I'm doing the morning right The alarm goes off And you think to yourself you've got this to do and that to do and the other thing to do And the whole day already from the time the alarm goes off the whole day is just stacking up on you Don't forget the importance and the priority of prayer We need to cultivate the duty of putting prayer first Don't Calvin says don't listen to those notions that say let me do this or that first Pray pray we have a need to pray. We've got a responsibility to pray It is our duty to pray It is paramount of paramount importance when it comes to our Christian growth and maturity right we need to pray So conceive of prayer think of prayer as a duty because it is because it is okay But it's a duty think of prayer as a duty like this right it's a Prayer is a duty for the Christian like Wearing a hazmat suit Is a duty for someone handling infectious diseases at the CDC All right, if you don't wear your hazmat suit, you're gonna die right Prayer is a necessity like I think we've talked about in the sermon like walking out of the space shuttle airlock without your space helmet So it is as much a duty to put on your space helmet in order to leave the space shuttle as it is for a Christian to pray Right without it you die you wither you're dried up Eventually cast out as a branch right We must pray sometimes prayer is difficult And it feels like a duty that as Luther would say or Calvin or others have said Pray even when you don't feel like it Even when you don't feel like it you pray you cultivate a habit a discipline Of prayer in your Christian life look with me quickly at romans chapter 15 romans chapter 15 Just speaking paul speaking are alluding to sometimes the difficulty of prayer Romans chapter 15 Down in verse 30 Listen to paul to the to the romans the christians in Rome verse 30 now.  It takes determined resolve here paul pleading with them begging them To strive together with him in prayer We need to pray and it's that important. It's that important. You know think about um Those that will say in terms of in uh working through text in scripture, right Don't stop studying and wrestling with the text until god blesses you through it Right, so you wrestle and you wrestle and you wrestle we can say the same thing about prayer Don't stop wrestling in prayer. It's like jacob right wrestling with god. Don't stop wrestling I won't let go until you bless me And sometimes that's your attitude in prayer I i'm going to pray and i'm gonna keep praying until god you bless me And it's just a trust and a faith in god that'll do just that We have to wrestle with the scripture until god blesses us sometimes we have to wrestle or strive sometimes in prayer But we need to view it as a duty and we need to pursue it as a duty It is uh important. It is of paramount importance to the christian in their christian life secondly You have to think about prayer or conceive of prayer as a dialogue as a dialogue Not Intuitions right not sitting Silently in the corner of your house in a quiet room The lights off everything quiet so that you can Hear the still small voice of god in your head right or the leading of your heart or the You know what i'm talking about right for people say that and think and conceive of prayers being that they're going to wait to listen for the audible voice of god The dialogue comes through the word of god right Dialogue with god in prayer happens through the word of god If you want to hear that dialogue audibly then you read the word of god out loud I've heard that said before But that dialogue takes place through the word of god Dialogue if you think about duty on one end delight on the other in terms of our understanding and our enjoyment of prayer Dialogue is the bridge in the middle dialogue becomes the bridge between Meditation on the word of god and praying the word of god right dialogue happens through the word of god and what we mean by this We'll look at this more specifically in a moment But praying the word of god right considering a passage of scripture Considering what it says Consider how you're thankful for it Consider how you can confess and repent for sin revealed in it and then considering how you can put your supplications and petitions To god because of it. It's thinking through praying through The word of god and then running all of your prayers all your petitions all of your God glorifying worship all of that through the dialogue of scripture Now we are god speaks to us through his word today the spirit Of god applying the word of god to the people of god and it is Through dialogue and prayer also thirdly.  We're to do that which stirs our heart Stirs and warms our affections for god It is true that prayer is a duty but we have to balance that truth with delight. Yes You should pray whether you feel like it or not But yes in that prayer you should warm your affections engage your hearts It's sinful. It's sinful. It's shameful To be cold or joyless or indifferent in prayer now that being said we've all done it to our shame, haven't we? I know I have to my shame oftentimes distracted right laboring striving working just to maintain your concentration for one minute And often having that uh, just be a fight to glorify god in prayer That delight comes from adoration of god in prayer comes from worship of god in prayer All of god now that you think about this as we go from duty Through the dialogue with god's word dialogue with god through his word to now delight That dialogue with god through his words should warm our hearts, right? The word of god should raise our affections the word of god should cause us worship and awe and reverence The word of god informing our understanding informing our hearts should cause us to Hollow his name to reverence him should cause us to spill out with Thanksgiving, right should cause the people of god To repent to confess sin Isn't that a delight that you can go to god in prayer and to confess your sins knowing That he is faithful and just to forgive you of your sins and to cleanse you from all iniquity That is a joy And should provoke in you delight in god it begins with the meditation on scripture It begins with seeing prayer conceiving of prayer as our duty I was um looking at a couple of places this week With respect to how to pray I use a specific way to pray myself. We'll talk about that in a little bit But um, I ran across a a little booklet by martin luther called a simple way to pray And martin luther in the booklet Talks about prayer as being a garland right this garland that's made up of four strands or a beautiful cord Made up of four strands and he divides each biblical command here into four strands as he's reading the text And this again is bridging the gap between dialogue and delight or dialogue and duty meditation and prayer luther's exercise here that he did twice a day every day twice a day Was to pray the word of god bridge the gap between duty and delight and bridge the gap between meditation on the scriptures And his prayer life and so he divides he takes biblical commands Or a section of text in the scripture and he divides them into four strands This garland divided into four strands the first is instruction First is instruction The second is thanksgiving The third is confession And the fourth is prayer so you have instruction thanksgiving Confession and prayer in other words what martin luther says there in describing this is that you turn every text Every text in the bible that you're praying through working through you turn that text into a school text a song book a