In the other direction, Atrios used to express a policy of "I never turn down a web advertiser, because if I did it would inappropriately imply a higher level of endorsement of the non rejected ads." That's the best case I have for cashing more checks rather than fewer.

We just went over this with the Riyadh Comedy Festival

Generals gather at Christmases/

That's even more clarifying, thanks

I finally heard a comment description of the role -- "finding other firms to work with more intensely than 'one of us is client of the other' but less intensely than 'a merger'" -- but the name does nothing to indicate that, incl to people in that role

Cf "business development"

Yup!! If you sense your trademark is becoming a generic noun, you gotta spend like this so you can later tell the judge that no, you can't just call any home video game "a Nintendo"
www.theatlantic.com/business/arc...

Oh, so that's where that's from!

Email me at bgawalt at Gmail and I'll add you to the calendar event and it's associated Google meet link

Sweet! Our next meet is Jan 7, 12pm Cali/Pacific time, it's chapter 2

(sorry for the late reply:) is that "pick the top integer or the bottom integer, advance that number of spaces, land on the target" the same as an "elliptic curve method" of encryption? or is it a whole nother hard integer programming (lattice?) problem?