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Once again, it's time for the FNGT!

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**Once again, it's time for the FNGT!** If you don't know how this works, [click this link](https://fngt.gq/index.php?page=intro). That link will take you to another site to give you some additional information and tell you about some of our off-site features. That's also the site where we will host the weekly guitar threads, should Poal go down. **NOTE:** That site is by invitation only. If you want an invite, and you're a regular participant, then just ask COF, Crazy, or myself. If you do know what's going on, you probably don't need to click that link - but you may want to, to make sure you know of the other features, such as the archive or a separate forum that's invite only. Remember, we are guests here on Poal. Let's act like it. If you're interested in supporting Poal, then [you can donate](https://poal.co/donate).

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i bet some inserted it

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Of course they did.

I'd sometimes leave a CD on someone's desk, I'd sometimes print the said CD to look like a music CD, and shit like that.

We had some very, very valuable data. Security was not just a primary focus, it was a constant focus. It's not even a focus, it's an ingrained business principle.

Imagine what all the individual sales and foot-traffic data for every single Walmart is worth to their competition. Imagine what a military base's vehicular traffic patterns are worth to a foreign government. It may not seem like much, but that shit has some serious value. Back then it'd be a bit harder, but today that'd fit on an external hard drive and be able to walk out the door in one trip.

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Yeah that is valuable data for sure

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We optimized everything from planes to trains to automobiles, from flights, to bikes, to trolleys with wheels!

We did, too. We optimized early robotic traffic for factories. We even gave theoretical capacities for cities with bike lanes.

So, we had a ton of data. Data is worth money. Security was essential.