penitential book and a prayer book Right a school text a song book a penitential book and a prayer book and think about the The school text for a moment you take a text of scripture And you turn it into a school text first you're going to receive from it Instruction right receive from it instructive now you get that instruction Through your study of the bible your study of that text So you observe the text you Interpret the text you come to an understanding of its meaning and then you apply the text to your heart and mind Just through a study you come to what the text means what god intends for it to mean Um, and your application of that so at the beginning it's a school text. You're Looking at the instruction that the text gives you secondly Turns into a song book a song book of thanksgiving Consider how this text whatever text you're studying consider how that text leads you to praise and thank christ Right, so you turn that text into a song book of thanksgiving to god thirdly Consider how the text leads you to confess and repent of sin to confess and repent of sin And then fourth consider how that text would prompt you to go to god and petition and supplication I think about that for a moment.     Did you unhitch the horses? Domine ad adjuvandom me festina made go out and milk the cow I guess the maid speaks king's english, but when you pray you pray and god hears in in latin But you get the impression right you're praying your mind distracted with thoughts of other things Luther makes the point that to help with your distracted mind pray the text Pray the text understand the text and receive instruction Thank god through the text confess sin through the text and then raise petitions and supplications to god from the text He calls it blasphemy blasphemy to approach god in any other way Then through A focused attention on him but to be distracted in that way So think about the example now. We looked at Philippians chapter 4 verse 6 be anxious for nothing Think about that in terms of these four steps. All right be anxious for nothing But in everything by prayer and supplication With thanksgiving let your request be made known to god. So think of it first the text as a school text So how might you in gain instruction? To pray with respect to this text gone. I know that you are sovereign over all things right and infinitely wise my worry My anxiety Betray a lack of trust for you in my heart All things in my life god fall Within the scope of your loving concern for me. And so I can bring everything to you in prayer and supplication right So in in that way as you think and meditate on the text you're gaining instruction from the text You're turning it into a school text for yourself But then secondly conceive of it as a song book or a song book of thanksgiving to god god Philippians 4 6 right what joy and comfort fills my heart to know that I can bring Everything to you in prayer that I can cast every prayer of mine upon you because you care for me And you just praise god of thanking god for his graciousness Thirdly you turn it into a penitential book or a confession of sin God I am prone to worry I am prone to be anxious this particular situation god has got me troubled and I should trust in you god But I am worrying over this. Please forgive me god. I repent of my lack of trust I repent of my failure to acknowledge your sovereignty in this You turn it into a penitential book and then lastly It's a prayer book cause me god informed by your word empowered by your spirit cause me to trust in you Cause me to be anxious for nothing I'm coming to you now lord of my prayer and my supplication that you'll help me in my time of need Right you turn it into a prayer book So just a simple way to pray from luther's own words Turning each text into a garland of four strands now Luther would do that twice a day every day he'd begin With that praying a text of scripture But then the second thing that martin luther would do Is that he would pray every petition in the lord's prayer turn with me to luke chapter 11 Luke chapter 11 And these are just ideas practical helps for you in prayer. You want to consider How to pray a plan for prayer what you can do for prayer. I pray these things will be helpful to you Luther would begin by praying a text of scripture Turning each biblical command into four strands And then he would pray every petition in the lord's prayer you look at luke chapter 11 beginning in verse one Now it came to pass as he was praying in a certain place When he ceased that one of his disciples said to him lord teach us to pray as john also taught his disciples And so he said to them when you pray Say Our father in heaven How it would be your name your kingdom come your will be done on earth as it is in heaven Give us day by day our daily bread and forgive us our sins as for we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us And do not lead us into temptation but deliver us from the evil one so what luther would do in his Repetition of the lord's prayer twice daily would be to pray each of those petitions and not and he makes A point to note Not in a ritualistic way not using the same words not being heartless in his prayer But considering the nature of the petition and then praying to god in like manner. So give you an example now the first petition In the lord's prayer here is father in heaven. How it would be your name So listen to luther how it would be thy name and say yes lord god Dear father how it would be thy name both in us and throughout the whole world Destroy and root out the abominations idolatry and heresy of the turk the pope And all false teachers and fanatics who wrongly use thy name and in scandalous ways take it in vain and horribly blaspheme it They insistently boast that they teach thy word in the laws of the church Though they really use the devil's deceit and trickery in thy name to wretchedly seduce many poor souls throughout the world Even killing and shedding much innocent blood and in such persecution they believe that they render the a divine service That's praying how it would be your name right luther's example of that So your other petitions there how it would be your name or you would pray your kingdom come right lord I pray god that Through the means of your church your people that the gospel would be pressed into this dark world and its sinners would turn to christ Right and you pray that petition that your kingdom come lord your will be done on earth as it is in heaven We can plot our path, but you lord direct our steps and we holy trust in you for that Your will be done lord give us day by day our daily bread Don't just take it for granted that we have that Pray thank the lord for it and pray that he would continue to give it So forgive us our sins and you list your sins you see that works So luther twice daily would pray the four courted garland and then he would pray each petition in the lord's prayer Since at the end of all that Be sure to say amen firmly be sure to say amen Amen Again not a throwaway phrase like In jesus name is not a throwaway phrase Amen at the end of your prayer confirms your devoted trust in god for what he will do Your trust in god that he hears you your Refusal to doubt That god in his mercy hears you and says yes to prayers offered in his name right Luther says never think that you're there standing alone But that all christians in their prayer are standing there with you making their supplications known to god finish well Amen god has heard my prayer And there is a certainty and a truth that amen communicates