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It's no surprise I've met many others who will lie, cheat, and connive for more.

No. But she can connive to get you to take yourself out to eat, and think of her as you do so, making you perhaps a little more likely to take a 5000-mile flight to visit her one day.

There's no backroom conniving that can go on to get the upper hand on the other person, because you'd need other people to connive with.

Real life stuff.>There's no backroom conniving that can go on to get the upper hand on the other person, because you'd need other people to connive with.

What is unusual here - and what so seriously increased the risk to this startup even much more than the norm - is the unusually blatant way in which Best Buy connived to steal the trade secrets.

That large groups of people can be effectively abandoned by civil society, that elected politicians connive to do this for their own gain, that so many lives are ruined by neglect and poverty.

Sure, most of those plants can be cheaper to buy than grow, if you treat your garden shop clerk as a used car salesman and let him connive you into buying every unnecessary over marketed garden gadget in the shop.

Naturally there will be people who politely ask you to support it anyway, and sadly as you've exposed yourself to billions on the internet there will be a small minority who attempt to connive, guilt trip or bully you.

!The fault, dear OP, lies not in the stars but in yourself that you are an arrogant, academic douchebag.> There is something wrong with the smugness and self-congratulation that elite schools connive at from the moment the fat envelopes come in the mail.

You'll get private interests who connive a way to have the government pay to do the hard/uncertain/expensive part while they don't put in their dime until they're already sure it's going to pan out, at which point they swoop in and claim the full IP monopoly to the detriment of the public.