that in that that god has heard my prayer These things these two things he would do twice a day every day, and then he would go into prayers He calls them prayers of the heart things that he thought about and needed to pray for So as we think through that again a couple of different ways to think about prayer and quickly in the time left. Let me give you The content if you will or if you're looking for a plan for how to structure your prayer time how to think through A way or a method of prayer Let me give you this for matthew henry if you go to matthewhenry.org you'll see matthew henry's their uh book there called a way to pray Sometimes called a way to pray. Uh, the other title is a method of prayer. We have matthew henry's book on the shelves out here And matthew henry lists Six different ways here or six different components To pray before god give you a plan a track to run on and he begins with adoration I've added to that added to adoration drawing near Drawing near to god and then adoration so you could add a seventh there but Adoration begins with reverence and awe of god Now you could say the fear of god right not a not a slavish fear Where you're in fear of punishment or in fear of condemnation roman chapter eight There's no therefore now no condemnation to those who are in christ Uh first john chapter four talks about perfect love casting out fear Because the fear there that should be cast out is a fear of punishment involving punishment So it's not a fear of condemnation not a fear of punishment, but a fear of awe a fear of reverence of god's majesty I've heard one author Give the illustration It's like someone places a priceless ming vase into your hands when it gets to the point of being priceless You call it a vase right we've got a bunch of vases around my house But when somebody hands you this priceless ming vase puts it into your hands You don't have a fear that thing is going to hurt you You have a fear that it's you're going to hurt it right that you could drop it or damage it priceless ming vase That's a product of respect Of awe so to speak of that vase of majesty In this sense, it's not a fear that god is going to condemn or hurt you It's a fear of you offending god It's a healthy biblical fear the fear of god and we should draw near with that healthy biblical fear on our hearts and on our minds Not to draw near cavalierly or presumptuously But to draw near with reverence and awe of god draw near to god in the fear of god Now that should Provoke us to adoration addressing god with reverence and awe praying Regarding god's Omnipotence right praying regarding not god's omniscience praying regarding his eternality his sovereignty His power his purity praying With an understanding of god's holiness god's justice god's Greatness god's truth god's splendor god's majesty It's a product of awe Aim for god's glory in your adoration.  It begins there. Matthew. Henry's second step is confession Confessing your sin before god you are unworthy to be there But he has promised to forgive In christ So you confess your sins the third step is petition Is petition and you can see where like in order to do this right you need time You need time you need a dedicated plan For praying in this way and this is prayer all of these things are prayer that honors god, right? Drawing near in adoration and worship right confessing your sin the the sacrifices of god are a broken and contrite spirit We're to go to god in confession. We're to go to god in repentance now petition Asking for that which you need asking for on behalf of yourself and for others We talked about those concentric circles, right? You begin with You and you work out to your immediate family and you work out to extended family and then friends Maybe co-workers obviously the church brothers and sisters. So you're just praying Laying petitions before the lord things that others have asked you to pray for things that you need to pray for yourself Keep a list keep a list mark down when you have answered prayer when you see answered prayer Sometimes the quantity of those things that you're praying for You can't manage that in one sitting You just don't have the time to get through it all so separate it up by days You know one day pray for the elders of the church one day pray for the leaders of the church One day pray for brothers and sisters in the church another day pray for right make a list and separate those out over days To give you time, but you got to have a plan to be able to do that Next is thanksgiving And Matthew Henry's a way to pray or a method of prayer is thanksgiving And again great way to do that is to pray through scripture pray through the Psalms Give thanks to god augustin talked about we mentioned that this morning augustin talked about when the psalmist prays you pray When the psalmist repents you repent when the psalmist fights you fight when the psalmist thanks god You thank god when the psalmist worships you worship Just pray through the text of scripture that way Next is intercession intercession interceding on behalf of others in prayer And then lastly is a conclusion where you commend Your prayers to god in his name and you say amen right agreeing with scripture agreeing with the word of god acknowledging God's promises in the word of god to hear your prayer and that prayers in his name In accordance with his will in faith without doubting are prayers that he answers It's just resting and trusting in him to hear you and answer your prayer, right? So let me just I I want to conclude by pressing on you the importance as we've talked about in the last three weeks Of committing yourself to prayer committing yourself devoting yourself to this critically important part of the christian life There are theologians throughout the the centuries that have called it the highest of christian graces, right? The blessing of prayer So commit yourself to prayer the way to do that is to conceive of it first as a duty. I Must do this. I must prioritize it. I must devote time to it I need a plan. I need to be I need to walk circumspectly with respect to this. I need to think through it I need to have a determined plan in place to honor the lord in my prayer life Then pray through the scripture. Maybe use the same method that a martin luther or a matthew henry or john calvin used And then delight in it. You'll see god's blessing through it. Amen. All right, let's pray father in heaven lord again We confess our need to you Confess our unworthiness to come before you in prayer Confess our great need our great dependence upon you in prayer and rejoice That we can come in christ and in his name to pray to you our heavenly father And know Because of all that he's done for us that which he has secured for us at the cross We know that you hear us and god you've promised that when we pray In his name according to your will that we have those things that we've prayed for And we thank you lord for that blessed promise and we trust you and depend upon you Lord and seek your your face in prayer Knowing that you are good and kind and gracious lord and you Are there or to help us in our time of need you hear us We thank you for that. What a tremendous blessing lord. May you be praised in jesus name. Amen


Fiber optic cabling or copper data cabling, which should you choose? Structured cabling offers a whole system of cables, along with connectors and related hardware for voice and data cabling. It is applicable for enterprise data network, as well as office-fit-out cabling. Your preference for IT cabling material can directly affect the productivity of your IT arrangement, the trouble-free and fast transfer of data across the network, the power consumption and the overall impact on the environment. Usually, enterprise IT networks consider copper data cabling, mostly from the CAT 5E, CAT 6 and CAT 6A specifications for data cabling. They also have a range of specifications for fiber optic Ethernet cable installations. Transmission in the cables are vastly different than in fiber optic cabling. The transmission of data is sent through light pulses down cause of glass, and in copper data cables transmissions are sent via electrical pulses sent down copper connector wires. Copper cabling. Copper cable is suitable as a short-range cable, less than 100 meters, that runs to support typical desktop applications, however, for a higher throughput of data, faster transmission speeds and bandwidth demands of recent intensive commercial application and telecommunications, set the limit on cabling to approximate 10 gigabytes per second. For instance, integration of AV cabling with an established IT cabling by use of internet protocol, IP. The advancement in IT cabling technology has resulted in wider adoption of the 10G cabling, which empowered the data transfer speed to reach 10 gigabytes per second over Ethernet networks. In addition to that, the length of cable and higher speed of data transfer needed for the most advanced business system, led to introduction of electromagnetic interference, EMI, even in 10G cabling. The installation of 10G cabling is comparatively complicated and demand for high skill and expertise. Fiber optic Ethernet cable. Fiber optic cabling contains very thin fibers of plastic or glass, which are called optical fibers. Every strand is capable of carrying a higher bandwidth over a greater distance. The network bandwidth and speed of data transmission is substantially higher through fiber optic cabling as compared to copper cabling. A fiber optic Ethernet cable also consumes less space, is less heavy, and has a higher density and fiber splicing allows it to be laid in much longer runs. Expert organizations are preferring fiber optic cabling for increasing number of process and data intensive applications. This includes unified communications, UC, and access to cloud-based and cloud-hosted services. Which is faster, copper or fiber? Copper cables have in many cases, the same capabilities of transmission speeds as fiber cables. However fiber optic cables have the added advantage of transmitting those speeds over greater distances. The comparison between copper cable and fiber optic Ethernet cable when transmitting 10G, highlights the difference. Copper data cables are generally standardized at 90-100 meters cable links. When would you use fiber optic Ethernet cable? Advantages of fiber optic cable. If several connections between the same cabinets or buildings are required, then a fiber optic cable will be easier and less space consuming, than installing copper cabling links. A single 96-core fiber cable, could link two cabinets at 10 gig at 100 meters with 48 transmission connections, but would require 48 individual CAT 6A cables to achieve the same links. What are the disadvantages of fiber optic cable? As with all cabling infrastructure and technology design, different systems require different connections. If the requirements for connections are small, then fiber optic connections can have a higher cost of hardware for transmission versus copper cabling. A CAT 6A cable can link two switches with no requirements for additional hardware, but a fiber cable link will require additional fiber transmission and receive a hardware and the associated additional costs. Fiber optic cabling also is not suitable for linking analog signals between cabinets. In legacy phone systems, if analog lines are to be linked, then a copper data cable or phone cable will be required to be installed. What is the disadvantage of copper cable? The distance limitation of copper cable is a main disadvantage of copper cabling installations. User outlets will generally be designed to be within 90 meters of a data cabinet, to maintain the industry standards, and guarantee the required speeds over the chosen copper cable specified. However when linking buildings, floors or out to sub-cabinets, copper cabling cannot be used over 100 meters which is a disadvantage to fiber optic cable. Multiple links are also a disadvantage of copper cable to fiber optic cable. Each link in a copper cabling design must have its own designated data cabling link. The space requirements and containment requirements for multiple links can be costly and at times not possible due to space restrictions or building construction. 48 copper cable links can all be contained in one fiber optic cable, which highlights the different in space and time required to install those cables. Copper cables are also susceptible to interference from outside electrical interference, which corrupts the signals it sends. Fiber optic light pulses do not suffer this interference. Is fiber optic cable expensive? The components of fiber optic cable are no greater cost than copper cable components. Furthermore, when the core size of the fiber cable increase, economies of scale of cost come into play and the price by core link reduces. However the cost difference between copper cable and fiber optic cable is in the transmission hardware. Copper cabling doesn't require any additional hardware to link cabinets or create additional ports within a user space outside of the switch ports. Fiber optic cabling however required hardware to convert the traditional electrical data transmission to light pulses and back again for transmission. Depends on the distances, speed and requirements, the hardware can be an expensive addition to the existing system. Will fiber optics replace copper in the future? The price difference between fiber optic cabling and copper data cabling has narrowed as time has passed, and that cost difference is changing here each type of cable is used. Data centers have moved predominantly more towards fiber optic cabling links, as the requirement for increased bandwidth in the data center environment has increased. However the overall higher cost of cable and hardware still results in copper cabling being the chosen standard, in standard locations such as offices, schools and commercial buildings. 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Hey everyone, welcome to Alka B Star. So we have a new rotating recruitment banner. And is this banner really worth your currency pulling for? So this banner, by the way, is going to be active on April 26th, up to May 3rd. So we'll start off with Tacky. So Tacky is a detonator. So definitely fire, active skill, launching, searching flames toward the selected tile that erupt in a cross shape area and deals 400 damage dealing 80% to enemies on both sides on the selected tile. And at the same time converts the selected tile into a red enhanced applies burn marks to targets before dealing damage. Okay, next is going to be chain combos. So maximum of a 145% damage to three rows and a chain combo 13 to trigger. Then his equipment is a burn mark at the start of each round applies a burn mark to the enemy with the highest percentage of HP, increasing increasing all damage tacky deals to the target by 10%. So he is going to be there. There's a there's a buff actually to his damage by applying a mark. Each time the enemy is afflicted with the burn mark is eliminated tacky's increase attack is attack increases to 3% up to maximum of 15%. My opinion on tacky is if you don't really have anything to use, definitely he is if you're starting out if you're a beginner, definitely he is going to be, you know, useful to you but not really once you've got, you know, the other detonators that we that we have and we usually use for fire, particularly for Sinsa and also particularly for Charon. So he won't be really used that much. And also he is his skill cooldown is really, really bad. And again, if you don't have him, you can use him if you have other detonators, definitely they're better than tacky himself. Okay, moving on to OD. So OD here, let's review her skills. So active skill, internal struggle deals 400 damage to all enemies and inflicts low for two rounds and two stacks of poison for two rounds. Okay, by the way, if you're wondering why I'm reviewing the skill, most players, if there are they are beginners, they don't have stats available for these aurorians. And by the way, for reference to this wiki, I'm going to be putting it in the description. I'm not promoting this wiki, by the way, it's just for reference for my personal reference as well. So going back to the active skill. So a lot of damage. She's a sorry, I forgot to mention she's a support and she is forest element. Okay, so damage is big at 400% and damage to all enemies and inflicts low for two rounds and two stacks of poison for two rounds as well. So two debuffs, which is excellent. Moving on to her chain combo, she has a maximum of 13. And the damage is 140 damage to three columns and inflicts one stack of poison for two rounds. So again, very, very good as well for damage over time team or team components. Then you have her equipment, which is going to be self driving power normal attacks can attack enemies in a diagonal tile, which is very useful and have a 70% chance of inflicting one stack of poison for two rounds. So all three of her skills, including the equipment inflicts poison for two rounds are very, very useful. Opinion on OD, she is going to be needed really in Elysium. Once you've unlocked Elysium, it's more on for your advanced content. For the early stages, based on my experience, I wasn't able to use her that much, but definite for Elysium, you're gonna be needing her. She's the best unit for or the Ororian for Elysium and also for damage over time team. So that is it for OD. Again, Taki, not really that good, but definitely for OD. Both are five star Ororians. So again, you won't be able to choose any way if you pull in the banner. And last but not the least is going to be Graham. So Graham is let's focus more on Graham. He is a six star detonator fire as well. So as you remember, I mentioned that there are other better fire detonator. So definitely Graham is going to be one of your good units, but not the best unit or detonator in fire. Okay, but he has some utility in his kit. So let's take a look at it. Okay, so active skill, disintegrate, preemptive strike, cooldown is one third, which is excellent teleports to any tile with in 12 surrounding tiles in a diamond shape, dealing 180 damage to 20 surrounding tiles of the target location. The bad thing about him is his teleport is very limited and deals 1.5 damage to the outer cluster. Okay, so if the active skill was ready in the last round, the teleport range in this round becomes two surrounding clusters. Again, teleport range is good to be limited. So he is going to be good, but definitely he's going to be more niche in some of the content. Chain combo is subdued. Maximum is going to be 11. Deals 180% damage to 16 tiles in a radial shape. So excellent chain combo. And the last is his equipment, which is can accumulate fury. Each stack of fury increases grams. Basic attack by 0.5%. There is no limit to how much fury he can gain from his active skill. This effect will be cleared at the end of each wave. For each, for every stack cleared grab will recover an amount equal to 5% of his max HP. So definitely this is going to be useful for him, for survivability and sustainability. So good teleporter, but limited range, good detonator. But again, he's not one of the best detonators that we have, but he has good utility as well. And the lifesteal does help really in his kit. So again, if would I suggest you guys pulling for this banner, let me think first. Definitely if you're starting out, like beginning, couple of weeks, couple of months differently, I think you should pull. But if you're already advanced in if you have more or better detonators in fire, definitely I would say don't pull for this banner. Eventually you'll be getting gram in some of the banners.  Because again, OD is going to be worthwhile tacky, not that much gram, good for you when you're starting out. Okay guys, so that is it. So tomorrow is the launch of this banner. And hopefully I've given you some tips if you haven't decided yet. So hopefully after this video, you have decided whether you're going to pull for this banner or not. Okay guys, thank you very much. Stay safe. Take care. This is the word and I'm out of here.


and starting to unwind that and release, I think, a marketplace that can produce the kind of growth that we saw in the past. I see no limitations of growth. I don't see any reason why this economy couldn't grow at substantial higher rates than it is today at much higher productivity rates. If you unleash those, if you unleash the capacities of human beings to actually produce freely and to trade and innovate freely in every space, not just in electrons but in atoms as well. Have you been to Burning Man? No, I have not been to Burning Man. How many of you have been to Burning Man? I've heard stories. Okay, there's something in the back who's been to Burning Man. Very good.   And mostly people don't die. It's pretty amazing. The key, though, you're on is that Burning Man is so expensive. It's so difficult to survive in the desert and you have to do all this organization. It selects against people with low IQ, low executive function, inability to manage risk. And so the idea is that it's only possible because it's not convenient. It's, you know, this is the old puzzle about North Dakota's high SAT score. Somebody once asked the governor, like, what's going on in North Dakota? He says, well, Forty Below keeps the riffraff out. So you have this wonderful situation that there are situations that we see where by getting rid of people who can't compete, you can have a relatively self-regulating environment because everybody who needs all the guardrails and all of the edges sanded and all of these are out. The problem is we're dealing at scale and it's not clear to me whether we can have everybody in on the risk system. We have bread dependence. So that's where I'm going to agree with. I agree. I know. That was the part I was throwing to you. So we have bread dependence, for sure. But it's also the case that we can't necessarily easily take on all of our problems. If you decide to have a child, the umbilical cord is wrapped around the throat and you don't have a high income, and you've got a kid with cerebral palsy, you've got an interesting situation.  All of these things are unclear. Now all of you Einrandians have thought about these things. You all have very interesting answers, so I don't want to spend time on the low-level thing. What I do want to say is, first of all, you guys got to go to Burning Man. Second of all, very often you have to select against the people who can't handle the risk, or you have a system that moves towards the kind of nanny state and highly regulated structure. And the most important thing is we need places to misbehave. It's very important that the people who want to misbehave at a very high level have somewhere to go. And the big problem isn't regulation someplace. It's the concept that no place shall escape regulation. We have to regulate tech and hedge funds.  It's like, geez, you can regulate our porn for God's sake. Well, we've done hedge funds already. We're about to do technology. Well, that's the thing, right? So you need the place for high-agency people to go do high-agency things with other high-agency people in a very lightly regulated environment. And what I suggested at some point to the head of the Heritage Foundation is take every healthy company, decide that you can hang a 5% or 10% national interest exemption off of the side of this thing, for people to do unregulated stuff that might do amazing things for the world. Because I don't think we're going to get a very lightly regulated society. You need some place to go to misbehave. And the most important thing is we have to get our top people, like, we're really going to regulate the hell out of Elon Musk. The one person who's working in the atomic layer, it's like, oh my God, maybe he's having too much fun with women and drugs. Let him have fun with women and drugs. We need the cars. We need the batteries. We need the space travel. But this is what concerns me is, I mean, why shouldn't everybody be having fun? So this, in a sense, elitism, right? This idea that only Elon Musk should be had fun, but the woman who wants to open a nail salon is driven and maybe she has a low IQ, but she can run a nail salon and she's hired people and she's got that counting done. And obviously nail salons provide value to people because, you know, they're everywhere, so you guys must consume their product. I don't, but you guys must.  And why? Why shouldn't she be able to live in that same unregulated environment where she can have fun, provide a value, and make some money instead of being driven off and into poverty because you can't afford the opening fee that are licensing. I want her less regulated. Yes, I'd say less. I want force out of it. I don't see why the government has any role to play in what we engage with voluntarily, no matter what our IQ is. That is, I don't see the government having a policy for high IQ people, you know, create a space for them to have fun and not have a policy for low IQ. It's true that some people are going to have problems with, you know, health and whatever, all of that. They've got to be solutions for that that don't involve somebody showing up at your house in a sense with a gun and taking your stuff away. They've got to be solutions that we can create voluntarily to solve those problems. And those are edge problems. They're not major problems. The number of people who really can't take care of themselves in an economy. I mean, I was, I remember Jordan Peters was saying people with low IQ, you know, what are we going to do? The 10% of them in one of the, one of the panels that we were at. And I was thinking when he was saying, I was thinking of sitting in the Chicago, I don't know, 30, 40th floor of the Chicago finance firm, very comfortable and watching on the skyscraper, these guys cleaning windows, sitting on this narrow little thing and cleaning the windows. You couldn't pay me. There's no number that you could pay me to do that job, right?  There's no way I would get up there. And probably, I don't know what their IQ is, but my guess is it's lower than mine. But great for them and they're earning a living and it's great. And yes, one day a robot will do it and one day there'll be jobs that we can't even imagine that will require the same kind of skill sets and risk taking in a way that us intellectuals can't imagine, right? Because we won't do those kind of jobs. So I, you know, it strikes me as bizarre that we're overly worried about, oh, those people over there can't take care of themselves.  And we went, and I was very skeptical of China and we went to Dongguan China. Dongguan China is a city that didn't exist and within 10 years, it had eight million people. And everybody in the city was on the move, right? Everybody was doing stuff, right?  Everybody was doing stuff, millions of people working hard to make a living. Often on their little scooter, they had the whole family dragging, I mean, risk taking that I couldn't imagine, right? And they had, and they were succeeding and they were achieving stuff and they were building stuff and it was amazing. The energy was palpable in this place. It's probably what America felt like in the 19th century. And they were just striving to make their lives better, to improve their life. And I want people to live those kind of lives. I want people to be engaged. I want people to embrace. I mean, at some point you guys talked about, or maybe it was you with Ben, about the value that comes from actually working, right? And it's great to see people engage in that kind of work. And I think when you leave people alone, that's what they do. It's when you coddle them, it's, oh, you can't do it. You know, it's too much risk for you. Let me take care of you. That's when you lose them. But we're in agreement on that. So it's not about coddling. It's also not about, like, high IQ. There are lots of people with lower IQs are much more effective than people with high IQs. Believe me, if you've been to a math department, you know this is true, right? The issue is about most of us are going to require having data rather than alpha to some process. So if it's electrification or indoor plumbing or a new road system or digitization or virtualization. Most people don't know what beta and alpha mean. Sorry. Okay, alpha, you've got some highly idiosyncratic thing that you know how to do, and it's awesome. Beta is you have exposure to something that's generally going on. Like, hey, I heard crypto's really good, okay? So you're doing that crypto thing. And if crypto's going up, you're getting rich just because you're in on crypto. You don't understand elliptic curve cryptography, but hey, you've got some bitcoins. So that worked out for a period of time. Most of us are not going to get paid by having alpha, right? We're not going to be the next Elon Musk. What we are going to do is we are going to say, I wanna be part of a vibrant society. I've got a little idea and I'm gonna attach it to a bigger one. So that's why it's not about elitism. It's about let the people who are gonna have the really big ideas, the alpha, contribute them so the rest of us can get some goddamn beta and lead really fulfilling lives because it requires a fair amount to make a living with beta. I mean, alpha's really hard, but beta's hard enough as it is. No, it's a great point. And only a few people in any society, in any given point in time in society, provide alpha, really change the world in that sense and really move us forward. And yes, you wanna give them as much freedom to create that alpha as possible. And we should all benefit from that freedom as well. I don't wanna give them exclusivity on freedom. What we need today, what I call the new intellectual, would be any man or woman who is willing to think. Meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason, by the intellect, not by feelings, wishes, whims or mystic revelations. Any man or woman who values his life and who does not want to give in to today's cult of despair, cynicism and impotence and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist broods.


Here's Langdon. Thank you. Thank you. So I don't know. Can you guys hear me? So I'm Langdon, and as... Sorry. All right. Is that better? Okay. So I'm Langdon, and it's weird that I kind of plan to give this talk, or I just submitted this talk for OSCON, like last week. So I kind of expected to have a chance to prepare more for it, and now I can't get the slides to flip, because, you know, it's one of those days. So I'm a... used to be a platform evangelist for RHEL, and I'm a platform architect at Red Hat. I'm also the modularity objective lead in Fedora. As you probably know, we do a lot of their stuff in Fedora. I will point out though, the modularity objective lead part makes this a little biased, but I wanted to kind of give an overview of kind of what's been going on and what's interesting about distributions. So... we'll kind of continue. So the first thing is what's the problem? Okay. So the problem is that, you know, we have a little pendulum over there, because the, basically, software has been shifting towards the developers again. So developers are in charge, you know, so you can now deploy your application to, like, open shift or something in the public cloud, and then it starts generating revenue, and then the CEO says, yeah, but we're making a million dollars a week on it. Deploy it. I don't care, right? So developers are definitely getting a lot more power because they have a lot more self-service. So we've started to see that trend over the last 10 years. Development of software in general has changed quite a lot, right? So now we're literally building our software on top of a million lines of code, maybe more, that are produced by other people, you know, either in the open source or in the public cloud. You know, either in the open source world, especially in the open source world, somewhat in the proprietary world as well. So the software development style has very much changed, right? You can tear down an architecture and rebuild it in weeks, right, when it used to take a year. We also are noticing that, particularly in distributions, right, we have different life cycles of software. We have an operating system. We have, like, an individual application, like a web server, and we might have, like, a Firefox. They all have very different life cycles. And right now, when we think about distributions, they're all kind of tightly coupled. They're all released kind of at the same time. So that's a little bit of a challenge. Then on top of that, we have, I like this picture because it's really cool looking, but, you know, these software stacks, right, there's just piece after piece after piece after piece, and they're all good, but they all have bugs, you know, so they need to be updated and you need to be able to manage that thing as a unit, and it's a huge, like, risky activity. Then we have the different types of mutual funds here, which I realized later on, doesn't actually translate very well to Europe, but when you go and think about trying to do, like, retirement, if you're 20 years away from retirement, you're going to make different investment choices than if you're 40 years away from retirement, right? When you're 40 years away, you're going to do things much more aggressively. The same is true for software, right? So when we have Apache, sometimes what you want to do is actually develop Apache itself, right? Sometimes you want to do HTML on top of Apache, and sometimes you want a production deployment of Apache. But right now, in most of the distros, you just have one deployment, right? There's just one RPM, so you always get the production version. So one of the solutions that's been coming up lately, and I like this kind of containers better than the big, ugly containers, so we have flower pots, but we have Docker and Rocket and Snap and Flatpack and Cryo, all trying to solve the prior set of problems in slightly different ways, right? So Flatpack is mostly targeted at kind of graphical applications. Arguably Docker is kind of more targeted at server side applications. Docker still uses kind of the distro packaging methods, whereas Rocket tends not to. And then Cryo is kind of new on the scene, also heavily influenced by Red Hat, but another container technology, I should put the system dn spawn up there. There's a whole mess of them, right? So the problem is that when you get one of these things you have to seriously, seriously trust the provider, right? And you have some of this problem with distros, but it's much more open, right? There's much more metadata about what's going on. So you don't necessarily know what's actually inside this individual black box, right? You know what somebody told you was in there, and you don't want to use things like Docker Hub or even Flat Hub or any of that stuff, you kind of expect to just download it and consume it, but you don't really know what's in there. And that's kind of dangerous. You also don't know when was it updated? How recently has this been updated to have the latest patches? Does it have this particular patch versus that particular patch? Because a lot of that data is lost when you put it in the black box. The upside of the black box is it just works, right? So, yeah, so that's what I want to talk about with this part. So, what did distros do? Well, they have this community of packages, right, who are curating the software that is making it into the distribution, but it has all these problems, right? It doesn't, it's not as kind of consumable in some ways as, say, a Docker container, because you have to make sure all the pieces fit together, right? You know, they have to be, the distro has to be shipping the right version of Rails, you know, at that particular point in the distribution Fedora has a huge problem, right, is that it tends to be, not bleeding edge, but kind of ahead of many other distros. So, what does that mean for any random application? So, like, a friend's application or that he's packaging for Fedora is called review board, and it uses Django 1.6, and Django 2 is what's going to be in Fedora for the next release. Well, that means he either needs to figure out a way to get review board updated or he's going to have to drop it from the distribution. So, that's a problem. So, there's a lot of advantages to the distro model, but there's some serious downsides that are basically directly correlated to the fact that they're a distribution. So, what's happening? So, distributions are changing. See, the monoliths are on the side. Um, tough crowd. Come on, guys. Alright, so, we're starting to see some new and different models in the distributions. And, you know, these are pretty recent. I think Amazon extras is, like, months old and, uh, SUSE modules, I think is maybe a year old. Um, and then, uh, Gix and Nix have actually been around for quite some time, but they actually try to solve this problem, too. Um, and then Fedora modularity, which, like I said, I'm kind of biased towards, uh, we've been working on that for a couple of years now. So, what is Amazon extras? Okay, so, this is actually, technically, Amazon Linux 2 extras. Um, but so, what they did was they've delivered kind of a new repository of, uh, I think it's RPM. Um, and given a little bit of command line tooling that lets you enable topics, they call them. And so, that extra repository has, uh, say, more recent, only thing I've seen so far is more recent versions of software. It could theoretically have older versions of software, too. Um, but what you do is you install a topic and then you can have access to some content that doesn't normally ship with that distribution. So, that's interesting, right? They're doing something kind of slightly different. Um, and what it does is kind of overrides what's in the actual distributed, uh, OS that you have. Um, so that's kind of cool. Then, SUSE modules, um, this is interesting, um, and I'll tell you, the word module is the worst thing to use for anything. So, it's currently, to the best of my knowledge, it's only available for the paid subscription of SUSE. Um, but they make kind of what they call these modules available. There are extra repos with, like, a focus on some particular thing. So, I probably shouldn't use a legacy as an example, but, you know, legacy is one and it has a bunch of stuff, but web and scripting languages is another one. Um, and then there's, like, um, uh, there's, there's like six or seven more. But the way these works is they're just extra repositories that make, uh, you know, kind of different versions of things available to kind of keep their core of their, uh, distribution small and tight. They've kind of pushed this stuff off to the side. It can have different life cycles, et cetera. Um, so that's how they're, they're trying to shift how they deliver things. Then, you have these guys, um, which I can never say, it's Gix, I think, I can never say it. Um, yeah. So, uh, I think this is really cool and like, um, in some ways for the fedora modularity stuff, if we can kind of just burn everything to the ground, um, I might be able to go down this path. But what's interesting here is they actually solve the problem of parallel installability. So you can actually say, okay, this application is going to use this set of libraries and that set of libraries, whereas this application over here is going to use this completely different set of libraries. Um, so you end up with a lot of redundancy on disk, but most of us, you know, we're starting to care a lot less about how much disk space takes. Um, but you, uh, my biggest problem with it, I think, is kind of sysadmin muscle memory. Uh, so sysadmins at three in the morning want to know where the OpenSSL library is, right? They want their fingers to just type it, and it's just there. Um, so that's a little bit of the challenge with this kind of model is that they push everything up into, uh, kind of a non-standard location and then they sim link around to get to the, uh, you know, this stuff for the individual application.  So that's, that's my challenge with that. Then we go, talk about, uh, this is fedora modularity. Um, so the idea here is that we wanted to be able to articulate a box that we call a module terribly enough, um, that is kind of a set of a function. So, like, um, I need to serve webpages, right? Or I need to, um, you know, host a database or whatever. So it's bigger than an RPM or a DEB. The idea is it's a complete application. You also can manage, then, the relationship to different things within the module so that you can say, um, you know, I want this exact version of this library or that version of the library. Um, and so you kind of define these at a slightly higher level. We also integrated, um, what we call install profiles so that you can do the different use cases that I was talking about before for, like, a web server. Um, and what we can do then is now we can make these things parallel available, not necessarily parallel and installable. So this means that the distro kind of has a base. It's just, just an OS. And then there's these squishy library bits.  So with the modules, what you can do is you can have a well-articulated component, um, and then you can kind of say, okay, I can have this module and I can have that module, but I can't have them at the same time. So this is also very useful in kind of the container scenario because you can kind of say, okay, I'm going to put this module and this container and that module and that one. And then I can have them running on the same machine. Right? Now I've just separated their user spaces so it's, it simplifies that problem. Um, the other thing that is nice about them is that now we can make whatever we want to support available to the users. Right? So whatever, we still have to convince, you know, somebody to maintain this stuff, but you know, if we want to have the Django 1.6 also available for review board, well, so it might fall to the guy who's now doing review board to have to maintain the Django 1.6, but at least he can distribute it. Right? So that's kind of the idea with the modularity stuff. Um, so, you know, we kind of talk about it, we have, uh, sources over here and then we kind of talk about it with modules and then inside the modules are, are PMs still. Um, and then you kind of have multiple channels for how you can distribute it. Um, either building it as, you know, a container or into the distro or whatever. Um, and we've also got this idea of defaults and stuff so that basically your muscle memory of using a distro that has modularity enabled is exactly the same as it is today unless you kind of want to walk into, you know, you need a new version or a different version of something. So then you have to kind of do something uncharacteristic. Um, so kind of the point I think of, of the talk really is that we have seen this huge growth of, uh, these attempts at these solutions to a, to a set of problems that have been around for maybe 10 or 15 years. There's, there, but they've really ramped up in the last four or five as, as being really difficult. And we're seeing distributions actually start to innovate. Um, and so this is my, I love distributions and hate distributions picture at the same time. Um, so, and we're starting to see a lot of that innovation take place where we don't necessarily need to, you know, kind of do completely different models of like, you know, containers which are black boxes or, you know, everything's a binary now or we, you know, we may be able to do, you know, some kind of shared, uh, you know, do shared libraries and still have them share in RAM, right? Because you start to have the problems with like singletons and things like that when you're going across containers. So hopefully we'll start to see, um, kind of almost like the, uh, you know, the container goals, whichever container tech, you know, happens to implement it start to actually come directly into Linux. Um, and I think it'll be really neat. Uh, I think it'll be much, much better as we go forward. There's another example actually this that I should have put in which is, um, uh, what they're calling system containers, which is where you want to run like bind. So you put bind in a container, but then you expose, uh, basically all its configuration files, et cetera, uh, through to the, uh, the actual OS itself, um, in the places they normally go, uh, so that you can distribute it, it's still, like I said, that muscle memory still works, but it is actually living in a container, so it is namespaced away from the rest of the system, so you can do non-standard things.  So, you know, the idea is it's, it's, uh, you know, we're trying to simplify, right? We're trying to make it so that, um, the things that we know still work, um, and, but we want to be able to introduce all these, all these kind of different models. Uh, so, I think that's all my whole talk. Um, oh, yeah. Do we have, uh, questions? Um, I just- Yeah, thank you.